Today, Internet Is Mature & Open To Many Possible Opportunities: CEO, NIXI

“Today we are living in the most exciting time in India, a stimulating period for young entrepreneurs, startups and IT professionals specifically”, said Anil Kumar Jain, CEO - NIXI (IX, Dot IN Registry & IRINN) addressing the 8th Edition Young Founders Forum 2023, organised by BW Disrupt at Chennai on Wednesday.

According to Jain, the Internet today is mature and is open to many possible opportunities that are not just limited to economic growth but also favours societal well-being.

He said that PM Modi’s call for startups in India has received a huge response with more than 85,000 new startups, and IT, the Internet and other digital startups comprising 26,000 in number highlights the internet and service as the most happening part of the country’s economy.

Jain further stressed the government’s commitment to providing an open, safe-trust and accountable internet to all. He emphasised ‘open’ as an easy access to all users, ‘safe and trust’ as a secure internet usage and ‘accountability’ as the parameter that determines the content available online.

Today considering the Russia-Ukraine war we can understand how the war is not just weapons and is not limited to physical damage, today it’s more about a digital tussle, Jain said underscoring the fact that the government is thus getting prepared to develop India into a digitally advanced country that can deal with future war crisis.

He said war can cause drastic economic damage and to avoid such a gloomy situation the center is thus strengthening the internet’s safety and trust.

This is the tech decade, Jain said firmly and Aadhar and its digitalisation is the country’s exemplary achievement that is applauded worldwide. Subsequently, he mentioned UPI, the digital payment interface that ranked second in digital transactions globally.

The country is also concentrating on digitally developing free online- platforms for health, education, agriculture, family, welfare and so on, Jain added. In a nutshell, the NIXI CEO invested great confidence in the country’s one trillion economy target and assured the internet is a key element in achieving the same.