DIGITAL INNOVATION ALLIANCE PROGRAMME
News: IT
Minister launches G-20 campaigns for online safety, digital innovation
What's in the news?
● Inviting
the world to make use of the ‘India
Stack’ (India’s set of open APIs and digital public goods) and announcing
that India would soon also similarly open up its telecom stack, Union Minister
of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw launched the Stay
Safe Online campaign and the Digital Innovation Alliance (DIA) programme, which
G-20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant lauded as among the first-ever programmes to be
launched worldwide as a G-20 initiative.
Digital Innovation Alliance (DIA) Programme:
● The
G20-DIA Summit will bring together the key players in the innovation ecosystem from both G20 member countries and the invited
non-member countries in order to recognize
and support startups creating cutting-edge digital solutions in the six themes
that bridge the digital divide between different segments of humanity and
advance the world economy.
Objective:
● The
DIA is meant to “unite the innovation ecosystems” of G-20 countries and nine
invitee countries to identify, recognize and support the start-ups developing
innovative digital solutions.
Members:
● G-20
Nations and 9 invitee countries.
Venue:
● The
G20 Digital Innovation Alliance (G20–DIA) summit will be held in Bangalore on the sidelines of the
Digital Economy Working Group (DEWG) meeting.
Participants:
● The
DIA programme will have 174 start-ups
from member countries and invitee countries.
Sectors:
● The
start-ups aims for digital solutions in six
key sectors such as
○ Edtech
○ Healthtech
○ Agritech
○ Fintech
○ Secured
digital infrastructure and
○ Circular
economy.
Other takeaways:
● The
entries will be judged by a diverse jury, drawn from academia, corporates,
Ministers and investors, at the end of which the top three innovations in each
sector will be awarded.
● The
event would also provide an opportunity for interactions with stakeholders,
esteemed panel discussions and investor connect.
Stay Safe Online Campaign:
● The
Stay Safe Online campaign intends to raise
awareness about cyber risks and the need for cyber hygiene in an
increasingly digitizing world.
● The
Ministry released a video for this campaign, which asks citizens to share
instances of cyber safety online with a hashtag for wider reach and intends to
reach all groups of citizens in urban
and rural India.
● The
video is also being translated in all
U.N. languages and languages of all G-20 countries and invitee countries for
global reach.
Bhasini:
● The
government is also working on Bhashini - an AI-based language translator - intended to bridge the language
barrier keeping in line with the vision of inclusive digital transformation.