ASEAN and India reaffirm shared commitment to strengthen regional digital cooperation

Exam-focused facts from the 19 January 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

The 6th ASEAN-India Digital Ministers Meeting was held virtually under the theme Adaptive ASEAN: From Connectivity to Connected Intelligence.
The meeting was co-chaired by Telecom Secretary Amit Agrawal and Vietnam’s Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Manh Hung.
The ASEAN-India Digital Work Plan 2026 was approved, covering ICT training, the India-ASEAN Regulators’ Conference and telecom ICT solutions deployment.
A special ASEAN-India Fund for the Digital Future was operationalised.
India highlighted its Digital Public Infrastructure such as Aadhaar, UPI and DigiLocker, and the Sanchar Saathi initiative for telecom user protection and fraud prevention.
India underlined cooperation in Artificial Intelligence through the IndiaAI Mission, emphasising safe and trusted AI.