BUILDING AN OPENSOURCE GOVERNMENT OPERATING SYSTEM
Our vision is to create a layer of reusable OpenSource products for governments that will serve as a government operating system.
Our approach is to build sector specific govtech products using OpenSource components that can be reused across governments.
Our journey has given us deep insights into the need and opportunity for this approach in India. Read about our journey here.
GOV-TECH PRODUCTS
ENABLING SCALABLE INNOVATION THROUGH REUSABLE GOV-TECH PRODUCTS
We envision governments to pick these gov-tech products to immediately deploy in their states. Each product has been carefully designed for governance use cases and the constraints and opportunities for transformation.
Odisha
Krushi Unnat Sahyogi
e-Samwad
1,000+ active users
7,000+ active users
4mn+ total daily submissions by teachers
55,000+ active users
Launched in Feb 2021
1mn+ expected users
Haryana
Uttar Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh
98,000+ active users
Used for multi-level govt reviews
Used for multi-level govt reviews
Saksham Samiksha
Assessment Dashboards
Prerna Lakshya
Shiksha Saathi
Har Ghar Pathshala
Assessment Dashboards
TECHNOLOGY COMPONENTS
EACH PRODUCT IS WIRED TOGETHER USING OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY COMPONENTS
Our objective is to create reusable, scalable, extensible & deployable products. Each component can be mixed and matched with each other components to create products.
Conversations & Alerts
Logic based multi-channel conversations and alerts (NEW)
Application Logging
Track application system performance (coming soon)
Security & Optimization
MManage external access to application services (coming soon)
WHY SHOULD GOVERNMENTS BET ON THIS STRATEGY?
Our approach is heavily influenced by the need to empower government engineering teams with technology products built using OpenSource tools that they could independently manage in the long term thereby reducing public expenditure, having confident deployments at scale, with any technology, infrastructure or vendor lock-ins.
The ease of configuring school visit forms, tracking progress and visualising visit feedback in Shiksha Saathi has provided the required flexibility in managing visits and enabled the department to act promptly based on the visit feedback.
We have been building capability of our team members to use OpenSource tools to build mobile and web based data collections forms and to build dashboards to visualise this data. This is a great effort to empower our teams to use technology appropriately for their initiatives.
Samiksha is easy to use. The mentoring form is designed well as it is thorough. I also like how it allows us to capture discussions with teachers and HMs, along with any classroom best practices being followed in the school.
The e-Samwad application has allowed the government school education ecosystem in Himachal Pradesh to experience the power of proactive personalised SMS based communication to parents. We hope this becomes a new normal for all government schools in India.
The simplicity and clarity of the Samarth Assessment Dashboards, built using Metabase, has allowed systematic visualization of student assessment data at the state, district, block and school levels. We are excited to use this approach in other education department dashboards.
OpenSource GovOS
- Reusable (saves public expenditure)
- Scalable (confident deployments at scale)
- Interoperable (add value to core systems)
- Extensible (no technology lock-in)
- Deployable (no proprietary infrastructure)
- Sustainable (no vendor lock-ins)
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