This document discusses Digital India, an initiative launched in 2015 with the vision of transforming India into a digitally empowered society. It has 9 pillars focused on areas like universal access to phones, public internet, e-governance, e-education, and healthcare. Key initiatives include UPI, Aadhaar Payments Bridge, DISHA, SWAYAM, and eHospital. Stakeholders in Digital India include the government, corporations, citizens and NGOs. Models for implementation involve public-private partnerships and crowdfunding. Progress so far includes increased budget allocations and growth of DigiLocker users. Roadblocks to overcome relate to infrastructure, spectrum availability, security, literacy and income gaps.
3. INCLUSIVE GROWTH
Inclusive growth is
๏Economic growth
๏Distributes dividends of increased prosperity
๏Fairly across society
Year Rank Overall IDI
Score
2018 62 3.09
2017 60 3.38
Indiaโs Rank
ADVANCE ECONOMIES EMERGING ECONOMIES
TOP Norway, Iceland,
Luxembourg
Lithuania, Hungary,
Azerbaijan
BOTTOM Italy, Portugal,
Greece
Malawi, Lesotho,
Mozambique
Inclusive Growth Development Status
4. INTRODUCTION
๏On August 15, 1995, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) launched public Internet
access in India
๏Digital India officially announced on 1st July 2015
๏Visionary โ Prime Minister Hon'ble Shri Narendra Modi
๏Minister of electronics and information technology โ Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad
๏Estimated to create 21 million employment opportunities by 2025
๏Boost India's GDP to $1-trillion by 2025
Digital India
Vision Areas
Governance
and services on
demand
Digital
Infrastructure
Digital
Empowerment
of citizen
7. DIGITAL INDIA - NINE KEY PILLARS
PILLARS
IT for
Jobs
Access to
Mobile
eKranti PIAP E Governance
Information
for All
Early Harvest
Programme
Broadband
Highway
Electronics
Manufacturing
11. KEY INITIATIVES
HEALTHCARE
CONNECTIVITY
๏ eHospital
๏ Online Registration System
๏ Electronic Health Record
๏ WiFi hotspot
๏ BharatNet
๏ Public Internet Access Programme
(CSC, Post Offices)
๏ National Digital Literacy Mission
(NDLM)
15. MODELS FOR DIGITAL INDIA
PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP CROWDFUNDING
Partnership between government agency
and private sector company
Funding a project by raising small
amounts from large number of people
To finance, build, and operate public
projects
Start-ups and non-governmental
organizations for fundraising
Examples: CISCO Smart City Project,
Mumbai Metro Railway project
Examples: Seed the rise by Mahindra
& Mahindra, Project Udaan
16. ROLE OF MNCs IN EMPOWERING DIGITAL INDIA
Google
โข Google Station WiFi- RailWire
โข Affordable Smartphones - Android Go
Facebook
โข CEO, Mark Zuckerberg changed his profile picture
โข Solar powered drones to improve internet connectivity
Microsoft
โข Plans to provide broadband connectivity to 5 lakh villages
โข Provides computing tools for Indic languages- Bhashaindia.com
HP
โข 48 learning labs for increasing digital literacy
Reliance Industries
โข An investment of Rs. 2.5 lakh crore across Digital India Pillars
17. PROGRESS SO FAR
๏Budget allocations past and current
2017-2018 - Rs. 1672.76 crore
2018-2019 - Rs. 3018 crore
๏DigiLocker and eSign
As of March 2018
๏Net Neutrality
Registered User 1,07,24,523
Uploaded Documents 1,39,83,006
eSigned Documents 5,76,994
18. ROADBLOCKS FOR DIGITAL INDIA
๏Infrastructure Development
๏Low Spectrum Availability
๏Data Security
๏Right to Privacy
๏Digital Literacy
๏Gender Parity
๏Low Per Capita Income
19. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WAY FORWARD
URBAN RURAL
Cyber Security Electrification
Location Based Services Availability of Broadband
Smart Cities Availability of Digital Devices
Inter-Departmental Coordination Digital Literacy
Legal Infrastructure Digital Infrastructure