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IT Top Priority for State: CM TNN
Chief minister NaveenPatnaik on Wednesday said his government will continue to focus on the growth of the information technology sector and make Bhubaneswarthe number one IT destination among Tier-II cities in the country. Inaugurating the e-Odisha summit here, Naveen said, Odisha is trying its best to be at the forefront of the IT revolution. Four major IT companies - Infosys, TCS, Wipro and Mahindra Satyam - have established their development centres in the capital.

IT Sector High on our Agenda: CM

Express News Service Stating that the Government is trying its best to put the State at the forefront of IT revolution, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday said IT exports from the State was more than `1,600 crore during 2011-12, registering a growth of 17 per cent, compared to the previous year.

123orissa.com: IT sector high on our agenda: CM March 7, 2013

Stating that the Government is trying its best to put the State at the forefront of IT revolution, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday said IT exports from the State was more than `1,600 crore during 2011-12, registering a growth of 17 per cent, compared to the previous year. the IT revolution in the country, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said on Wednesday.

www.nuaodisha.com: IT on top of govt agenda: CM March 7, 2013

The information technology (IT) sector is at the top of the agenda of the state government, which was doing its best to be at the forefront of

eOdisha.org: E-Odisha summit on 6th March at Bhubaneswar Hotel Swosti March 4, 2013
Dept of IT, Govt of Odisha is organizing eOdisha Summit, one of the mega IT event is on 6th March, 2013 at Hotel Swosti Premium, Bhubaneswar in association with Elets Technomedia and is presented by leading ICT magazines eGov, Digital Learning, eHealth.

Orissa Diary: CM Naveen Patnaik inaugurates e-Odisha summit March 6, 2013

Inaugurating this summit CM Patnaik said that The Government of Odisha is committed for creating an open environment to attract investment from IT industries and foreign investors. In order to promote such Investments, IT Special Economic Zones (SEZS) are being established at Infocity and Infovalley in Bhubaneswar.

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Orissa Diary: eOdisha Summit to start from March 6 in Bhubaneswar February 03, 2013
Dept of IT, Govt of Odisha is organizing eOdisha Summit, one of the mega IT event is on 6th March, 2013 at Hotel Swosti Premium, Bhubaneswar in association with Elets Technomedia and is presented by leading ICT magazines eGov, Digital Learning, eHealth. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will inaugurate this one day summit on 6th March 2013. Minister, lT, Housing & Urban Development & Law and the Chief Secretary Odisha will also attend the inaugural session as Guest of Honour. Other dignitaries including the Union Secretary, iT, Govt of India and lT Secretaries of various states will also attend this event.

March 6 here, official sources said. The one-day event will bring together more than 400 high level representatives from all tiers of Government, ICT industry, academia, development agencies from Odisha and all across the country, said Odishas IT secretary M S Padhi.

Press Trust of India: State to organise e-Odisha IT Summit February 2, 2013

Bhubaneswar: The state government is all set to organise e-Odisha Summit, one of the mega IT event on March 6 here, official sources said. The one-day event will bring together more than 400 high level representatives from all tiers of Government, ICT industry, academia, development agencies from Odisha and all across the country, said Odishas IT secretary M S Padhi. This will provide a unique platform for exchange of experiences and ideas, challenges and opportunities in the the public domains, Padhi said adding that the thematic sessions will draw discussions around e-governance in Odisha, its Success and Opportunities.

Pragativadi: State to organise e-Odisha IT Summit February 4, 2013

The state government is all set to organise e-Odisha Summit, one of the mega IT event on March 6 here, official sources said. The one-day event will bring together more than 400 high level representatives from all tiers of Government, ICT industry, academia, development agencies from Odisha and all across the country, said Odishas IT secretary M S Padhi.

India Education Diary: eOdisha Summit to start from March 6 in Bhubaneswar February 2, 2013
Report by India Education bureau; Bhubaneswar: Dept of IT, Govt of Odisna is organizing eOdisha Summit, one of the mega IT event is on 6th March, 2013 at Hotel Swosti Premium, Bhubaneswar in association with Elets Technomedia and is presented by leading ICT magazines eGov, Digital Learning, eHealth. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will inaugurate this one day summit on 6th March 2013. Minister, lT, Housing & Urban Development & Law and the Chief Secretary Odisha will also attend the inaugural session as Guest of Honour. Other dignitaries including the Union Secretary, iT, Govt of India and lT Secretaries of various states will also attend this event.

Odisha Reporter: State Govt to organize e-Odisha summit on March 6 to discuss e-governance February 3, 2013
India Education Diary: E-Odisha Summit scheduled to be held on 6th March, 2013 in Bhubaneswar February 1, 2013 E-Odisha Summit scheduled to be held on 6th March, 2013 in Bhubaneswar. The Department of IT, Government of Odisha is organizing e-Odisha Summit, one of the mega IT Event on 6th March, 2013 at Hotel Swosti Premium, Bhubaneswar in association with Elects Techno Media Limited.

laboration with IT department will organize eOdisha Summit, a mega IT event on 6th March 2013 at a local star hotel here in Bhubaneswar. The associate partners in the summit will be Elets Technomedia while it will be presented by ICT magazines eGov, Digital Learning and eHealth.

