India and Japan have decided to cooperate in the
fields of Cyber security and Green ICT (Information & Communication
Technology).
The decision taken at the India-Japan Joint Working Group
Meeting on ICT also called for cooperation in three other areas which are to be
implemented as India-Japan joint projects.
The two countries will work on a cooperative project
for detecting symptoms and quick response to cyber attacks, Information &
Communication Technology for Disaster Management, ICT Application for Social
and Economic Challenges and also for National ID Application and Utilization
Platform project.
Ministry for Communication and Information
Technology (MCIT) in India and Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication
(MIC, Japan will coordinate the activities for taking these projects forward by
involving industrial partners in both the countries. They will aim towards
implementation of these joint projects by early 2015.
The two countries also decided to further discuss
development of standards in the field of ICT, for future cooperation. Further,
India had also offered Japan to manufacture ICT equipment in India by taking
advantage of new conducive environment for manufacturing in India.
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