Question

Write an article in about 200 words for your school magazine on the topic digital making

Answer 1

Like many things else, there are two sides to the technology story, especially in the Indian context. Information Technology or IT has become a major contributor to the GDP growth in India, largely driven by the IT services industry. Today, India is a force to reckon with in the IT/ITeS domain on a global scale, powering some of the biggest companies on the planet. And yet, in spite of revolutionising the IT Services business, there has been little change wrought by IT back home. Adoption of technology, especially in the government domain (which has a mass rural interface) has been rather muted and slow in the uptake. For years, Indians across the spectrum read stories about the magic of IT, and yet were untouched by it.

But all that just might change, as the Indian government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched one of the biggest digitization programs, on a scale that has not been heard of before. In August 2014, the BJP government launched Digital India, a comprehensive program that aims to change the lop-sided scale of IT adoption in the country. The program essentially hinges on the core idea of laying a digital network on which services will be delivered in a transparent and timely manner. The four core areas of the program are:

-- Rural Broadband for All
-- Universal Mobile Access
-- WiFi in Varsities
-- Public WiFi Hotspots


Internet, as is obvious, is the platform that bridges the divide between rural and urban India. The program aims to cover 250,000 gram panchayats in the course of few years and bring broadband connection to them. Not only this, the services of all government departments and ministries will beintegrated with E-Biz, on a single IT platform.

But this is certainly not the first time that the government of India is testing waters with digitization. Dubbed as e-governance, there have been numerous and often disparate attempts to use IT to deliver public service. In fact the historical roots of digitization go far back, as much as 1970, when the government of India set up the Department of Electronics. At that time, computing was largely confined to cumbersome mainframes and was something only the engineers or the geeks could handle. It was in 1976, that the National Informatics Center (NIC) came into being. The sole purpose of NIC was to interconnect the various ministries, central and state governments and bring them on a single platform. In pursuance of that goal, a national satellite-based computer network called NICNET was created. To promote the uptake by the government departments, especially the states, they were offered software and hardware free.

Over the years, many states took a lead in these digitization initiatives, viz: Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat (where the current PM was the chief minister). During his stint at Gujarat, Modi ensured that the state government adopted IT readily in almost all the processes and functions.

Thus in a manner of speaking, Digital India is a broader version of the e-governance programs that were running till now. In line with the vision, the government has already upped the ante on IT spending, both on hardware and software. A portal (mygov.nic.in) has been launched and approximately 6 lakh kms of fibre has been laid to create the digital highway.

The ball has started rolling on Digital India, and the canvas for development is huge. With Internet penetration hovering at around 20%, there is a lot of scope for this ambitious program to suceed. With a wholehost of services and innovations that can ride the digital platform, citizens can draw immense benefits from healthcare to education, citizen services to transport and the like. As more such services get digitized a digital India will become reality.

Beyond home ground, India can be the biggest example of successful for globally. With a vast geographic spread and a huge population, anything that works in India will surely work anywhere else. This is also one of the reasons why many global firms like Cisco are eager and keen to be a part of the Digital India program. John Chambers, chairman, Cisco, had thumped his support for the program by declaring that, "India is set to be the first large digital country in the world". This is the reality of a dream in the making; a digital dream built with bit and bytes.
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