Jyotiraditya Scindia, the minister of communications, emphasised the significance of establishing guidelines and standards as India grows increasingly digital in order to safeguard its citizens from online fraud, deep fakes, and other problems. At the India Mobile Congress, he was participating in a panel discussion with content producers and tech influencers.
As he emphasised the significance of rules and guidelines established by organisations like the World Telecommunication Standardisation Assembly to prevent the misuse of technology, Jyotiraditya Scindia discussed the risks of deepfakes and individuals falling for online frauds.
“Technology and innovation always bring with them tremendous amounts of improvement and a lot of agility. But along with it, it must bring certain guardrails, certain standardisation such that it is not misused,” he said.
He emphasised the significance of rules and guidelines established by organisations like the World Telecommunication Standardisation Assembly to prevent the misuse of technology while discussing the risks of deepfakes and individuals falling for online scams.
In particular, Scindia asked influencers how the Department of Telecommunications might spread the word about its platforms, including Sanchar Saathi and Chakshu, which allow people to report calls and messages that are spam or scams.
“I do believe that the government’s role is to lay out the carriageway as well as the guardrails. Carriageway is your fibre, your telecom infrastructure. The guardrails are regulations, standardisation,” he said.
While the West may lead the way in innovation and technology, India will lead the way in content production both now and in the future, according to Scindia, who discussed how the democratisation of access to information is one of the largest revolutions in the world today.
“Today, content creation is a $30 billion enterprise that will be about close to $480 billion by 2030-2035. That is the kind of leap that is being enabled by this carriageway, this highway,” he said.
“Content has to be tailored specifically to our [Indians’] needs,” as he said that for traditional forms of media, the numbers for vernacular languages have always been higher for the numbers in English.
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