December  2020 Monthly Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 3     Payments Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF) : The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had announced creation of a Payments Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF) to encourage acquirers to deploy Points of Sale (PoS) infrastructure (both physical and mobile modes) in tier-3 to tier-6 centers and in north eastern states. PCI Chairman & Director, Infibeam Avenues, Mr. Vishwas Patel is part of the Advisory Council which is formed under the chairmanship of Shri B P Kanungo, Deputy Governor, RBI. PCI on the 9th November 2020, organized a meeting to discuss and share inputs with RBI on growing acceptance in tier 3 to 6 centers and north east states in both physical as well as digital modes. GATO 2020: The digital games industry is now at an inflection point in India, and the growth of online games is an indication of the immense interest level among consumers in India. This sentiment was echoed by speakers at the 3rd edition of GATO, a digital sports and gaming conference, organised by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). The conference saw interesting panel discussions on the upcoming trends on digital sports, and e-sports. From monetization of digital sports to the upcoming advertising regulations on online games, speakers shared their views on how gaming as an industry is set to leapfrog and how consumers are wanting new innovations in the field of digital sports. The conference had over 1000 registered delegates. Some of the speakers included Harsh Jain, CEO & Co-Founder, Dream 11, Gaurav Agarwal, Co-Founder, Gamezop; Ali Hussein, CEO, Eros Now; Naman Jhawar, SVP, Strategy & Operations, MPL, Pawan Awasthi, Head of Consumer Marketing – India, Nvidia, Sundar Raman, Former CEO, Reliance Sports; Porush Jain, CEO, SportsKeeda; Rajan Navani, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, JetSynthesys, Sai Srinivas, Co-Founder & CEO, MPL, Manish Agarwal, CEO, Nazara Technologies, Jonathan Taylor, Content Partnerships and Business Development- Stadia at Google, Head of Games' Engine Business Development, EMEA at Epic Games, among others. IAMAI submission on Draft Data Centre Policy 2020: IAMAI made a submission on the Draft Data Centre Policy 2020 vision document initiated by the Ministry of Electronic, Information and Technology (MEITY) for public consultation. In its submission, the association suggested ways and means to improve upon the suggested provisions and how to better implement some of these suggestions. The association also shared with MEITY its earlier report from 2016 where IAMAI had first raised the issue of encouraging data centers in India. IAMAI Submission on DEPA: IAMAI made a submission to the Public Consultation on the Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA) initiated by the Niti Aayog for public consultation. In its submission IAMAI stated that any such architecture going forward has to operate under the broader ambits of the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill presently under consideration by the parliament, and the recently announced Non-Personal Data Protection framework that is being developed upon. Therefore, any discussions of such a form of consent manager is perhaps premature till the exact outlines of the final PDP and the DPA evolve. It also highlighted that while the DEPA is a good mechanism to reach end users and empower them, it should also be kept in mind that tech unaware users, or those with limited understanding, may be overtly vulnerable and DEPA risks widening the Digital Divide in India. IRDAI's Insurance Advertisements and Disclosure Regulations, 2020: IRDAI had requested feedback on amendments in guidelines for the Advertisement regulations. The Insurance committee at Fintech Convergence Council (FCC) sent a consolidated feedback to the IRDAI on the draft. Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (Hartron): Shri Dhammapal Chawhan, has recently been appointed the Managing Director of Hartron, Government. of Haryana and a meeting was called to share updates on IAMAI-Mobile10X Gurugram Hub. IAMAI Team met him in Hartron Multi Skill Development Centre and apprised him about the Hub activities and incubated startups. Additional Escrow Account for PPI and Payment Aggregators: RBI on 17 November allowed one additional escrow account in a different scheduled commercial bank for Prepaid Instrument issuers and Payment Aggregators. Payments Council of India (PCI) had approached RBI with this request which has been duly taken into consideration. IAMAI-Mobile10X Webinar on SuperApps: IAMAI Mobile10X has organized an interesting web-session on SuperApp and its future. Kishore Chand, Partner, Gilda Venture Capital, was the expert speaker for this session and he shared his presentation “Everything you must know about SuperApps”, describing all aspects of the SuperApps and its usability parameters. He later interacted with the participants and answered their queries about the SuperApps. The session was organized on 27th November 2020 and was attended by Startup Founders and CTO across various locations.