Goa Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant launched the MyGov Goa portal, on August 4 2020 in an online event making Goa join the MyGov Citizen Engagement Platform for enabling participative governance.
About MyGov (mygov.in)
- MyGov (mygov.in) is the Government of India’s (Ministry of Electronics & IT) citizen engagement and crowdsourcing platform.
- It aims to promote active citizen participation in governance and policymaking.
- Since its launch on 26th July 2014, MyGov has adopted multiple engagement methodologies like discussions, tasks, innovation challenges, polls, surveys, blogs, talks, quizzes and on-ground activities by innovatively using internet, mobile apps, IVRS, SMS and outbound dialing (OBD) technologies.
- MyGov user base has expanded to more than 1.25 Crores and millions of citizens engage with MyGov on its social media platforms. .
- In order to engage with citizens at the State level, MyGov has enabled state instances to crowdsource ideas and creative content for state specific initiatives in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) mode.
- 12 states had already launched their MyGov platforms State Instance, namely, Maharashtra, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Tripura, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
