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“Why shouldn’t Indian Railways or India have its own browser, just like China, which has Baidu? There are some 365-odd browsers in the world...”
That was the question raised by Srinivas M, who now works with Railtel Corporation and has earlier worked on various IT projects of the Railways.
“This would help Indian Railways and India from a security perspective, as each click generates data about the user. It also helps the users rake in more revenue, which subsequently can be used for targeted advertising,” Srinivas told BusinessLine along the sidelines of a Railways workshop on cyber security.
Browsers on desktop, tablets and mobiles can be used to generate data trends about the user.
According to StatCounter Global Stats of 2016, Google’s Chrome has a large share with 60.5 per cent worldwide,with Firefox accounting for 15.6 per cent of worldwide desktops, and 15.5 per cent for IE and Edge.
Also, in terms of using the internet from mobile space, India is a huge market, according to StatCounter.
Indian mobile usage to surf the internet is more than double that in the UK or US. Among G-20 nations, India is the number one user of mobile in terms of internet usage — almost 80 per cent of internet usage was made by Indians through mobile phones, compared to about 50 per cent for the world in general.
Meanwhile, as top honchos of Indian Railways brainstormed on making the network more secure, the Chief Information Security Officer on the Railway Board had a query — how to remember so many passwords?
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