India’s Smart Cities Mission wins Platinum Icon in Digital India Awards 2022

The Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has won the Platinum Icon in the Digital India Awards 2022 for their initiative “DataSmart Cities: Empowering Cities through Data”.

The award was announced yesterday under the ‘Data Sharing and Use for Socio-Economic Development’ category.

The DataSmart Cities Initiative is a key step in creating a robust data ecosystem that enables evidence-based decision-making in cities. It aims to harness the power of data for better governance in India’s 100 Smart Cities.

Digital India Awards presents an opportunity to bring to the fore digital initiatives being adopted to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.

It is a prestigious National competition that seeks to encourage and honour innovative digital solutions by government entities in realising the Digital India vision.