{"id":249808,"date":"2023-06-27T20:32:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=249808"},"modified":"2023-08-31T16:21:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T10:51:19","slug":"laying-the-foundation-for-a-future-ready-digital-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/laying-the-foundation-for-a-future-ready-digital-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Laying the foundation for a future-ready digital India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cLaying the foundation for a future-ready digital India\u201d <\/strong>published in The<\/strong> Hindu<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>on 2<\/strong>7<\/strong>th June 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Government policies and issues arising out of implementation<\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>Issues regarding Digital Technologies<\/p>\n

News- <\/strong>.The Ministry of Electronics and IT has been actively organising consultations on the proposed \u201cDigital India Bill\u201d to build conceptual alignment on a new law that will replace India\u2019s 23-year-old Information Technology (IT) Act.<\/p>\n

What are the issues in the present IT Act?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The definition of Social Media Intermediaries\u201d (SMIs) is so broad<\/strong> that it can encompass a variety of services such as video communications, matrimonial websites, email and even online comment sections on websites.<\/p>\n

The rules also lay down stringent obligations for most intermediaries<\/strong>, such as a 72-hour timeline <\/strong>for responding to law enforcement asks.<\/p>\n

By virtue of being licensed, intermediaries are treated like conventional social media platforms <\/strong>not only adds to their cost of doing business<\/strong> but also exposes them to greater liability without meaningfully reducing risks presented by the Internet.<\/p>\n

The European Union\u2019s Digital Services Act <\/strong>is probably one of the most developed frameworks for us to follow.<\/p>\n

What are <\/strong>Focus areas for India<\/strong>?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

What we need, is a classification framework<\/strong> that creates a few defined categories<\/strong>, requires intermediaries to undertake risk assessments<\/strong> and uses that information to bucket them into relevant categories.<\/p>\n

One way to do this would be to exempt micro and small enterprises<\/strong>, and caching and conduit services from any major obligations.<\/p>\n

Another way is to clearly distinguish communication services<\/strong> (where end-users interact with each other) from other forms of intermediaries <\/strong>(such as search engines and online-marketplaces).<\/p>\n

Alternative approaches<\/strong> to curbing virality, such as circuit breakers to slow down content,<\/strong> could also be considered.<\/p>\n

M<\/strong>etrics for risk assessment and appropriate thresholds<\/strong> could help create a regulatory environment that helps achieve the government\u2019s policy goal of creating a safer Internet ecosystem<\/strong>, while also allowing businesses to thrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cLaying the foundation for a future-ready digital India\u201d published in The Hindu\u00a0 on 27th June 2023. Syllabus: GS2- Government policies and issues arising out of implementation Relevance: Issues regarding Digital Technologies News- .The Ministry of Electronics and IT has been actively organising consultations on the proposed \u201cDigital… Continue reading Laying the foundation for a future-ready digital India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[300,212,10498],"class_list":["post-249808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-governance","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700778864,"cached_date":1703412333},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}