India launches first government-to-business platform January 22, 2014 Future Gov: Medha Basu India’s Department of Industrial Policy has launched an integrated government-to-business platform known as eBiz, aiming to transform the country’s business environment through delivery of efficient, convenient and transparent electronic services throughout the lifecycle of an industry or business entity. Minister of Commerce and Industry, Anand Sharma, noted, Our approach includes leveraging technology to bring transparency, improve efficiency and promote convenience. The eBiz is the first of its kind in the country.” It marks the highest level of maturity in e-governance applications as it strives to achieve horizontal integration across various verticals of Central government, State governments and Parastatal agencies.” The platform is expected to enable a transformational shift in the Indian Government’s approach to service delivery from being department-centric to customer-centric. The eBiz portal was launched in January 2013 with the second phase, including new services, launched earlier this week. The platform includes a first-of-its-kind integrated payment gateway with the Central Bank of India. It solves the problem of debiting from and crediting to multiple sources through automation based on a set of external messages, added the Minister. He emphasised that the gateway has potential for serving as the universal gateway for all e-government applications in the country. The eBiz platform was conceptualised with support from the National Institute of Smart Governance and developed by Infosys. It is expected that in the next ten years, more than 200 services will be rolled out across the country for investors and businesses. During the first three years 50 services will be piloted out across five states. More services and states will be included during the expansion phase in the remaining seven years. This article can also be read at: India launches first government-to-business platform
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:48:34 +0000
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