Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

About Vijayashankar Na

Naavi is a veteran Cyber Law specialist in India and is presently working from Bangalore as an Information Assurance Consultant. Pioneered concepts such as ITA 2008 compliance, Naavi is also the founder of Cyber Law College, a virtual Cyber Law Education institution. He now has been focusing on the projects such as Secure Digital India and Cyber Insurance

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Towards Unified AIGSI: The DSCI Discussion Paper and the DGPSI-AI Approach

In Continuation of the earlier article on the emerging AI Guidelines  Out of the nine AI-related guidelines identified in our earlier discussion, seven have already been examined on Naavi.org. We may revisit these documents at a later stage. For now, … Continue reading →

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The Nine AI guidelines..purpose identification

In yesterday’s post, we listed the following eight AI guidlines that have been released by different organizations in India. DGPSI-AI  (Naavi/FDPPI): A DPDPA framework for Data Fiduciaries who carry AI risk either directly or through the processors. It mainly addressed … Continue reading →

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Rush for AI Guidelines

Naavi and FDPPI pioneered the formal guidline for AI regulation with the release of DGPSI-AI in September 2025. We had also subsequently released a discussion version of AIGSI or Artificial Intelligence Governance Standard of India.  In  November 2025, Government of … Continue reading →

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DPDPA Compliance in Banks: A Three-Tier Governance Structure under DGPSI-Bank

In discussing DPDPA today, we can recall certain aspects of Information Technology Act 2000 which are relevant. The Information Technology Act 2000 (ITA 2000) was designed as a law for electronic documents, not for computers. It defined what an electronic … Continue reading →

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