Call for inputs: India Digital Ecosystem Architecture 2.0 (IndEA 2.0)

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Call for inputs: India Digital Ecosystem Architecture 2.0 (IndEA 2.0)

Apurva Singh

@apurvaa

February 7, 2022

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The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has released its report on IndEA 2.0. IndEA was originally designed in 2017 with a view to enable alignment of the IT developments within the business vision of government organisations. It provides a set of architecture reference models aimed at a holistic and integrated approach to e-Governance. As a sequel to it, MeitY had developed the Agile IndEA framework in 2019 to make the architecture development to be taken up in shorter cycles. Thereafter, MeitY’s white paper on National Open Digital Ecosystem (NODE) was published. InDEA 2.0 builds further on the concept of an digital ecosystem.

IndEA 2.0

According to the Report, IndEA 2.0 is a framework that enables Governments and private sector enterprises to design IT architectures that can span beyond their organisational boundaries and enables delivery of holistic and integrated services to the customers. It promotes the evolution of digital ecosystems. It consists of a set of principles and architectural patterns that inform, guide, and enable the development of large digital systems, with a focus on the public sector. The objective of this framework is to enable cost saving due to reusable and interoperable systems, rational planning of IT investments and better architectures designed faster.

Key features of the framework include:

Principles: The report sets out 27 generic (not prescriptive) principles under 5 categories - ecosystem, architecture, business, technology, and architecture governance. Key principles include, federated architecture, openness in designs, modularity and interoperability, security- and privacy-by design and agile governance.
Building blocks: The Report defines 3 types of building blocks – core, common and reference. The Report adopts a selective approach to the design and development of these building blocks. Every building block has a business owner and a technology owner. A building block is interoperable with other building blocks through well-defined and stable APIs. The report requires only the core building blocks are proposed to be designed, developed, and managed centrally by the central or state governments. For the remaining building blocks, the government will play an enabling role.
Federated Digital Identities: The Report proposes a model of Federal Digital Identities that seek to optimise the number of digital identities that a citizen needs to have. The models empowers the citizen by putting her in control of these identities and providing her the option of choosing which one to use for what purpose.
Implementational framework: The Report proposes that the governments enable ecosystem players to implement different parts of the framework. The enablers could be – policy enablers like PPP framework, data sharing policy and rules of engagement of ecosystem players, and technology enablers like sandboxes or data exchanges.

InDEA 2.0 is about empowering the individuals and entities. While the ecosystem of digital identities forms the foundational layer, the ‘assets layer’ and ‘transactions/interactions layer’ ensure that the ecosystem functions and delivers. Several initiatives have been successfully implemented to demonstrate the power of one or more constituents of these 3 layers. For example, Aadhaar, UPI, GSTN, Account Aggregator and the upcoming frameworks of UHI, NDEAR and ONDC.

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