Govt. unveils centre for data analytics

Why is it in news?

National Informatics Centre (NIC), in a joint initiative with National Informatics Centre Services Incorporated (NICSI) has set up CEDA.
It will aid in fast-tracking the adoption of advanced analytics in government.
It has been created to support government departments to unlock the hidden potential of the data that they are generating as a part of the governance processes, and use it to improve the overall governance. It will provide world class data analytics services to the Government.
CEDA proposes to establish strong partnerships with academia and industry to ensure that the cutting edge technologies and quality expertise are brought in to help the Government take advantage of the booming analytic wave.

Aims and objectives

Data Quality Assurance Services –. The centre will provide data profiling tools and techniques and necessary expertise to analyze the data for quality issues.
CEDA will implement knowledge repository to collect learnings from across projects and share best practices across initiatives and will ensure usage of best practices in across the government.
CEDA will help ministries in assessing impact from the analytics solutions and help in understanding changes to organizational roles and responsibilities

NIC

It is a premier technology advisor and ICT solution provider to Government at all levels, has always taken the first step to introduce the latest technologies and services in government, be it the introduction of ICT in Government, establishment of NICNET or National Knowledge Network (NKN), development of critical e-Governance solutions and a host of other services required by the Government.
NICSI is a trusted partner of NIC and has been instrumental in supporting all NIC’s initiatives through provisioning of resources and establishing & managing ICT infrastructure such as National Data Center at Shastri Park, Development Center, Cloud infrastructure etc

Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 29th Sep 2018

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