- Union Minister of Electronics & Information Technology, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad inaugurated Centre of Excellence for Data Analytics (CEDA) in New Delhi.
- CEDA has been set up jointly by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and National Informatics Centre Services Incorporated (NICSI).
- (CEDA) will support government departments to utilize huge amount of data generated as a part of the governance processes, and use it to improve the overall governance.
- The minister also launched a mobile based app named DigiVaarta which stands for Digi Vehicle to Accelerate Access and Reach to Transformational Action.
- DigiVaarta is a platform (both SMS and app) designed to enable Financial and Social Inclusion by educating citizens on various schemes and programmes and hence spread digital payments awareness.
