First MyGov Samvaad successfully held on 29th November 2014

“MyGov Samvaad”, a first of its kind event was organized on 29th November 2014, with the Hon’ble Minister for Communications & IT Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad presiding over an interaction with selected contributors to the Digital India Group on MyGov. The Minister also felicitated 20 chosen contributors for their ideas / suggestions / task responses from amongst over 40,000 responses. The contributors came from different walks of life – an engineering student from the National Institute of Technology, a computer operator from the Gram Panchayat of a small village in West Bengal, software engineers, social entrepreneurs and also a few government employees.

The 20 selected citizens shared their ideas on various topics such as taking e-services to rural India, Accessibility to Digital Services, Internet of Things (IOT) policy. Some of them also shared their experiences of working towards digital training and literacy at the grass root level. These ideas among others will be taken up by the Ministry of Communications and IT for further consideration for their possible implementation.

Shri Ram Sewak Sharma, Secretary, DeitY, Shri Tapan Ray, Additional Secretary, DeitY, Dr. Ajay Kumar, Joint Secretary, DeitY and Shri Gaurav Dwivedi, CEO, MyGov and other senior officials from DeitY welcomed the participants and engaged in discussions with them.

The invitees acknowledged the efforts of MyGov in giving them a unique opportunity to directly interact with the Hon. Minister. They have also promised to dedicate more time towards the initiative as “Ambassadors of MyGov”!

Pictures from First MyGov Samvaad