Dr S Govind

Dr S Govind

Senior Director, E-Infrastructure and Internet Governance, Meity, Govt.of India

Dr. S Govind is working as an expert in the Internet Governance space and has served, till recently, as the CEO of National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), a public-private partnership towards the promotion of Internet in the country. Formerly, he was Senior Director, heading the E-Infrastructure & Internet Governance areas in Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India.

Dr. Govind has held key posts in the Department of IT, where he has more than 20 years of experience in various sectors of Information Technology, including Internet Governance, Broadband Internet, E-infrastructure, Inter-Ministerial Group coordination for Policy Development and crystallising the India-stance in global internet strategy.

Dr Govind played a key role in successfully establishing Internet Exchange Points in India and establishment of the .IN Registry in the country. Recently, he has also set up the National Internet Registry for the allocation of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in the country. He has been commended at various for a, nationally and internationally, for actively working towards the use of Internet for inclusive growth and development of multi-lingulisation in the Indian context.

He is involved in broadband proliferation, Internet technologies, promotion of domain names in local languages and multi-stakeholder advocacy in the field of Internet Governance.


Privacy: You Can't Ignore it Anymore

Presented by Dr S Govind  •  December 12, 2016

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