Centre/s for Digital Government and Knowledge Societies
From Eligible Indian Academic Institutions of Higher Learning, Request for Proposal (RFP) to establish “Centre/s for Digital Government and Knowledge Societies” to promote knowledge creation in the area of e-Governance on dated 28th December 2016.
National e-Governance Division (NeGD) proposes to establish ‘Centre/s for Digital Government and Knowledge Societies’ without creating any permanent liabilities as part of the following brief.
(i) To synchronize the “Transformation of India” mission into a Digital India mode, work towards setting up knowledge societies to enable India as be a knowledge economy, i.e. “an economy which is directly based on the production, distribution and use of knowledge and information”.
(ii) To garner the existing efforts of the institution and leverage them to fulfill the said purpose with Government of India as a major stakeholder.
(iii) And, to complete the cycle of learning and innovation to ensure bringing back to the system what learning is. The proposal is to establish centre/s within academic institutes (of higher learning) acting alone or with partners, hereafter called as Host Institutes.
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