Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar met UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and discussed future collaborations and partnerships between India and Britain in the innovation and technology sectors.
Chandrasekhar said both India and the UK want to dramatically expand the innovation economy. Chandrasekhar said, “We want to take the digital economy to be 25 percent of the total economy. The UK government also wants to expand the slice of that pie too.”
Chandrasekhar also attended a session on the Future of Digital at the IGF where he spoke on the rapid digitalisation and the need for safeguarding ‘Digital Nagriks’ against user harm. He called for collaboration among counties, especially like-minded democracies, to ensure safety and trust for the users in the boundaryless domain of cyberspace.
He added, “The data economy has created an awareness that something needs to be done for the safety of user citizens. We as policymakers, have to look at data from the prism of user safety. In the growth of the internet and big tech influence, we are at an inflection point.”
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