MIM MLA Imtiaz jaleel demands laws to protect internet privacy
BeyondHeadlines News Desk
Global Shapers Community Pune Hub (A World Economic Forum Initiative) took pride to conduct World Economic Forum’s Annual meeting 2015 PUNE on Jan 20, 2015. As part of this session, Panelist from Academia, Civic body, Corporate and Media, with other cities of the World to discuss and learn about ‘Governance in Social Media’. They also hosted a local panel discussion on 19th January 2015 from 6:00 -8:00 PM, at Cyber City, Pune. The high profile panel included Namita Thapar CFO & Exe. Director of Emcure, Shashank Bhushan CEO of BMC Software India, RoshanTalera Chairperson of Young Indians, Imtiaz Jaleel MLA and Ex-NDTV Sr. Journalist, Alok Kumar Head of Sears India, Girendra Kasmalkar MD and CEO of SQS, Prof. Atmaram Shelke of Symbiosys Law College, Dr. Shirish Kavadi Project Director and Social Scientist at Centre for Communication and Development Studies.
The Panel discussion was moderated by Anshoo Gaur Founding Curator Pune hub, Samana Tejani, Head of GITS operations and Devendra Jani Curator of Pune hub. In which, MIM MLA Imtiaz Jaleel demanded proper laws to protect internet privacy and to prevent misuse of social media for criminal activities.
Social media has become the platform that young people nowadays cannot leave without. Meanwhile, social media has also created different networks and groups in the forms never exist before, which brings new ways of communication and interaction amongst people. Such new context also causes new governance challenge. This ascends the need of better governance in social media. Pune hub of Global Shapers team was the only city in Maharashtra and only Hub in India, selected to host a Shaping Davos session on the topic ‘Governance in Social Media’. Davos conference by World Economic Forum is one of the most important global events of the year. The general opinion of the Panel hosted on 19th January, was that Social Media should not be banned or controlled tightly. But it should be moderated and proper education of citizen is essential to prevent misuse of social media for criminal activities. Rules and regulation do exist. But additional layers of personal responsibility, government and corporate needs to be strengthen.
We also require modernization of police force of India, inculcating cyber-crimes investigation skills among Indian law enforcement agencies, enhancing the cyber forensics investigation capabilities of police force. Prior to panel discussion, there were college debates conducted in Army Institute of Technology, VIT, Symbiosis School of Economics and Nowrosjee Wadia College to know views of youth on this topic. There was an online survey to seek inputs from youths and citizens. Results of the survey were shared during the session. 82 % of the youths say that Social media should not be banned in India and 72% youth believe that self-Governance is achievable in social media. Technology can be enablers for self -governance in social media. For a developing country like India, where there is huge infrastructure, governance, transparency deficit social media can act as Accelerator Bridge.
