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Indian banks looking for a bigger stake in digital India via own QR codes

Lenders are leveraging partnerships with fintechs and technology service providers to manage their apps and QR codes

New verification features may add to social media platforms' woes

According to sources, the government is likely to propose provisions to make social media platforms liable for content posted by non-verified user accounts, as part of the upcoming Digital India Bill

India's frequent internet shutdowns hurt its most impoverished, says report

Officials often resort to such closures to stem protests, check communal violence, maintain law and order and even to prevent cheating in school and university exams

DPI framework future of digital governance for India: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

The digital economy is a powerful opportunity with digital public infrastructure as a key enabler, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Monday adding India has demonstrated that DPIs are a "force multiplier" for the population that wants to progress and develop. Speaking at the Global DPI Summit in Pune, the Minister of State for IT and Electronics said DPI framework is the future of digital governance for India and the world. "Over USD 400 billion have been transferred from the government to the citizens of India over the last five years without any leakage and without any intimidation, that is the power of DPI and that is the power that India has demonstrated," Chandrasekhar said. He added: "The partnership that we are today proposing around the DPI is truly a win-win' for all those nations around the world that in a sense have lagged behind in digitalisation". The Minister termed the digital economy as a powerful opportunity and DPIs as an enabler of that powerful ...

India a case study for nations to create digital public infrastructure: MoS

Chandrasekhar emphasised that it's important for governments to formally recognise that cybersecurity threats hamper innovation, trust in essential services and consumer confidence

DIA to look at guardrails for AI via prism of user harm: Chandrasekhar

The upcoming Digital India framework will have a chapter devoted to emerging technologies, particularly Artificial Intelligence, and how to regulate them through the 'prism of user harm', Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said asserting that India will do "what is right" to protect its digital nagriks and keep internet safe and trusted for its users. The Minister of State for IT and Electronics - who is leading a massive exercise involving wide consultation with stakeholders to frame the draft Digital India Act that will replace the two-decade-old IT Act - said India has its own views on "guardrails" that are needed in the digital space. His comments assume significance as ChatGPT creator OpenAI, led by CEO Sam Altman, has acknowledged the need to regulate AI technology, and proposed a new international authority for regulating artificial intelligence (AI). Asked about Altman's recent views, Chandrasekhar said, "Sam Altman is a smart man and has his own ideas of how AI should be .

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Special provisions for safeguarding children likely in Digital India Bill

Draft to be released by first week of June

Digital India Act's draft to be open for discussion by June 7: IT Minister

The government aims to achieve the goal of a digital economy to cross $1 trillion by 2025-26

SCO digital ministers adopt India's proposal to adopt digital public infra

India also shared its plans to invest $3 billion to take mobile connectivity to villages in remote areas and $5 billion to bring broadband connectivity to all 250,000 Gram Panchayats

Digital India's two realities: A yawning gap between tech use & tech skills

Lack of tech skills in Indian youth a worry as labour markets brace for a tech-driven churn

Digital India's two realities: A yawning gap between tech use & tech skills

Lack of tech skills in Indian youth a worry as labour markets brace for a tech-driven churn

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Digital India Act: Unravelling regulatory tangles in e-commerce space

Ambitious proposal for an overarching Digital India Act that aims to improve ease of doing business for rapidly expanding sector likely to face challenges of overlapping ministerial responsibilities

Govt to meet stakeholders again to make Digital India Act more inclusive

For the first time, design, architecture and goals of a Bill are being discussed with stakeholders at its pre-introduction stage as part of the Digital India Dialogues

Ethical hacking training institutes log into Digital India dreams

Rise in cyberattacks, shortage of cybersecurity experts is spawning an ecosystem

MeitY calls the second meeting on the Digital India Act on May 3

However, the ministry has received very few suggestions in over one-and-half months after the meeting, said a source aware of the matter

Digital Public Infrastructure to benefit both public, private sectors: FM

She said that digital payments and consent-based data sharing have helped India to improve governance, bring ease of doing business and enable ease of living for the people of the country

Experts caution overlap in DIB legislation, fear regulatory overreach

In order to remove any confusion, industry experts want the government to step in and create a sync between various legislations

Cryptocurrency to FTA: Nirmala Sitharaman discusses range of issues in US

Sitharaman said that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) needs to be more progressive and must give space to countries that have something different to say