G20 digital economy ministers agree on broad framework for DPI, working principles: MoS IT
digital public infrastructure (DPI), the minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Tuesday.
“India is now a case study — as a nation that employed and deployed technological tools for progress and growth. Countries that have lagged increasingly see this as a way to follow India’s lead in DPIs, an open-source digital infrastructure, and using it to create the same impact that India has,” he said.
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Though no concrete decisions were taken on a common framework for global cybersecurity, there is ample awareness among countries that the issue needs its due importance in digital economies, he said.
The other focus area of the meeting, he said, was the need for digital skilling. The ministers also discussed the mobilisation of finances for countries that have lagged in the digitisation process.
The global DPI Repository, where the open-source technology for DPIs will be made available to the world, will be manned, and managed by India voluntarily, Chandrasekhar said.
“Many countries are interested
