For Prelims: Digital India, Digital Schemes of India
For Mains: Role of Digitisation in economic growth, Effect of digital schemes on economy of India, Significance of platforms like India Stack Knowledge Exchange Programme
Why in News?
As a part of the Digital India week celebrations, a three day dedicated event titled ‘India Stack Knowledge Exchange’ programme was organised.
India Stack refers to ambitious project of creating a unified software platform to bring India’s population into the digital age.
What is the India Stack Knowledge Exchange Programme (ISKE)?
About:
The idea behind ISKE 2022 was to get the real practitioners - the IT champions - to speak of the implementation of ground-breaking projects, the challenges faced and the road ahead for these projects.
ISKE 2022 was also visualised to present to the global community, India Stack solutions and goods, and welcomed any nation to adopt and customize them for their own use.
Significance:
The event brought together practitioners and digital transformation leaders to share their experiences in implementing pioneering projects.
It helped in the formation of an India Stack Knowledge Exchange.
It served as a collaborative platform for the replication of some of the digital initiatives.
It served as a knowledge exchange platform for India to speak of its contribution to the repository of Global Digital Public Goods.
What were the areas covered in ISKE?
Urban Stack:
Smart Cities Mission:
SCM is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme, launched in June 2015 to transform 100 cities to provide the necessary core infrastructure and clean and sustainable environment to enable a decent quality of life to their citizens through the application of "Smart Solutions".
The mission aims to meet the aspirations of India’s population living in cities through various urban development projects.
Digital Infrastructure for Governance, Impact and Transformation (DIGIT):
DIGIT is a platform which is open source and open API (Application Programming Interface)powered for developers, enterprises and citizens to build new applications and solutions.
The ready to use platform helps achieve quicker implementation timeframes and helps local governments achieve process improvements, accountability and transparency at various levels of administration.
It is a manifestation of Societal Platform thinking, a systemic method to resolve complex societal challenges with speed, at scale, sustainably.
Societal Platforms are manifestations of Societal Thinking, a systemic approach, a set of values and specific design principles, to reimagine social problems, redesign core interactions between key actors of society and induce exponential social change.
India urban data exchange:
IUDE has been developed in partnership between the Smart Cities Mission and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
It is an open-source software platform which facilitates the secure, authenticated, and managed exchange of data amongst various data platforms, 3rd party authenticated and authorised applications, and other sources.
Technology Stack for e-Commerce
GeM Portal:
The Government e-Marketplaceone-stop National Public Procurement Portal to facilitate online procurement of common use Goods & Services required by various Central and State Government Departments/Organizations/Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs).
The procurement of goods and services by Ministries and the Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) is mandatory for goods and services available on GeM.
It also provides the tools of e-bidding and reverse e-auction to facilitate the government users achieve the best value for their money.
Open Network for Digital Commerce:
ONDC is a freely accessible government-backed platform that aims to democratise e-commerceby moving it from a platform-centric model to an open network for buying and selling of goods and services.
It is a not-for-profit organisation that will offer a network to enable local digital commerce stores across industries to be discovered and engaged by any network-enabled applications.
Under ONDC, it is envisaged that a buyer registered on one participating e-commerce site (for example, Amazon) may purchase goods from a seller on another participating e-commerce site (for example, Flipkart).
The main objective is to provide reliable position, navigation and timing services over India and its neighbourhood.
It has been certified by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), a global body for coordinating mobile telephony standards.
Visualisation of Earth Observation Data and Archival System (VEDAS):
VEDAS provides a platform to motivate young researchers and academia to showcase their spatiotemporal analytical skill using Indian Earth Observation data and build geo-spatial applications.
It is a step toward expanding the societal benefits of the nation’s investments in ISRO’s Earth science research.
It is expected that with a handshake between data generators and potential analysts, newer and innovative processing tools and geo-spatial applications will emerge.
It provides:
Platform for Research & training to Academia
Data visualization and graphical analysis on web
Geo-processing tools for analysis on web
Integrate Web Map Service from various sources
Meteorological & Oceanographic Satellite Data Archival Centre (MOSDAC):
Space Applications Centre (SAC) is an ISRO Centre located at Ahmedabad, dealing with a wide variety of themes from satellite payload development, operational data reception and processing to societal applications.
Meteorological and Oceanographic Satellite Data Archival Centre (MOSDAC) is a Data Centre of Space Applications Centre (SAC) and has facilities for satellite data reception, processing, analysis and dissemination.
MOSDAC is operationally supplying earth observation data from Indian meteorology and oceanography satellites, to cater to national and international research requirements.
Bhuvan, Bhoonidhi & Yuktdhara:
Bhuvan:
Bhuvan is a type of web portal used to find and access geographic information (geospatial information) and associated geographic services (display, editing, analysis, etc.) via the Internet.
Bhoonidhi:
It enables access to an extensive archive of Remote Sensing data from 44 satellites, including Indian and Foreign Remote Sensing sensors acquired over 31 years.
Yuktdhara:
It is a geospatial planning portal meant for facilitating Gram Panchayat level planning of MGNREGA activities across India.
It integrates a wide variety of spatial information contents to enable a holistic approach toward planning using open source GIS tools.
