Standards & Policies

Standards for eGovernance

Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India (GoI) is driving the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) which seeks to create the right governance and institutional mechanisms and implement a number of Mission Mode Projects at the Center & State government.

Standards in eGovernance are a high priority activity, which will help ensure sharing of information and seamless interoperability of data across e-Governance applications. DIT Under NeGP is promoting the usage of Open Standards to avoid any technology lock-ins. An Institutional Mechanism has been setup under NeGP to evolve/adopt Standards for e-Governance

Some of the Key priority areas of immediate concern that have been identified for standardization are:

• Policy on Open Standards
• Metadata & Data Standards
• Localisation and Language Technology Standards
• Information Security
• Technology Standards on Interoperability
• Biometrics
• Digital Signatures
• Enterprise Architecture
• Quality & Documentation

For more details visit the website for Standards http://egovstandards.gov.in (External website that opens in a new window)

• Institutional Mechanism
• Status on Standards
• Contact details