Twitter Samvaad

Twitter Samvaad was recently launched. Can you explain the basic technicals behind this, and how this might help governance, etc?

The use of ICT tools for governance has taken various shapes and forms including the e-governance, m-governance etc..

So far the government used to function using their local/proprietary systems and packages.

Utilizing the social networking and media for the governance has been the trend of late and this twitter samvaad is one such initiative..

The short message services that we are using in our Mobiles has become popular because of the younger generation using it for each and every communication. Twitters/ FB/ whatsapp/ all these very powerful social networking solutions to reach the mass faster than ever. Twitter is just another service similar to SMS and so it is being used for making the DIGITAL INDIA initiative popular..

The PM had discussion with these teams and have requested to open up platforms that can enable the common man to reach the Government offices/ officials to facilitate the delivery of services.

Brief on Samwad: Twitter Samwad is a service that lets leaders and government agencies communicate with the people through tweets and SMS. The initiative was launched by Modi and will initially have 16 partners, including him. The initiative was custom-built for the world’s largest democracy and will enable the citizens to be the first to know about new government actions. This initiative will continue to invest in language support to make the platform accessible to more people.

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Are the APIs open to the public? Then anyone can build apps for govt services.

APIs are open to public vivek. You can write one on your own suitable for Government services. The API should be executable by the platform being used, thats all.