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Suchitra Pyarelal
Technical Director
E-Governance Standards
NIC
Agenda
Existing Scenario of E-Governance Applications
E-Governance Standards: Background
Objectives
Approach , Steps and Methodology
E-Governance Standards :
Open Standards
Patents in Standards
National Considerations
Challenges
Government Policies
Summary
Principles
E-Governance Standards
Areas Identified for Standardisation
Areas :Working Groups
Working Groups Status and Roadmap
E-Governance Standards
Existing Scenario of E-Governance Applications
E-Governance Standards
E-Governance Standards : Objectives
Interoperability
Data Preservation
E-Governance Standards
NEGP Mission Mode Projects (MMPs)
Central
Industry
Initiative
State Income
Tax
* Banking
* Insurance
Emplmt.
Exchange Agriculture
Integrated
E Procurement
e-BIZ
Land Central
Records Excise
Police
E-Office
EDI
Pensions
Transport
Registration E Courts
India Portal Passports/Visa
&
Immigration
EG Gateway Common
Service Treasuries
Centers
Municipalities
Commercial
Gram Taxes
Panchayats
National ID MCA21
E-Governance Standards
E-Governance Standards : Vision
Productivity increase
E-Governance Standards
E-Governance Standards :Background
E-Governance Standards
Approach and Steps taken
Institutional Mechanism & Processes
Brainstorming Sessions
National Summits
WG 1 WG 2 WG 3 WG N
Internet
Approved Standards
E-Governance Standards
Approach and Steps taken-IM&P
E-Governance Standards Division of NIC
Key Functions
To Steer and manage the Standardization activities
under NEGP;
Chennai Kerala
Mumbai
Guwahati West Bengal
Ahmedabad
Orissa
Bangalore
Chandigarh Andhra Pradesh
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Approach and Steps taken
National Summits
E-Forms
Identity Management
Digital Preservation & Information Life Cycle Management
Enterprise Architecture
E-Mail Services & Architecture
Enterprise Portal Design
Application Development Strategy
Auto-Identification Technologies
Meta data and Data Standards
Web Services & Localisation
Information Security
Client Level Security
Online Auditing
E-Office
E-Governance Standards
Approach and Steps taken
National Summits : Task Force
E-Governance Standards
Principles for Selection of Standards for
adoption in E-Governance
E-Governance Standards: Open Standards
E-Governance Standards
E-Governance Standards: Open Standards & Patents
E-Governance Standards
E-Governance Standards: National Considerations
E-Governance Standards
E-Governance Standards : Challenges
E-Governance Standards
E-Governance Standards: Government Policies
More and more public sector agencies all over the world have
policies that require open standards;
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E-Governance Standards: Principles
E-Governance Standards
Areas of Standards in E-Governance
Areas of Standardisation
2. Platform Independence.
E-Governance Standards
WG1-Technical Standards & E-Governance Architecture
Areas
1. Enterprise Architecture
2. Interoperability Framework
E-Governance Standards
WG1-Technical Standards & E-Governance Architecture
Sub Groups Under TSEGA
1. Enterprise Architecture
2. Standards Taxonomy
3. Standards Process
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WG1-Technical Standards & E-Governance Architecture
TSEGA
E-Governance Standards
Summary of Brainstorming Session
1. A Study of the U.S Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) in the Indian Context needs to be taken up. The
model could first be studied in terms of successful projects of NIC. A National E-Governance EA could then
be formulated.
2. A comprehensive list of Standards need to be made so as to arrive at the framework of Technical Standards
of the E-Governance Architecture model. The relevant Specification standards can be plugged to this
framework which will also aim to define the complete information system implementation in the Indian
context. Base list of provided by manager, Bangalore One can be taken for the broad description of
standards to begin with.
3. Process of evolution of standards that include the norms and prescribe the various processes for evolution of
standards need to brought out. Legal aspects of standardization process need to be factored into the
framework.
4. The scope must involve a flexible and comprehensive architectural model that supports development of
complete requirements of all e-Governance initiatives in India (G2G, G2B, G2C, G2E, G2X) .
