To invite scholars from A-Pac region
To encourage development of new technologies in the field of cybersecurity, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology will offer challenge grants of up to ₹5 crore to start-ups to spur research and development, Minister for Electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday.
“We are in the process of working with Data Security Council of India to conduct challenge grant for cybersecurity…,” the Minister said, adding that India would invite cybersecurity scholars from the Asia Pacific region to do their research here. “We will offer scholars... to do Ph.D in any of the top 100 universities in India, including IITs,” he said at the Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (AP-CERT) Conference.
Stating that India was working on a data privacy law, Mr. Prasad pointed out that the same people who had advocated RTI earlier, were now pitching for right to privacy.
The government, he said, was also in process of setting up a centre of excellence for blockchain technology. “The technology holds immense potential and we propose to use it in various areas, including banking, entertainment, e-governance and land records.”
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Quelle/Source: The Hindu, 15.11.2017
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