{"id":18353,"date":"2023-12-19T05:27:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T23:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18353"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:22:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T04:52:32","slug":"iamai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/iamai\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Established in 2004, the IAMAI is a\u00a0not-for-profit industry body\u00a0registered under the\u00a0Societies Registration Act, 1860.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0the country&#8217;s only organization representing the digital services industry, with over 500\u00a0Indian and multinational corporations as its members, which include established companies in diverse sectors of the digital ecosystem as well as start-ups.<\/li>\n<li>Mandate: To expand and\u00a0enhance the online and mobile value-added services sectors.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is dedicated to\u00a0presenting the unified voice of the businesses it represents\u00a0to the government, investors, consumers, and other stakeholders.<\/li>\n<li>The association\u00a0addresses the issues, concerns, and challenges of the Internet and Mobile economy\u00a0and takes a leading role in its development.<\/li>\n<li>IAMAI\u00a0represents varied sectors such as digital advertising, digital entertainment, traveltech, online gaming, digital payments, fintech, digital commerce, edtech, healthtech, agritech, big data, ML, AI &amp; IoT, AR\/VR, logistics-tech, and so on.<\/li>\n<li>The association\u2019s\u00a0activities include\u00a0promoting the inherent strengths of the digital economy, evaluating and\u00a0recommending standards\u00a0and practices to the industry, conducting\u00a0research,\u00a0creating platforms for its members,\u00a0communicating on behalf of the industry, and creating a favorable business environment for the industry.;<\/li>\n<li>IAMAI has been\u00a0advocating free and fair competition,\u00a0progressive laws for the sector, and supporting\u00a0equitable access, the best\u00a0quality of services to consumers, and a safe and\u00a0secure internet for users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is fintech?<\/h3>\n<p>Fintech refers to such new technologies that seek to improve and automate the delivery and use of financial services. These Fintech companies are playing a prominent role in increasing financial inclusion in India by promoting digital payments, digital lending, small savings and investment opportunities and Financial Literacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/telecom-bill-2023-iamai-ott-email-gmpcs-9073491\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>\u2018Progressive\u2019: Internet and mobile association welcomes Telecom Bill, hails exclusion of OTTs, email from its ambit<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Established in 2004, the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)is the country&#8217;s only organization representing the digital services industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}