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India liberalises mapping policy; to spur innovation, benefit agriculture

India firms to gain from liberalised mapping policy SECTIONS Last Updated: Feb 16, 2021, 03:20 AM IST Share Synopsis Private firms and startups can now leverage data to build applications including more efficient and accurate delivery of online purchases to consumers’ doorsteps, industry executives say. India liberalises restrictions on geospatial data for map-making New Delhi | Bengaluru: The Centre has eased regulations governing the acquisition and application of geospatial data including maps by Indian entities, in a far-reaching move that is expected to spur local innovation and level the playing field for both public and private Indian companies. The liberalised mapping policy, announced on Monday, allows private Indian firms to use high-precision satellite imagery of 1 metre and below on both land and in Indian territorial waters. This was hitherto reserved for strategic purposes only.

India is putting out its mapping, geospatial data available for general use

India is putting out its mapping, geospatial data available for general use Updated: Updated: February 15, 2021 22:55 IST The announcement comes at a time when advances in mapping technology, including aerial vehicles, mobile mapping systems, and LIDAR and RADAR sensors, are giving a lift to innovation in eCommerce, logistics and urban transportation sectors. Share Article AAA India has so far been reliant on foreign resources for mapping technologies and services.   | Photo Credit: File Photo The announcement comes at a time when advances in mapping technology, including aerial vehicles, mobile mapping systems, and LIDAR and RADAR sensors, are giving a lift to innovation in eCommerce, logistics and urban transportation sectors.

The shift that could make India a data-first economy

The shift that could make India a data-first economy Premium Share Via On 6 May 2017, The Economist newsweekly published an article that inserted itself into the zeitgeist like nothing that venerable publication had ever published before. It was titled ‘The Worlds Most Valuable Resource is No Longer Oil, But Data’, and dealt for the most part with the antitrust implications of Big Tech. So visceral was the analogy that the phrase “data is the new oil became the defining metaphor of the digital age. The Economist was trying to make a limited point that all new industries grow rapidly when they start out, only to be eventually reined in by regulators once they get too big: “A new commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting antitrust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow. A century ago, the resource in question was oil. Now similar concerns are being raised by the giants that deal in data, the oil of the digital era.

Summary: Revised Draft Report on Non Personal Data

What stood out: Business purpose requests: Private entity to private entity mandatory data sharing requests are not considered to be in the scope of the committee’s recommendations. NPD Legislation: The Committee of Experts has proposed that the Non Personal Data (NPD) framework become the basis of a new legislation for regulating NPD. Sovereign purpose requests exempt: the Non Personal Data Authority will not adjudicate the validity of data requests under Sovereign purpose (national security, law enforcement etc). Entire raw data databases exempt: The committee has limited data requests to specific data-fields, and no requests can be made for entire databases.

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