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Area Recommendation bal front, there are new and emerg-
Broadband Highways A unified industry-government committee to be setup to look into issues faced with ing technologies that are now ready
fibre, towers, satellite and other broadband highway enabling technologies. The for commercial deployments. It is
committee will setup standard procedures of infrastructure laying, etc.
the time, when government starts
Universal Access to Mobile A mandatory infrastructure sharing between operators in remote and tough areas be Digital India 2.0, where all these
Connectivity introduced. One operator should be made an anchor operator to develop infrastructure factors are considered and a more
in each of such remote areas.
meaningful and impactful Digital
Public Internet Access Programme After CSCs, MSCs (through post offices) are being set up. A thorough review must be India programme is conceived.
done to ascertain the overlaps, if any, between the two or else CSCs should be absorbed • The future of technology is use
within MSC infrastructure to increase sustainability.
case defined. Customers will not
eGovernance The digital assets – apps, websites, etc., set up so far are not uniform in experience and value infrastructure or will be will-
purpose. For this One India One Digital Image should be launched to standardise the
experience. ing to pay for provisioning of serv-
ices only. They will value the service
eKranti There is a need to have deeper engagement within states on digital governance. This by the use case it addresses. In
will quicken and standardise the process. The MMP bucketing should be kept hidden
from users to give them one view experience. this backdrop, it is recommended,
that a use case committee be es-
Information for All Localisation of information in terms of language and content should be encouraged for
citizens to have information from central as well as state domains. tablished which charters out the
use cases of Digital India and then
Electronics Manufacturing Make in India should be aligned with Industry 4.0 to make it future proof and ready for launches a roadmap involving all
newer opportunities that shall emerge.
the stakeholders to ensure its R&D,
IT for Jobs A three-tier approach be adopted to focus on basic digital literacy, present solution development, implemen-
opportunities and prepare for future skills.
tation and taking it to the users in
Early Harvest Programmes Application of emerging technologies like AI, ML and analytics be explored to take the the way they value it the best.
user experience to the next levels.
• There is serious need to ad-
Devices An affordable Smartphone be made a national level mission with all stakeholders dress the entire Digital readiness
involved to power the next half a billion population of India. of citizens, especially for jobs. The
Apps Increase the reach and usability by localising the content in terms of language. At least skilling initiative could be improved
content should be made available in all the schedule 8 languages of India. to have more fruitful results. There
5G The spectrum pricing needs to be revisited and rationalized to expedite 5G adoption in are several overlapping sector skill
India. councils, who could be merged as
one Digital Skills council, aiming to
IoT Being a vast application area, there is a need to make a national level priority index of
applications of IoT and work on a roadmap accordingly. holistically skill people and work in
a coordinated manner with the in-
Artificial Intelligence The government must start a focused result-oriented effort to explore its application in
digital governance. dustry trends.
• The startup journey has been
Blockchain This is not a technology for finance only. The government must set up a task force to heartening. However, there is also
come up with recommendations on how Blockchain can be used in digital governance.
an observations that the quality of
Machine Learning/Deep Learning This is an important enabler of Digital India 2.0. There should be a deeper government- ideas is not extraordinary in all the
industry-academia engagement on how these technologies can bring intelligence to cases, which can result in higher
Digital India.
failure rates of startups. Therefore,
Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality/ Being still a premium technology, there is a need to work on creating affordable social a special pre-incubation and idea-
Mixed Reality use cases like in healthcare and education. Accordingly, a special group of industry-
government must be set up to look into this. tion programme be started for Dig-
ital India which can refine the ideas
Smart Cities A government of India led coordination group be setup where all the SPVs collaborate
and share to expedite the process and knowledge share. RoW issues need to be to feed to strong startups.
resolved at the earliest. • The government digital infra-
structure is not giving a homoge-
DigiGaon A DigiGaon mission be setup, as equally important as Smart Cities Mission be set up
to create an uniform and focused DigiGaon programme in the country. WiFi in gram nous view across. There are differ-
panchyats need to be deployed at a fast pace so that villagers can access health, ent UX / UI experiences across the
education and agriculture information domain. It is therefore, suggested
Industry 4.0 There is a need to come up with a comprehensive paper on India’s approach towards that Digital India aspires for ‘One
Industry 4.0 – opportunities as well as challenges. This will setup the first organised India One Digital Experience’, so
step towards building competencies for Industry 4.0.
that citizens have a flawless experi-
eCommerce A cooperative ecommerce model may be explored to get unorganised sector of retail ence across.
as well as farmers and marginal retailers on the digital platform increasing their access • Manufacturing of electronics
and saleability.
also needs a revisit as the world us-
Startups A national level priority area for startups be setup. This will help startups to develop ers in to Industrial Revolution 4.0.
products and services in the high impact areas relevant to India. This should be
incentivised accordingly.