New Delhi: The Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said that India is the largest ‘connected’ nation in the world today with more than 800 million broadband users.

He was addressing the concluding ceremony of the India Internet Governance Forum 2022, in Delhi on Sunday , with the theme ‘Leveraging Techade for Empowering Bharat’. The Secretary, MeitY, Alkesh Kumar Sharma and other dignitaries were present on the occasion.

Speaking on the occasion Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that they are the largest ‘connected’ nation in the world with 800 million Indian users. 5G and the largest rural broadband connectivity network project at BharatNet will have 1.2 billion Indian users constituting the single largest presence of the global internet.

He further said that they also expect further technological innovations as well as updated regulatory policies to remain relevant.

The deep involvement by all stakeholders will be the third leg of this Global Standard Cyber Law Framework that they hope will catalyze the Indian internet and the economy.

The Minister of State said that India now has a tremendous powerful offering, identity authentication to a very diverse and rich suite of applications, and improved accessibility to the internet to countries in the Global South. These countries have not been able to step up and create the same sort of pace of digitization of the economy.

The multi-stakeholder architecture of the Indian internet happened after a lot of effort. In the next few years, this multi-stakeholder engagement must go beyond the intellectual academic discussion to ensure the internet grows and innovation grows while keeping both safe and trusted and accountable for all the billion digital nagriks of India, he added.

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