Debabrata Nayak from Odisha has been appointed as the Chief Technology Officer at Digital India Corporation that spearheads the Digital India initiative.
Nayak joined Digital India after Nayak took voluntary retirement from National Informatics Centre (NIC), where he was a senior technical director, after which he joined Digital India. He has also served in National eGovernance Division (NeGD), a unit of Digital India till very recently on deputation.
Nayak was responsible for building popular government applications such as DigiLocker, National Data Exchange and for scaling up CoWIN.
In NeGD, Nayak was responsible for applications like Umang, Poshan Tracker for Anganwadi programme, among others as stated by reports.
