India and US have agreed to continue to explore the opportunities for collaboration on implementing India's ambitious Digital India invitiative, with the goal of enhancing digital infrastructure, deploying e-governance and e-sevices. The initiative is also aimed at expanding the diffusion and use of ICT as a tool to expand economic opportunity, boost productivity, create jobs and empower citizens, according to a joint press statement issued after a two day meeting of a joint working group. The US-India Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Working Group promotes development in the ICT sector for mutual benefit. The Participants noted that the ICT Working Group aims to strengthen collaboration between the governments and private sector of the two countries in the field of Information and Communications Technology. During the two day working group meeting, US and Indian government representatives held extensive discussions on ICT and telecommunication policy issues. These focused on accelerating broadband deployment, aligning spectrum policy for the mobile era and exchanging views on internet governance and best practices in ICT and telecommunications regulatory policy.
