MeitY’s Digital India Innovation Zone at India Mobile Congress 2024
‘Digital India Innovation Zone’ at IMC 2024 offers Interactive Experience with
DPIs like DigiLocker, UPI, and Aadhaar
5G, e-Governance Solutions, and India’s Innovation Ecosystem being highlighted
at MeitY Pavilion
The
National e-Governance Division (NeGD), Ministry of Electronics and Information
Technology (MeitY) has set up a pavilion, ‘Digital India Innovation
Zone’, at India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2024 to provide hands-on experience to the delegates on India’s various
Digital Public Infrastructure (DPIs).
The
Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the 8th edition of India Mobile
Congress at Bharat Mandapam during the International Telecommunication Union -
World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA) 2024 programme and took
a walkthrough of the exhibition showcased on the occasion.
Secretary,
MeitY Shri S Krishnan also visited the MeitY pavilion and had a look at the
various advanced electronic systems and digital e-governance solutions at
display.
Meity Pavillion
The MeitY pavilion aims to provide a hands-on experience to the delegates
on various DPIs viz DigiLocker, UMANG, Aadhaar, UPI, eSanjeevani, ONDC, and
Digital India BHASHINI. Additionally, MeitY’s organisations C-DAC, NIXI, SAMEER
have set up interactive booths to showcase the Made-in-India technological
advancements in the country.
Through this state-of-the-art pavilion, MeitY seeks to make global stakeholders aware of projects
that are scalable and bring Ease of Living, Ease of Doing Business, and Ease of
Governance for the citizens.
The UMANG booth takes the visitor through some
important services like blood
bank search, train navigation, pensioner life certificate generation, passport
seva, etc. in real-time through a rotoscope. On the other hand, ‘Time Challenge:
Secure Docs’, a timed game at the DigiLocker booth allows the visitors to put
their documents in a digital vault and earn Digital India merchandise.
Delegates can also get a
live demonstration of the DigiLocker ecosystem and a step-by-step process of
registration.
The National
Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) provides the delegates with a
live demo of the ‘Scan & Pay’ facility through UPI and showcases other UPI
services which are playing a significant role in the digital payment revolution
in India.
ONDC stall gives an interactive experience where
on one hand it highlights the impact it has created in the ecommerce space
through live numbers and seller stories and on the other hand it explains what
ONDC does through a series of interesting videos along with a real life demo of
how to shop from the network. People visiting the ONDC stall can also win
exciting prizes by answering a few very easy questions in their trivia game.
The Digital
India BHASHINI booth is featuring its various use cases like
‘Baatcheet’, a cross-language translation for mobile calls; Sabha Lekha, an AI
based multilingual meeting platform, and more. The Baatcheet app provides voice
call capabilities along with transliteration displayed in-app for clearer
communication. Baatcheet supports both App-to-App and App-to-mobile calling,
allowing the other person to participate even without having the app installed.
This booth also features pioneering AI-powered solution ConversationAIly which
empowers doctors to optimise in-clinic conversations by providing positive
conversation cues to improve compliance behaviors in patients with chronic
diseases like diabetes, obesity and hypertension. Another tool Signassistive is
a platform that makes any type of information accessible to 18M deaf and hard
of hearing population.
A
teleconsultation centre has been set up at the booth of eSanjeevani.
The delegates can understand how the India's National Telemedicine Service is
reaching out to citizens in both rural and urban areas, breaking the health
divide.
Every
Indian’s unique digital identity, Aadhaar, is showcasing the face
authentication solution impacting millions of lives.
The “Mann Ki Baat”
booth helps the delegates to listen to the various episodes in their own
regional language.
MeitY
organisation NIXI is offering an immersive experience designed
to educate delegates on the importance of the .भारत domain and the need for a
multi-lingual internet. They can even register their own .भारत domain
at the booth.
The
pavilion has hosted CDAC's products and solutions on 5G and beyond technology
areas. IOS-5GN, the project funded by MeitY for developing industry grade open
source 5G platform, demonstration covered end-to-end 5G setup using open source
solutions. CDAC has also showcased its mobile security solutions 'M-Kavach',
'M-Prabandh' and 'Parikshan'. The demonstration covers SDN middleware based 5G
simulation platform for use cases, Smart energy meter, 5G V2X solution, and 5G
based drone development platform, 'Create'.
SAMEER has exhibited Next Generation Communication
and Microwave Technologies those are being pursued under the Digital India
mission of MeitY. It has displayed various technologies developed in the
field of Atmospheric Science, Healthcare, 6G Communications and Industrial
applications through interactive UI and also displayed scale down replica of
MMW Radiometer for climate studies & 1.5T Superconducting MRI Scanner for
medical applications. Through these exhibits, SAMEER is disseminating
critical features of the technologies developed to the larger audience
participating in IMC, 2024.
The India Mobile Congress 2024 is displaying India’s
innovation ecosystem, where leading telecom companies and innovators will
highlight advancements in Quantum technology and Circular Economy along with
spotlight on 6G, 5G use-case showcase, Cloud & Edge computing, IoT,
Semiconductors, Cybersecurity, Green Tech, Satellite Communications, and
Electronics Manufacturing. Its 2024 edition will showcase over 400 exhibitors,
about 900 startups, and participation from over 120 countries. The event also
intends to highlight more than 900 technology use case scenarios, host more
than 100 sessions and discussion with over 600 global and Indian speakers.
The four-day event, hosted by the Department of Telecommunications,
Government of India at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi is being organised from
October 15-18, 2024.