India’s “Mobile Seva Appstore” by Ministry of Information and Technology

It hosts some 965 live apps of several domains and categories of public services

• India has developed its first indigenously developed App Store called “Mobile Seva Appstore”
• The app store hosts some 965 live apps of several domains and categories of public services
• This Indian App Store will be available for free of cost in the initial phases

Highlights of Government’s Mobile seva

• Mobile Seva is an innovative initiative launched by MeitY and implemented by CDAC to enable all Government departments and agencies at the Centre, State and Local levels in the country to deliver their services through various channels of mobile such as SMS, IVRS, USSD, Mobile Application and AppStore
• It is a centrally hosted cloud based mobile enablement platform, which allows the departments to expeditiously start offering their services through mobile devices anywhere in India, without having to invest heavily in creating their separate mobile platforms

Highlights of Mobile Seva AppStore

• Mobile Seva App Store is a government owned mobile application hosting platform
• It has been created to provide Indian mobile application developers a hosting platform their mobile application developed for delivery of public services through mobile devices
• The Mobile Seva AppStore will be based upon service oriented architecture and cloud based technologies using open standards as far as practicable. Mobile Seva AppStore’ is India’s first indigenously developed AppStore with a very wide reach amongst the people. Central, State and UT Ministries/ Departments are already part of this platform
• The Mobile Seva AppStore is available at https://apps.mgov.gov.in
• The government Department/private Developers can host mobile application, which are related to delivering/providing government and other public services related to health, education, agriculture, financial, online payments, electoral services, social welfare, food, transport, energy, etc
• Users can download applications from Mobile Seva AppStore for accessing various government/public services anytime from anywhere
• On the platform, the government Department or the private Developers can host their mobile application for the delivery of the government and other public services related to health, education, agriculture, online payments, financial, electoral services, social welfare, transport, food and energy

The objectives of AppStore

• The App store focuses on providing Government and public services apps on this trusted environment.
• One Stop Store for of Govt. Applications & Public services
• Developing a homegrown made-in-India app store
• Hosting Mobile Application for domains such as Health, Education, Agriculture, online payments, Electoral, Judiciary, Social Welfare, Food & Supply, Transport, Energy which are related to public services

Mobile Seva AppStore has the following features

• Hosting Application state and categories wise.
• Search/filter applications based upon different criteria
• Provide information about an application
• Uploading and Downloading of apps are free of cost and hassle free.
• Only verified and signed APK files can be uploaded on the AppStore.
• Testing before publishing
• Updates facility

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