Digital India Corporation is hiring eligible candidates for the position of Legal Professional (Data & Privacy) purely on Contract/ Consolidated basis. Interested candidates may apply through the official portal before the last date of application submission. The details are given below:-

Last date for submission of application:15^th April, 2024

Name of the post: Legal Professional (Data & Privacy)

Number of vacancies: 01

Job Description of Legal Professional (Data & Privacy)

• Research: Conduct thorough legal research on Indian and international legal frameworks relating to emerging technologies. Will also be required to identify global best practices and trends that can support responsible and ethical use of emerging technologies.
• Analyze Legal Issues related to the implementation of projects related to emerging technologies and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to derive insights that inform evidence-based policy recommendations.
• Strategy Development: Work closely with team members in the policy to contribute to the development of legal policies related to emerging technologies as well as developing a regulatory framework for ensuring their responsible and ethical use. Support the team in creating the framework for the project implementation.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with state and central government officials, and other relevant stakeholders to advocate for provisioning resources for taking up projects ensuring data privacy and security. Collaborate with internal teams, including compliance, communications, and different project units, to align initiatives with project objectives.
• Procurement Toolkit: Legal advisory in creating model RFPs and procurement models for adoption and replication of projects using emerging technologies.
• Capacity Building & Content Creation: Support the development of capacity-building modules for governments and other stakeholders on legal aspects in implementing projects relating to emerging technologies.
• Documentation: Prepare clear and concise policy briefs, reports, and other documents to communicate research findings and recommendations to internal and external audiences on existing as well as emerging international laws, regulations, Acts, Conventions, Treaties, Multilateral and Bilateral cooperation, policies, rules, guidelines legal and regulatory framework etc. on emerging technologies, including information and communications technology, internet, cyber security, privacy, IPR and related areas. Capture learnings on success and failures, impact stories, and lessons learned at regular intervals. Create knowledge products for internal and external documentation.

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About Digital India Corporation

Digital India Corporation has been set up by the ‘Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India’, to innovate, develop and deploy ICT and other emerging technologies for the benefit of the common man. It is a ‘not for profit’ Company under Section 8 of the Companies Act 2013. The Company has been spearheading the Digital India programme of the Government of India and is involved in promoting use of technology for e-Governance, e-Health, Telemedicine, e-agriculture, e-Payments etc. The Digital India programme promotes safety and security concerns of growing cashless economy and addresses challenges confronting its wider acceptance. It also promotes innovation and evolves models for empowerment of citizens through Digital initiatives and promotes participatory governance and citizen engagement across the government through various platforms including social media.