India's Big Data Landscape: Challenges and Opportunities

Aman Vats, Abdullah Khan
2017 Indian Journal of Science and Technology  
Objective: This study aims at mapping the big data landscape in India and scrutinizing the challenges and opportunities in it. The blueprint of size, rate of growth of this sector and infrastructural challenges will enhance the knowledge on Indian Big Data Landscape. Methods: This study has been carried out using issue analysis method using different points of view on India's big data Landscape. This method is suitable for the analysis of ongoing processes. As India's Big data landscape is
more » ... growing and is facing infrastructural and policy level challenges, issue analysis method is perfect for analyzing the state of the art, challenges and opportunities. Findings: The study finds that India's big data landscape is facing severe security challenges. Information security in Indian cyberspace is critically low and needs to address urgently. The Information Security Policy of India has serious limitations and it needs to be improved. Users and Usage aspect of big data is also not clear at policy level. This study suggests for change in policy at five levels: 1. Data Management level, 2. Users' right level, 3. Responsibility level, 4. Infrastructural level and 5. Contradiction level. By adopting these policies only Indian Big data landscape can bring new opportunities and the cyber security will be safeguarded. Applications/Improvements: This study has scope of advancements at micro-level, on how to safeguard cyber security using state of the art technologies in third world countries, where technology comes first and regulation come next, may be an interesting field of study. ISSN (Print) : 0974-6846 ISSN (Online) : 0974-5645 processes. "Big Data" has 4V features. The first is the large data volume (Volume); the second is a variety of data types (Variety); the third is low density value (Value); and the fourth is fast processing velocity 3 . As far as India is concerned, the number of netizens in India has reached 300 million mark 4 , who are constantly producing and consuming a vast amount of data. The magnifying effect, transmission speed, and mobilizing power of the Internet are growing. In this information age, IT tools that we can use are omnipresent, and various kinds of information related to us can be found everywhere, too. Identities in cyberspace have become increasingly virtual, and privacy is increasingly important. One recent study
doi:10.17485/ijst/2017/v10i40/101542 fatcat:qkp5kmu5irb3vdjqztk6d7ixbi