Outlining key achievements of India during the #G20 Digital Economy Ministers’ Meeting, Union minister of state for tech, Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Tuesday said that it was for the first time that a global consensus was reached upon creating the Digital Public Infrastructures.
The minister said that India’s G20 presidency marks “global consensus on Digital Public Infrastructures #DPIs,” Chandrasekhar said.
According to Chandrasekhar, India was a case study as a nation that has deployed technological tools for progress and growth. “This has been increasingly seen by countries that have been lagged behind as a way to follow India’s lead in taking the India DPI and open source digital infrastructure to create the impact,” Union MoS said.
The Union minister said that the three key technology areas in focus not just include Digital Public Infrastructure but also stresses upon cyber security in the digital economy and development of digital skills.
“After the several rounds of #G20 Digital Economy Ministers’ Meeting there has been an extreme awareness building and consensus around three topics that were in the agenda- 1. Digital Public Infrastructure, 2. Cyber Security in the Digital Economy and 3. Digital Skills” Union MoS told press while answering abour the outcomes of #G20 Digital Economy Ministers’ Meeting.
Chandrashekar also maintained that India’s approach towards new age technology paves the way for new demarcation of technology that brings the access of information and innovations. According to the Union minister, this would also widen the e-governance ambit with access to tech, open source, consumer driven and non-intermediated “all part of framework that world hopefully will embrace & move forward,” Chandrashekar said.
While speaking earlier on the recently ratified by the Parliament, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, the Union minister said that Centre intends to give industry a much needed space to align with new rules. The minister did not announce any timelines for this but indicated that it might be stretched to about half of the year.
The Union MoS maintained that the migration to the new regime would not lead to any disruption. “We may give a certain amount of time for platforms to migrate, to have consent managers, redesign their consent form, make sure data processing is aligned to the act…we will not give them 2 years. It will be some number, six months or something like that so that transition is orderly,” Chandrasekhar said.
