Digital India

 Digital India

The India government launched the digital India campaign to make government service available to citizens electronically by online infrastructure improvement and also by enhancing internet connectivity. It also by enhancing internet connectivity. It also aims to empower the country digitally in the domain to technically. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the campaign on 1st July 2015.

Digital India program

Vision Areas

• Digital infrastructure as utility to every citizen
• Governance and services on demand
• Digital empowerment of citizens

Objectives

• To prepare India for a knowledge future.
• For being transformative that is to realize IT(India Talent)+IT(Information Technology)=IT(India Tomorrow).
• Making technology center to enabling change.
• On being an Umbrella Program covering many departments.
• The program weaves together a large number of ideas and thoughts into a single, comprehensive vision so that each of them is seen as part of large goal.
• The Digital India program will pull together many existing schemes which would be restructured in a synchronized manner.

Nine pillars of Digital India

• Broadband Highways
• Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity
• Public Internet Access Program
• e-Governance: Reforming Government through Technology
• e-Kranti - Electronic Delivery of services
• Information for all
• Electronics manufacturing
• IT for Jobs
• Early Harvest Program

Challenges

• Slow roll-out of Wi-Fi hotspots and the slow speed, in comparison to other developed nation.
• Most small and Medium scale industry is struggling to adapt to modern technology.
• Entry level smartphones have limited capabilities for smooth internet access and the outreach of the 'smartphones' is limited.
• There is an absence of enough skilled manpower in digital technology.
• Lack of user education and there are limited facilities to train personnel. India needs over one million cybersecurity experts to check and monitor the growing menace of digital crime.