Benefits of Indian IT.

"The Indian technology industry today has a presence in over 100 countries and draws on employees of over 150 nationalities. As per the Global Innovation Index 2021 ranking, India is the top innovative country in central and south Asia and holds the record of over-performing on innovation relative to its level of development for the 11th year in a row," wrote Debjani Ghosh, President of NASSCOM. "Google, while proposing an inter-bank settlement system in the US, cited its extensive experience with India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and shared learnings from here that the West should emulate." "Our research indicates that since 2017, Indian IT has generated $103 billion of revenue and directly employed 207,000 people in the US." Nice that the US is benefiting, but what about us in India? "India accounted for almost half (47%) of the 182 internet shutdowns worldwide in 2021. Of the 106 shutdowns in India documented by AccessNow, 85 were in Jammu and Kashmir alone." ET. "AccessNow said it was possible that it hadn't documented every shutdown in India because of a lack of government transparency." In June, Sherry Singh, CEO of Mauritius Telecom (MT), resigned, claiming Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth "had forced him to allow an 'Indian team' to access a SAFE cable landing station at Baie-du-Jacotet, a prohibited area. Singh also said that the PM's main objective was to install a 'sniffing' device that would spy on Mauritian internet traffic." The Print. The government withdrew its data protection bill recently. "The law introduced in parliament in December 2019 gave the government unfettered access to personal data in the name of sovereignty and public order," wrote Andy Mukherjee. "For individuals, the big risk is the authoritarian tilt in India's politics. The revamped framework may accord even less protection to citizens from a Beijing-inspired mix of surveillance state and surveillance capitalism than the abandoned law." "India recorded a whopping 36.29 lakh (3.629 million) cyber security incidents since 2019 till June this year and the government has taken a number of steps to check such designs, said Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra." ET. "A new report by cybersecurity firm AcAfee found that 85% of Indian children have been cyberbullied, the highest globally." ET. "Young girls in India see some of the highest rates internationally, with girls 10 to 14 at 32%, and girls 15 to 16 at 34%." "New-born infants will soon receive a temporary Aadhaar number." ET. "Biometrics for kids are taken when they are at least five years old. Our teams can visit these new-borns' families after that period and complete the formalities of registering their biometrics, and allocating them a permanent Aadhaar number," said a senior official. The US has benefited from Indian IT. India has become like China. Without the wealth.