Odisha Pride: E-Odisha summit on 6th March February 3, 2013

One of the mega IT event is on 6th march, 2013 at Hotel Swosti Premium, Bhubaneswar in association with Elets Technomedia and is presented by leading ICT magazines eGov, Digital Learning, & eHealth. The Chief Minister, Odisha will inaugurate this one day summit on 6th March 2013. Minister IT, Housing & Urban Development & Law and the Chief Secretary Odisha will also attend the inaugural session as Guest of Honour. Other dignitaries including the Union Secretary, IT, Government of India and IT Secretaries of various states will also attend this event.

IBN Live: State to organise e-Odisha IT Summit February 2, 2013

Bhubaneswar, Feb 2 (PTI) The state government is all set to organise e-Odisha Summit, one of the mega IT event on March 6 here, official sources said.

Business Standard: State to organise e-Odisha IT Summit February 2, 2013

The state government is all set to organise e-Odisha Summit, one of the mega IT event on

Odisha Times Online: eOdisha Summit to be held on March 6th 2013 February 3, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Government of Odisha in col-

The Political Business Daily: All Districts to have e-dist programme by December 2013 February 2, 2013
Information & Public Relations Department, Government of Odisha, Bhubaneswar: eOdisha Summit on 6th March February 2, 2013
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eOdisha: Towards a Digital Economy

Shri Madhusudhan Padhi, Commissionercum-Secretary, Dept. of IT, Odisha

Shri Naveen Patnaik, Honble Chief Minister, Odisha inaugurating eOdisha Summit 2013

The revolution in Information and communications Technology (ICT) has brought a whole new agenda for governance into the realm of possibility. eGovernance, simply defined, is leveraging ICT solutions for transforming the reach and quality of the governments service delivery. Being increasingly viewed as an enabler and facilitator of good governance, ICT widens the scope of good governance by including attributes such as a service-centric approach, citizen-centricity, anytime, anywhere delivery of services, integrated delivery of services, focus on outcomes, accountability, promoting right to information, and inclusion of disadvantaged communities.

It should come as no surprise, therefore, that ICT struck a timely chord with speakers and delegates and made the theme of the eOdisha conference held on 6 March 2013 at Hotel Swosti Premium, Bhubaneswar in Odisha. The spotlight was on Odisha, the state playing the harbinger of a silent revolution in small towns and villages, acknowledging the IT initiatives and efforts in bringing about a digitally inclusive society. eOdisha Summit 2013 was organized by elets Technomedia under the patronage of Department of IT, Govt of Odisha and Odisha Computer Application Centre (OCAC). The summit gave an opportunity to more than 500 participants, coming from governments, business and industry sector, academia, to create a level-sharing platform for easy exchange of knowledge and ideas in building and upgrading governance through ICT solutions, and build new visions of the future through good practice and Shri Ravi Gupta, CEO, Elets Technomedia, Editor in chief, eGov case presentations.

Chief Minister of Odisha, Shri Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the e-Odisha summit at Swosti Premium Hotel in Bhubaneswar. He was joined by the Guests of Honour, the then IT Minister of Odisha and also by the Director General and Mission Director of Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI), Shri R S Sharma. The eOdisha summit was designed and facilitated under the leadership of the Secretary IT, Department of IT in Odisha, Shri Madhusudan Padhi as the Program Chair.

Objectives
The objectives of the eOdisha summit were: To provide a platform to stakeholders in ICT to address regional issues and the challenges in the development sector To highlight the regional perspectives and to draw the attention of concerned authorities towards addressing these challenges To highlight best practices and deliberate on ways of replicating the same across different regions To expand and diversify the multiple stakeholder voices in order to make the state more dynamic and vibrant, thereby, incorporating issues of contemporary relevance To promote public private partnerships in ICT in development initiatives to address region-specific concerns

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10.00 am - 11.00 am: Grand Inauguration eGovernance in Odisha: Best Practices & Next Practices Chief Guest: Shri Naveen Patnaik, Honble Chief Minister, Odisha Guest of Honour: Shri Raghunath Mohanty, Honble Minister, IT, Housing & Urban Development, Odisha Guest of Honour: Shri Bijay Kumar Patnaik, Chief Secretary, Odisha Keynote: Shri R S Sharma, DG & Mission Director, UIDAI, Govt of India Keynote: Shri Madhusudan Padhi, Commissioner-cum-Secretary, IT, Odisha Ranbir Singh, Group Director, Government Affairs, Microsoft India Dr Ravi Gupta, CEO, Elets Technomedia, Editor-in-Chief, eGov 11.00 am - 11.30 am Tea Break

11.30 am - 01.30 pm: Session I: Towards Effective Secured Electronic Service Delivery R S Sharma, DG and Mission Director , UIDAI, Govt. of India Madhusudan Padhi, Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Dept of Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare, Odisha Rajesh Agarwal, Secretary, Department of IT, Government of Maharashtra Manoj Ahuja, Commissioner, Commercial Tax, Odisha Naval Khosla, General Manager , Government Industry Solutions at IBM Anubhav Tyagi, Sr.Solution Specialist, SafeNet India Pvt. Ltd. Jignesh Upadhyay, Designation: Director, Technical Sales, CA Technologies Vidyesh Vithal Khanolkar, Head - Insurance and Government Business - Asia Pacific, India and Middle East, Mastek Ltd Lunch Break

