“Press Note 2 has impacted e-commerce companies more than anything which has gone through Parliament in a long time," said technology policy and media professional, Prasanto K. Roy at MediaNama’s #PolicyNext Conference held in Delhi on June 27. "One clarification, executive order, whatever you call it, it shook up these companies. ...Though they were able to work around it but it cost them money. And again, light in all of this, there was no consultation, there was no feedback process, there was no question of listening to questions or FAQ's or anything like that, they just got 30 days to comply and that's it and it was all take or walk kind of approach,” Roy added. While explaining the challenges in India policymaking process, Roy said that India has traditionally been inconsistent and also lacks the process of including feedback. This causes the process to become more exclusive. [caption id="attachment_202457" align="alignnone" width="1800"] Prasanto K. Roy, Technology Policy and Media Professional[/caption] "In the data protection committee for example, there was lack of representation directly from industry and civil society. The industry itself wasn't directly represented, there was DSCI, which was sort of semi industry, but you know NASSCOM wasn't and others weren't. So, that is one, the e-commerce thing is another example, where again you know it was a selective pick of what they identified as the Indian e-commerce players," Roy said. He explained that the problem in this was that it was excluding more than 85% of the market by market…
