Wednesday 29 April 2015

Kellton Tech Contributes to Recommendations Submitted to Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India to Boost Digital India Campaign

Besides government agencies like BBNL, USOF and NASSCOM, other participant companies included Ernst & Young, IBM, Microsoft, NIIT Technologies, Siemens, Wipro, etc. to create a road map for Digital India that was submitted to Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon'ble Cabinet Minister Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in association with Ministry of IT & communications, Govt. of India organized Digital India Summit 2015 with the intent of collating the views of the front runners in IT industry to recommend necessary steps to boost Digital India campaign.

A series of panel discussions were organized on various themes where prominent thought leaders from top IT companies participated. Karanjit Singh, CEO and Mahesh Bukka, AVP represented Kellton Tech.

Digital India is an ambitious programme of Government of India for preparing India for knowledge based transformation and for delivering good governance to citizens. One of the key objectives of the Digital India initiative is to ensure 75% e-Governance by 2018. The key recommendations that emerged from the panel discussions were:
 
  • Ensuring that digital literacy becomes the key enabler for growth
  • Digitizing public services: the target areas would be healthcare, government services and education. 100 % digitisation was recommended for all the sectors
  • Building sustainable and smarter cities for spurting economic growth
  • Realigning rural connectivity for digital India
  • Transforming healthcare and governance through digitization.
  • Setting Wi-Fi hot spots in rural areas
  • Last mile connectivity

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