SHILLONG: The Planning department of the state government and National Informatics Centre (NIC) have been conferred with a CSI SIG e-Governance award 2018-2019 during the Computer Society of India, 53rd Annual Convention at KIIT, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha on January 17. The award, ‘Award of Recognition’, was given for the “MeghEA Online Questionnaire”, under the category of ‘Initiatives in Enterprise Architecture Projects – State’.
The award was handed over by Tusar Kanti Behera, Minister for E & IT (Odisha) to Candida Shadap, Technical Director, NIC and Kernold Basaiawmoit, Senior Systems Analyst, NIC, receiving the award on behalf of the department and NIC in the presence of Tarun Vijay, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha.
‘MeghEA Online Questionnaire’ is a one-of-a-kind tool for collecting information across the various state government departments for the purpose of preparing a state-wide enterprise architecture as per IndEA framework and also as per the Digital Service Standards (DSS).
It can be readily used by any state government for enterprise architecture documentation. It also intends to streamline, optimise, and facilitate collaborative collection of information in a central repository, which is a crucial initial step towards the development of state-wide enterprise architecture.
