Government Actively Looking at Cloud Based Services as First Option

Given the huge requirement of services for citizens, the government is actively looking at cloud based services as first option. A significant step in this direction is MeghRaj - National Cloud Computing Initiative, which sets basic standards for all cloud services for Government of India as well as evangelising projects through Cloud First policy. This information was given by Shri J. Satyanarayana, Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (Ministry of Communications & Information Technology), while unveiling the 4th edition of ‘CII Cloud Summit 2013’ here today (29.10.2013). The theme of the Summit was: Developing Cloud Strategy. Shri Satyanarayana said, “Cloud is culturally suitable for India as there is a preference for shared infrastructure and service, penchant for recycling & reuse and less concerns over piracy of data”. Taking a step further, he said that Government of India has developed the first Data Center for public cloud through National Informatics Centre (NIC) and an App store where citizens can access more than 40 services. He also demonstrated a recently created web portal for dissemination of e-Transactions statistics of National and State level e-Governance Projects including Mission Mode Projects. Courtesy: Press Information Bureau (pib.nic.in)