PM inaugurates Digital India Week 2022, launches multiple digital initiatives

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10Pointer
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Polity & Governance
Published
6th Jul, 2022

Context

Recently, the Prime Minister has inaugurated the Digital India Week 2022 under the Digital India Programme in Gandhinagar in Gujarat.

Key-points

The Digital India Week 2022 is being organised from July 4 to July 9, 2022.
Theme: ‘Catalyzing New India’s Techade’, to transform the nation into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.

Digital India

Digital India is a flagship programme of the Government of India with a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.
Launched in: 2015
Important Initiatives under Digital India
- Aadhaar
- DigiLocker
- MyGov
- Digitisation of Post Offices
- Universal Access to
- Mobile
- Public Wi-Fi Hotspots
- India Stack
- Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan (PMGDISHA)
- e-Health
- E-education

Important Digital Initiatives

The following initiatives were launched at the event:

‘Digital India Bhashini’: This will enable easy access to the internet and digital services in Indian languages, including voice-based access, and help the creation of content in Indian languages.
‘Digital India GENESIS’: It is a National Deep-tech Startup Platform, to discover, support, grow and make successful startups in Tier-II and Tier-III cities of India. A total outlay of 750 crore rupees has been envisaged for the scheme.
‘Indiastack.global’: It is a global repository of key projects implemented under India Stack like Aadhaar, UPI, Digilocker, Cowin Vaccination Platform, Government e MarketPlace, DIKSHA Platform and Ayushman Bharat Digital Health Mission.
- This offering of India to the Global Public Digital Goods repository will help position India as the leader of building Digital Transformation projects at population scale.
- It will prove to be of immense help to other countries which are looking for such technology solutions.
‘MyScheme’: It is a service discovery platform facilitating access to Government Schemes.
- It aims to offer a one-stop search and discovery portal where users can find schemes that they are eligible for.
‘Meri Pehchaan’- National Single Sign On for One Citizen Login: National Single Sign-On is a user authentication service in which a single set of credentials provide access to multiple online applications or services.
Chips to Startup Programme : PM will also announce the first cohort of 30 Institutions to be supported under the Chips to Startup Programme.
- The C2S Programme aims to train specialized manpower in the area of design of semiconductor chips at Bachelors, Masters and Research level.