New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Google on Thursday launched a number of initiatives, together with new funding and collaboration with the IT Ministry, to safeguard individuals in India from on-line hurt.

The firm launched a cybersecurity up-skilling programme for almost 100,000 builders, IT, and start-up professionals throughout the nation, at its ‘Safer With Google’ occasion.

Google.org additionally granted $2 million (Rs 16 crore) to non-profit organisations, together with Collective Good Foundation, Point Of View and HelpAge India, to empower high-risk teams resembling girls, micro-entrepreneurs, seniors and the LGBTQ neighborhood.

The tech big mentioned additionally it is beginning a multilingual consumer consciousness marketing campaign supported by the MeitY and Digital India Corporation to encourage hundreds of thousands of web customers to undertake higher practices for safer digital transactions.

“As India progresses in the direction of turning into a really digitally-enabled economic system, it’s vital that the chance of connectivity not come on the value of on-line security, and all of us come collectively to construct a safer web for hundreds of thousands of Indians,” mentioned Sanjay Gupta, VP and Country Head, Google India.

Google mentioned it is going to flag off a multi-city, blended format cybersecurity Roadshow to achieve roughly 100,000 builders, IT and start-up professionals with distinctive instruments, detailed steering, and greatest practices on constructing safer apps by embedding safety in all phases of growth and adopting fashionable IT companies.

“As increasingly residents turn out to be included into the digital economic system and derive the good thing about direct entry to funds and switch that are essential to their progress and prosperity, we’ve got been consciously creating infrastructure, capabilities, and applications that defend our residents and our nation from cyber threats,” mentioned Abhishek Singh, President and CEO, NeGD and MyGov, MD and CEO, Digital India Corporation.

(Except for the headline, the remainder of this IANS article is un-edited)

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