From E-Pramaan to Indian App Retailer, IT Ministry’s C-DAC at Forefront of Digital Transformation: Jt Director to News18

The Centre for Growth of Superior Computing (C-DAC), an autonomous scientific society beneath the Ministry of Electronics & IT,  has been concerned in growing end-to-end state-of-the-art merchandise, programs, companies, and options for the nation.

Kapil Kant Kamal, Joint Director at C-DAC Mumbai, informed News18 that the centre has been on the forefront of the IT revolution. The organisation has been continuously constructing capacities in rising applied sciences, innovating and leveraging its experience and talent units to develop, in addition to deploy IT merchandise and options for various sectors of the economic system.

C-DAC has offered technical help to authorities companies establishing public digital companies in a variety of industries, together with transportation, well being, training, agriculture, logistics and cellular computing.

Based on Kamal, “These initiatives and options will make it simpler for folks to entry companies by offering an ordinary, clean interface. To make sure interoperability and encourage knowledge sharing for improved on-line companies, fashionable know-how and requirements have been integrated into the structure and improvement of those platforms.”

Companies for all

Kamal mentioned that beneath the Digital India initiative, C-DAC Mumbai had carried out varied nationwide aspiration tasks within the subject of e-governance product improvement. These embrace:

1. E-Pramaan (MeriPehchaan): It’s a framework for safely and securely authenticating people for accessing companies through desktop and cellular platforms. It offers a number of elements of authentication corresponding to password (textual content, picture, grid sample primarily based), OTP (SMS, e-mail, sensible app), digital signatures (offered by Indian CA), and biometric (finger, iris, face) authentication. The answer additionally ensures safety for which it has many fraud administration methods carried out.
2. Cell Seva: It’s a platform to ship authorities companies to residents over cellular units utilizing SMS, USSD, Voice, LBS, and/ or cellular purposes. It’s utilized by virtually 4,000 departments.
3. Aadhaar Information Vault: This shops Aadhaar numbers in an encrypted format and generates reference numbers to entry them complying with the rules of UIDAI. Therefore, the Aadhaar numbers are locked securely within the vault with the decryption key in {Hardware} Safety Module (HSM). The reference quantity is totally different for every service. C-DAC offers Aadhaar Information Vault as an answer in addition to a service.
4. C-DAC’s Aadhaar Ecosystem: Aadhaar-related authentication companies are accessible solely by the Authentication Service Company (ASA) and Authentication Consumer Companies (AUA) that are trusted companions of UIDAI for offering Aadhaar companies. C-DAC as an ASA in addition to AUA offers entry to numerous Aadhaar Companies corresponding to e-KYC.
5. OLabs: It’s established on the premise that lab experiments could also be taught extra quickly and affordably by the Web. The labs will also be made obtainable to college students who would not have entry to bodily labs or when gear is scarce or costly. The labs designed for courses 6 to 12 are aligned with the NCERT/ CBSE and will also be utilized by state board colleges in English, Marathi, Hindi and Malayalam. An offline model and an Android app are additionally obtainable to be used.
6. mSeva AppStore: It’s an indigenous platform for internet hosting Indian apps, full with its personal coverage and pointers for builders. The apps undergo rigorous safety testing earlier than internet hosting offering safety assurance to the residents whereas downloading the apps from this app retailer.

Kamal mentioned that with the launch of the Digital India Programme, the federal government of India hopes to develop e-Governance and m-Governance schemes. The programme’s overarching goal is to transform India right into a digitally empowered society and data economic system, he added.

“With the implementation of cellular governance platforms, residents can avail of built-in public companies by a number of mobile-based channels in a seamless and well timed method. It will profit residents to maintain observe of Authorities-to-Citizen (G2C) communications and transparently obtain well timed updates,” he famous.

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