Shillong
Newmai News Network
Shillong | August 9
The 22nd edition of the National Conference on e-Governance held in Shillong culminated on August 9. The two-day conference, which began on Thursday, made 'Shillong Declaration' in connection with the e-Governance.
The 10-point Declaration is an outcome of a commitment made at the inaugural session the previous day and was prepared after two days of deliberations by the participants representing states and union territories.
The 10-point ‘Shillong Declaration’ said that the Government of India and State Governments would collaborate to improve the citizen’s experience with Government services by promoting timely implementation of India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) and implementing a single sign-on for interoperability and integration among e-Government applications throughout the country, to consolidate the plethora of successful State level e-Governance projects and domain-based projects with a focus to replicate them as a common application software with configurable features, 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, thus moving from development of applications to making available public digital platforms where multiple competitive applications can be developed, to take steps to further improve connectivity in North Eastern States by addressing the issues and challenges of telecommunications connectivity at grassroots level and formulate and implement a comprehensive telecom development plan.
It also agreed to take steps to enhance the activities of Electronics Sector Skill Council in North Eastern States and explore the possibility for opening an electronics skill centre in Shillong, to promote use of e-Office and move towards less paper State Secretariats in the North-Eastern States and in the district level offices, to improve the quality of delivery of e-Services in the North East to fulfill the vision of improved citizen experience.
The declaration further agreed to develop India as a global cloud hub and facilitate development of Government applications and databases on Cloud by default, to adopt emerging technologies for finding e-Governance solutions and to promote the Digital India Projects with focus on Smart Cities and Smart Villages through Startups and Smart Entrepreneurship.
The two-day National Conference on e-Governance organized by the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DAPRG), Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions and Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India in collaboration with the Government of Meghalaya is an attempt to streamline the e-governance services for effective policy implementation while helping to bridge the technological divide. The Conference witnessed a huge turnout of 535 delegates representing 28 states and all union territories.
