Panel Discussion: Leveraging Emerging Technologies to raise the bar for e-Governance | Digital Technology Sabha 2021

Panelists in this video:
+ Rama Devi Lanka, Director, Emerging Technologies & Officer on Special Duty (ITE & C Department, Telangana)
+ Yogesh Khakre, Company Secretary & COO- B-NeST Incubation Centre, Bhopal Smart City Development Corporation, Govenment of Madhya Pradesh
​+ Inder Pal Singh Sethi, DDG, National Informatics Centre
+ ​​Dr. B. Viduthalai Virumbi, Health Officer, National Health Mission, Government of Tamil Nadu
+ Samar Jha, Chairman, West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited (WEBEL)
+ Anoop Chaturvedi, Country Manager – Public Sector Business, Pointnext Services, HPE
+ Sandhya Michu, Principal Correspondent, Express Computer, Indian Express Group (Moderator)

Key Highlights:
+ Technologies like AI and blockchain have been used to issue birth and death certificates, developing land records, and databases of soil quality: Samar Jha, Chairman, West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited (WEBEL)

+ We identified technologies and formulated policies for domain areas like healthcare, education, agriculture, law enforcement and mobility: Rama Devi Lanka, Director Emerging Technologies & Officer on Special Duty, ITE & C Department, Telangana

+ Bhopal Smart City app is helping citizens for getting house aids, filing taxes and issuing birth & death certificates: Yogesh Khakre, Company Secretary and COO- B-NeST Incubation Centre, Bhopal Smart City Development Corporation, Government of Madhya Pradesh

+ Population Health Registry initiative ensures that citizens get an ID immediately to get services provided by the state: Dr. B. Viduthalai Virumbi, Health Officer, National Health Mission, Government of Tamil Nadu

+ It is important to digitise and democratise digital innovations with monitoring actions and reactions: Anoop Chaturvedi, Country Manager – Public Sector Business, Pointnext Services, HPE

+ The data is like oil, it should be used for predictive analysis: Inder Pal Singh Sethi, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India