Cybersecurity top on government agenda: Prasad

Boston: With India placing high priority to cybersecurity, the government is in talks with a number of countries, including the US, for cooperation to check cyberespionage and other attacks, Union communications and IT minister Ravi

Shankar Prasad said. “The Prime Minister himself has said, cybersecurity represents something like bloodless war. Therefore, cybersecurity is an agenda of great importance for our government," Prasad, who was here to attend the annual

India Conference of the Harvard University, told . Emphasizing that India is very particular on the issue of cybersecurity, the minister said the government is in talks with a number of countries including the US in this regard. "Internet is the finest creation of human mind. It should not be allowed to be abused by a few. In that scenario there is greater cooperation among countries world over," he said. The minister said the ambitious Digital India campaign has aroused great interest about the country across the world and the total digital economy being pursued by India is going to be $ 1 trillion in the next two- three

years. "I see a lot of digital delivery of services happening

( in the next few years)," he said, adding that governance is

gradually moving towards on the mobile phone. Underlining

that programmes initiated by India has "caught the fancy" of

the world, Prasad said that American companies are "very

keen" to partner in India's growth story. "This shows the

interest being reflected in India's turnaround story," said Prasad, who held meetings with

a large number of academicians, research scholars and top

business executives on India and India related issues.