Aims to provide ideas for enriching & accelerating the rollout of Digital India Programme across the Country
MAIT, an apex body representing IT Industry in India, launched the Digital India Action Group (DIAG) to provide ideas for enriching & accelerating the rollout of Digital India Programme across the Country.
Drawing its members from major ICT companies as well as from the Government, DIAG will strive to ensure the success of the Digital India Programme by providing strategic inputs to various Committees and Teams that would be constituted under the aegis of the PMO, DeitY and other Government Departments & Ministries.
Commenting on the vision of DIAG, Debjani Ghosh, Vice President, MAIT, said: “Technology has the potential to connect the whole of India and benefit each & every citizen. Digital India should enable the percolation of technology to the people and each citizen should be able to access government services with ease.”
She further said that MAIT is best-suited to support & compliment the efforts of the Government in implementing Digital India as it has a vast knowledge base from across the IT ecosystem, which can prove to be a game changer for this ambitious program.
Participating in the opening discussions, Ajai Chowdhry, Founder, HCL, said that Digital India is a very ambitious program as for the first time we are trying to look at a bigger picture or beyond the traditional scope of a typical e-Governance program. He said that now the focus should be to deeply analyze each & every piece of this paradigm and make it work in perfect harmony.
DIAG would be led by an Envisioning Team (having representation from Political Leadership, senior levels of the Government, eminent personalities from Media, Academia, Science and Technology) and there would be three dedicated Workgroups which would work on the agendas related to Digital Infrastructure, Digital Governance and Digital Empowerment.
