PM inaugurates Digital India Week 2022, launches multiple digital initiatives

Context

Recently, the Prime Minister has inaugurated the Digital India Week 2022 under the Digital India Programme in Gandhinagar in Gujarat.

Key-points

• The Digital India Week 2022 is being organised from July 4 to July 9, 2022.
• Theme: ‘Catalyzing New India’s Techade’, to transform the nation into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.
  
  

Important Digital Initiatives 

The following initiatives were launched at the event:

• ‘Digital India Bhashini’: This will enable easy access to the internet and digital services in Indian languages, including voice-based access, and help the creation of content in Indian languages.
• ‘Digital India GENESIS’: It is a National Deep-tech Startup Platform, to discover, support, grow and make successful startups in Tier-II and Tier-III cities of India. A total outlay of 750 crore rupees has been envisaged for the scheme.
• ‘Indiastack.global’: It is a global repository of key projects implemented under India Stack like Aadhaar, UPI, Digilocker, Cowin Vaccination Platform, Government e MarketPlace, DIKSHA Platform and Ayushman Bharat Digital Health Mission.
  • This offering of India to the Global Public Digital Goods repository will help position India as the leader of building Digital Transformation projects at population scale. 
  • It will prove to be of immense help to other countries which are looking for such technology solutions.
• ‘MyScheme’: It is a service discovery platform facilitating access to Government Schemes. 
  • It aims to offer a one-stop search and discovery portal where users can find schemes that they are eligible for.
• ‘Meri Pehchaan’-  National Single Sign On for One Citizen Login: National Single Sign-On is a user authentication service in which a single set of credentials provide access to multiple online applications or services.
• Chips to Startup Programme : PM will also announce the first cohort of 30 Institutions to be supported under the Chips to Startup Programme. 
  • The C2S Programme aims to train specialized manpower in the area of design of semiconductor chips at Bachelors, Masters and Research level.