NeGD and ITDA organize a Two-Day Workshop on OpenForge Platform in Dehradun
NeGD and ITDA organize a Two-Day Workshop on OpenForge Platform in Dehradun
Dehradun : The National e-Governance Division (NeGD), in collaboration with the Information Technology Development Agency (ITDA), Government of Uttarakhand, conducted a two-day workshop on the OpenForge platform on May 19th & 20th, 2025 at Hotel Aketa, Rajpur Road, Dehradun.
The workshop aimed to promote open-source collaboration, enhance transparency, and strengthen digital governance through hands-on training in using the OpenForge platform. More than 65 participants each day, including developers, software engineers, and project managers from over 50 departments of the Uttarakhand Government, actively took part in the sessions. The workshop served as a vital initiative to foster the use of modern development tools and encourage a collaborative ecosystem in government software projects.
OpenForge is India’s official open-source platform, developed under the Digital India initiative to encourage transparent, secure and reusable software development across e-Governance applications. It supports version control, project dashboards, issue tracking, CI/CD integration, and collaborative documentation.
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The workshop witnessed active involvement from departments such as ITDA, UPCL, PTCUL, State Tax, Agriculture, Livestock Dev. Board, Pollution Control Board, SCERT, NHM, Higher Education, Smart City Ltd, Labour, Ayush, and many others.
The event concluded with a Q&A session, feedback collection, and certificate distribution to all participants. This initiative reflects ITDA’s commitment in bolstering software development capacity in the state and aligns with NeGD’s broader vision of building a collaborative, transparent, and scalable digital public infrastructure.
By enabling government departments to harness platforms like OpenForge, the workshop represents a significant step forward in realizing the objectives of Digital India and creating a more interconnected, efficient, and open e-Governance ecosystem.