G20 members see India's digital lead as way forward: Rajeev Chandrasekhar
digital economy ministers of the G20 nations have reached a consensus on the definition, framework and working principles for digital public infrastructure (DPI), minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said.
«India is now a case study, as a nation that employed and deployed technological tools for progress and growth. Countries that have lagged behind increasingly see this as a way to follow India's lead in DPIs, an open-source digital infrastructure, and use it to create the same impact that India has,» he said.
Chandrasekhar was briefing the media on the outcome of a meeting of the digital economy ministers of G20, which had happened in August.
He said the group of ministers had wide-ranging discussions on the importance of cybersecurity for businesses and why it was becoming an increasingly larger component of economic progress.
Though no concrete decisions were made on a common framework for global cybersecurity, there is ample awareness among countries that the issue needed to be given due importance in digital economies, he said.
The other focus area of the meeting, he said, was the need for digital skilling. The ministers, he said, also discussed the mobilisation of finances to help countries that have lagged behind 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 in partnering among themselves and with India on creating digitally ready, future-ready, skilled talent to deal with the challenges and opportunities of the coming decade,» he said.
