National Data Governance Framework Policy: Govt To Soon Begin Assembling Anonymised Datasets, Says MoS IT

Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said that the government will soon start collecting uniform and harmonised anonymised datasets under the National Data Governance Framework Policy.

The minister was addressing the conference of the working group related to development work under the G-20 Summit held in Mumbai on Tuesday (12 December) through a video conference.

The conference was organised on the theme of Data for Development.

This is the first official side meeting of the G-20 Development Working Group after India assumed the presidency of the G-20.

Addressing the event, the minister said that India has a vibrant start-up ecosystem and a robust Artificial Intelligence ecosystem.

So, we expect companies to increasingly use this large database to train their AI models, the minister said.

"We aim to spur innovation and create more effective policy and pragmatic solutions," he said, according to a Ministry of Electronics and IT release.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar highlighted the importance of digital data and data driven interventions for adaptive growth.

Highlighting the need to put essential safeguards against misuse of data and putting in place a framework for this purpose, the minister added, “We must view the digital economy through a combined prism of trust and protection. We must work together to build a new international framework for technology, digital internet, and indeed data that mainstream the public good and Sustainable Development”.

He further added that the use of datasets through innovative technology will have a far-reaching impact and will benefit development work at the grassroot level and expand digitization.

He said that for long-term development, developed and developing nations need to work together.