Secure India's Connected Future
Three linked interactive apps: how satellite internet works, how India's networks are built and secured today, and a workbench to design a trusted satellite internet protocol. Together they make a 20-minute presentation that ends with an open challenge for students and engineers.
In partnership with SRKR Engineering College, Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh
No single foreign kill switch over India's connectivity
Satellite internet can reach every village, ship and disaster zone. But when one operator controls the satellites and the software that runs them, the country using it does not control whether the service keeps running. Recent events show this is a real risk, not a theory.
What the record shows
What this means for India
India has kept independent policy choices under outside pressure. Its critical communications should never become a lever that someone else can pull.
Routing Indian traffic through gateways in India is necessary, but it is not enough: it decides where traffic lands, not whether the satellites keep serving India. A trusted design also needs local survivability, fallback to Indian networks, more than one provider and, over time, Indian-controlled capacity.
The principle is country-neutral. It applies to any foreign provider, whatever its nationality. Companies that want to serve India are welcome, on terms that put India's security first.
The three apps
From Earth to Orbit
Follow one HTTPS request through a satellite internet service: what each hop does, what it can see, and what it cannot read.
Open App 1 → 2Inside India's Internet
Mobile and broadband paths, a schematic of network layers, who controls what, ten security controls, and where their limits are.
Open App 2 → 3Design the Protocol
Compare the two architectures, explore 17 threats, then build a protocol, stress-test it and export your entry.
Open App 3 →20-minute presentation flow
- App 1 · Send a request in Demo mode6 min
Turn on inter-satellite links, step through the hops, then run the control-plane outage scenario. - App 2 · Trace a city to an overseas site6 min
Show the control dashboard and one simulation. Stress that every control has limits. - App 3 · Compare, then load the demo design6 min
Toggle an overseas gateway and an outage, show the evidence panel, then run the sandbox. - Announce the challenge2 min
Tracks, deadline, judging, and how to submit.
Tip: turn on Teacher mode for larger text and on-screen narration. Demo mode loads a prepared state on each app.
Trusted Satellite Internet Protocol Challenge
Design a protocol or architecture that protects India's networks while keeping competition and consumer choice. Judging looks at the design, not at the company or country behind any technology it is compared with.
Tracks
- Student: undergraduate and postgraduate teams of 1–4
- Engineer: professionals and researchers, teams of 1–4
- Policy and governance: legal, audit and accountability designs; no code required
- Bonus prize: best post-quantum-ready key management design
A valid entry contains
- Must pass the sovereignty gate in App 3: India keeps control of service continuity, jurisdiction and dependence on any single provider
- A design of 6 pages or fewer: the protocol, the threats it addresses and the threats it leaves open
- The JSON file exported from App 3, or an equivalent simulation or code
- A map to the 17 threats, with one stated trade-off per threat
- Optional: a 3-minute video for the finale
Judging
| Security strength | 30% |
|---|---|
| Honesty about limits | 15% |
| Privacy and accountability | 15% |
| Practicality and cost | 15% |
| Openness and competition | 10% |
| Clarity and demo | 15% |