‘Call for digital swaraj reflects need for greater data control’: IBM India chief Sandip Patel

MUMBAI: IBM India and South Asia managing director Sandip Patel said his call for “digital swaraj” reflects businesses’ and govts’ growing need to exercise greater control over their data, technology assets and the systems that manage them.“I have started calling this the era of digital swaraj. In a predominantly digital world and a global digital economy, organisations need a degree of digital sovereignty suited to their level of regulation and the criticality of their operations,” Patel told TOI at its flagship event, IBM Think, held here.Geopolitical developments and regulatory requirements have heightened concerns over data sovereignty, particularly among organisations in regulated sectors such as banking.Companies increasingly want clarity on where their data resides and who controls encryption keys, where the control plane is located and whether compliance can be demonstrated continuously.IBM’s…