India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) 2.0.

In News, 

• The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has proposed a new model of “Federated Digital Identities” under the India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) 2.0.

Objectives and need of  InDEA 2.0

• The boundaries between functions, jurisdictions and public-private organizations are getting blurred due to increasing interdependencies and the need was felt for citizen-centric approaches to designing digital services, as opposed to organization-centric approaches. 
• More rational planning of IT investments, cost savings due to reusable and interoperable systems, and better architectures designed faster.
• To the citizens, it means a more holistic and seamless experience across organizations. And to the industry, it holds out the immense promise of innovation.
• The InDEA 2.0 framework is useful to the policymakers in the government, and architects and system designers in the public and private sector. 

About InDEA 2.0 

• InDEA 2.0 proposes a model of Federated Digital Identities that seeks to optimize the number of digital identities that a citizen needs to have. 
  • Under the new model,a citizen’s multiple digital IDs — from PAN and Aadhaar to driving licence and passport numbers — can be interlinked, stored, and accessed via one unique ID.
    • Citizens can use the digital ID “for availing other third-party services through authentication and consented eKYC”.
  • It would also serve as a key to a registry where all different state and Central identities could be stored. 

• It enables Governments and private sector enterprises to design IT architectures that can span beyond their organizational boundaries and enable the delivery of holistic and integrated services to the customers. 

• It consists of a set of principles and architectural patterns that inform, guide, and enable the development of large digital systems, with a focus on the public sector
• It promotes the evolution of digital ecosystems.

Significance 

• It would eliminate the need for a repeated verification process.The model empowers the citizen by putting her in control of these identities and providing her with the option of choosing which one to use for what purpose.

• It enables establishing such a right balance in all the ongoing architectural initiatives and accelerates the realization of the vision of Digital India.

Criticisms

• Critics may raise issues with digital security, and an umbrella identity could pose more risks towards exposing critical data.

Source: IE