Context:
BhashaNet Portal launched at the Universal Acceptance Day.
BhashaNet Portal:
- Launched by – NIXI (National Internet Exchange of India) and MEITY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology)
- Aim – To develop an ecosystem to enable citizen to easily communicate and retrieve information with ease in digital medium without language barrier.
- Objectives –
- Encouraging use of local language website name and email id.
- Promoting awareness of local language URL and email id.
- Engagement of website owners, web-developer community, web security experts.
Universal Acceptance Day:
- Universal Acceptance (UA) – A technical requirement that ensures that all domain names, email addresses, and top-level domains (TLDs) are treated equally.
- First held on – 28 March 2023
- Organized by – Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
- Objective – To ensure everybody has the ability to experience internet aligning with their interests, business, culture, language, and script.
Source: PIB
Previous Year Question
Which of the following is/are the aim/aims of “Digital India” Plan of the Government of India?
1. Formation of India’s own Internet companies like China did.
2. Establish a policy framework to encourage overseas multinational corporations that collect Big Data to build their large data centres within our national geographical boundaries.
3. Connect many of our villages to the Internet and bring Wi-Fi to many of our school, public places and major tourist centres.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
[UPSC Civil Service Exam – 2018 Prelims]
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 3 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer: (b)
Explanation:
Statements 1 and 2 are incorrect. Both of them represents highly ambitious targets that are not the declared aims of Digital India.