01.30 pm - 02.30 pm

02.30 pm - 4.00 pm: Session III: ICT for Inclusive framework of eGovernance S N Tripathi, Principal Secretary, Department of Rural Development, Govt. of Odisha Pradeep Kumar Jena, Commissioner Cum Secretary, Dept. of Energy, Govt. of Odisha Sanjeev Chadha, Director, Directorate of Hortculture, Odisha Debjani Chakrabarty, Additional Secretary, Dept of Water Resources, Odisha Sahadev Khatua, MD, Odisha Hydro Power Corporation Ltd Sanjay Panigrahi, CEO, Srei Sahaj e-Village Ltd Dr Ashwini Kumar Sharma, Managing Director, National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT) Anurag Choudhury, General Manager, National Institute for Smart Government (NISG) Padma Mohanty, Regional Passport Officer, Odisha M Akhaya, Director, State Crime Record Bureau, Odisha Maj Gen R Shiva Kumar, CEO, NSDI, Dept of Science & Technology, Govt of India NSN Murthy, General Manager & Sales Leader, Government Industry, India/ South Asia, IBM India Venkat Patnaik, Head -Government Business at NIIT Technologies Ltd Madhusudan Padhi, Commissioner-cum-Secretary, IT, Govt of Odisha Rajesh Agarwal, Secretary, Department of IT, Government of Maharashtra Aswini Kumar Mishra, Special Secretary, Finance Deptt., Govt. of Odisha S N Tripathi, Principal Secretary, Department of Rural Development, Govt of Odisha P K Jena, Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Department of Energy, Govt. of Odisha Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra, Principal Secretary, Health & Family Welfare, Odisha Gagan Kumar Dhal, Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Govt. of Odisha Santosh Sarangi, Commissioner-cum-cum-Secretary, Department of SC & ST Development Manoj Ahuja, Commissioner, Commercial Tax Department, Govt. of Odisha Usha Padhee, Commissioner-cum-Secretary to Government, School & Mass Education Department, Govt. of Odisha Kaushik Halder, Joint Secretary, Department of Information Technology & Electronics, Government of West Bengal Dr Damodar Rout, Minister, Health & Family Welfare, Odisha Shri Raghunath Mohanty, Minister, IT, Odisha Madhusudan Padhi, Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Dept of IT, Odisha

04.00 pm - 5.00 pm: Session V: Application and Infrastructure Security, Public Safety

05.00 pm -6.00 pm : Session VII: Secretaries Meet: ICT Policy: How should the implementation Master Plan look like?

06.00 pm - 06.30 pm : eOdisha Awards Ceremony, Cultural Show & Dinner

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11.30 am - 01.30 pm: Session II: Urban Governance & Infrastructure: Emerging Opportunities S P S Bakhshi, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Engineering Projects India Ltd. Vishal Dev, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Orissa Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation Sisir Kumar Ratho, Special Secretary, Urban Devt, Odisha Rajesh Verma, Secretary, Steel & Mines, Govt of Odisha S K Tripathi, CMD, MSTC Ltd. Sanjay Bobde, Director -Microsoft Consulting Services Muralidhara Honnur, General Manager, Wipro Consulting Lunch Break

01.30 pm - 02.30 pm

02.30 pm - 4.00 pm: Session IV: Technology in Healthcare: Emerging Opportunities Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra, Principal Secretary, Health & Family Welfare, Govt of Odisha Dr Pramod Kumar Meherda, Commissioner cum Mission Director (NRHM), Deptt. Of Health & F.W., Govt. of Odisha Prof A K Mahapatra, Director AIIMS, Odisha Dr B N Mohanty, Hony. Secretary, Telemedicine Society of India & Head, Experimental Surgery, SCB Medical College K N Bhagat, Managing Trustee, Orissa Trust of Technical Education & Training (OTTET)

04.00 pm - 5.00 pm: Session VI: Scope of Technology in Education & Skill Training Gagan Kumar Dhal, Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Govt. of Odisha Usha Padhee, Commissioner-cum-Secretary to Government, School & Mass Education Department, Odisha Prof Gopal Naik, Director, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bhubaneswar Ratnakar Rout, Additional Secretary, Employment & Technical Education & Training Dept. Govt. of Odisha Santosh Birari, MD, Odisha Knowledge Corporation Ltd (OKCL) Lokesh Mehra, Director, Education Advocacy, Microsoft Corporation (I) Pvt. Ltd. Ajay Krishnan, Vice President, National Security Solutions, Cisco Systems

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Opening

Shri Raghunath Mohanty, Former Minister, IT, Housing & Urban Development, Odisha

Shri Naveen Patnaik, Honble Chief Minister, Odisha

Shri R S Sharma, DG & Mission Director, UIDAI, Govt. of India

Shri Madhusudhan Padhi, Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Dept. of IT, Odisha

