Dear colleagues, This month Ikigai’s Tech Ticker maps government and regulatory movement on data protection, cryptocurrency and electronic vehicles. Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi voiced his belief that India could become a data science, analytics and storage hub and announced that his government was working tirelessly to create a robust data protection framework. Ministries are awaiting clarity from the PMO on India’s position on data localisation as the government plans to table the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 (“PDP Bill”) in the winter session of parliament later this year. Meanwhile, a high-level government panel recommended doingRead more
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Hello everyone, We are back with the Tech Ticker and more interesting titbits from the tech space. July saw a lot of activity and the ones around the Union Budget, the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 (PDP Bill) and GAFA particularly caught our eye. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed to scrap merchant discount rates (MDR) for merchants with an annual turnover of over INR 50 crore who provided low-cost digital paymentRead more
Hi everyone, Welcome to the first edition of our Tech Ticker! Through this newsletter, we will share with you a few things from the world of technology that catch our eye every month. We promise to keep things short and would love to hear from you on how to make things better! First, the big stuff. Narendra Modi is back as India’s Prime Minister (this pieceRead more