India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) framework

Under the overarching vision of Digital India Programme, 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, which match with those of private sector and other e-Governance delivering Nations across the world. The United Nations e-Governance survey emphasized on a whole-of-government approach, policy integration and use of Big Data Analytics to provide better governance to citizens. These trends require breaking of sectoral barriers and silos & re-architecting the Government as a single enterprise. Accordingly, a working group was constituted by Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification (STQC), MeitY under the leadership of former IT Secretary, Shri J. Satyanarayana, to develop the India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) framework.

IndEA provides a generic framework comprising of a set of architecture reference models, which can be converted into a Whole-of-Government Architecture for India, Ministries, States, Govt. Agencies etc. The IndEA framework is based on federated architecture approach and recognizes the need to accommodate both greenfield (new) and brownfield (existing / legacy) e-Governance initiatives.

India Enterprise Architecture aims at the following:

1. Documenting and sharing explicit and implicit architecture best practices
2. Providing guidance in the development of enterprise architectures
3. Capturing key elements of architecture and inter-relationships between them
4. Providing the means for architecture governance by enabling an audit process
5. Enabling adoption of standards based on common understanding

Along with the IndEA framework, an IndEA Adoption Guide has also been prepared. The IndEA adoption guide summarizes IndEA and other pioneering enterprise architecture initiatives in the government sector to elaborate the way IndEA can be used by Central Ministries, State Governments, Government Agencies and Public Sector Enterprises who wish to re-architect their enterprises for integrated delivery of digital services.

For details, pl. click on the following links:
     IndEA Framework 5.8 MB
     IndEA Adoption Guide 3.28 MB