In an exclusive interview with Leaders Speak, Dr. Ajay Kumar spoke about the importance of the digital literacy in improving the livelihood in the country and outlined the government’s plan for boosting digital payments and cyber-attack safeguarding.
Dr. Ajay Kumar is an Additional Secretary in the Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and IT, Government of India. He also served in the state government of Kerala for almost three decades, where he steered the industrial and technological initiatives in three departments. An IIT Kanpur alumnus, Dr. Ajay Kumar received his Master in Science (M.S.) in Applied Economics and earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration at the University of Minnesota in the US.
Dr. Kumar has been a part of several international negotiation teams and working groups to discuss border trade, boundary disputes and other issues promoting cooperation. For his exceptional work, Dr. Kumar has received many awards including citation by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India.
Q: What are your views on the importance of Digital Literacy?
A: Digital technologies are neutral to how they are used. They can be used by the rich or the poor. If we have to connect the poor fraction of the society to new digital technologies, we have to make sure that a digital divide does not occur due to class separation and basic literacy in the society. Thus, focusing on digital literacy is important. Our focus in the Digital India is to use the technology for the improvement of the poor and to meet his developmental needs.
Q: What is the extent of Digital Literacy in the rural parts of the country and what are the government’s actions to spread Digital Literacy in the rural areas?
This story is from the February 2017 edition of Leaders Speak.
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