The Ministry of Electronics & IT has already said that open source adoption was necessary to support the government's goal to transform India into a "digitally empowered society and a knowledge economy". It has added that the country had always advocated the use of open standards and open source technologies in the public sector. The Indian government spends significant amount of money per year on software licences and maintenance. We see Government increasingly use ‘open source’ and it has already started to disseminate more information and offer more services online these days. The Government initiative of Digital India demands that open source be used more widely not just to save costs and time but also to ensure implementation of some of the ambitious plans effectively.

The Government of India has encouraged the adoption of this technology in the Digital India initiative and this has further encouraged the CIOs of enterprises and other government organizations to make a move towards Open Source technology. The rise of digital transformation in India has pushed the adoption of Open Source both by enterprises and government. According to a research, the Open Source Services market will be worth more than $30 billion by 2022. Open Source platform offers cost efficiency, scalability, innovation, rapid deployment, security and much more so it is the first choice for Government of India to leverage the digital transformation initiative which is presently going on in the country.

The primary goal of employing open source in government is also to facilitate the transfer of data as smoothly as possible. Open-standards proponents say that this approach would lead to more innovation within government and better citizen services. The forum analysed the success stories that have been achieved and what are the real challenges that might be slowing down the growth.

SPEAKERS
Shri Vivek Banzal Director (CFA) Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.	Shri Golok Kumar Simli Chief Technology Officer, Passport Seva Ministry of External Affairs	Shri Sunil Kumar Deputy Director General National Informatics Centre (NIC)	Shri Debabrata Nayak Project Director (Open Source Collaboration) & Addl. Director, Digital Locker National e-Governance Division (NeGD)
Shri Anand Pande Senior Vice President & CISO Goods & Services Tax Network (GSTN)	Mr. Harnath Babu Chief Information Officer KPMG India Private Limited	Mr. RahulKrishna Gupta Senior Solutions Architect, SUSE GSI Alliance SUSE	Mr. Mandar Kulkarni Director - Cloud Solution Architect Team (OCP), Microsoft
Mr. Saurabh Jain Vice President Paytm	Mr. Sanjeet Sen Director - Product Marketing, Open Source on Azure Microsoft	Mr. Mohit Rampal Cyber Security Evangelist & Consultant RamoGnee Technologies	Col. Inderjit Singh Chief Cyber Security Officer Vara Technology Pvt Ltd
Mr. Sudhir Aggarwal Chief Strategy Officer Silver Touch Technologies