As part of India’s G20 presidency, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Communications, and Railways, launched the “Stay Safe Online” campaign and the “G20 Digital Innovation Alliance” (G20-DIA).
Shri Amitabh Kant, G20 Sherpa, dignitaries from Union Ministries and Departments, representatives of Embassies and Consulates, and invited guests from the government, industry associations, social media platforms, start-ups, and civil society organisations attended the event.
During previous presidencies, MeitY, the Nodal Ministry for the G20 Digital Economy Working Group (DEWG), represented India in numerous working groups and Ministerial sessions. MeitY will focus on three priority areas during India’s G20 presidency, namely Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), Cyber Security, and Digital Skill Development, in addition to the Stay Safe Online campaign and the DIA programme under the DEWG. MeitY aspires to carry forward the vision of the global digital economy’s digital transformation for public service delivery through innovation and a future-ready digitally skilled workforce in a secure cyber environment.
“India believes in the philosophy of inclusion,” said Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw on the occasion. India’s population size, as well as open source ‘public digital platforms’ like UPI and Aadhaar, have resulted in economic and social inclusion, as well as spurred innovation. The two campaigns launched today are humanitarian in nature.”
In his address to the august gathering, Shri Amitabh Kant stated, “Solutions emerging from India will not be solutions for the world’s 1.4 billion people, but for the world’s next 5 billion people who will move from poverty to middle class.”
About Stay Safe Online Campaign
The goal of the ‘Stay Safe Online Campaign’ is to raise awareness among citizens about staying safe online in the age of social media platforms and rapid adoption of digital payments. The exponential growth in the number of internet users in India, combined with the rapidly evolving technology landscape, has created new challenges.
This campaign will make citizens of all ages, particularly children, students, women, senior citizens, the disabled, teachers, faculty, Central/State Government officials, and others, aware of the cyber risk and how to deal with it. To reach a wider audience, the campaign will be carried out in English, Hindi, and local languages.
The campaign entails disseminating multilingual awareness content in the form of infographics, cartoon stories, puzzles, short videos, and so on, as well as amplifying it through extensive use of the MyGov website (https://www.mygov.in/staysafeonline) and prominent social media platforms. In addition, throughout the year, various publicity, promotion, and outreach activities will be carried out through print, electronic, and social media to reinforce the stay safe online message. Furthermore, collaboration and involvement of key stakeholders such as Union Ministries/Departments, industry associations/partners, NGOs, civil society organisations, and so on would be sought in order to broaden the campaign’s reach.
About G20 Digital Innovation Alliance (G20-DIA)
The goal of the G20 Digital Innovation Alliance (G20-DIA) is to identify, recognise, and facilitate the adoption of innovative and impactful digital technologies developed by startups from G20 countries as well as invited non-member countries that can address humanity’s needs in the critical sectors of Agri-tech, Health-tech, Ed-tech, Fin-tech, Secured Digital Infrastructure, and Circular Economy.
Startup products in the six themes mentioned above that are enabled by Digital Public Goods Infrastructure can have a global population-scale impact, reduce the digital
divide, and enable sustainable and inclusive techno-socio-economic development.
The G20 Digital Innovation Alliance (G20-DIA) summit, which will take place in Bangalore on the sidelines of the Digital Economy Working Group (DEWG) meeting, will be a multi-day event in which top nominated startups from all G20 countries and non-member invited countries will showcase their solutions to a global community of investors, mentors, corporates, and other government stakeholders.
The participation of innovators, entrepreneurs, startups, corporations, investors, mentors, and other ecosystem stakeholders will result in the platform that India plans to offer through the G20 Digital Innovation Alliance being accepted quickly (G20-DIA). The G20-DIA Summit will bring together key players in the innovation ecosystem from both G20 member countries and invited non-member countries to recognise and support startups developing cutting-edge digital solutions across six themes that bridge the digital divide between different segments of humanity and advance the global economy.
