| |OCTOBER 202319National Program on AI by the Government of India. Commenting on the occasion, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi reiterated his vision: "We need to make Artificial Intelligence in India and Artificial Intelligence work for India." It presents enormous opportunities for technopreneurs to thrive. Telecom BoomThe boost in this technology ecosystem can be traced back to the boom of the Telecom industry. The recent amendments made in the Right of Way (RoW) rules for telecom infrastructure are set to expedite the 5G rollout in the country. The latest amendments offer a single application for multiple small cell sites and allow telecoms to set up temporary over-ground telegraph infrastructure when their existing underground infrastructure is damaged. The amendments also offer other relaxations. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), whose members include Reliance Jio, Airtel, Vodafone Idea, etc., commented on the amendments, mentioning that the new provisions would aid in restoring telegraph services on priority, thus preventing major disruptions in services to the users.According to a report by insights and consulting company Kantar, India will have over 900 million internet users by 2025, driving more than 500 million digital transactions. The report also predicts that more than 87 percent of Indian households will have at least one internet user by 2025.Moving Ahead with CareThis rapidly growing technology ecosystem has a drastic downside in the form of cyber threats. According to a report by cybersecurity firm CloudSek, India, the US, Indonesia, and China accounted for 45 percent of total cyberattacks on government agencies worldwide in the second half of 2022, to say nothing of the attacks in the corporate realm. The increasing cyber threat landscape takes it a bit far, making it almost inevitable to amass all the help you can get. This challenging scenario often calls for help from third-party technology experts with advanced threat intelligence and automated response tools at their disposal. According to a new report by marketsandmarkets.com, the global Cyber Security Market size is expected to grow from $173.5 billion in 2022 to $266.2 billion by 2027, at a CAGR of 8.9 percent. It is quite clear that the country needs a technology push with an intact cyber security vision and approach. India recently installed the AI Supercomputer `AIRAWAT' at C-DAC, Pune, which is ranked 75th in the world. This puts India on top of AI Supercomputing nations worldwide
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