India is ushering into a crucial juncture more than seventy years after independence. The country is taking important strides towards emerging as a middle-income economy, provide jobs to millions of people, take global leadership on issues of geopolitical importance and stake claim for a growing superpower. In all of this, data and technology will play a fundamental role for India going
forward. If the 20th century brought the promise of the Internet as a decentralised and self-regulating space, the 21st century is marked by battles over the control of data.
This study aims to study the impact of data localisation from various perspectives, analyse the government’s objectives towards implementation of such policy, and identify alternate policy mechanisms that we believe are better suited to drive home the objectives as opposed to blanket data localisation.
Project Team
Mr. Kazim Rizvi
Mr. Rohan Seth
Mr. Madhav Sharma
Support Team
Mr. Kushan Chakraborty and Mr. Siddharth Balyan
Edited by Ms. Deepanwita De
Designed by Mr. Mak Alam and Ms. Gauri Bedekar
Knowledge Partner
We would like to thank Hreem Legal, our Knowledge Partner, led by
Mr. Ashish Porwal, Mr. Majid Durrani and Mr. Diwakar Chakravorty