5. Conceptual architecture is the combination of process architecture, application architecture and technical
architecture. The next level to be looked into is the process architecture that has both the private and
public processes.
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WG1-Technical Standards & E-Governance Architecture
Activities
Sub Group I
Sub Group II
Sub Group IV
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Key Recommendations of First Working Group
Taxonomy of Standards
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Key Recommendations of Second Working Group
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Technology
Architecture
Organisation Data Process
Architecture Architecture Architecture (Including
Vision,
Application Services
Plans &
Architecture) Architecture
Programmes
Legal Architecture
Security Architecture
Best
Performance Practices /
Management Standards /
Framework Guidelines
Repository
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Expected Deliverables
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WG1-Technical Standards & E-Governance Architecture
Interoperability Framework
E-Governance Standards
Layered Model
E-Governance Standards
Technical Standards & E-Governance Architecture
E-Governance Standards
Network and Information Security
Standards
WG2-Network & Information Security
Agenda
Goals (TOR)
Methodology
Schedule
Current Status
What has been done
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WG2-Network & Information Security
Terms of Reference
Advise on development of required White Papers for discussion in the Working Group to
evolve standards;
Evolve Standards;
Manage interaction with similar initiatives and standards bodies elsewhere in the world;
Nominate members on various International standards committees and continuously strive
towards key roles for India in such international forums;
Define the scope of any deliverables, expected milestones, and the process for the group
participants to approve the release of these deliverables (including publishing intermediate
results);
Determine any dependencies of other entities on the deliverables of this group;
Define the expected level of involvement by the members of the Team (e.g., to track
developments, write and edit technical reports, , etc.);
Must also include an estimate of the expected time commitment from participants;
Requirements that a quorum of group participants support any formal decision of the group;
Change control of the Draft standard document and Version Management.
Create a supporting framework for implementation and testing
Setting timeline for the release of initial set of standards to the Apex Body of Standards of
DIT.
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WG2-Network & Information Security
Methodology
Identification of
Formation of Working
standards/guidelines Approval by Apex Body
Group
documents
Project Initiation Mode
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Schedule
Phase I Phase II Phase III
Feb06-Oct 06 Nov 06-Mar 07 Mar06-July 07
3) Brain Storming/Workshops
9) Certification, Accriditation
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WG2-Network & Information Security
Status
Action Status
Formation of WG
Identification of deliverables
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WG2-Network & Information Security
Working Group
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WG2-Network & Information Security
Some of the Approach papers and White papers produced
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WG2-Network & Information Security
Brainstorming, Workshops and Summits
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WG2-Network & Information Security
Areas (deliverables )identified
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WG2-Network & Information Security
Areas (deliverables) identified
Security Planning
Guidelines for Developing Security Plans for Information
Technology Systems (Sample security manual and procedures)
ISO 27001 questionnaire
Guidelines for interpretation and implementation of security
controls for information systems and selection of baseline
security controls
Security Control Design
Provide a master catalog of security controls for information
systems incorporated from many sources (e-Governance ISMS
document)
Guidelines on secure application development and secure
coding practices.
Guidelines on integration of security with SDLC process
Guidelines on security best practices including management,
operational and technical controls.
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WG2-Network & Information Security
Areas (deliverables) identified
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WG2-Network & Information Security
Areas (deliverables) identified
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BUDGET
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WG2-Network & Information Security
Challenges and opportunities emanated
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WG2-Network & Information Security
Challenges and opportunities emanated
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WG2-Network & Information Security
Challenges and opportunities emanated
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Recommendations
Study of Dublin Core Standard, mainly for Metadata on Documentation.
Need to study and identify metadata for both digital and non-digital
information
The Metadata structure in Network Technology and Library Sciences should be
studied to help understand metadata for the non-digital information.
Gather as much information as possible from ongoing e-Governance Projects.
The nature of all the government services cutting across all the domains,
needs to be studied to identify the data elements
The students from Engineering colleges, Technical Institutes etc. may be
involved in the e-Governance Projects as a part of their 6-months or 4-months
semester training.
