Digital India Awards 2022:
The Smart Cities Mission recently won the Platinum Icon in the Digital India Awards 2022 for their initiative “Data Smart Cities: Empowering Cities through Data”.
Digital India Awards 2022:
- The Smart Cities Mission won the award under the ‘Data Sharing and Use for Socio-Economic Development’ category.
- This category ‘emphasizes on sharing of Government Data by Ministries/Departments/Organizations, States, Cities and ULBs to create a vibrant data for analysis, decision-making, innovation etc.
- The initiative is a key step in creating a robust data ecosystem that enables evidence-based decision-making in cities.
- The Digital India Awards (DIA) is a prestigious National competition that seeks to encourage and honour innovative digital solutions by government entities in realising the Digital India vision.
- These are conducted by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY).
