Government has launched a nation-wide contest for public, seeking suggestions to develop a mobile application for Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
Government has collaborated with Google to develop this application. Government wants public to give suggestions regarding the structure and content of the application.
“The whole MyGov programme is designed to have citizen engagement at the widest level. If we engage people, then we get various new suggestions,” Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said while launching the contest.
The website MyGov.in was launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as a platform where citizens could share their views and opinions on various issues.
“Government us using crowd sourcing model to get suggestions from the general public and later incorporating them while forming government policies,” said Prasad.
He said the Railway and the Union budgets used suggestions given by public including proposal of bio toilets, online payment facility for food, ideal railway station by involvement of MPs in railways, gold monetisation and sovereign bonds schemes and the need for a law to tackle benami property among others.
“Through crowd sourcing, whatever suggestions people gave regarding the Budget, have been included into railway as well as the general Budget… So you can see our government not only engages people but also acts on the feedback received from crowd sourcing,” Prasad said.
He further said that this shows extraordinary commitment of the government to use social media for social good.
Regarding the PMO’s application, Google India MD Rajan Anandan said the app will be made in India by best developers of the country.
Anandan added that the app is likely to be developed in two months and it will be a “Made in India and Made for India.