Stay Safe Online Campaign

                                    Stay Safe Online Campaign

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Recently, the Ministry for Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) has launched the "Stay Safe Online" campaign and the “G20 Digital Innovation Alliance” (G20-DIA), it is launched as a part of India's G20 presidency.

What is the Stay Safe Online Campaign?

 

1. It is launched to raise awareness among citizens to stay safe in the online platforms like social media platforms and digital payment platforms, which have increased lately.
2. The campaign will be carried out in English, Hindi and local languages to reach a wider audience.
3. The exponential increase in the number of internet users in India and the rapidly evolving technology landscape have brought unique challenges.
4. The campaign will make citizens of all age groups, especially children, students, women, senior citizens, specially-abled, teachers, faculty, officials of Central/State Governments, etc. aware of the cyber risk and ways to deal with it.
5. The campaign involves the dissemination of multilingual awareness content in the form of infographics, cartoon stories, puzzles, short videos, etc.

What is G20 Digital Innovation Alliance (G20-DIA)?

1. It aims to identify, recognize, and enable the adoption of innovative and impactful digital technologies.
2. The technologies selected would be those who were developed by start-ups, from G20 nations as well as the invited non-member nations.
3. It would address the needs of humanity in the 6 critically important sectors i.e.:

• Agri-tech
• Health-tech
• Ed-tech
• Fin-tech
• Secured Digital Infrastructure
• Circular Economy

4. The engagement of innovators, entrepreneurs, start-ups4, corporations, investors, mentors, and other ecosystem stakeholders will lead to the speedy acceptance of the platform that India plans to offer through the G20 Digital Innovation Alliance (G20-DIA).
5. Start-up products in these 6 sectors enabled through Digital Public Goods Infrastructure can create a global population-scale impact and reduce the digital divide and enable sustainable, and inclusive techno-socio-economic development.

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