“India is coming online at an unprecedented pace”.
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I write this article with some authority based on my visits to nearly all nations (except Afghanistan) of the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, and not only having lectured there, but discussed with think tanks and more importantly having sailed in this region whilst in the Navy and Coast Guard and having exercised with most navies and coast guards (except Pakistan, but including China). While in India, I could feel the change.
“From large corporates to young professionals in this great center of innovation, each can be part of India story”, he said.
He said that Microsoft would announce cloud services from Indian data centres as a key part of both “Make in India” and “Digital India” which are PM Modi’s pet projects in next week.
Jacobs announced Dollars 150 million funds to fuel innovation in Indian startups.
In his remarks, Nadella said Microsoft’s plan is to partner with the Indian Government to bring in low-priced broadband connectivity to 500,000 villages in India.
“It leaves governance inside everyone’s reach”, Modi said whereas diving his family animal Digital India drive having the giants of one’s IT environment here. It empowers people digitally and has the potential to pull people out of poverty. The initiative will leverage the unused TV “white space” spectrum.
“We are expanding our public Wi-Fi hotspots”.
Modi, in his address, thanked the companies for their initiatives.
The government, he said, is using technology to impart scale and speed to development and for this there is need to bridge the digital divide and promote digital literacy in the same way as ensuring general literacy.
“In the digital age, we have the opportunity to transform the lives of people”. “Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, they are the new neighbourhoods of our new world, ” he said.
Apple CEO Tim Cook and Tesla CEO Elon Musk were among others he met during a tour of Silicon Valley today.
In recent testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, the head of the US Pacific Command, Admiral Harry B. Harris, declared that, “India presents a wonderful opportunity for us”. Zuckerberg said India was personally very important to Facebook.
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Top CEOs of American companies, which have played a key role in IT revolution the world is experiencing now, have endorsed ambitious “Digital India” programme, describing it as a vision that would bring India technologically at par with the rest of the world.
