Heading potential digital opportunities, EAM Jaishankar calls for collective global action to control cyber terrorism

New Delhi, November 13: "Digital domain, technologies drive democracy and development programmes for large developing country like India", claimed EAM S Jaishankar calling for effective and extended governance for powering India's knowledge and innovation economy.

 

While addressing the delegates at the Paris Peace Forum, he said that India was excited about the opportunities, but also concerned about threats from the cyberspace. "An example is unimpeded growth of terrorism related activities, incl extremist propaganda; terror financing; illicit trafficking and radicalisation in cyberspace", he said.

 

 

"We need to arrive at a global understanding if not a global regulation, in order that the cyberspace remains open, safe and secure and for that multilateralism is more essential than ever before", he affirmed adding that the cyberspace and digital technologies have been a real force of economic, social, political, industrial, even behavioural transformation.

“It operates in national boundaries but has a borderless nature. It offers limitless opportunities but also exposes us to an uncharted territory of considerable challenges,” he added.

 

India launched the ‘Digital India’ initiative four years ago with the central notion of Digital infrastructure be available as a utility to all citizens. The world’s largest 1.2 billion strong biometrics based digital Unique ID programme; 1.2 billion mobile phone connections; 1 billion bank accounts; and over 500 million internet connections have created a massive matrix that converges growth with governance and mainstreams all the demographies into national development.