Identifying 11 projects as the DRIVE Projects, agency framework should be
prepared
Subgroups may be formed under the State level for identification of Common
Terms and Common Data Elements.
Grass-root level Governance (Municipalities)
Land Registration, Acquisition, Valuation and Land Records
Excise and Commercial Taxes
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WG3 -Meta data and Data Standards
Scope
E-Governance Standards
Approach
Service Oriented Approach
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Status
Proposal from Institute of Electronic Governance,
Andhra Pradesh (IEG) on Metadata and data Standards
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Timelines
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Phase I Phase II Phase III
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Roadmap to e-Gov Metadata &
Data Standards
Metadata
Interoperability
Framework
Data Standards
Controlled Vocabulary
Identification of Metadata
Elements for Indian context
Start
Evaluation of International
Metadata Standards Source: DRTC
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Problems
Members, including the Chairperson, of Working Group do not
respond to mails/request for review of documents
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Service Oriented Approach
Government
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Localisation & Language Technology
WG4-Localisation and Language Technology
Scope
Inputting Mechanisms
Transliteration
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WG4-Localisation and Language Technology
Areas and Issues Identified
I. Operating System Support
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WG4-Localisation and Language Technology
Issues
V. Localised Applications
Interoperability between Platforms & Technologies
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Sl.No Area Current Issues/Status Destination Desired
1. OS Support
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1.5 Inputting Mechanism Present Status Typewriter keyboard
a)Keyboard Layouts a) Keyboard Layouts Any support as well as
b)Speech to Text Inputting method can be State level Language
c)Handwriting Recognition, Text used in Unicode enabled specific requirements
OCR and Other inputting OS. (KGP keyboard layout
mechanisms - INSCRIPT keyboard layout is for Kannada, TAM99
available at OS level. keyboard layout for
b) Speech to Text Shrutlekhan- Tamil) should be
Rajbhasha is available supported at
for Hindi language. operating system
c) Handwriting Recognition & level.
OCR - Technology under Note: Output of any user
development specific keyboard layout
must conform to Unicode
current version.
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1.6 Rendering on PC in For rendering Open Type fonts Rasterisation engine is not
Application/Browser rasterisation engine needs to be being implemented for all
built in to the OS. the 22 scheduled Indian
languages. Needs to be
implemented by OS
developers
Collation standards needs to
be defined
2. Content Creation
3.1 Processing Resources : Spell Available for most of the 1. Enhanced version of
Checker Indian languages but need spell checkers needed
to be bettered. 2. No attempt is made so
far for building
Grammar checker in
Indian languages
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3.3 Machine Translation Research and Development in MT has
been underway at several
organizations in India.
i) English to Indian language MT
Systems
ii) Indian language to Indian language
MT Systems
iii) English has been the language of
choice in the foreign language
category among MT R&D community in
India. Efforts are concentrated around
building MT systems for English-Hindi
language pair. For Indian language to
Indian language translation systems
researches are focusing on developing
MT systems for Hindi and other Indian
languages.
iv) University of Hyderabad has
worked on an English-Kannada MT
system, using the Universal Clause
Structure Grammar (UCSG) formalism,
invented there. This is essentially a
transfer-based approach, and has
been applied to the domain of
government circulars.
v) Some other organizations are also
working in the area of Machine
Translation such as IIT Kanpur (using
Anglabharati approach), IIT Mumbai
(using Universal Networking Language-
UNL approach), Super Infosoft Pvt
(developed Anuvadak system), IBM,
Gurgaon (using Statistical approach),
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3.4 Transliteration For few Indian languages For database translations
INSORT Transliteration is available and is region specific knowledge is
ISO in use. required to build in the
While for Unicode based transliteration tools.
transliteration a separate add-on
utility is required to be built.
