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India will have data protection bill to be ready by December 2017

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Privacy in India is a great step by the government. In an era of Digitalization, it was a need of an hour to implement this policy. Indian market is most vulnerable country towards data breaching & cyber security. Recently we have seen major cases ruling the cyber security & data breaching in India. Due to immense migration towards technology utilization this landmark ruling on privacy by Supreme Court will give a control over user data  Union Minister of Electronics & Information Technology and Law & Justice, Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a press conference on Supreme Court's ruling holding privacy as a Fundamental Right and the internet firms such as Google, Facebook, Uber, OLA and along with the country’s young start-up industrythat had access to user data needed to respect the law of the land..... Read More

India to be a $1 trillion digital economy in 4 years: Ravi Shankar Prasad

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A high level meeting was organised in the national capital to understand on how to achieve a US $1 trillion digital economy within four years by creating affordable technology and an inclusive environment. Besides the Union Minister of Law and Justice of India, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad and Union Minister of State, Ministry of Law and Justice, Shri P P Choudhary, the meeting on building India's digital economy saw the presence of Indian technology giants and leaders.  There were industry experts like R Chandrashekhar President – Nasscom; Rajan Anandan, VP & Managing Director - Google India; Rishad Premji, Chief Strategy Officer – Wipro; C P Gurnani, MD and CEO- Tech Mahindra; A P Hota, Managing Director & CEO of National Payments Corporation of India; Rajendra S Pawar, Chairman & Co-Founder - NIIT Group, Subho Ray, President - Internet and Mobile Association of India and Kavin Bharti Mittal, CEO - Hike Messenger, among others. The minister spoke on how the go...

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad foresees opportunity for e-com in India

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad foresees opportunity for e-com in India Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology (IT) Ravi Shankar Prasad, at an ASSOCHAM event, has predicted a vast opportunity for e-commerce in India, which can have a couple of players like Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba if the Government is successful in the rollout of its Digital India project. “As Flipkart is growing so big, as we see the success of Alibaba and as we see the aspirational India evolving with great enthusiasm particularly in rural areas, I see a vast opportunity for e-commerce,” said Prasad while inaugurating the 10th national Summit on “E-governance & Digital India: Minimum Government, Maximum Governance”, organized by the Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India. “I see almost an explosion of various kind of availability of services through e-commerce, particularly you will have warehouses,” said Union...