Whenever world talk about democracy, name of India comes
first in mind. Indian democracy is successful because growth of Indian
civilization is made to adopt democratic values. Remember words of Ambedkar ji,
democracy and drivers of democracy both should be good and will go together, if
any one fails entire nation will fail. If you will go in past so many nations
collapsed due to corruption in democratic values. But India is still surviving because
democracy lies in people of India, Democracy lies in culture of India,
Democracy Lies in value of India. India believe in value-based system rather
than code-based system.
Definition of data democracy is availability &
accessibility of data for everyone. In India cultural data democracy is already
available as all type of data be it personal or other available and accessible
for all, but there is unique system to access these data and this unique system
is Indian social culture again.
When two different unknown families travel in train they
become very good friend in minutes of conversation and start exchanging information
of their families too.
In a colony people know each other’s families and trying to
help them out as good as available when ever required. This knowledge of
families of entire colony is available to residents of that colony.
In general, Indian Culture believes in sharing and caring, sometimes sharing of information gives comfort to people. In this sense Indians are sharing lot many information on social platforms also without thinking of any second thing in mind.
But access management is also available in cultural data
democracy of India and here we have concept of data (localization) limitation
also.
Refer Indian Samskrit Verse:
सत्यं ब्रूयात् प्रियं ब्रूयात् , न ब्रूयात् सत्यम् अप्रियम् ।
प्रियं च नानृतम् ब्रूयात् , एष धर्मः सनातन: ॥
Meaning of this verse:
Speak
truth, Speak Sweet
No
harsh truths, No sweet Lies
This
is the policy and Ethics all should follow
So we can see
access management is already available in data democracy which allows data
localization also. Verse suggests speak truth,
no sweet Lies mean information to be handled with highest level of
integrity. No harsh truths mean level of confidentially and access restriction need
to be maintained. In all information is available but processing of information
must be done with integrity and confidentiality. Information disclosure is totally
judgemental and based on cultural values and depends on when, where & why
information need to be disclosed.
Indian data
democracy and data localization policy need to be published considering social,
cultural values of India. India is the only country where data democracy and
data localization both exist at same time in workable condition. We cannot
blindly follow other country’s data philosophy in India.
Rahul Rathore –
Cyber Security Expert