Shri Ravi Gupta, CEO, Elets Technomedia, Editor in chief, eGov

Shri Ranbir Singh, Group Director, Government Affairs, Microsoft India

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Launching eOdisha special issue eGov Magazine

naugurating the one-day e-Odisha summit here, the Chief Minister of Odisha said the IT sector is at the top of the State Governments agenda and Odisha is trying its best to be in the forefront of the IT revolution. It is a matter of pride that the IT exports from the State was more than Rupees 1600 crore during the year 2011-12 with a growth of 17 percent in comparison to the previous year. To accommodate future development in IT sector, particularly in Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM), the Government is developing one IT Investment Region (ITIR) in Bhubaneswar. Government is taking several steps to build Bhubaneswar as number one IT destination among the Tier-II cities in the country. In order to promote such Investments, IT Special Economic Zones (SEZS) are being established at Infocity and Infovalley in Bhubaneswar. The Government has developed a number of successful e-Governance initiatives including eRegistration, e-Treasury, e-Commercial Tax, e-Abhijog, SAMS, e-District, eDespateh. e-Municipality and many more. I am happy to note that two such eGovernance initiatives of Odisha have won this years National e Governance Awards, the Chief Minister said. The Software Technology Park of India at Bhubaneswar is one of the oldest STPI in the Country. Apart from Bhubaneswar, the STPI at Berhampur & Rourkela are also playing a very

vital role for employment in IT sector. Amongst others, the opening ceremony was also joined by the then IT Minister of Odisha, the Director General and Mission Director if UIDAI (Unique Identity Authority of India), Secretary, Department of IT, Madhusudan Padhi, Ranbir Singh, Group Director, Government Affairs, Microsoft India and Dr Ravi Gupta, CEO, Elets Technomedia and Editorin-Chief, egov magazine. Shri Padhi, the Program Chair of eOdisha summit welcomed the guests and the delegates and shared the objective of hosting the summit as to showcase the eGovernance initiatives of the state. He said, Odisha has recently passed the Right to Public Service Delivery Act. With 34 services enacted and many more services to come under the ambit, time has come to go for an integrated eGovernance system. He also provided glimpses of the eGovernance activities undertaken in the state, including Odisha Secretariat Workflow Automation System (OSWAS). Also in the agenda are signing of the MoU with Bharat Broadband services. Under this, the national optical fibre network will be led to all 6236 panchayats with 100 mbps connectivity which is going to happen in next 18 months period. We have also notified the cyber caf rules recently; the electronic service delivery rules are also going to be notified shortly, he said. Shri R S Sharma presented a detailed vision and operation framework of aadhar. He high-

lighted about 300 million total enrollments in the country, out of which 290 million aadhars have already been issued. We hold the largest database in the world now. The largest database was for 110 million by US visits. However, aadhar has 2290 million databases, he informed. He emphasized on the nature of the aadhar system, which he mentioned not to be treated as an eligibility card but as an identification card. Shri Sharma said, Some states are following the NPR (National Population Registry) regime under Registrar General of India and some state under UID. Odisha has fallen in NPR and already 34% of the total population, which is 1.4 crores out of 4.19 crores have already been covered. Also, about 50% of that, which is 60 lakh people have been given the unique identity. UID Authority encourages and supports this exercise of Govt of Odisha in integrating unique identity enrollment system and public service delivery systems to their process. Ranbir, Singh enlightened the audience with some of the eGovernace next practices and trends and highlighted cloud as the new game changer when it comes to the probes of government leaders for engaging citizens effectively, for making processes citiaen centric and delivering world class services to masses, and optimizing costs, increasing internal efficiencies and overcoming capacity gaps. Microsoft citizens service solution framework, as presented by Shri Singh provided insight on service delivery and engage-

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ment framework, workplace modernisation for government officials and security enhanced core infrastructure for service delivery. A special souvenir edition of egov magazine was released by all the esteemed guests during the inaugural function. egov magazine being the presenting publication of the summit, captured the good practices, IT initiatives and projects and various e-Governance initiatives across all the departments of the government of Odisha.

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Naval Khosla, GM, Government Industry Solutions, IBM

Highlights
The summit hosted discussions around themes including Effective electronic service delivery, Urban governance & Infrastructure, ICT for inclusive framework for eGovernance, Application & Infrastructure security and public safety, Technology in healthcare, and Scope of technology in education and skill training.

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Effective electronic service delivery

Presiding the session on Effective electronic service delivery, Madhusudan Padhi said, the public service delivery act has already been passed in the state. However, we always think that it is more about electronic where as it is more about governance. People and process are the two forces and technology is the link between them. There is a need to use IT as a lever in the services. The attitude for providing services through electronic mode is more crucial. Leadership too plays a key role in the entire process as managing the change is very crucial in any eGovernance program. Naval Khosla, General Manager, Government and Industry Solutions for India & South Asia, IBM said, leaders must innovate across services to meet and exceed citizen expectations. He discussed about the infrastructure, planning and management aspects of electronic service delivery undertaken by IBM in sectors including urban planning, environment, energy and water, transportation, education, social and health and public safety. Anubhav Tyagi, Senior Solution Specialist in SafeNet India Pvt. Ltd. spoke about data security in electronic service delivery. Security started as perimeter-centric, but needs to become datacentric. He also discussed about the current data security landscape, consumerisation of IT, shift in service delivery models, and proliferation of data to the cloud. Solutions should focus on the data and not just on the systems holding the data, he said. Jignesh Upadhyay, Director, Technical Sales, CA Technologies talked about how critical is the role of IT in delivering a positive citizen experience to drive growth. Effectiveness is going to happen only when it is integrated; Application, network, Process, etc. are presented end to end. Vidyesh Vithal Khanolkar, Head Insurance and Government Business Asia Pacific, India and Middle East, Mastek Ltd stated that government should focus on effective service consumption, lay down and monitor service guidelines and standards and industry can then take care of service delivery by creating standard platters across the value chain from software application to last mile delivery. Effective should be the key word rather than making it efficiently delivered. Also, the focus should be on highest outcome rather than on lowest cost, Vidyesh remarked.

