Prime Minister Modi urged Indian youth to develop indigenous social media platforms akin to Facebook and X, emphasizing digital sovereignty and secure.
It’s good idea, which might’ve been done much earlier, hope this goes well and keep citizen’s privacy and interest as priority…
indeed
Also one which he can control, censor and ban stuff which doesn’t agree with!
I think such a platform is required, Indian govt. shouldn’t be depending on multinational MNCs for local information flow. It should be primarily used for govt. information exchange than for political utility.
If that is the case then why cant they themselves commission it and pay for it too?
give jobs to people with zero marks and expect technical, resource extensive, high coding experiences team to build India’s ecosystem.
Probably they will, if the app and technology matches the requirement ?
plenty have tried and failed, no one’s moving from whatsapp 
We will never know, when our friends turn into enemies. so having our own platform is necessity of the time.
Can easily make a bespoke platform. Most of of the development work for companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon … etc is done in India anyway. Lot of skill and knowhow in India to do it.
This is very much needed. Even something as basic as our own email is not standardized.
During covid, there were govt officers asking citizens to send grievances to gmail addresses. NIC does host and handle some of it but IME they are not the most motivated or brilliant people. Its a typical govt job nonsense.
Last I checked TE is indian platform and there’s plenty of criticism going around. Opposition isn’t a saint either. The case regarding social media posts where SC delivered landmark judgement actually started in 2013 or before. The grass may look greener on the other side but some of us have already known that it isn’t.
Yeah it should be a necessity, lol, but it works on both ways, we all know what happened with china ( Wechat)
Rather than prioritizing the app for people to people social media interaction, it should be used by govt. to propagate valuable information to citizens, about govt. projects, availability of facilities provided, statistics, reaching ministers, authorities, external affairs, etc.
aka, whatever govt. or depts are posting on twitter now should be posted on internal app ?
Let people to people private interaction happen through regular channels.
Rather the govt needs to focus on alternative “Play stores “ and open source software .
I do not see anyone moving away from Google or Mac without donating their Privacy .
Without a gmail account , I am not sure if one can access play store at all . If an alternative “play store “ emerges and govt forces apps like banking , digital records then may be an alternative will be there . It can also be useful for other countries .
Yes! Sign-up with aadhaar.
private sector pushing that nationalism
a rip off with some cosmetic changes of a popular distro
TE is a niche platform with limited reach.
You post something on Twitter which is controversial but of great public interest it can go viral very fast. That Tweet gets re-twitted/downloaded and shared a gazillion times.
The Government have to send takedown notice’s by which time every man and his dog have already seen it.
To download that Indus app store , I am assuming one needs playstore logged in ?
I am talking about an OS with its own play store which does not need google or microsoft authentication .
That OS could be universal and should be possible to install on android or on any smart phone hardware just like a desktop OS .
Koo ..turned out to be poo
I support this idea.
Reason being China has its own google, own social media etc.
America on other hand is arm twisting India and using whatever tool they have to corner India.
A big example is this
By using their services they are only backfiring us.
Lets also look at the future…World is going deglobalization .
Everycountry is now wanting to be dependent on its own goods and technology.
It is a long process but if we dont start thinking about it today . We will have much more to loose than gain as a country.
Ofcourse this will mean lot of control by our govt. something like China.
But lets face it …this is where the world is going and this is where India has to adapt.