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Department of Information Technology (DIT), Government of India is driving the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) which seeks to create the right governance and institutional mechanisms, set up the core infrastructure and policies and implement a number of Mission Mode Projects at the center, state and integrated service levels to create a citizen-centric and business-centric environment for governance. Under the NeGP, Standards for e-Governance is a critical activity to ensure integration and interoperability of data and e-applications.
Department of Information Technology (DIT) had constituted a Core group on Standards to arrive at an Institutional Mechanism and Processes to be put in place and recommend key areas for standardization.
Some of the Key priority areas of immediate concern that have been identified for standardization are:
Technical Standards
Localization Standards
Quality & Documentation
Security Standards
Meta Data and Data Standards for various application domains
As regards the Institutional mechanism and processes are concerned, an Apex body has been constituted under the chairmanship of Secretary, DIT with senior representatives from Government, NASSCOM, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), etc. with a mandate to approve, notify and enforce the Standards formulated by various Working Groups and to oversee that they are in accordance with international practices in this regard. Director (e-Governance), DIT will be the convenor of the Apex Body.
National Informatics Centre (NIC) has been entrusted with the task of originating white papers on all the desired standards which would serve as discussion papers for Working groups to develop the standards. The Working Groups with members from DIT, Associations, Industry, Academia, representatives from Central & State Government etc will be constituted with the approval of DIT.
The approved standards by the Apex Body will be released on the web by Standardization Testing & Quality Certification Directorate (STQC). STQC will further ensure conformance & certification (where required) of these standards
The e-Governance Division of NIC and STQC will function in tandem with e-Governance Programme Management Unit (PMU) of DIT.
RM/AMA-131005 e-Governance Standards
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