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In today's digitally-interconnected world, collaborative platforms have emerged as indispensable tools for fostering collective innovation, driving productivity, and facilitating meaningful connections among individuals and organizations. These platforms, ranging from suite of office productivity tools to project management systems to social networking sites, enable users to…

In technological scenario, especially in the area of ICT, The World is changing. Life, now, is not just the simple acquisition of intended and relevant data and its processing for a specific work area or sector, now it is fast coming down to the best…

The demonetization policy in India had a significant impact on the country's economy, but it also accelerated the growth of digital payments in India. Prior to demonetization, digital payments accounted for only about 10% of all transactions in India, but that number has grown to…

The Digital India Programme has thrown greater challenges to Governments across the Indian Sub-continent, by envisioning “Digitally Empowered Society”. Leaders and Administrators have started to work towards Digitalized solutions to realize this Vision. Greater the scope of Digitalization, Greater is the Transparency. The question then…

Birth registration is a fundamental step towards good governance and a vital element in the fostering of democratic processes. Not only does the process of registration allow effective administration and bring children to the notice of decision-makers, it is the official and positive recognition of…

Yet another ID?! Yes, this time it is for a piece of Land!! As humans we hold several IDs, a Citizen ID, Driver License ID, Voter ID, Bank Account Number and so on, issued by different agencies depending on the context. Let us discuss a…

In February 2022, a couple from Tamilnadu hosted their wedding reception in a digital, virtual world. Joined by 6000 odd guests attired in “Digital Avatars”, this has been termed as the first “Metaverse wedding reception” in Asia. The Metaverse has been a trendy topic in…

Premier Institute Identifier for Education On completion of school education, a student seeks admissions in Higher Education, Vocational Education to develop occupational skills or Sports Academy. Similar to the process of admissions in Schools, the students look out for a list of higher education institutes…

DevSecOps ‘DevSecOps’ is recently gathering hype in the domain of software development to secure an application from within. DevSecOps also known as Secure DevOps, is an extension of DevOps with security abbreviated as ‘Sec’. DevSecOps essentially emphasizes integrating security from the initial stages of the…

Background The IT-enabling units of most organizations face tremendous pressure to develop and deploy software applications rapidly as per end-user expectations. New software developments are often put on hold or delayed simply because of shortage of skilled resources and a backlog of operations and maintenance…

The registration numbers (say student registration number was allotted by an education board) are issued to uniquely identify entities. It makes easier to maintain information and track progress or activities related to an entity within manual register-based systems. With the digitization of records, primary/foreign keys…

A child starts its learning journey from a play school followed by primary, secondary, any other higher/professional or vocational education with multiple touch points involving many entities (schools, college, universities, education boards, sports academy, financial institutions etc.). In the current scenario, all these entities maintain…

The phrase ‘public policy’ is used in everyday parlance during the discussions in public domain with respect to the policies such as agriculture policy, health policy, foreign investment policy, economic policy, labour policy, education policy and so on. A policy is defined as a course…

India is predominantly a rural country with two-third population and 70% workforce residing in rural areas. Rural economy constitutes nearly 50% of the National Income. Thus, the rural population’s sustained growth and development is critical to the overall growth and inclusive development. Those living in…

The massive proliferation of digital technology has resulted in generation of huge amount of digital data and growing immensely – from web data to e-commerce to fintech to stock markets to scientific research to governance to mobile devices to social media to IoT devices; the…

In the education sector during this pandemic, many examinations had to be cancelled and due to lack of a proper cheating detection mechanism exams could not be conducted online from home. Online examination is such a use case where not only AI but also Cloud…

Digital technology has permeated the everyday life of majority of the population – wake up alarm, weather alert, fitness tracking, diet plan, travel itinerary, shopping, communication, workplace, cars, education, personal finance, entertainment and so on. The profound interlacing of the human and technology has made…

In this 21st century of Digital Transformation, we often hear that Data is the new oil, data is the new fuel and data is the oxygen that holds immense untapped potential in it. Every second, individuals, as well as organizations, are generating a huge amount…

With the advancement of technology, more and more software and applications are being developed at a rapid pace. There is an ever-increasing need for applications to negotiate with each other, share data and work together. Such needs can be fulfilled by API (Application Programming Interface).…

With each passing day, we have witnessed technology permeating deep into our lives. Organizations around the world are harnessing the true potential of technology for creating Innovative Solutions that can benefit society at large. Our journey at the National Informatics Centre (NIC) has been a…

In today’s world of technology, the citizens look for the best of services with convenience and intuitive response. Since the inception of the Digital India initiative, digital empowerment of citizens, coupled with governance and infrastructure support has been the need of the hour. Citizen-centric delivery…

Information Technology, as a cross-cutting frontier of knowledge, has opened several new vistas of applications for daily needs of the civil society. One of them is Geographical Information System (GIS) technology, which is rapidly becoming a catalyst for several transformational changes in the world mainly…

Let us ask what inspires us, our life, our family, hobbies, making money, taking an international flight, travelling to exotic destinations? Well, did anybody think of ‘work’? OK but what type of work, not the mundane go-to office, process the file, do some gup-shup and…

National Informatics Centre (NIC) has been providing state-of-the-art technological solutions to the Central and State Government Departments for several decades. NIC Centres across the country have designed and developed applications at the District, State, and National levels. While the software and databases of different departments…

ServicePlus makes all Government services accessible to the common man in his locality through delivery outlets. It ensures efficiency, transparency, and reliability of such services at an affordable price to the common man.” e-Governance is the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at all…

eProcurement is one of the flagship projects of NIC which has brought many laurels to the organization. Its country wide implementation and buyers switching from bespoke systems to GePNIC highlights the domain expertise of NIC. The seed for GePNIC was sown way back in 2005-2006…

Quick Overview Road Transport is considered as one of the prime movers of a country’s economy. It offers a vital link between production and consumption, particularly when it comes to the last mile/door step delivery of services. Further, road transport needs comparatively lesser expenditure, and…

Direct Benefit Transfer or DBT has travelled a long path since its early initiation by Government of India on 1 January 2013 to change the mechanism of transferring cash subsidies and benefits.The program was aimed at transfer of subsidies and cash benefits directly to the…

National Informatics Centre (NIC) has been instrumental for over four decades in steering diverse ICT applications at various levels in the government. These applications today form the key components of the Digital India framework that has set the path to transform India into a digital…

When the COVID-19 had just started rearing its head, as a precautionary measure, number of officers including outsourced resources required to attend office daily was judiciously pruned, keeping in view the social distancing required to contain the spread. Much planning also went into enabling people…

Covid19 pandemic in India is part of world-wide situation of corona virus disease, seriously affecting the way we speak, walk, interact socially, transact business, work in office, seek treatment and all. The lockdowns have continued since March 2020 and police, medical staff, essential service providers…