Maha state creates eco-system for technologies

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said Blockchain can transform the e-governance and the governments must start interacting with technology providers to find solution to put them to the best possible use to make Public delivery of goods and services transparent.

“This will reduce the trust deficit between businesses and citizens with government departments,” Fadnavis said on 17 Jan 2018 while inaugurating the Maharashtra Technology Summit (MTECH).

“Communication technologies over the years have changed the world, first we connected places, then people and now we are connecting things, but Blockchain is one level up and it’s not just Internet of Thing (IoT). It is internet of trust, internet of values and it is going to change the entire space of governance,” the chief minister added while putting emphasis on the importance of the Blockchain technology.

“Government of Maharashtra, for the past three years, has been trying to create an ecosystem for adopting technologies into governance.

“We feel that technology brings, efficiency, transparency, accountability and accessibility and that is why we have been trying to assimilate the newest technologies into all our governance.

“Smart cities, which needs smart and accountable governance, require strong technology backbone to provide all services and activities in an accountable and transparent manner,” said Fadnavis.

He disclosed that Maharashtra government has unveiled its public cloud policy, which will allow all government departments to access public cloud. This will accelerate e-governance and open up entire new area for investment by the private entrepreneurs to make available newest technologies for all the departments as government not only is the biggest data creator but also consumer.

The Maharashtra Chief Minster also invited Start-ups to come up with proper solutions on governance which could become part of the state government?s governance delivery systems. fii-news.com