• 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, 3^rd party authenticated and authorised applications, and other sources.

Technology Stack for e-Commerce

• GeM Portal:
  • The Government e-Marketplace one-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-commerce by 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).

Space Technology Stack:

• NavIC:
  • Navigation in Indian Constellation (NavIC) is an Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), developed by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
  • The main objective is to provide reliable position, navigation and timing services over India and its neighbourhood.
  • It has been certified by the 3^rd 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.