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Urban Governance & Infrastructure: Emerging Opportunities

S P S Bakshi, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Engineering Projects India Ltd. IT has helped in quickening the decision making process. The file tracking system in Government and PSUs has helped to track each and every movement of the files, and make individuals accountable for decisions. Sanjay Bobde, Director, Microsoft Consulting Services Citizens require several services from the government. Our objective was to reduce the number of visits that are required at the government offices. We have successfully transformed the system into an online one through our Citizen service Portal by putting all the information on the website and also completed the system by placing feedback forms. Murralidhar Honnur, General Manager, Wipro Consulting The JNNURM programme aimed to improve the infrastructure of the slums was designed to touch the lives of 1000

Sanjay Bobde and SPS Bakshi

Sisir Kumar Ratho, Special Secretary, Urban Development

million over a period of seven years. The programme is largely dependent on plan that the local urban body provides. We have been associated with the JNNURM programme as a consultant and we have tried providing end to end service delivery mechanisms, improving the quality of service, the infrastructure and most importantly, sustainability of the programme.

Sanjib Kumar Mishra, Commissioner, BMC

ICT for inclusive framework of eGovernance

Suresh Vashisth, MD, Odisha State Civil Supplies Corporation Mobile governance is a very important part of e-Governance. The simple coding structure in mobiles makes it easy for the end users. As mobile penetration is increasing day by day, we can gather information from remote areas easily by mGovernance. Sanjeev Chadha, Director, Directorate of Horticulture, Odisha In order to minimize the role of middlemen in the supply chain of agricultural products, we have started a vegetable initiative in Cuttack city. 6000 farmers have already been registered as a part of the initiative. We have used IT to make sure that the system works well and the farmers are paid properly. The system was implemented in a PPP mode. An integral part of the system is constituted by a digital machine, which reads the actual weight of vegetables. We have also opened bank accounts for the farmers where they can come and access their bank accounts, use their

(L&R) Sanjay Panigrahi, CEO, Srei Sahaj e-Village Ltd., Sanjeev Chada, Director, Directorate of Horticulture, Odisha, S.N Tripathi, Principal Secretary, Department of Rural Development, Govt. of Odisha, Suresh Vashisth, MD, Odisha State Civil Supplies Corporation.

ATM cards. The farmers portal that we have created in the horticulture directorate registers the identities of all the farmers and payments are made to the accounts of the farmers. Sanjay Panigrahi, CEO, Srei Sahaj e-Village Ltd. It was important to create a single service

centre in the villages as the people are not equipped with gadgets to access facilities which are IT enabled. A PPP mode of business is vital in order to work in villages. We have integrated both B2B as well as G2C business models, thinking that one will compliment, in case the other one fails.

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Application and Infrastructure security & Public safety

Anurag Choudhury, General Manager, National Institute of Smart Government (NISG) IT and e-Governance infrastructure can be critical to public safety. Any damage in the virtual world causes a subsequent damage in the physical world. S A Khan, Sr. Technical Director, NIC, Project Manager, OSDC In Odisha we have a Data Centre working full fledged since the past one year. Damage of data is prevented as our data centre is connected to National Knowledge Network. NSN Murthy, General Manager, IBM We have worked extensively in Rio with the government in weather prediction and in aiding disaster management. For disaster management we need three primary things. Firstly, we need to have the leaders who need to take a call on what has to be done in times of emergency. Secondly, we need to have data which will help in the prediction. Thirdly, we need analytical tools which will help in deriving at a conclusion.

Anurag Choudhury, NISG, S A Khan, NIC, Pancholi, ACER, NSN Murthy, IBM, Neeraj

S.N Tripathi, Principal Secretary, Dept. of Rural Development, Govt. of Odisha Too much of emphasis in e is creating the current problem. People want less government, but better governance. e can help up in delivering better governance. Technology should be simple and how much benet it brings to the common people to foster inclusiveness should be the thrust area. IT can be the bridge between Government and Governance.

Technology in Healthcare: Emerging Opportunities

Pramod Kumar Meherda, Commissionercum-Mission Director, NRHM, Dept. of Health & FW, Govt. of Odisha Very few departments within the government provide as much scope of integration of IT as the Health and Family Welfare department, as ICT is the key for health services. We created an e-Blood bank to bridge the gap between the donor and the patient. In e-Blood bank, we have integrated consumable inventory management system, asset management system, bio waste management system, supply chain management and employ information management system and blood bank license management system. In the IBRS system, an individual can locate the required blood sample by dialing a toll free number from any district. Similarly, blood samples can be located via sms through our e-Blood bank. B.N Mohanty, Honorary Secretary, Telemedicine Society of India, & Head, Experimental Surgery, SCB Medical College Odisha is the leading state in telemedicine

