Abhishek Singh, CEO, MyGov and President & CEO (Additional Charge) National e-Governance Division (NeGD), Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India, said that in order to be safe while using internet, we require a coordinated effort by all concerned stakeholders.
"Only laws will not be enough. This will require joint efforts by the industry, civil society and together it can be achieved. Awareness creation is necessary amongst stakeholders," Singh said at FICCI's Safer Internet Initiative. The conference themed "Together for a safer and better internet", was organised by FICCI.
Abhishek Singh highlighted that the government is taking a series of steps to ensure that government digital systems are safe and secure. "This would require building secure systems, ensuring right audits are done, and public data handling systems are made as secure as possible," he added.
Singh also laid special emphasis on cyber training of the government officials and said that government has already launched 'Cyber Surakshit Bharat Scheme' to impart trainings to officials. "Under this program, almost 600 government officials are already trained and there is plan of training another 600 officials to ensure all government departments wherever their services are being offered are handled in a much safer and better way. An online course for training 1,000 police personnel in Cyber Law & Cyber Forensics is being launched in partnership with NLIU Bhopal," he added.
Virat Bhatia, Chairman, ICT and Digital Economy Committee said, "FICCI is committed and will be delighted to work with the government, industry and other stakeholders for the development of safer internet ecosystem in India."