Chief Minister and Ministers to use iPads

When AP Cabinet meets here on September 15, it will be totally paperless and that will be registered as a historic event with Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Ministers using iPads. Sources said the trial run of the eCabinet, a powerful tool that is expected to streamline the decision-making process, was completed successfully under the watchful eyes of Mr. Naidu.

For the first time it will be used in the Cabinet meeting and help Ministers to conduct and review minutes entirely without paper.

A self-hosted and self-managed file sharing system, eCabinet is being implemented using FileCloud Tool that enables sharing and synchronisation of files from multiple client devices.

An official involved in the project told The Hindu that it could be a watershed in the e-governance history of India as Cabinet Ministers walk into the meeting wielding iPads and use them, devoid of any paper.

He said the eCabinet system functioned similar to a Dropbox, the popular file sharing and syncing tool in the web, but in a private cloud environment. It provides secure access to data through multiple client devices such as desktops, laptops and iPads as well as mobile access client systems like iOS, Android and Windows. Word, Excel, Power Point, Text types of documents can be stored, shared and synchronised. The eCabinet is configured to use open source database, ideally suited for managing all types of documents. In the current configuration, 30 users can access eCabinet through VPN from Internet, providing a minimum storage space of 2GB per user which can be scaled up.

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