National Urban Digital Mission

Context

In a latest development, the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry launched the National Urban Digital Mission.

What is National Urban Digital Mission (NUDM)?

• The National Urban Digital Mission (NUDM) has been launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs along with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
• It will institutionalize a citizen-centric and ecosystem-driven approach to urban governance and service delivery in 2022 cities by 2022, and across all cities and towns in India by 2024.
• It will help in supplementing Digital India initiative along with Smart Cities Mission.
• Objective: The mission will create a shared digital infrastructure for urban India, working across the three pillars of people, process, and platform to provide holistic support to cities and towns.

Features

• NUDM is citizen-centric, ecosystem-driven, and principles-based in both design and implementation.
• NUDM has articulated a set of governing principles.
• It inherits the technology design principles of the National Urban Innovation Stack (NUIS).

Other initiatives 

The Ministry also launched other initiatives: India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX), SmartCode, Smart Cities 2.0 website, and Geospatial Management Information System (GMIS)

India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX)

• IUDX is an open-source software platform which facilitates the secure, authenticated, and managed exchange of data amongst various data platforms.
• Partnership program: The India Urban Data Exchange has been developed in partnership between the Smart Cities Mission and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.

SmartCode Platform

• SmartCode is a platform designed to address the challenges that ULBs face in the development and deployment of digital applications.