India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) 2.0.

1st February, 2022 GOVERNANCE

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Context:

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.

Citizen Centric Services: Due to rising interdependencies, the lines between roles, jurisdictions, and public-private organisations are blurring, necessitating citizen-centric rather than organization-centric approaches to creating digital services.
Better management of operating cost: More logical IT investment planning, cost savings from reusable and interoperable systems, and speedier design of better architectures
Better experience: It means a more holistic and seamless experience for citizens across organisations. And it holds out the enormous prospect of innovation to the sector.
Benefit to all stakeholders: Government officials, as well as architects and system designers in the public and private sectors, will benefit from the InDEA 2.0 framework.

InDEA 2.0 presents a Federated Digital Identities paradigm that aims to reduce the number of digital identities required by citizens.
A citizen's many digital IDs, ranging from PAN and Aadhaar to driving licence and passport numbers, can be linked, stored, and accessed through a single unique ID under the new approach.
Citizens can use their digital ID "to access other third-party services through authentication and consented eKYC," according to the government.
It would also act as a key to a registry that would store all of the different state and central identities.
It enables governments and private-sector companies to create IT architectures that extend beyond their organisational borders, allowing them to provide customers with comprehensive and integrated services.

It was first conceived and designed in 2017 "with the goal of facilitating alignment of IT advances with government organisations' business visions."
IndEA provides a generic framework (based on TOGAF) that consists of a set of architectural reference models that may be turned into a Whole-of-Government Architecture for India, Ministries, States, Government Agencies, and other entities.
The IndEA framework is built on a federated architecture approach that understands the requirement to support both greenfield (new) and brownfield (current / legacy) eGovernment activities.

Documenting and communicating architecture best practises, both explicit and implicit
Assisting with the creation of enterprise architectures.
capturing important architectural features and their interrelationships
By establishing an audit procedure, we may provide the means for architecture governance.