The Government of India is proposing a platform to digitize various kinds of physical records through crowd sourcing. The need for this platform cannot be over-emphasized. We cannot talk of Digital India and transforming India into a knowledge society if most of the transactions continue to be physical. To increasing move towards digital transactions, there is huge need to digitize all legacy data and physical data which continues to be generated through our physical transactions.
Converting physical records into digital in a machine-readable form, so that necessary compute operations can be carried on is therefore an essential part of all programmes under Digital India, whether it is a the Digital Locker, or sector specific applications under eKranti. Unleashing the captive data through digitization from physical records will enable research, predictive, quantitative and qualitative analysis for informed decision making and proactive governance. This will help in transforming our e-Government applications from Systems of Records to Systems of Engagement.
Digitization of physical records is a non-trivial task. Indian IT industry has garnered billions of dollars worth of industry by digitizing medical transcriptions and insurance records in the past. That model has matured and offers a solution for large scale digitization. But the problem is that the cost of such digitization is very large and existing budgetary constraints of Government and many other organizations do not allow such lavish digitization effort. Consequently, we have not seen much effort for digitization of physical records in the country. Privacy and security issues of sharing records in public domain also need to be taken into serious consideration.
Government itself has large number of physical records digitization of which can enable analytics over data, improve quality of record and decision-making. Some of the public records which can benefit from digitization effort include: land records, municipal records, birth and death registration records, service records of Government employees etc.
Several non-Government organizations can also hugely benefit from such digitization efforts. For example, Insurance companies can manage their insurance records, telecom companies can save millions of dollars by digitizing the documents relating to identity of their subscribers.
The proposed platform will be build using an innovative enterprise content management framework and tools, the solution supports a unique operations model which uses crowd sourcing for digitizing physical records. It rewards subscribers for every word that they transcribe, at the same time ensures secrecy and privacy of the document. It uses an innovative and complex algorithm to ensure accuracy of digitization without having to have supervisors to compare digitized document with the original. The proposed platform will create earning and income generation opportunities for our literate rural and urban citizens, develop digital literacy and IT skills and include them in making of digital India
The cloud enabled platform accessible through multiple devices will have the following features
i. It will be applicable for transcription for all kinds of documents, irrespective of media, format and language. The documents will need to be converted into a human readable image format.
ii. Any user can become a member and start accumulating points by transcribing words/characters. These words/characters would translate into redeemable cash rewards.
iii. Any organization/Government Department can submit its documents for transcription.
iv. A document to be transcribed is scanned and a template of the document created. Based on the template, the content of the document are apportioned to small portions say words or phrases. Such portions are so made that no portion gives any clue regarding the overall context/content of the document.
v. Each portion is thereafter sent to two randomly selected members of the platform for digitizing.
vi. Each member gets a word/phrase which he or she transcribes. The same word, phrase is also shared with another member (selected randomly). The two digitized version of the word/phrase are compared by the machine. If they match, the digitization is successful. If not, the same if sent to third person and based on his digitization, an assessment is made.
vii. Members get rewarded for successful digitization and not for unsuccessful digitization.
viii. OCR will be used to reduce the extent of digitization required through this crowd sourcing mode.
ix. Mobile based application would be available so that members can transcribe words on the move.
This portal will be deployed on the cloud for supporting multiple government agencies with full security features as per the government standards. It has been developed using open standard technologies. The entire initiative is well architected to safeguard the identity of the documents in the process and to ensure accuracy through proper validations. To ensure that everyone can participate, the portal will be made accessible across multiple devices, in multiple formats, and is multi-lingual.
We not only seek your active participation in contributing to the digitization drive, but also in addressing a few key issues around the initiative. We call you to participate in making the platform richer and more useful.
Contribute for a better future. Your opinion matters.
You are invited to share your views on:
1. What would such a platform be called? What would you name it? Suggest a logo.
2. What are the different kind of documents do you think that require immediate digitization and when digitized will generate maximum value? Please suggest documents from both from public sector and the private sector?
3. What are your suggestions for different kinds of commercial models that may be established for crowd sourcing related to this initiative (Paper based model, subscription based model)?
4. Besides the digitization of records, what other services do you think, can be crowd sourced?
5. What are privacy and security concerns?
6. What are the potential weaknesses of this platform which can be improved?
7. What are the potential risks you envision in this type of engagements?
8. How do you think this platform can be popularized for mass engagement?
9. What type of support do you think will help members in becoming more productive and engaged?
10. What other features like Mobility, Gamification, Analytics, etc. can be enabled on the platform to deliver value in the areas of skill development, language learning, entertainment etc.?
The last date to share your views is 26th May, 2015.
Modiji..................
Can India progess through this method...?
Answer is no...
I am giving the example.... in gujarat there was advertisement for the post of district project manager IT ..in august 2014...and after written and verbal interview...final result is declared on 25/02/2015...but still the selected candidates did not got the final appointment from GIL or DST department...In short for the work of 1 year ..our system takes more than 8 months only to appoint the candidates!Modiji ?
This is the best idea that has hit me like a lightning strike. Do mapping of farm land with satellite map and google map in addition also link the Soil Health card report with the map. You can further link Air quality index, water table, water quality, population, type of crime in particulate area (Available in major cities the across the world). Usage of this idea could go way beyond the above mentioned topics. Make good use of this idea Thanks #DigitizationofRecords #DigitalIndia #MyGov
Name: Digital India
Logo: image of people in computer
1. Mark sheets should be digitized to help students be verified by universities and foreign universities, companies, govt agencies to verify the certificates of any student. b) The digitizing of all records of a person id proofs like pan card, ration card, aadhaar card so that the proof link can be submiited to any agency for verification. evern online availability will help who lost card to apply afresh and driving license and rtos.
1.Voting will be easier and accurate
2.Banking will be easier and accurate
3.Aadhaar Smart Card and Pan card Creation for each Voters and Merge with Bank Accounts through Jan-Dhan Yojana
4.Transparency, Accountablity, easy Transaction,Time-bound Delivery
If all bank account is linked with PAN of income tax, it would be easy to track total income of a person. Digitization of data of land and immovable property may also minimize forgery and and result in better collection of house tax.
Electronic data bank may achieve a landmark in our development work. Lack of data and poor quality of data are main cause of concern which result in corruption too.
#DigitizationofRecord The Natural disaster based cost estimation,damage,relief,rehabilitation work carried out by various gov departments,other organizations contributing in those areas should be digitized disaster wise.It will help people to understand who works on what after disaster.In TN after 2004 Tsunami there were unfinished buildings for the victims.These kind of situations are the places where there is a big blame game.http://ndmindia.nic.in site could display these data from state gov.
#DigitizationofRecords (2).Food corporation of India (FCI) related documents could be digitized and Indian citizens should be able to search the availability of the ration items by entering the ration shop number
Digitization is very important to almost all the sectors as it makes our work easy and comfortable.
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#DigitizationofRecords The land and property related documents could be digitized thoroughly.The http://tnhrce.org/areg.html site lists the temple land details in TN.But it is difficult to search the names in the local language pdf files in this site.These kind of searching issues should be avoided in the local language digitization process