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New Delhi : Goa CM Dr Pramod Sawant launched the MyGov Goa portal on August 4, 2020, at an online event making Goa join the MyGov Citizen Engagement Platform for enabling participative governance.
“MyGov Goa portal will go a long way in strengthening public participation in the governance process and allow the state to connect to nationwide audience allowing citizens to participate in different forums and give their view/inputs on government policies/schemes,” Dr Sawant said at the launch.
MyGov (mygov.in), the Government of India’s citizen engagement and crowdsourcing platform, aims to promote active citizen participation in governance and policymaking. Since its launch on July 26, 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 crore and millions of citizens engage with MyGov on its social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, LinkedIn and Twitter. MyGov has also recently launched its channels on new age Apps like Sharechat and Roposo. MyGov’s Helpdesk on WhatsApp and Newsdesk on Telegram has greatly augmented Govts communications on COVID19, according to a PIB release.
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. Twelve 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.
Jennifer Monserrate, Minister of Information Technology, Government of Goa, expressed her views on MyGov Goa and stated that MyGov Goa portal will encourage people of the state to share their thoughts, ideas, and suggestions with the Government in areas related to various policies, programmes, schemes etc.
Abhishek Singh, CEO, MyGov India, spoke about how MyGov had become a preferred platform for promoting active participation of citizens in Governance and development. Citizens may enroll on www.goa.mygov.in and share opinions, ideas and suggestions with the Government.