NEW DELHI, May 31: Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Kapil Sibal today launched the pilot e-Gov application store, designed to bring functional efficiencies in the government and enable citizens to receive services in a more streamlined manner.
Speaking to reporters after launching the Appstore, Mr Sibal said, “this e-Gov Appstore has been designed, developed and hosted by DeitY through NIC.
“The Appstore will being functional efficiencies in the government and enable citizens to receive services in a more streamlined manner. Inclusion of IT in governance aims to reduce uncertainty and improve transparency.”
The e-Gov Appstore aims to be a National level common repository of productized applications, components and web services that can be used by various government agencies/ departments at Centre and in the States.
This will enable acceleration of delivery of e-services as envisaged under NeGP and optimise the ICT spending of the government.
Core and common applications that have high demand and are replicable across the Central and state levels would be available on the e-Gov Appstore, which shall be hosted on the National Cloud.
Currently, 20 Applications, eight Components and a Web Service is hosted. These applications are sourced from eight distinct States/UTs and provide a gamut of G2C/G2B services.
Going ahead, the applications will be productised and made available on the e-Gov Appstore for use.
The present version of the e-Gov Appstore has features for sharing of applications and search for applications.
Besides, it provides basic information about an application on selection and also allows users to provide feedback and rate an application.
The Appstore has a two level approval process for contributing applications and allows authenticated users to download application for consumption.
This e-Gov Appstore will be augmented to include applications and components developed by various departments and agencies at Centre and States and by private players; and a complete eco-system will be established (including mechanism for funding, charge back, contract management, SLAs) and will become a part of the GI Cloud initiative under the Government, Mr Sibal added. (UNI)
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