Transitioning to cloud necessitates involvement of Government. With this in mind, MeiTY has embarked on an ambitious project called “Silver line Architecture for Cloud” that tries to establish a transparent and conducive regulatory framework that ensures data ownership, retention policy and content regulation while codifying measures to be taken in case of data theft or leakage out of the system and provides faster resolution and remedies to the user.
Current Scenario
Maharashtra unveiled a public cloud policy, virtually mandating its departments to shift their data storage onto the cloud and making them available to the general public. This policy is in compliance with government’s National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy, 2012, which mandates facilitation of access to government-owned shareable data in human readable and machine readable forms. The objective of the policy is to use public cloud in cases wherever the Right to Information Act is applicable, and then increase security features for private and sensitive data.
What is a Public Cloud?
“Public cloud” is a fully virtualised environment providing a multi tenant architecture that enables usersor tenant to share computing resources or data. It is based on standard cloud computing model, in which a service provider makes resources, such as virtual machines (VMs), applications or storage, available to the general public over the internet. Public cloud services may be free or offered on a pay-per-usage model.
Given the huge requirement of services for citizens, the government is actively looking at cloud based services as first option. A significant step in this direction is MeghRaj - National Cloud Computing Initiative, which sets basic standards for all cloud services for Government of India as well as evangelizing projects through Cloud First policy.
Components of MeghRaj
Why Public Cloud Policy has been Launched?
Key issues in Cloud Services
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Challenges in Shifting to Public Cloud Policy
Way Forward
WEF Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution, Maharashtra The World Economic Forum announced its new Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Maharashtra (India), with the aim to bring together the government and business leaders to co-design new policy frameworks and protocols for emerging technology policies. The centre has selected drones, artificial intelligence and block chain technology as the first three project areas. The first project will focus on undertaking drone mapping operations in the agriculture sector. With regards to AI, the focus will be on accelerating the adoption of artificial intelligence in socio economic .areas like education, healthcare and agriculture. The project on block chain technology will focus on the application of smart contracts to boost productivity and transparency while reducing inefficiency. |