Digital India Brief

Digital India is a Programme to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.

It is an 'Umbrella Mission' – covering many departments weaving together a large number of ideas and thoughts into a single, comprehensive vision so that each of them is seen as part of a larger goal. Many existing schemes will be restructured, re-focused and implemented in a synchronized manner with transformational process improvements.

Vision of Digital India is centered on 3 key areas:

• Digital Infrastructure as a Utility to every citizen
• Governance & services on demand
• Digital empowerment of citizens

The Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY) is proposing a national programme to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. The vision of Digital India is centred on three key areas, namely providing digital infrastructure as a utility to every citizen, providing governance & services on demand and digital empowerment of citizens. You can know more about the initiative at http://deity.gov.in.

The Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY) seeks inputs to design the Logo and create the Tagline for Digital India initiative.

The last date of submission is 31st May, 2015.

The winning entry will be awarded a cash prize of Rs. 1,00,000/-.

The entries shortlisted earlier through the two contests would also be considered during fresh evaluation. The entries received earlier through 2 contests in Aug-Sep, 2014 and Jan, 2015 was evaluated and committee felt to make another attempt to receive some more innovative and creative logos and taglines for an ambitious ‘Digital India’ programme.

Please click here for more information on Technical Parameters and Evaluation Criteria.

Moderator for the task:

Akilur Rahman,
Department of Electronics & IT,
E-Mail ID: akilur.rahman@negp.gov.in