India, Japan should work jointly on cyber security, green tech: Prasad

New Delhi: Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that India and Japan should work together in the areas of green technologies, cyber security and ICT development.

"India has taken a big leap forward in letting technology play a pivotal role in brining about the much needed change in governance in India. With friends like Japan, there is a natural scope to help us in achieving this objective," he said while addressing the second meeting of the India-Japan joint working group on ICT.

This discussion of the group, which was formed in October 2013 to boost bilateral trade in the ICT, envisaged from green technology, cyber security to use of ICT applications in social and economic field.