IT Ministry Issues Draft Roadmaps for Critical Tech Sectors

What’s in Today’s Article?

• Roadmaps for Critical Tech Sectors
• About Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
• About PARAM 8000

Roadmaps for Critical Tech Sectors

• The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology recently put out draft roadmaps for conducting indigenous research and development for cyber forensics, quantum computing technologies, mobile security, cryptography, and Internet of Things (IoT) security.
• The roadmaps, prepared by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, aim to solve a series of issues by different time spans between now and 2047.
• The cybersecurity roadmap, for instance, seeks to develop “Social Media Analytics” by 2026, while “Dark Web Forensics” has until 2030 for completion.
• Detection of child exploitation and human trafficking are marked as ongoing efforts that will start in 2027 and continue beyond 2047.
• GPS and vehicle forensics will be completed by 2027 and 2029, respectively.
• Banking fraud and UPI payment forensics solutions have until 2029 and 2030, respectively.
• On the quantum computing side, the roadmap says that research and development efforts to develop quantum computers will carry on till 2034.
• The mobile security roadmap aims, on the other hand, to engage in fostering “enterprise-grade” security systems.

About Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

• C-DAC is the premier R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for carrying out R&D in IT, Electronics and associated areas.
• The setting up of C-DAC in 1988 itself was to build Supercomputers in context of denial of import of Supercomputers by USA.
• Since then, C-DAC has been undertaking building of multiple generations of Supercomputer starting with PARAM 8000 in 1991.

About PARAM 8000

• It is India's first supercomputer.
• PARAM 8000 is the first machine in the PARAM supercomputers series built from scratch in 1991.
• All the chips and other elements that were used in making of PARAM were bought from the open domestic market.
• Applications: long-range weather forecasting, remote sensing, drug design and molecular modelling.

Q1) What is meant by the Internet of Things?

The term IoT, or Internet of Things, refers to the collective network of connected devices and the technology that facilitates communication between devices and the cloud, as well as between the devices themselves.

Q2) What is the definition of Big Data?

Big data primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software.

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