Thursday, February 20, 2014: J Satyanarayana, IAS, secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India, will inaugurate the fourth edition of Electronics for You Expo 2014. DeitY has yet again extended its support to the Expo, in recognition of the fact that the EFY Expo is turning out to be a major platform for government departments and industry associations to interact with the Indian electronics industry.
J Satyanarayana became secretary, DeitY, on 14 March, 2012. A member of the Indian Administrative Service (1977 batch), Andhra Pradesh cadre, Satyanarayana was Special Chief Secretary to the government of Andhra Pradesh before taking on this current assignment. During his various assignments in Andhra Pradesh, he has served as Principal Secretary Health, Medical & Family Welfare Department; Principal Secretary IT and Communications, and CEO of the National Institute for Smart Government (NISG).
With an MSc in Physics and an MBA from the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Satyanarayana has made innumerable contributions in the field of e-governance. As the founder of e-Seva, a one stop shop for citizen services, he was responsible for mentoring NISG as a Centre of Excellence in e-government consultancy and capacity building, leading to the formulation of e-governance and capacity building roadmaps for the state governments and union territories in India.
He was responsible for the conceptualisation and development of large e-government projects for various central and state government ministries, including the extremely successful MCA 21 for the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, e-Biz for the Ministry of Industries, the Passport Seva Project for the Ministry of External Affairs, ‘Bangalore One’ and e-Procurement for the government of Karnataka, and the Goa Broadband Network for the government of Goa. He has been instrumental in training the political leaders and policy makers on the concepts and principles of e-governance.
His books, titled, ‘e-Government, the science of the possible’ and ‘Managing Transformation: Objectives to Outcomes’ capture his wide experience in the field of e-governance and management. J Satyanarayana was honoured by the Council of Ministers of Andhra Pradesh by the passing of an extraordinary resolution, placing his services on record for the successful implementation of the CARD project, that involved the computerisation of the Registration and Stamps Department in the state, in 1998.
