State Centre, Odisha

The Tech-Bootcamp on Enterprises Architecture and IndEA Framework was organised on 9th February 2023 for senior officers of government at National Informatics Centre, Bhubaneswar. Inaugurating the workshop Shri BhaskarJyoti Sharma, IAS, Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Social Security and Empowerment of persons with Disabilities Department highlighted the importance Enterprise level thinking at governance level. He added that, the e-governance solutions are being developed in silos and the interoperability need to be expressed not only within the department but also needs to transcend beyond with appropriate vision, goals and objectives. Enterprise framework is an established way which calls for comprehensive study of the system and prepares e-Governance solution (including Data, Applications, Technology, and Security etc.) in order to ensure the resilience of the system to meet ever growing public expectation, complexity of Government processes and dynamic business requirement with optimum cost. 

Dr.P. Gayatri, Senior Director (IT) and Head of CollabFiles and Enterprise Architecture Resource Division, NIC, Hyderabad informed that NIC has taken substantial lead in developing and preparation of these Enterprise artefacts. Some of the initiatives include designing of Architectural Frame work like UEAF (University Enterprise Architecture Framework involving 107 universities), PSC-EAF (Public Service Commission-Enterprise Architecture) for Himachal Pradesh, Digital NIC Architecture, MDWS EAF (Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation Enterprise Architecture), Document Registration System (DRS-EAF), Pune and contribution in Land Hub Enterprise Architecture  (LHEAP) module of ePragati, with the recent one being development of State Enterprise Architecture for Meghalaya Government etc.

Interacting with participants, Ms.  Vishakha Satish Gorwade , Director(IT), Maharashtra informed that NIC has designed a training module for Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNNA) on Enterprise Architecture. She also presented on CollabFiles- an indigenous Platform to connect, create, share & collaborate on office documents.

More than 60 officers from different departments participated in the workshop. Dr. Ashok Kumar Hota, Deputy Director General (Training Division), NIC Odisha delivering welcoming address wished that this Tech-Bootcamp would certainly give us a clear understanding on various aspects of the Enterprises Architecture and how from Government of Odisha point of view and also other stakeholders point of view we can proceed towards this framework adoption.

Offering Vote of Thanks Smt. Kabita Roy Das, DDG & State Informatics Officer wished for guidance and initiative from all concerned for improvement in eGovernment index and to expedite and facilitate while bringing greater cohesion among selected departments with integrated processes with technology as the enabler for Government objectives having performance based progress under the ambit of 5T mandate of Government.

Artificial Intelligence is the simulation of human cognitive processes by machines. It automates processes & aims to ape Human Intelligence by applying Cognitive Computing to IT Systems. Towards this, the Tech-Bootcamp on Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Principles and Practices was held on 8th December2022 at National Informatics Center (NIC), Bhubaneswar for senior officers of the state government.

Inaugurating the Bootcamp, Dr. Arabinda Kumar Padhee, Principal Secretary, Department of Agriculture & Farmers’ Empowerment informed that AI can be used to search for recognition of patterns, discovery of new insights, extract meaning from raw data, make predictions, and interaction with people, machines and the physical environment. He highlighted how AI can be used in agriculture for field harvesting, health monitoring, weed and pest control, detection of nutrient deficiencies in soil and other tasks.

Guest of Honour, Shri Dasarathy Satpathy,  Secretary, Odisha Legislative Assembly, informed that AI involves programming for Knowledge, Reasoning, Problem Solving, Perception, Learning, Planning & Automating Processes. He highlighted how AI can be used for Assistance services to Members of Legislative assembly such as chatbot based on conversational interface technology as well as Natural Language Processing, to automate Legislative drafting and making assembly videos searchable using the latest speech recognition techniques etc.

Participating in the Bootcamp as Guest of Honour, Smt. Sharmistha Dasgupta, DDG & Head, Artificial Intelligence Resource Division, New Delhi highlighted initiatives of the division on Model building in the fields of Image & Video Analytics, Speech Synthesis & Recognition, and Natural Language Processing.

In his welcome speech Dr. Ashok Kumar Hota, Deputy Director General (Training), informed that NIC has established the Centre of Excellence(CoE) in Artificial Intelligence in 2019 to explore more opportunities for AI applications in governance. The guests joined to release the AI Brochure on the occasion.

Shri Choudhury Bijoya Kumar Das, DDG & State Coordinator (Odisha), NIC, New Delhi joining virtually offered Vote of thanks. The workshop was coordinated by Smt. Sarita Sahoo, Senior Technical Director, NIC, Odisha

More than 60 officers from various departments participated and interacted with the experts. The brainstorming session was organized to identify various domains where Artificial Intelligence can be integrated. Participants were from Agriculture, Higher Education, Forest, Home, Industry, Health, BSNL etc. Experts from NIC New Delhi presented various solutions available like Swachhata-AI Mobile App, Sangyatmak Sahayak API for assisting Lower Judiciary with Motor Accident Claim Precedents, Face Verification Services for Contactless Attendance, Life Certificate Mobile App based Verification, Fuzzy logic based Phonetic & Text Search for Farmer Name across Soil Health, PM Kisan & Land Records etc.

Officers received their participation certificate from the Chief Guest.

The Tech-Bootcamp on information and cyber security was held on 10.11.2022 at National Informatics Center (NIC), Bhubaneswar for senior officers of the state government. More than 50 officers from various departments participated and received training in this workshop.

Inaugurating the workshop, Shri Y.V.Ramana, Deputy Director General (Technology), Department of Telecommunications, discussed the uses and challenges of '5-G' technology.

Speaking on the occasion, Mrs. Kabita Roy Das, DDG & State Informatics Officer, Odisha asked all officers to take cyber security very seriously. She requested to ensure security audit of every application software project every year and stressed the need for security audit even when there are any major changes in the application.

Mr. Kashi Vishwanath Kethineni, Scientist-C, National Infrastructure Unit (NIU), Hyderabad, Mr. Niladri Bihari Mohanty, Scientist-D, Bhubaneswar, and Mr. Vijay Bhushan Pandey, DDG (Security), Department of Telecommunications, discussed on Network Security, Email Security, Server Security etc. All departments were requested to ensure TSL protocol for all domains and regular updation of server or virtual machine software patches. There were detailed discussions on cyber security case studies and best practices, cyber security incident reporting etc.

Delivering vote of thanks, Mr. Sushant Kumar Mahapatra, DDG and Head, Training Division, NIC, informed that NIC is going to organize six such workshops for senior officers in various fields during this financial year.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Hota, Deputy Director General (NIC) successfully coordinated the workshop.