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Figure 49: GovStack Development Phases

• Architecture blueprint
• Business requirements and technical specifications for 10-12 Building Blocks
Phase i: • Accompanying open API conditions
Reference(s)

• Launch and execution of procurement tender to solicit service in delivering a first
GovStack model
• Starting w. survey market capabilities: see RFI call
Phase ii: • Repurposed resources from procurement effort into references to support similar
Procurement exercise in partner countries

• Functional software environment demonstrating models / approaches to implementing
GovStack by addressing multiple cross-sectoral use cases
PHASE iii: • Guidance and manuals for reuse
Platform

7.6 A reference to India’s government enterprise architecture, (IndEA) and National
Urban Innovation Stack (NUIS)

In 2018, India published its government enterprise architecture, IndEA, which applied the whole-
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of-government approach to delivering common public sector services.

Under the overarching vision of the Digital India Programme, the Government of India aims to
make all government services digitally accessible in an integrated manner to citizens through
multiple channels like web, mobile and common service delivery outlets. Also, users have become
tech-savvy and now demand faster delivery of services that match those of private sector and
other e-Governance-delivering nations across the world. The United Nations e-Governance survey
emphasized a whole-of-government approach, policy integration and use of Big Data analytics to
provide better governance to citizens. These trends require the breaking of sectoral barriers and
silos and re-architecting the government as a single enterprise. Accordingly, a working group was
constituted by Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification (STQC), MeitY to develop the India
Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) framework.

IndEA provides a generic framework (based on The Open Group Architecture Framework – TOGAF)
comprising of a set of architectural reference models, which can be converted into a Whole-of-

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