National Conference on e-Governance adopts ‘Shillong Declaration’.

GS-II: National Conference on e-Governance adopts ‘Shillong Declaration’

Context

22nd National Conference on e-Governance adopts the ‘Shillong Declaration’ with a focus on the Northeast.
The declaration has outlined the future trajectory that would be taken in terms of e-governance with a focus on improving connectivity in the Northeast.

Background:

The Conference on e-Governance was organised by the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions and Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology in collaboration with the Meghalaya Government.
The conference was an attempt to streamline e-governance services for effective policy implementation while helping to bridge the technological divide.

The 10-point declaration includes:

The central government and state governments would collaborate to improve the citizens’ experience with government services.
In order to do so, they would promote the timely implementation of India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA).
They would also implement a single sign-on for interoperability and integration among e-Government applications throughout the country.
It also resolved to consolidate the plethora of successful state-level e-Governance projects and domain-based projects with a focus to replicate them as common application software with configurable features.
The declaration also stressed the need to ensure improvement in ease of living and ease of doing business by making a big shift in the role of government from Service Provider to Service Enabler.
It also stressed on the need to take steps to further improve connectivity in the Northeast.
Issues and challenges of telecommunication connectivity at the grassroots and formulating and implementing a comprehensive telecom development plan were also addressed in the declaration.
It was also resolved to improve the quality of delivery of e-Services in the Northeast to fulfil the vision of an improved citizen experience.
It was also resolved to develop India as a global cloud hub and facilitate the development of Government applications and databases on the Cloud by default.
To adopt emerging technologies for finding e-Governance solutions and to promote the Digital India Projects with a focus on Smart Cities and Smart Villages through Startups and Smart Entrepreneurship were also resolved in the declaration.

Source: The Hindu

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