The e-Naga Summit 2022 under the theme ‘Towards promotion of secured digital services and Investment opportunities in the State of Nagaland’ was organized by the Department of Information Technology & Communication in collaboration with Indo-British Business Forum, United Kingdom at the Directorate of IT&C on 14th December 2022.
Advisor for Information Technology & Communication and NRE, Mmhonlumo Kikon in his inaugural address highlighted that the e-Naga Summits held in the past, had people coming from across the world not only shared their ideas and programmes but participated and engaged with the state government to ensure the objectives of the state in creating e-governance and IT culture. He also mentioned that the theme for the e-Naga Summit 2022 has been designed to address the specific needs of the state and highlighted the progress the state has made in the past 10 years through investment in the road sector of the NHIDCL project, where 4-lane roads and roads connectivity to state capital Kohima from all districts projects taken up that has resulted in improvement in the rural sectors. He also mentioned that the state government's vision was to attract investment to the state to engage the people with experts and companies from other parts of the country and collaborate with the state government since the government has confidence in the people and with the achievement in IT department in the state, it can take up new initiatives, he added. Kikon also added that in the e-district project, the IT Department has enabled 47 e-services where all the government department websites are hoisted on data centre which has made services easy to access online also Government is focused and clear about priority to use IT services.
CEO, Indo British Business Forum, United Kingdom, Kavita Sharma said Indo British Business Forum is a private firm committed to bringing investments in India and also an opportunity-based firm that looks for opportunities to bring investments in India, she mentioned that the UK Government and the India Government have signed a free trade agreement worth 52 billion pounds, where for the first time, UK fruits will enter India without any duty and vice-versa for the fruits from our state such as kiwi, pineapple and dragon fruits. She also said that the firm was interested to invest in the power sector, and renewable energy and would consider climate control she also said that basic infrastructure in the state was not available and Nagaland need investment in roads, she also said there were opportunities for young entrepreneurs and the small and medium industries that need to be addressed.
Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, of IT & Power, K. D. Vizo in his address said the department of Information Technology & Communication was created in the year 2004 and the e-Naga Summit was organized in 2015 to promote e-governance culture in the state. He mentioned that initially they tried to create awareness amongst the politicians, the bureaucrats, the entrepreneurs, and businesses and were successful but the youths and the college students were more interested as their response was huge and as Nagaland has the most active in social media it was ready to take up e-governance and IT Sector. He also said IT culture was to bring transparency, accountability, and efficiency and change the mindset of the people about the work culture and society. He stressed that the biggest challenge was to change the work culture and the people along with the technology change.
The resources persons were Nitin Agarwal, Director Leverage Capital, IBBF, Neichute Doulo, CEO Entrepreneurs Association Nagaland, Arun Sharma, Senior Digital Development Specialist World Bank, Rakesh Kumar Boylla, MD KR Project & Maestro Technologies IBBF, Kishore Shah CEO for SPOCHUB and ESDS Group, Nashik Maharashtra and Kedo Nagi, Proprietor, M/s Ramietech Solutions, Nagaland.
(Maongtemjen, IA)
