Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday inaugurated 180 new websites of 50 departments of the Delhi Government and stressed on using artificial intelligence to make services more accessible to the common people. Some of the departments whose websites were inaugurated include the transport and the public works departments.
“The 180 websites of 50 departments have been integrated into one portal of the Delhi Government. The old websites were driven by old technology and weren’t tab friendly. “Now, we have moved to cloud storage and removed the server system. The new cloud-based website of the Delhi Government eliminate the risk of a server crash, making it faster, more reliable, and easily accessible. These websites have the latest technology, sufficient bandwidth and space,” he said at the inauguration event.
Asserting that they have to cater to the requirements of people through these websites, Kejriwal said that Artificial Intelligence is the future of technology and it has to be seen how it can be used by the government for making services more accessible to people. It is based on the latest technology - Drupal, an Open Source CMS Framework and has easier data handling with an auto archival process for protecting data and content. It works seamlessly across devices such as Mobile, Tablets, Web Browsers. It also has enhanced accessibility with GIGW/ W3C compliance and Bilingual / Multilingual support.
Kejriwal further said that the existing websites of GNCTD were launched in 2008 by the Department of Information Technology, GNCTD using a Content Management System (CMS) by IBM. Technology used in existing CMS portals was old and servers are obsolete. It was also challenging to maintain existing CMS due to old technology and it led to frequent outages and breakdowns.