Government launches National Urban Digital Mission along with other digital initiatives for Urban Governance
- In Reports
- 10:34 PM, Feb 24, 2021
- Myind Staff
A number of digital initiatives focussing on urban governance were launched today by Minister, Electronics and Information Technology, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, and MoS (I/C) Housing and Urban Affairs, Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, in the presence of Secretaries of the respective Ministries, and other officers of the Central and State Governments.
At the event, the National Urban Digital Mission (NUDM) was launched along with other digital initiatives of MoHUA viz. India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX), SmartCode, Smart Cities 2.0 website, and Geospatial Management Information System (GMIS). These initiatives are among the ongoing efforts of both Ministries to realize the Prime Minister’s vision of Digital India and Atmanirbhar Bharat, by making cities more self-reliant and enabled to meet the needs of and provide services to their citizens.
By adopting a flexible and extensible approach, with a range of choices for cities based on their needs and capabilities, these initiatives deliver on the promise of “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwaas”. They will enable cities and towns across India to enhance Ease of Living and Ease of Doing Business for their residents.
The National Urban Digital Mission (NUDM) will create a shared digital infrastructure for urban India, working across the three pillars of people, process, and platform to provide holistic support to cities and towns. It will institutionalize a citizen-centric and ecosystem-driven approach to urban governance and service delivery by 2022 in cities, and across all cities and towns in India by 2024.
Launch of NUDM was announced by Hon’ble MoS (I/C) Hardeep Singh Puri today. The National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) has been nominated as the anchor institution to administer the operationalization of NUDM.
NUDM will create a shared digital infrastructure that can consolidate and cross-leverage the various digital initiatives of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, enabling cities and towns across India to benefit from holistic and diverse forms of support, in keeping with their needs and local challenges.
NUDM is citizen-centric, ecosystem-driven, and principles-based in both design and implementation. NUDM has articulated a set of governing principles and inherits the technology design principles of the National Urban Innovation Stack (NUIS), whose strategy and approach were released by MoHUA in February 2019. The principles in turn give rise to standards, specifications, and certifications, across the three pillars of people, process, and platforms.
NUDM will be operationalized through a number of impact programs, at both the national and the state level. These programs will focus on the development, implementation, and adoption of digital platforms including inter alia National Urban Governance Platform (NUGP), National Urban Learning Platform (NULP), India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX), and SmartCode. These platforms will enable the digital transformation of urban governance by 2022 and in all cities and towns across India by 2024.
The India Urban Data Exchange has been developed in partnership between the Smart Cities Mission and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. IUDX serves as a seamless interface for data providers and data users, including ULBs, to share, request, and access datasets related to cities, urban governance, and urban service delivery.
On 'SmartCode', the MoHUA said that it is a platform that enables all ecosystem stakeholders to contribute to a repository of open-source code for various solutions and applications for urban governance.
“It is designed to address the challenges that ULBs face in the development and deployment of digital applications to address urban challenges, by enabling cities to take advantage of existing codes and customising them to suit local needs, rather than having to develop new solutions from scratch," it added.
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