Meghalaya Enterprise Architecture Project (MeghEA)

Meghalaya Enterprise Architecture Project (MeghEA)

Part of: Prelims and GS II – Policies and interventions 

Context Recently, Meghalaya Enterprise Architecture Project (MeghEA) was launched.

• The project aims to improve service delivery and governance for the people using the power of Digital technologies.
• Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the process by which organizations standardize and organize IT (Information Technology) infrastructure to align with business goals.

Key takeaways 

• The initiative is spread across 6 pillars i.e. Governance, Human Resources, Entrepreneurship, Primary Sector, Infrastructure and Environment, and envision to make Meghalaya a high income state by 2030.
• It is envisioned to make Meghalaya a high income state by 2030. 
• MeghEA is conceived to support the following digital government goals:
  • A planned state government transformation initiative which demands efficient coordination between strategies, policies, processes, services and organizational capacity 
  • Coordinate all ICT initiatives under one umbrella to get a better holistic perspective 
  • Implement and ICT enable state government process reengineering to provide multi-channel service delivery 
  • Ensure that state government applications and systems provide end-users with information they need
  • Craft an ecosystem for the digital economy to boost shared prosperity, by leveraging ICT for employment and growth.

India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA)

• It is a framework that enables the development and implementation of Enterprise Architectures independently and in parallel by all governments and their agencies across India, conforming to the same models and standards. 
• It was notified as an e-Governance standard by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in October 2018.
• The primary purpose of IndEA is to help state governments, ministries and departments in the governments at various levels to adopt a structured approach for developing their enterprise architecture.