P K Meherda, Mission Director, NRHM, K.N Bhagat, OTTET,

Dr B N Mohanty, SCB Medical College, Prof. Praveen Mohanty, AIIMS

technology application. Telemedicine in the state was established in the year 2001 in three phases. This technology can make a difference in optimal utilization of the available resources. The medical college hospitals in Odisha are connected to Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences. The government of India has identified six centers for telemedicine, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow being part of that. Every first and third Wednesday we hold a telemedicine clinic at Cuttack. National Knowledge Network has provided us

with 100 mbps bandwidth which helps us in tele-mentoring our fellow doctors by interacting with them and helping them witness live surgeries. K.N Bhagat, Managing Trustee, Odisha Trust of Technical Education Telemedicine is a solution that addresses the problem of scarcity of doctors. It has proved a great way to bridge the gap between the demand and supply of healthcare facilities and has been utilized effectively in the state of Odisha. Several health camps are being organized in the village areas which help in preventive care.
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Scope of Technology in Education & Skill training

Gagan Kumar Dhal, Principal Secretary, Dept. Higher Education, Odisha We are keen on digitizing the libraries in the state so that there can be proper accounting of the journals which are purchased and the students will be able to access them. We are coming up with a very comprehensive scheme for the same purpose. Krushna Gopal Mahapatra, State Project Director, OPEPA, Dept. of School and Mass Education, Odisha Every year we carry out a survey called District Information System for Education which is essential to plan for the children belonging to the state. We get to know the requirement of teachers, infrastructural requirements, and requirement of text books. The performance around 65,000 schools across the state are monitored broadly on four points, viz, infrastructure, curricular activities, extracurricular activities, and school community linkage. We analyze the performance of schools from all the 30 districts and the blocks as well. We also have a students helpline number for the grievance redressal of students, teachers and parents. Prof. Gopal Naik, Director, IIIT, Bhubaneshwar Till now, Information Technology has been used in educational institutions largely for administrative purposes, for both Higher and Primary Education. However, I believe that IT plays a much bigger role than just administration. IT has an integral role to play in delivering content. OPEPA is conducting some experiments on this subject. The Ministry of HRD also has done some experiments and the IITs and IISCs have come together and prepared videos for the students. However, the videos are monotonous and are not engaging from a students perspective. On the other hand, a lecture delivered by a professor of Michigan University kept me engaged for hours. Instead of spending huge sums of money on buying computers, we can create content and broadcast it through satellite TV. Digitised content can be made available to students and it does not include huge investments. Ratnakar Rout, Additional Secretary, Department of Employment & Technical Education & Training, Odisha In most government institutes, there is dearth of technically qualified people. Lokesh Mehra, Director, Education Advo-

1. G K Dhal, Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Odisha 2. Lokesh Mehera, Microsoft, 3. Prof. Gopal Nayak, Director, IIIT, Bhubaneshwar 4. Ajay Krishnan, VP, National Security Solutions, Cisco Systems

industries do not come forward. However, the truth is that industries operate in silos. Microsoft has taken a step for fostering digital literacy. Anyone who wants to know the basics of computer can log into dsaksharta.in. We have provided free access to curriculum in multiple Indian languages. In India, we have trained 7.5 lakh teachers in the K12 space. For the Higher Education sector, we run a programme called Saksham, which is a 10 day programme. However, I believe that technology is just an enabler. It is for people to make use of technology in the best possible way.
Ratnakar Rout, Additional Secretary, Employment and Technical Education and Training Dept., Odisha

Ajay Krishnan, Director, Cisco Solutions

In order to bring about inclusive growth, we focus on three areas, viz, education, skills development and healthcare. We have used technology to solve the issue of lack of teachers in the schools. Through video conferencing, we have brought teachers to the class rooms which are located far away in the rural areas of Karnataka. 2000 students studying in classes 5, 6, 7 and 8 are learning through this medium. In a similar way, we have connected engineering students to a group of Indian Institute of Science professors.

cacy, Microsoft The government is focusing a lot on the development of the education sector. This sector has been allotted an increased budget of 17 percent. As we are progressing towards a virtual education system, the concepts of time and place changes leading to an alteration of the entire paradigm. By the year 2025, there will be 47 million youths and there should be 52 million job opportunities to employ everyone. There is a common complain that the

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Secretaries Meet: ICT Policy: How should the implementation Master Plan look like?

All secretaries at the panel

he summit organized a special panel with the Secretaries from various departments of the state to have a discussion on the ICT Policy and how should the road map of the master plan look like. The panel was presided by the program Chair as well as the Secretary, IT, Govt of Odisha, Shri Madhusudan Padhi. As an introductory comment to the theme, Shri Padhi said, We have an ICT policy of 2004. However, after 2004 several changes have taken place. Both Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra have put in UID framework on basis of which other applications have been tagged to make it more robust. How should we go ahead in framing our policy and master plan so as to make it robust? Every department in Odisha has some program running in the ICT sector, some are doing workflow solutions, some doing transactions, some just monitor the progress of various processes. But they are all working in silos. We need to break the silos. He highlighted the importance of data which has taken the centre stage in the policy matters.

