Content Creation: Initiatives of Government of India

Abstract

Information is regarded as a vital resource and an invaluable commodity in modern times. It plays a significant role in the socioeconomic, scientific and technological development of a country. The rise of the Internet and the rapid expansion of electronic information present new challenges for acquiring, storing, organizing, preserving and dissemination information to the users. In the digital age, the contents are created in the form of web sites, virtual libraries, databases, portals and web logs. The present paper describes the initiatives of Government of India in context with content creation. The recommendations submitted by National IT Task force in the IT Action Plans and their status of implementation has been reviewed briefly. Major e-governance projects reported in official database of e-governance projects in India in context with Content Creation were located and discussed briefly.