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Google announces 4 new initiatives for digital safety in India: All you need to know
“India’s extraordinary embrace of digital has opened up new pathways to information, knowledge, and opportunity for millions of people,” Sanjay Gupta, Country Head and Vice President, Google India, wrote in a blog post.
American technology giant Google on Thursday announced four new initiatives in the company's mission to ‘make the internet helpful and safer for our users in India’.
“At Google, safety is not just a check-box – it is the very foundation on which we have built our platforms and products, enabling us to keep more people safe online than anyone else in the world with products that are secure by default, private by design and put our users in control,” Sanjay Gupta, Country Head and Vice President, Google India, wrote in a blog post.
“As India’s extraordinary embrace of digital opens up new pathways to information, knowledge, and opportunity for millions of people, our belief is that building a safer internet for everyone is not one more thing to do, it is the one thing to do. That is why, we've continuously stepped up our commitment to online safety over time,” Gupta added.
Here are the new safety initiatives Google has announced for India:
(1.) Cyber skilling roadshow: A multi-city, mixed-format Cybersecurity Roadshow for startups, developers and IT professionals will be flagged off. Through this, the company will reach out to as many as 100,00 participants, and enable them to build safer apps, as well as help them adopt modern IT practices.
(2.) Awareness campaign for safe transactions: In collaboration with the IT ministry and Digital India Corporation (a not for profit company set up by the ministry) a pan-India, multilingual awareness campaign will be launched with the support from HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Airtel, SBI, and ICICI.
The campaign partners will further propagate the precautions through their own consumer channels such as websites, apps, SMS and ATMs.
(3.) Online safety outreach to high-risk communities: Google.org will provide grants worth 2 million dollars (INR 16 crore) for communities (such as women, LGBTQIA+, and senior citizens) which are vulnerable to online frauds that may have offline impacts.
(4.) Keeping children safe online: For this, a website, ProtectingChildren.Google has been launched. The website, which is available in Bengali, Hindi and Tamil, is in addition to Google's own child safety toolkit, which features Content Safety API and CSAI Match – two tools that strengthens its partners in their fight against abusive content.
