Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the world is worried about cyber security and called upon the Indian IT Industry to focus on meeting the global challenges of cyber-security. Stating that the entire world is concerned about this issue, Modi said Indian IT professionals could do a lot for cyber-safety of digital assets across the world.
Speaking at an event organised by NASSCOM, Modi further said that India needs mobile revolution and thus his Government is making efforts for mobile e-governance and also getting developed a PMO Mobile App since he is also quite active on social media.
Modi said ideas from the public will be invited for developing a mobile app for his office (PMO) to make it mobile friendly for citizens. “The faster you all (industry) make mobile apps, the faster you will capture the market. We need a revolution in mobile governance... We will launch a competition through mygov.in to seek ideas for PMO mobile app,” Modi said at the Silver Jubilee function of the NASSCOM.
The Prime Minister had launched a website MyGov to provide a platform to citizens to contribute their views and opinions on important issues like clean Ganga or skill development. The Government will work with global technology giant Google for selecting the best ideas and the teams will be sent to the US.
“The second part will be to develop the entire software. I would like my department to be helped with technology,” Modi said. He said $146-billion Indian IT sector has changed the way the world looks at the country and the need now is to focus on newer areas like security, apps and cloud.
Referring to the theme of Sunday’s function: IT = India Tomorrow, the Prime Minister said there was immense potential for the Indian IT sector to innovate and provide mobile applications to deliver citizen centric services and mobile governance.
The PM explained how technology was helping to curb corruption. He gave the examples of the coal block auctions, and Direct Benefit Transfer of lPG subsidy. Modi also called for the Indian IT sector to boost tourism in India.