{"id":370512,"date":"2026-08-27T10:17:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T04:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=370512"},"modified":"2026-08-27T22:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:59:06","slug":"pub-ad-optional-daily-brief-27-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pub-ad-optional-daily-brief-27-august-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Pub Ad Optional Daily Brief \u2013 27 \u2013 August \u2013 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><strong>Keyword of the Day | Government as a Platform (GaaP)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Government as a Platform means designing the State as a shared digital infrastructure on which different departments agencies and citizens can build and access public services.<\/p>\n<p>Tim O&#8217;Reilly popularised the idea of Government as a Platform arguing that government should provide foundational platforms and standards rather than trying to deliver every digital service itself.<\/p>\n<p>Thinker of the Day | Patrick Dunleavy<\/p>\n<p>Key Work: Digital Era Governance: IT Corporations, the State, and E-Government<\/p>\n<p>Views<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dunleavy argued that excessive fragmentation, outsourcing and quasi-markets under NPM created coordination problems and weakened the coherence of government.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>He identified three major trends in Digital Era Governance: Reintegration &#8211; Bringing fragmented government functions back together. Integrated government portals providing multiple services through a single platform.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Needs-Based Holism<\/p>\n<p>Organising services around citizens&#8217; needs rather than departmental boundaries. A citizen accessing multiple welfare services through a unified digital interface rather than approaching several departments.<\/p>\n<p>Digitalisation<\/p>\n<p>Using ICT, data and digital platforms to transform administrative processes. DigiLocker, UMANG and Aadhaar-enabled services.<\/p>\n<p>NPM<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Fragmentation<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Contracting-out<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Managerialism<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Market mechanisms Digital Era Governance<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Reintegration<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Holism<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Digitalisation India&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) reflects several elements of Dunleavy&#8217;s DEG: Aadhaar + UPI + DigiLocker + India Stack<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thus, digitalisation must be accompanied by rights, accessibility and<\/strong> <strong>Dunleavy&#8217;s Digital Era Governance marks a shift from the fragmented, market-oriented state of NPM towards reintegrated, holistic and digitally enabled government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pub Ad PYQ Vault | Day 34 | PYQ (2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cE-governance is not merely about computerisation of government departments but about transforming the relationship between government and citizens.\u201d Discuss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keyword of the Day | Government as a Platform (GaaP) Government as a Platform means designing the State as a shared digital infrastructure on which different departments agencies and citizens can build and access public services. Tim O&#8217;Reilly popularised the idea of Government as a Platform arguing that government should provide foundational platforms and standards&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pub-ad-optional-daily-brief-27-august-2026\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pub Ad Optional Daily Brief \u2013 27 \u2013 August \u2013 2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psir-optional","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}