3.5 Database Support : Data Storage 1.If databases are Unicode Database vendors needs to
& Retrieval complaint then there are no give support to Indian
issues in regards with storage. language query mechanism
Most of the databases now Or
support Unicode. External API libraries may be
2. However, there are issues in developed for such purposes.
querying the data, searches &
sorting in Indian languages
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4. Search Engine Supporting Indian Languages (Google, Yahoo etc)
Presently character level Needed to be developed
W3C search is available in all as an plugin to the
major search engines. existing browsers as well
as development of server
based components for
language search and
appropriate intelligent
crawler for index
5. Localized Applications generation.
Timeline :
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We have uploaded the Draft of Indian Languages Standards on these
websites : http://egovstandards.gov.in , http://intranic.nic.in and
also sent the same to all Working group members as well as
members who have attended the Brainstorming sessions at various
locations.
So far we have received comments from
IBM
Microsoft
Shri V.N. shukla, CDAC, Noida
Prof. Rajeev Sangal
Prof. Jitendra Shah
Dr. Girish Nath Jha, JNU
Shri Sateesh Babu,
Dr. Mukul. K. Sinha
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Strategy for conversion of data from ISCII to UNICODE.
Long term goal for manpower development in language technology.
Release of free Tools and tools-kit for software developers.
Timely support and queries on Microsoft platform w.r.t. Indian Languages.
Road map for encouraging using of Indian Languages in E-Governance
applications as well as services.
Road map for transparent Interoperability as in case of Unicode.
Setu-dev as double byte ttf fonts may be a standard that will work with all
OSs, all browsers and all word processors.
Stop leakage of Govt. money in non standard and proprietary items.
Resolve Intra-language issues that still exists.
Plan out a strategy for i) conversion of existing corpora ii) conversion
software from ISCII to Unicode and ab-initio handling of Unicode.
Inter-operable with other Language systems and Inter-operable within Indic
systems.
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Quality and Documentation
WG 5-Quality & Documentation Standards
Scope and Areas identified
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Layers of e-Governance Quality Assurance
Framework
Front end
Middleware
Backend
Documentation
Documentation
Documentation of of of Specific
Checklist Project
Project
Project
Specific
Specific
Specific
Quality
Quality
Quality
Manual
Manual
Manual
forforDomain
forDomain
Domain
/ Application
/ Application
/ Application
Specific
Specific
Specific
e- e- e- (Horizontal)
Checklist
for Compliance
Checklist
for Compliance Governance
Governance
Governance Projects
Projects
Projects
for Compliance
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Evolution of a Standard
Polic
y
Processes
Procedures
Standards, Checklists
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Approach
Identification and Allocation of areas to four sub working groups.
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Key Recommendations
e-Governance Quality Assurance framework should be evolved at National level.
cont
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Key Recommendations
Sub committees to be formed in priority areas such as
Health, Agriculture & Cooperation , Rural Development,
Judiciary and Education for evolving domain specific e-
Governance standards.
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Progress Report ( Phase 1)
Procedure for Standard Draft recommendation prepared, and in the Nov. end
Formulation stage of getting ready for review by Apex Body
SLAs for Information Draft document prepared and ready for review January 2007
Services Delivery / by WG members
Common Services Centres
requirements
Request For Proposal Initial Draft document getting ready March 2007
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Progress Report ( Phase 2)
Area Present Status Timeline for submission to Apex Body
for approval
Outsourcing Management
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Progress Report ( Phase 3)
Exit Management
e-Governance Projects
Management
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Difficulties being encountered
No response to draft document except the members from DIT, STQC and NIC
No response by institutions who are being approached for subject experts to be
nominated as members
Even members identified in workshops are not getting involved actively
Member Secretaries not able to spend full time on this activities, as they have
their other responsibilities to be executed
In the capacity of Member Secretary, I feel I have subject knowledge, but not
subject expertise
No Administrative support
Note: In view of the above circumstances, it is difficult to assure quality and timely
outcome
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http://egovstandards.gov.in
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To guarantee continuous flows of information between
Interoperability citizens,the federation and partners of the federation.
E-Governance Standards
Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communications
Systems (FoKUS) , Berlin for setting up an
Interoperability Lab :
To develop, evaluate and demonstrate interoperability between
ICT systems driven by different technologies based on Open
Standards and Open Interfaces
To Develop solutions and disseminate findings in application
environments
To evolve proposals for eGovernment architecture
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