TG leveraging emerging tech to improve governance, public service delivery
Telangana's IT Minister announced plans to integrate emerging technologies like AI, blockchain, and quantum computing into state governance. Initiatives include a digital cabinet, AI-powered data exchange, and blockchain-based certificates to improve public service delivery.
Why it matters
The adoption of advanced digital infrastructure by state governments can significantly improve transparency, efficiency, and accessibility of public services.
From issuing blockchain-based certificates, rolling out high-speed digital connectivity to rural areas to plans for a digital legislature, a number of emerging technologies-based initiatives are on the cards in Telangana, IT and Industries Minister D. Sridhar Babu said on Friday.
The Minister, who was inaugurating an AI Transformation Conclave jointly organised by GOVconnect and Electronic Service Delivery (MeeSeva) here, cited the plans while pointing to how Telangana was leveraging emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, Data Analytics and Quantum Computing to improve governance and public service delivery.
On the State’s digital governance initiatives, he said Telangana had introduced a Digital Cabinet, a real-time government dashboard integrating 20 departments; the country’s first AI-powered data exchange; WhatsApp-based citizen services; and the Mee Ticket platform. There are plans to introduce a Digital Assembly and a Digital Council as part of efforts to modernise governance through technology.
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