34 Gems of Digital India 2019

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DR. NEETA VERMA

DDG, NIC

Artificial intelligence and analytics are going to be key contributors to design of digital solutions of the next decade. Technologies like machine learning, voice interfaces, language translation, and speech recognition can help build a new generation of solutions. These solutions will not only help overcome barriers of language and literacy but also deliver an altogether new experience..

MR. SAURABH SAXENA

Country Director, Micro Focus India

Hybrid IT has become the new reality.

It is disrupting many processes in IT organizations and contributing to its complexity – it brings with it a complex combination of traditional and cloud computing, along with IoT and edge computing. To enable the disparate entities work in tandem and seamlessly with each other, organizations have to take a holistic, analytics-driven approach. They have to master hybrid IT with new agility—bridging traditional and transformational IT services from mainframe to mobile, from corporate to cloud while securing what matters most – i.e, identities, applications, and data

DR. KAPIL DEV SINGH

Founder & CEO Coeus Age Consulting

The most coveted annual event of felicitating the crème de la crème of eGovernance initiatives is here.

Coeus Age is proud to present 34 winners of Gems of Digital India Award - 2019. These path breaking initiatives have now joined the league of 126 Gems of Digital India discovered by us since 2016.

We discover each Gem through a rigorous process of research and analysis, evaluating them on well defined parameters of depth and breadth. Our short list then gets under the scrutiny of a panel esteemed jury. Their choice is called Jury’s Choice.

Others in the shortlist are termed as Analyst’s Choice.

Our journey of discovery has been very interesting and insightful. We would like to convey our sincere thanks to all those who have supported us in this journey. Hope we will continue to receive your support in our journey forward.

A big thanks to MEITY, Digital India and Micro Focus for strengthening our platform.

New Delhi | September 13, 2019

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JURY’ CHOICE

SHRI VISHNU CHANDRA DDG, NIC

The world is moving beyond simple and linear automation aimed at carrying out basic transactions. A more complex, nonlinear and converged world driven by data is taking shape. And it is happening quite rapidly. The need of the hour is to build a holistic approach to create a system where small events can lead to bigger implications. New wave of digital can do that and if not exploited in the right way, that will be a gross waste of its potential.

SHRI GOLOK KUMAR SIMLI CTO, Passport Seva

By focussing on the trio of Automation, Analytics and AI, an intelligent and autonomous governance system that spans across people and processes can be created. Such systems will be needed in future and it is quite possible to build one.

DR. RANJNA NAGPAL DDG, NIC

Many digital initiatives like Soil Health Card Portal have transformed themselves into fully functional platforms, with strong underlying cross platform integration falling in place. The next leap forward must ideally be the extensive use of these platforms by multiple stakeholders, not only in terms of carrying out necessary transactions but for a much deeper and broader information leverage. The real questions are how these platforms can become central to planning, operationalizing, monitoring, and course correction and how these can bring the multiple stakeholders on the (figurative) same page. The day that is achieved, governance agility will take a completely new dimension in our country.

SHRI GAUTAM GHOSH DDG, NIC

The new genre of digital technologies like mobility, big data and analytics, IoT, and APIs are quite relevant for achieving the goal of creating an Improved Public Distribution System (IMPDS), the next goal for public distribution of food. In the emerging scheme of things National Level Portability and National Level Deduplication may become a reality.!

SMT ALKA MISRA DDG, NIC

Data available in open format and under open license for public access and use, usually termed as “Open Data�, allows citizens and businesses to find new ways to use it and to create new and innovative products and services.

In the recent times there has seen sharp rise in demand for transparency and accountability in India. The idea of open government data plays an important role to uphold these principles.

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ANALYST’S CHOICE

SHRI P LENIN DDG, NIC

Analytics has many dimensions – it can be a simple dashboard with standard data tables, or it can allow users to put a query and get specific and customized answers, or it can help predict an outcome based on the past behaviour and on a complex algorithm that takes into consideration large number of systemic variables. Based on my experience of driving the Analytics CoE at NIC, I can say that the flavour of analytics in government is evolving fast!

SHRI NAGESH SASTRI DDG, NIC

The Public Finance Management System (PFMS) has evolved over the time from being discrete systems into a holistic and integrated platform for managing the public finances of the central government. The individual domains of budgeting, allocation and disbursement are being weaved together for greater speed, accountability and transparency. The different layers of automation at the levels of intra applications, inter applications and inter domains have resulted into a holistic financial management platform. !

SHRI DIPANKAR SENGUPTA Senior Technical Director, NIC

While automation and integration are continuing, we are seriously building in analytics capabilities to make real time visibility into the PFMS processes possible. This would help the decision makers at the ministry, department or scheme level to be in the knowing of the budget versus allocation performance and take timely actions.!

SHRI ASHOK KAUL

Senior Technical Director, NIC

With the establishment of cloud services and declaration of ‘cloud first’ policy by the government, there has been a major shift in the data centre hosting patterns.

New applications are now being hosted on the cloud. Even existing applications are being gradually moved to the cloud.

SHRI VIJAY VISHWAKARMA Senior Technical Director, NIC

The future evolution of the NIC Cloud will see 360 degrees automation of various processes for management and provisioning of the cloud services.

The applications in future will require greater agility, responsiveness, reliability, scalability and security.

Moreover, a complex array of multivendor, multi-generation technologies and multi-location cloud environment will make the task of management more challenging in the future.

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