Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C)

To deal with cybercrimes such as financial frauds, circulation of communal and pornographic contents, the Union Home Ministry is planning to set up an apex coordination centre and has asked states to establish a similar mechanism in every district.

  • The apex centre — Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) — would be set up in Delhi.
  • It would coordinate with State governments and Union Territories, and closely monitor the cyberspace and social media with due emphasis on vernacular content.
  • The centre would also block those websites which flout India’s laws and circulate child porn, and communally and racially sensitive content.

GCCS 2017

India, in November 2017, hosted the Global Conference on Cyber Space (GCCS) 2017, the world’s largest conference on cyber space and related issues in New Delhi. This was for the first time GCCS was organised outside the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations.

  • It was the fifth edition of the conference.
  • The theme for the GCCS 2017 was ‘Cyber4All: An Inclusive, Sustainable, Developmental, Safe and Secure Cyberspace’.
  • The GCCS is a prestigious international conference that aims at encouraging dialogue among stakeholders of cyberspace.
  • GCCS was incepted in 2011 in London.

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