National interest, job creation at the heart of draft e-commerce policy

New Delhi: The draft ecommerce policy has been made keeping in mind India’s national interest and employment generation, officials involved in the process said. “The aim of this draft policy is national interest and that our citizens’ data is ours. Data is business, everything else is ancillary,” a senior official told ET. According to the draft policy, location of computing facilities like data centres and server firms within the country will not only give a fillip to computing in India but will also lead to job creation, especially when activities like back-office processing are expected to decrease because of rising automation. The draft states that cloud computing will be an economic activity in India, while data analytics will be a major job creator. “It is vital that we retain the control of data… We will do an exercise to see how