{"id":5956,"date":"2022-12-21T11:13:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T05:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5956"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:24:41","slug":"indias-smart-cities-mission-awarded-at-the-digital-india-awards-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indias-smart-cities-mission-awarded-at-the-digital-india-awards-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s smart cities mission awarded at the Digital India Awards 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Digital India Awards 2022:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Smart Cities Mission won the award under the \u2018Data Sharing and Use for Socio-Economic Development\u2019 category.\n<ul>\n<li>This category \u2018emphasizes on sharing of Government Data by Ministries\/Departments\/Organizations, States, Cities and ULBs to create a vibrant data for analysis, decision-making, innovation etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The initiative is a key step in creating a <strong>robust data ecosystem that enables evidence-based decision-making in cities.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Digital India Awards (DIA) <\/strong>is a prestigious National competition that seeks to encourage and honour innovative digital solutions by government entities in realising the Digital India vision.<\/li>\n<li>These are conducted by the <strong>National Informatics Centre<\/strong> (NIC) <strong>under the Ministry of Electronics &amp; Information Technology (MeitY).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is the Data smart Cities Initiative?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aim:<\/strong> To harness the power of data for better governance in India\u2019s 100 Smart Cities.<\/li>\n<li>It is based on a \u2018People, Platform, Process\u2019 strategy, which is helping in the convergence of the Ministry of Housing &amp; Urban Affairs&#8217; efforts for performance management, empowerment of communities, and research, co-creation &amp; open innovation.<\/li>\n<li>The program has institutionalized a Data Ecosystem in cities through 100 City Data Offices and more than 50 Data Policies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Digital India and its key vision areas?<\/h3>\n<p>Digital India is a flagship programme of the Government of India with a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. Digital Infrastructure Creation, Digital Delivery of Services, and Digital Literacy are the three main components of the Digital India initiative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1885212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital India Awards seeks to encourage &#038; honour innovative digital solutions for Digital India vision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}