Digital India Corporation

Digital India Corporation is a not for profit Company set up by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India, under Section 8 of Companies Act 2013. Earlier the company was known as 'Media Lab Asia'. It has been renamed as 'Digital India Corporation' w.e.f. Sep 8, 2017.

Digital India Corporation (DIC) leads and guides in realizing the vision, objectives and goals of the Digital India program. It provides the strategic support to Ministries/Departments of Centre/States for carrying forward the mission of Digital India by way of Capacity Building for e-Governance projects, promoting best practices, encouraging Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), nurturing innovation and technology in various domains. To ensure autonomy and viability of the organisation in the long run, DIC, will also collaborate and mobilise partnerships with the industry, to evolve revenue based models for service delivery.

To undertake these functions, Digital India Corporation will attract talent and resources both from government and market. The judicious mix of talent will ensure that Government is equipped with a broad spectrum of resources for successful design of Digital India related projects.

The Company encompasses 5 different divisions viz.:

Technology Development & Deployment Division (TDDD)

The vision of TDD Division is to bring the benefits of innovative solutions for socio-economic uplift at the grass root level of the society with mission to bring the benefits of Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) in certain focused areas viz. Healthcare, Education, Livelihood Enhancement (Agriculture, Crafts, MSMEs) and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan). The division works on the paradigm of collaborative research in its task of developing technologies and bringing them to the daily lives of people.

The division has created a niche for itself in the area of taking the technologies from lab to land and “IT for Masses”. The division has strength & 16+ years of experience in understanding the needs of the field, conceptualization, project formation, development & deployment of technologies / products & services. Keeping the same in view, the projects undertaken by TDD division, are based on the grass-root requirements and relevant to its cause with the objective to empower citizens in general and gender, minorities, farmers, artisans, tribes, persons with disabilities (Divyangjan) etc. in particular through innovative ICT applications. The division has demonstrated decent capabilities in identifying the potential of certain technologies reasonably early. The technologies, developed by the division, have received a lot of recognition as evident from numerous National & International awards it has received.

In addition to its core activities, the Division is implementing a major programme: Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme in Electronics and IT

NeGD (National e-Governance Division)

NeGD is an Independent Business Division (IBD) established by MeitY within DIC to undertake Programme Management of National eGovernance Plan (NeGP), having the following features:

This Division enjoys complete financial and HR autonomy from the rest of DIC.

• Government personnel in NeGD are taken on deputation to DIC.
• NeGD has its own head as President and CEO.
• The selection process for both Government and private sector personnel is common for ensuring uniform quality and suitability of personnel.
• Government funds for managing specific e-Governance projects / programmes as identified by MeitY are transferred directly to the Division, subject to extant rules in this regard.

NeGD acts as one of the key catalysts and integrators for initiatives under Mission Mode Projects and support components under NeGP 2.0 across the country. NeGD is also expected to proactively support central ministries / departments / state governments in propagation of their e-Governance initiatives.

NeGD has been spearheading several innovative initiatives under the aegis of the Digital India Programme. Those have been developed keeping the vision areas of Digital India at the core-providing digital infrastructure as a core utility to every citizen, governance and services on demand and in particular, digital empowerment of the citizens of our country; some of these initiatives include DigiLocker, UMANG, Poshan Tracker, OpenForge Platform, API Setu, National Academic Depository, Academic Bank of Credits, Learning Management System.

For more information, visit https://www.negd.gov.in

MyGov

MyGov platform is a unique path breaking initiative which was launched on July 26, 2014 by none other than the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi. It is a unique first of its kind participatory governance initiative involving the common citizen at large. The idea of MyGov brings the government closer to the common man by the use of online platform creating an interface for healthy exchange of ideas and views involving the common citizen and experts with the ultimate goal to contribute to the social and economic transformation of India. In its short span of existence till date, MyGov platform has been more than successful in keeping the citizens engaged on important policy issues and governance, be it Clean Ganga, Girl Child Education, Skill Development and Healthy India to name a few. There is no doubt that this platform has made inroads in diminishing the gap which has traditionally existed between the citizen and the Government.

For more information, visit https://www.mygov.in

MeitY Startup Hub (MSH)

India is home to one of the most vibrant startup ecosystems with close to 8000 tech startups, making it the 2nd largest startup ecosystem in the world. Hence, innovation and entrepreneurship is the emerging focus area that is being aggressively promoted to give fillip to the Indian economy. Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India is leading and facilitating a gamut of Innovation and IPR related activities across the country towards expansion of this ecosystem.

In order to facilitate MeitY's vision of promoting technology innovation, start-ups and creation of Intellectual Properties, a nodal entity called ‘MeitY Start-up Hub' (MSH) has been setup under its aegis. MSH will act as a national coordination, facilitation and monitoring centre that will integrate all the incubation centres, start-ups and innovation related activities of MeitY.

For more information, visit https://meitystartuphub.in

India Semiconductor Mission (ISM)

India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) as an Independent Business Division within Digital India Corporation with administrative and financial autonomy to drive India’s strategies for developing semiconductors and display manufacturing ecosystem, and to act as nodal agency for this purpose as outlined below

1. India Semiconductor Mission is authorized to negotiate with the applicants under the semiconductor fab scheme and the display fab scheme to decide the appropriate technology mix, applications, node size(s) / generation, capacity, etc., and propose the structure and quantum of fiscal support for the selected applicant(s) under Semiconductor Fab Scheme and Display Fab Scheme.
2. India Semiconductor Mission may recommend one or more applicants under the Semiconductor Fab Scheme depending on the receipt of applications under the Scheme.
3. Under the Display Fab Scheme also, India Semiconductor Mission may recommend one or more applicants depending on the receipt of applications under the Scheme.

Vision: To build a vibrant semiconductor and display ecosystem to enable India’s emergence as a global hub for electronics manufacturing and design.

For more information, visit https://ism.gov.in/