Curriculum Digital Government in India
Digital Government in India
How India uses technology to deliver welfare and services - the JAM trinity, Aadhaar, Jan Dhan, Direct Benefit Transfer, exclusion errors, DigiLocker, digital health IDs, online public procurement, faceless tax assessment, data protection, the digital divide and exporting digital infrastructure.
- The JAM Trinity How linking Jan Dhan bank accounts, Aadhaar identity and mobile phones created a platform for delivering welfare directly to people. 📄 Read-aloud
- Aadhaar: Identity at Scale How India built the world's largest biometric identity system, what it is used for, and the privacy debate that reached the Supreme Court. 📄 Read-aloud
- Jan Dhan: Bank Accounts for Everyone How the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana opened tens of crores of bank accounts from 2014, and whether those accounts are actually used. 📄 Read-aloud
- Direct Benefit Transfer How paying subsidies and benefits directly into bank accounts changed India's welfare system, the savings claimed, and the debates about those numbers. 📄 Read-aloud
- When Technology Excludes: Authentication Failures What research found when biometric authentication was introduced for food rations, and why digital systems must be designed to avoid shutting out the poor. 📄 Read-aloud
- DigiLocker and Paperless Government How DigiLocker and other e-governance services let citizens store official documents digitally and access services online, and what paperless government saves. 📄 Read-aloud
- Digital Government in India: Checkpoint 1 Quick checkpoint - five questions on JAM, Aadhaar, Jan Dhan, DBT and exclusion errors. 5 questions
- Digital Health IDs and the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission How India is building digital health infrastructure, from vaccination certificates on CoWIN to health IDs and shared medical records. 📄 Read-aloud
- GeM: Buying for the Government Online How the Government e-Marketplace lets public agencies buy goods and services online, what it has saved, and how it opened government business to small firms. 📄 Read-aloud
- Faceless Tax Assessment How India moved income tax assessments online without face-to-face meetings with officials, aiming to cut harassment and corruption. 📄 Read-aloud
- India's Data Protection Law What the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 requires of companies and government, the rights it gives citizens, and the debates about exemptions. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Digital Divide Who is left behind as services go digital - women, rural residents, the elderly and people with disabilities - and what can close the gap. 📄 Read-aloud
- Exporting India's Digital Public Infrastructure How India promotes its digital public infrastructure model abroad through open-source tools and partnerships, and a recap of the module. 📄 Read-aloud