At its second Safer With Google event today, Google announced new initiatives and investments for people’s online safety in India. These initiatives include the Cybersecurity Upskilling Roadshows, awareness campaigns in collaboration with MeitY, digital safety training for CBSE Board teachers, and more. Here are the details.
The Cyberskilling Roadshow will be a multi-city event to provide lakhs of developers and IT and start-up professionals with tools and guidance for developing safer apps. For this, a new foundational cybersecurity curriculum will be incorporated into the annual DevFest.
Google has collaborated with MeitY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) in India and several banks like HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and SBI, among others to promote online safety campaigns to create awareness. The campaign partners will further take this ahead with promotions via SMS, apps, and more.
Additionally, Google is granting $2 million to Collective Good Foundation (CGF) to provide people (women, LGBTQIA+, and seniors) with a specially-designed curriculum and set of content to raise the issue of online safety. This will be available in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, and Marathi, apart from English.