We are talking of all the data; but those different data available with different departments need to talk to each other. Data redundancy also needs to be eliminated. As I was analyzing the data of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, I found that there are about 200000 ration cards. These cards relate to 85000 holdings, 60000 water connections, and 2 lakh electricity connections. The photo ID card number may also be a different figure. There is so much chaos visible, which needs immediate attention to be taken care in the policy. If we go for a particular denominator like UID or NPR we can address the database issue and make them talk to each other. We are hoping that by 2014 end the UID registrations will be complete. The panel was joined by other eminent speakers like Vishal Dev, CMD of IDCO, Santosh Sarangi, Commissioner-cum-cum-Secretary, Department of SC & ST Development, Ashwini Mishra, Special Secretary, Dept of Finance, Odisha, Principal Secretary, Department of Rural Developmen., Odisha

Vishal Dev, CMD, IDCO

The biggest concern is data redundancy. There is very little sharing of what has been done which has lead to too many agencies and duplicacies. However, NeGP gave a proper dimension and shape to the policy. There is always a chicken and egg story. One side is the need of data basing on which application can be build on. The other angle is to facilitate with infrastructure first and data can be organized basing on the users on a later phase. However, the clarity came post NeGP, as it facilitates with the reason for providing infrastructure first and then build on data to channelize the service. SWAN and SDC were brought in picture. Now the focus of the govt in the state is to take this in G2C format and to build it in a big way. With all the building blocks in place, the Master Plan now needs to think of how to use the application. UID may be taken as an example. It is conceived not as a service but as a platform. The same concept need to be followed and some platforms may be conceived first by various dept.
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Madhusudhan Padhi, Vishal Dev, S N Tripathi & Santosh Sarangi

Santosh Sarangi, Commissioner-cum-cumSecretary, Department of SC & ST Development, Odisha When we talk of facilitation of services, its not only facilitation of developers, but also facilitation of users. There is a lot of inhibition and apprehension at government level, what to use, how to use, etc. The ability to overcome inhibition is important. The policy and master plan needs to open that kind of a window. One of the silver-lining is the passing of the public service delivery act. With this act and with the concretisation of the individual accountability, its only a matter of fact now for the government departments who are compelled to design solutions for facilitating services for the citizens more effectively and efficiently and in a timely way. A policy also needs to have clarity of purpose, the kind of incentives it can provide and its core competencies and identifying the areas where such incentives can be provided, whether it is development, manufacturing, etc. Policy should also be able to identify the client requirement in much better fashion. At the govt sector, the other focus also should be on process reengineering. There is need to look at government preparation to reach

at the proposed stage, without understanding of which the process may backfire, if initiated. There are so many multi-crore projects running which are lying unused, as there are no takers and no users. In my department as well, we are running minimum 12 projects and there is further potency to run 10 more applications. These all need to be need based and process reengineered. Another important road map could be looking at bridging the trust between the govt and private sector. S N Tripathi, Principal Secretary, Department of Rural Development Doers perspective needs to be taken care in the policy. The other requirement is, how can we deliver easier. Software developers and government need to come to a common platform of understanding. Sashi Mal, Director, Government Industry, IBM The delivery platform needs to be very simple. It is also time to look at how do we build upon the standards of service delivery. And also need to look at the efficiency level of using the standards. Then is the cost- starting from acquiring

to oprating IT. Share and break the data, to make t more meaningful and usable. Ashwini Mishra, Special Secretary, Finance Deptt., Govt. of Odisha We have computersised some of our systems, treasury computerization, where entire accounts have been compiled electronically. OSWAS system is there in place. But infrastructure development should take a primary focus in policy. Master plan should look at massive computerization at govt level and then extending public services to the citizens. Empowering the citizen should also find its place in the plan. We have a pool of telent in the state, But quality thrust needs to be brought in. Skill development facilitation also needs to have place in the plan. Some training also needed in the application packages. Connectivity though has improved, needs further attention and improvement. Vidyesh Vithal Khanolkar, Head Insurance and Government Business Asia Pacific, India and Middle East, Mastek Ltd Now that we have all building blocks in place next is how we can use this infrastructure. Govt leadership and industry leadership should come together to take it to the next step.

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eOdisha Awards
e-Odisha Awards were instituted with the primary aim of felicitating and acknowledging regional initiatives in the use of ICT in Government, Education and Health. The eOdisha awards were instrumental in promoting the most innovative initiatives in the domain of ICTs for Development and to spread awareness about the role of ICTs in addressing social concerns. The objective of Awards was to highlight the regional perspectives and encourage institutions and individuals to use ICT tools in various developmental and sector specific projects. The awards nominations were invited from different organizations, agencies and individuals through an online process and were then evaluated independently by a set of jury members based on some fixed selection criteria, like Innovation, Scalability, Replicability, Ability to overcome challenges, Achievements, and Impact Potential of the projects under nomination. The Awards ceremony felicitated the efforts made in Odisha through the innovative use of ICTs. Dr Damodar Rout, Honble Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Odisha was the Chief Guest for the Awards ceremony, who felicitated the award winners as well as the esteemed Jury members of the awards. More than 70 projects were nominated for the awards in 17 categories.

