What is' Digital'? What is Digitization?
Digital information exists as one of two digits, either 0 or 1. The term Digitization refer to converting information of diverse nature (ex text, audio, video, image) getting converted to binary code. Digitization is 1st step in making information available to share and collaborate across the government and enabling software systems to implement Business Process Management (which means to automate the government business over internet).
Digitization has many advantages
1) Information in digital format can be made accessible to users via internet in a controlled and secure manner. In analog format (paper/ photograph, video tape) it is not easy to share the information.
2) Information can be easily stored and maintained preserved as compared to analog format.
3) With cost of hardware and internet bandwidth decreasing the 'operations cost to store and maintain information'
4) Once information is in digital format it can be shared and consumed across 'Business Process' from different Business Systems and partners and improve the speed of doing business.
5) Digitized data can be shared, searched, processed & analyzed using sophisticated software and this helps in providing Business Insights to the enterprise (public, private, government) enabling the enterprise do better business.
Once can imaging Digitization as a process to pull information from different papers and putting it into a single 'word document'. Once the information is in this word document one can share it with another department in the company, search the documents, extract information from the document to complete some 'business process' and at the same time one can 'provide secured access' to the document to selected people based on their access right.
What is Digital India program?
Digital India program is Indian government's program to 'Digitize' all information created & consumed by the government agencies (such that it can be saved, shared, searched in a secured manner by the government & its partners) & integrating all public and government agencies from 'Villages, to Towns, to Cities to Indian Government systems'. Digital India will enable government to expand its existing e-governance program to entire population & provide a seamless e-governance.
One can say that digital revolution started way back when 'internet of things' was made affordable and available to common man. E-governance took off in a big way in private companies & government over last 10 years and most Indian states have implemented e-governance to some degree. E-Business model became successful in 1990's and shortly Governments started implementing E-Governance by e-enabling Government to Government services, Government to Citizen services and Government to Business services.
One can say that digital revolution started way back when 'internet of things' was made affordable and available to common man. E-governance took off in a big way in private companies & government over last 10 years and most Indian states have implemented e-governance to some degree. E-Business model became successful in 1990's and shortly Governments started implementing E-Governance by e-enabling Government to Government services, Government to Citizen services and Government to Business services.
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