Amit Agarwal, senior vice-president, Amazon and country manager, India, has been appointed as the new chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India\u00a0[IAMAI]. He assumes office at a time when the industry is going through a growth trajectory with more than 500 million internet users in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Commenting on his\nappointment, Agarwal said, \u201cThis is an exciting phase in the growth story of\ninternet in India. As the internet revolution continues to be a socio-economic\nleveler, offering barrier-free access to Indian customers and small businesses\nin the remotest areas, I am excited that we are coming together as an industry\nto help truly harness the potential of the internet and emerging technologies\nsuch as AI in addressing India-specific problems at scale. I look forward to\nIAMAI continuing to offer a thoughtful platform for the industry to collaborate\nwith the government, academia & think-tanks and other relevant stakeholders\nto leverage the digital ecosystem and contribute to India’s growth.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added,\n“We will continue to offer evidence-based insights to not only be trusted\nas thought leaders in the emerging areas of tomorrow but also in the debates\ntoday. The association remains committed therefore to bring forward\nnon-partisan leading reports that include multiple perspectives to help lay the\nroad map for achieving the 1 trillion dollar digital economy along with job\ncreation, improving livelihood and contribution to the overall GDP of the country.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Apart from\nAgarwal, there have been certain other key appointments at IAMAI. Yatra\nco-founder and CEO Dhruv Shringi has taken up the charge as vice chairman. He\nsucceeds MakeMyTrip founder and group CEO Deep Kalra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Times Internet\nvice chairman Satyan Gajwani has been elected as the new Treasurer of the\nassociation. Dr. Subho Ray continues to be the president of the association.\nThe tenure of the new council is for two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About IAMAI<\/strong> Amit Agarwal, senior vice-president, Amazon and country manager, India, has been appointed as the new chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India\u00a0[IAMAI]. He assumes office at a time when the industry is going through a growth trajectory with more than 500 million internet users in India. Commenting on his appointment, Agarwal said, \u201cThis is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2836,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions\/2836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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