Jury
Maj Gen R Siva Kumar, CEO, NSDI, Dept of Science & Technology, Govt of India Vishal Dev, Chairman & MD, IDCO Gopal Krishna Naik, Director, IIIT, Bhubaneswar Manas Panda, Additional Director, STPI, Bhubaneswar Aditya Mohapatra, Head, IT Promotion Cell, OCAC Ravi Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, egov

1. Dr Damodar Rout, Health Minister, Odisha awarding Mamata Tracking Project 2. Dr Damodar Rout, Health Minister, Odisha with all the awardees 3. Shri Padhi, Dr Damodar Rout and Shri Ravi Gupta 4. Cultural event

5. Dr Damodar Rout awarding Md Shabbir

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Award Winners:
Category Government to Citizens (G2C) Government to Citizens (G2C)- Special Jury Mention Winner Initiative :: e-Governance in Transport Department Implemented by:: State Transport Authority, Government of Odisha Initiative :: Crime Criminal Tracking Network and Systems(CCTNS) for Odisha Implemented by :: State Crime Record Bureau Technology Partner: NIIT Technologies Ltd. Initiative :: e-Services (VATIS) Organization :: Department of Commercial Tax, Government of Odisha Project :: i3MS Organization :: Department of Steel & Mines, Government of Odisha Initiative :: Mamata Tracking Implemented by :: Collectorate, Khurda, Government of Odisha Project :: On Line Information System Organization :: National Institute of Science and Technology, Berhampur, Odisha Project :: Student Academic Management System Organization :: Department of Higher Education, Government of Odisha Project :: Initiative to make an IT enabled school in all respects to cope with the cutting edge technology. Organization :: DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur Project :: e-Result Organization :: State Council For Technical Education and Vocational Training (SCTE&VT), Government of Odisha Project :: Deployment of BIZCONNECT Organization :: Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd, Odisha Project :: e-Blood Bank Organization :: National Rural Health Mission Project :: Odisha eMunicipality (Urban Local Bodies Automation System) Organization :: Housing and Urban Development Department, Government of Odisha Surendra Nath Tripathi, Secretary, Department of Rural Development, Governmentt of Odisha In recognition of his contribution towards e-Despatch & Orissa Secretariat Workflow Automation System (OSWAS) Dr Krishan Kumar, Collector, Ganjam In recognition of eDistrict Pilot Project in Ganjam District Shri Shatrughan Kar, Deputy Collector & Nodal Officer of e-District project Md.Shabbir, Village Level Entrepreneur, Kishan Nagar, Cuttack

Government to Business (G2B)

Government to Government Initiative (G2G) Initiative ICT enabled Higher Education Institute ICT enabled Higher Education initiative by Government ICT enabled School

ICT in Education Initiative by Government

ICT in Financial Inclusion Initiative ICT in Healthcare Initiative by Government ICT Initiative for Urban Development eChampion of the State

eChampion of the District eChampion of the District- Special Mention eChampion: Village Level Entrepreneur

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Conclusion

The eOdisha Summit 2013 concluded with discussion on issues that reflect the digital agenda for the state in response to regional and national challenges for information society development. Many issues of future development were highlighted and also many possibilities of technological solutions for addressing these issues by transforming public and private sector were presented. The summit made an effort towards assembling thoughts around a more comprehensive definition and action plan for eGovernance which can propose changes of government and governance in aspects of transformation of business of governance, improving service delivery, renewing processes, reexamination of the functions and processes itself, whose resulting impacts can be reduced costs, increased transparency, and revenue growth for the state.

To do
To know what kind of change is needed and to be informed about users needs to be able to create and provide valuable services to the users. To think and plan for the future and therefore use technological solutions as a tool for development, use stepby-step approach, work on simplication, and create proper legal standards and institutional settings for digital economy and development. eGovernment development should be put high on the Agenda. It is important to learn from good practices and actively implement them. eOdisha Summit will continue bringing together stakeholders to the platform to churn out more good practices and facilitate knowledge sharing. The summit will be an annual affair, and will be hosted by the Dept of IT, every year, sometime during the month of January.

Feedback
Firstly, I would congratulate that the Summit was a great success as I felt. Here, I would utter a Sher of Iqbal that Khudi ko kar buland itna ...ke har taqdeer se pehle khuda bande se khud puche.....bata teri raza kya hai Raza means wish. Iqbal- The eminet Urdu poet who has written Saare jahan se achha Hindustan hamara.... By the above couplet of Iqbals poem, I mean to say that we must continue making our summit better and better. To my mind, the thing left or not fully covered in this Summit was relating to website. What can be the best practices to maintain departmental website which is the image of the

Govt. Department. Awards for good, better and best websites of Govt. Also, we may introduce awards for encouragement and motivations of IT professionals and the persons who have direct involvement in the IT Projects implementations. Because implementing an IT project at the root level is a tremendous task and implementation accrues a number of hurdles and practical problems. The lectures of the experts particularly on Service Delivery and Service Consumption have impressed me a lot. Md. Mojibullah Khan, Scientist-D, NIC Coordinator, Home Department The Programme was very nice and very informative as Im continuing my Ph.D in e-education. Its my pleasure that ull also provide the e-copy of the material. In future if u kindly make a slight

change and modification in the programme, then itll be very helpful. That is if u can avoid parallel sessions and the alloted time for the speakers in the education field was very very less. They should be alloted little more time. Jui Pattnayak Everything on the summit was excellent but there are some areas for improvement. 1. There has been some issues with anchoring. So anchoring should be improved. 2. The form which was being given at registration counter was too long to fill up.So it should be short enough so that it captures only the necessary information takes less time to fill up. Satikanta Dash, Consultant - Change Management, State e-Governance Mission Team (SeMT), Odisha

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