EU-India Partnership on Information and Communication Technology

The internet and digital Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are transforming our world rapidly. Both the EU and India have set up their respective digitalpriority policies to harness the new services and networks so that they address global societal challenges, while supporting sustainable and inclusive growth.

Since 2001, India and the EU have been working closely together in the area of ICT, promoting modern information society. In November 2018, the EU adopted a new strategy on India, which indicates ICT as one of the priority areas for cooperation. We have been linking up the EU Digital Single Market with Digital India and we are engaging on a range of issues including ICT standardisation, market access, internet governance and research and innovation.

More specifically, under the project ‘India-EU Cooperation on ICT-Related Standardisation, Policy and Legislation’, we have made considerable progress in areas of mutual interest such as 5G; machine-to-machine communications; intelligent transport systems; software defined and virtualised networks, and security.