DIGIT Urban Stack is a set of Open APIs, services, and reference implementations, setup as a public good, to allow government entities, businesses, startups, and civil society to use a unique digital Infrastructure and build solutions for urban India at a large scale. It provides a set of open standards, specifications and documentation to create a level playing field and enable ecosystem players to innovate on the stack. As a public good, the platform is provided without profit or restriction to all members of society.

• Open Source - DIGIT is Open Source and has been built using the best in class Open Source technology stacks powering the most advanced companies in the world. DIGIT is able to provide the lowest total cost of ownership and helps ensure that governments retain strategic control of their systems and data.

• Mobile-Enabled - DIGIT has adopted a mobile-first approach, with robust mobile applications enabling citizens to easily access government services through their phones. Government officials and field workers are also empowered with mobile applications that enable them to deliver 24×7 governance with ease.

• Real-time Dashboards - DIGIT’s real-time dashboards provide governments with actionable insights on demand. Administrators and department heads are empowered with verified data that enables them to manage their work and budgets better. Field level employee reports enable effective performance management and ensure efficient usage of government resources.

Our Core Principles

DIGIT focuses on inclusion and is designed on the principle of enhancing both platform openness and choice for citizens. The platform uses open APIs and standards, creating a powerful framework to drive convergence across the multiple systems currently in use and to lower the barrier to entry for locally-developed solutions. Keeping in mind that most Indians use the internet through their phones, we follow and advocate a “mobile-first” approach, while supporting multi-channel access to accommodate diverse needs and preferences.

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DIGIT is India’s largest open-source platform for Urban Governance. It is built on OpenAPI (OAS 2.0) and provides API based access to a variety of urban/municipal services enabling state governments and city administrators to provide citizen services with relevant new services and also integrating the existing system into the platform and run seamlessly on any commercial/on-prem cloud infrastructure with scale and speed.

Key Architecture Highlights

• DIGIT is a microservices-based platform that is built to scale. Microservices are small, autonomous and developer-friendly services that work together.

• A big software or system can be broken down into multiple small components or services. These components can be designed, developed & deployed independently without compromising the integrity of the application.

• Parallelism in development: Microservices architectures are mainly business-centric.

• MicroServices have smart endpoints that process info and apply logic. They receive requests, process them, and generate a response accordingly.

• Decentralized control between teams, so that its developers strive to produce useful tools that can then be used by others to solve the same problems.

• MicroServices architecture allows its neighbouring services to function while it bows out of service. This architecture also scales to cater to its clients’ sudden spike in demand.

• MicroService is ideal for evolutionary systems where it is difficult to anticipate the types of devices that may be accessing our application.

Multi-layer Architecture

DIGIT follows Multilayer or n-tiered distributed architecture pattern. As seen in the illustration above there are different horizontal layers with some set of components eg. Data Access Layer, Infra Services, Business Services, different modules layers, client Apps and some vertical adapters. Every layer consists of a set of microservices. Each layer of the layered architecture pattern has a specific role and responsibility within the application.

• Layered architecture increases flexibility, maintainability, and scalability

• Multiple applications can reuse the components

• Parallelism

• Different components of the application can be independently deployed, maintained, and updated, on different time schedules

• Layered architecture also makes it possible to configure different levels of security to different components

• Layered architecture also helps users test the components independent of each other

Overview

Emptying of septic tank / Pit (Desludging) request can be created by the citizen online which will be processed by the ULB. The processed request will then be assigned to a particular desludging operator post payment of desludging charges by the citizen.

The desludging operator then completes the emptying task on the ground and transports the faecal sludge to the designated septage treatment plant where a plan operator updates the vehicle log and septage dumped at the plant.

Release Highlights

1. Citizen

   1. Create Emptying of septic tank/pit application

   2. View status of the application

   3. Make payment for an application

   4. Rate the service

2. Employee

   1. Create Emptying of septic tank/pit application

   2. Update application

   3. Make payment for an application

   4. Assign/Re-assign DSO for an application

   5. Complete request on behalf of DSO

3. Desludging operator

   1. Assign vehicle to a request

   2. Decline a request

   3. Complete request

4. FSTP Operator

   1. Update vehicle log

Release Features

Known Issues

None

Upcoming Release Features

• Dashboard and Reports

Reference Doc Links

Overview

Bill Amendment is a platform-level feature that can be used to create credit/ debit notes against a consumer for a configured service. Demand revision required due to out of system calculations i.e. tax exemptions, court case settlements, one-time settlement schemes can be performed using this feature.

Release Highlights

1. Workflow-based application approval system for better accountability of demand revision.

2. Artifact generation in the form of credit/debit note for record purposes

3. Auto application of note amount into latest or upcoming bills

Release Features

Known Issues

Upcoming Release Features

1. New UI for better accessibility

2. Application initiation from the citizen side

3. Extending this feature to deal with the current year and previous year items

Reference Doc Links