Centre plans a unified portal for all digital public goods

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

government is planning a unified portal to list all its digital public goods (DPGs) such as Aadhaar, Unified Payments Interface and Open Network for Digital Commerce in one place to provide easy access to all the apps and services, said people with knowledge of the matter.

The electronics and information technology is likely to be tasked with creating the portal and coordinating with all the ministries and their respective departments and agencies to detail the digital public infrastructure (DPI) created by them, said a government official, who did not wish to be identified.

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“Almost all central government departments and even a few states have created their DPGs which provide different services through apps and platforms. Anyone trying to access a service has to navigate through all of them. A single portal will at least unify all this information along with the steps to access the service,” the official said.

Government departments may be asked to furnish details of the tasks performed by the DPI, the number of people that use their service, the underlying technology, details of whether the technology is based on an open protocol and any other special requirements for using the service, said another official.

The idea is to enable not just easy access for