National Institute for Smart Government CDAC has shouldered responsibility of designing and implementing NSDG. CDAC will be coordinating Operations and Maintenance for a period of 5 years starting from date of go-live. STQC is the Testing and Certifying authority. NSDG solution infrastructure is hosted at NIC Data Centre and Data Recovery Centre. NISG has served as advisory and consulting agency to DIT. DIT has also envisaged the Constellation of Gateways which will include NSDG at the center, various SSDGs (State e-Governance Services Delivery Gateway) and the Domain Gateways. Each gateway will have a service directory called Gateway Services Directory (GSD) which will keep all information regarding services which is available by that gateway. Apart from the GSD, there will be a National Services Directory (NSD) which will serve as central registry for Gateway address resolution to facilitate inter Gateway communication. Standards behind the whole Gateway Constellation Interoperability Interface Protocol (IIP) Interoperability Interface Specifications (IIS) Inter-Gateway Interconnect Specifications (IGIS) Gateway Common Services Specifications (GCSS) Platform This project is on J2EE platform and based on the Service Oriented Architecture. It uses web services extensively for publishing its services. Open Source Technologies have been given the highest priority while choosing the Operating System, Application Server, Database and other required tools. The gateway is completely secure. Security compliance of the NSDG as per ISO 17799:2005/BS7799-1:2005. Other Gateways NSDG will work at the central level. Apart from this, each state will have its own gateway SSDG (State e-Governance Services Delivery Gateway). See also My Gov Further reading http://www.nsdg.gov.in (Official Website) http://www.mit.gov.in/default.aspx?id=850 http://mutiny.in/2008/08/09/national-e-governance-services-delivery-gateway/ Notes NSDG and CDAC logos are trademarks of DIT, Govt. of India and C-DAC Mumbai, respectively. Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India) Internet in India E-government in India