How India Leverages Geospatial Technologies for Urban Management
National Urban Digital Mission (NUDM) was launched in February 2021 with an array of digital infrastructure and tools for smart cities, including:
- Smart Cities Open Data Portal (SCODP): Single-point data-sharing platform for open datasets enabling smart city stakeholders to generate actionable insights.
- Smart Code: To serve the software development demand of cities developing data and solutions for various urban problems.
- India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX): Easy-to-adopt open-source platform based on an underlying framework of open-standard APIs, data models, security, privacy and accounting mechanisms.
- Urban Platform for delivery of Online Governance (UPYOG): Aimed at helping municipal bodies improve service delivery mechanisms, information management and participative governance initiatives.
- Urban Outcomes Framework 2022: Aimed at developing a transparent and comprehensive database based on cross-city outcomes for time-series analysis and progress tracking.
