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IANS | 01 May, 2023
The government will meet policy experts and other stakeholders for the
second round of consultations on May 3 to draft the much-anticipated
Digital India Act (DIA) which is expected in the next 2-3 months.
In March, the Ministry of Electronics and Information
Technology (Meity) held the first round of pre-drafting consultations
with stakeholders on the Digital India Act that aims to catalyse India's
ambition of being in the leading pack of nations that would shape the
future technologies.
According to sources, since the first
meeting, the IT ministry received few suggestions and now aims to again
meet industry representatives, lawyers, social media intermediaries,
consumer groups among others and receive more suggestions to make the
DIA more inclusive.
For the first time, design, architecture and
goals of a Bill are being discussed with stakeholders at its
pre-introduction stage as part of the Digital India Dialogues.
According
to Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Electronics and
IT, the proposed Bill aims to help India achieve the goal of becoming a
trillion-dollar digital economy and be a significant trusted player in
the Global Value Chains for digital products, devices, platforms and
solutions.
The tech ecosystem in general and Internet in
particular has evolved significantly after the Information Technology
Act (IT Act) came into being in 2000, and the new law has to be
evolvable and consistent with changing market trends, disruption in
technologies, and keep in mind protection of digital nagriks from user
harm.
"Internet that began as a force of good has today become
vulnerable to various types of complex user harms like catfishing, cyber
stalking, cyber trolling, gaslighting, phishing, revenge porn,
cyber-flashing, dark web, women and children, defamation,
cyber-bullying, doxing, salami slicing, etc and there is an urgent need
for a specialised and dedicated adjudicatory mechanism for online civil
and criminal offences," the Minister had said in March.
Some of
the principles for the proposed legislation are managing the
complexities of the internet and rapid expansion of the types of
intermediaries addressing the risks of emerging technologies, protecting
citizen rights, managing and setting guardrails for the varied
intermediaries on the internet.
After the minister's
presentation, he had an interactive discussion with the various
stakeholders who included industry representatives, lawyers,
Intermediaries, consumer groups amongst others and invited their inputs
on it.
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