Digitalization of Rural Communities

Abstract

In India, more than 70 percent of the population resides in rural communities. For leading to progression of individuals, communities and nation, there is a need to make efforts that are dedicated towards promoting development of rural communities. The Government of India has made considerable efforts, such as the Digital India Campaign, which was initiated in 2015. The main objective of this campaign is to cause reduction in the digital India divide and Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) has proven to be a tool that has led to its successful implementation [1]. Digital India is a national program, which focuses upon providing universal digital literacy and universal accessibility of all digital resources to the citizens. The vision is focused upon three main aspects, i.e. creation of digital infrastructure, delivery of governance and services on demand and digital empowerment of citizens. Digital India program focuses upon restructuring of several existing schemes to lead to transformation [2].The vision of the program has led to transformation of the country into a digitally-empowered society and knowledge economy through infrastructural reforms, such as, high speed internet in all gram panchayats, lifelong digital identification for all citizens, mobile banking for all, accessibility to Common Service Centres