NITI Aayog has launched India’s own cloud storage platform-DigiBoxx. It is a digital asset management and storage platform. It is a potential alternative to Google Drive, Dropbox, and Microsoft OneDrive.
- The launch of DigiBoxx comes just a few weeks after Google announced that it won’t be offering unlimited free photo uploads starting June 1, 2021.
- DigiBoxx allows users to share files even when they don’t have a DigiBoxx account. The feature has been named InstaShare and allows users to share up to 2GB of content for free. However, mobile number or email-ID is required.
- It is very affordable and a user can opt for a plan for as low as Rs 30 per month. It will give a facility of 5TB storage space with a size limit of 10GB.
- The data remains available on the link for 45 days post which it will be deleted and the link becomes invalid.
- DigiBoxx is currently available for Android users only. However, the company has confirmed that the service will soon be made available to iOS users as well.