About CDG
The Indian growth story is closely linked to her path to urbanisation. In 2020, the 4400+ statutory towns and cities in India accounted for a little over 30 per cent in its share of the Indian population, at its current rate of growth, this number is expected to touch 50 per cent by 2030. With such growing populations, urban management is growing more complex. Solving local problems contextually and efficiently becomes contingent on quick responses from multiple government actors and other stakeholders.
Enter the Centre for Digital Governance, instituted at the National Institute of Urban Affairs to enable digital transformation of urban governance, delivered through responsive and customised open source technology platforms and accompanying solutions.
Our goal is to foster collaborations, partnerships and innovations in the Indian ecosystem to enable e-governance solutions across 4400 cities by 2024.
Our approach is built on a foundation of Design, Architecture, Enterprise and Ecosystem Thinking
Practice Areas
governance
Formulation of various model policies, frameworks and documents for digital governance, and providing advisory services
platform
Provide critical digital infrastructure as a public good
partnership
Forge strategic linkages to galvanise the ecosystem
Citizens
learning
Build and nurture capacities in urban professionals, and address demand based capacity building needs of the ecosystem
research
Facilitate knowledge sharing and insights for spurring urban innovation
communication
To build a shared narrative on digital technology for urban development
Our Strategy
The Centre for Digital Governance will use the principles of the National Urban Innovation Stack Strategy and Approach, first published by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in February in 2019.
The National Urban Innovation Stack is envisioned as a digital public good, in the form of a set of platforms for all government, industry, academic and civil society actors to use. The Stack Philosophy details the vision to local, distributed and decentralised capacity among urban stakeholders at speed and scale. These platforms will allow all stakeholders to collaboratively design, implement and refine innovative solutions for local problems.
Enabling Thousands Of Solutions
- Urban
Mobility - Smart
Governance - Capacity
Building - Swacch
Bharat - Research &
Innovation - Existing
Solutions
National Urban Innovation Stack (NUIS)
Urban Solutions Platform
- 1Employee Learning
- 2Trainer Certification
- 3Public Grievance
- 4Traffic Management
- 5Trainer Certification*
- 6Building Plan Approval
- 7BPR Toolkit*
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Core Service Infrastructure
- 1Entity Management(Users/Devices...)
- 2Search
- 3Workflows
- 4Lser Research*
- 5Payments/ Billing
- 6Payments/ Billing
- 7Training Services*
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Core Data infrastructure
Registries (Users, Spaces, Devices, Employees, Properties, Standards, certifications, Organisations)
Data infrastructure (Data Specifications, Open Data, Secure Data Enclave, Data Streaming, Telementry)
Data infrastructure (Data Specifications, Open Data, Secure Data Enclave, Data Streaming, Telementry)
Public Digital infrastructure {India Stack, JAM...} NUIS Overview
Physical infrastructure {Internet, Telephony...} *Non Software Elements - Process Documents, Policies
Technology Track
Technology plays a central role in the mission to enable digital governance in India. The Centre will achieve the goal of enabling digital governance in 4400+ Indian cities and towns through the flagship programs:
The Urban Platform for deliverY of Online Governance
The National Urban Learning Platform
Ecosystem Track
The Centre for Digital Governance will facilitate inclusive and meaningful partnerships between key stakeholders in the urban ecosystem - including state and city governments, MSMEs and start-ups, industry associations, research and civil society organisations - to ensure the promotion of local innovations for contextual problem-solving.
