“The co-evolving of Indian governments’ yojanas (policies) and India’s technology stack is a virtuous cycle. It’s unlike anything else I have seen,” said Nadella while speaking at the Future Ready Technology Summit in Bengaluru on Thursday.
He cited the example of the government’s Bhashini–a local language translation programme that aims to break the barrier of different Indian languages using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP).
It helps Indians to access internet and digital services in their own local languages.
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India is showing intense tech usage, Microsoft investments significant: Satya Nadella
“The age for celebration of technology for technology’s sake is over. It is now about thinking of its use for everyone in the world,” Nadella said during his fireside chat with Infosys’ co-founder and non-executive chairman Nandan Nilekani.
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Nilekani is also the founder chairman of Aadhaar and has also been instrumental in building several public goods such as Unified Payment Interface (UPI), Account Aggregator and Open Network for Digital Commerce.
India is still halfway on its digital public goods journey in building open network platforms such as UPI, Aadhaar and ONDC, Nilekani said.
“The big vision is how do we create a digital economy and society leveraging the power of modern technology to actually improve the lives of people, to bring economic growth, (be) more equitable and inclusive and really allow people to use their own data to move forward,” Nilekani added.
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Hyderabad-born Nadella is on a four-day official visit to India that started on Tuesday–his first since February 2020.
Nadella has been meeting key customers, startups, developers, not-for-profit organisations and students. He called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital on Wednesday.
Nadella also said that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a trend that will dominate the tech conversations for the next few years and the current revolution in the domain is similar to the cloud and mobile revolutions seen in 2007-08.
India had the second-most numbers of users by nationality on Microsoft’s open source code-hosting platform Github while Indian developers were top contributors in AI code repositories on the platform, he said.
In an interview to ET on Wednesday,
Nadella said that Microsoft is making “significant investment” in India and, unlike earlier, is building global products in the country.
“We have the largest development center outside of the United States. We have put significant capital investments in building out four large data centers…” Nadella said in an interview to ET.
Nadella who was conferred with the Padma Bhushan, India’s third-highest civilian award, in October last year said that it’s important for multinational corporations to create “local surplus” in the countries they are operating in.
Praising India’s technological progress, Nadella pointed out that as a percentage of GDP growth, India technology usage is very high.
It’s not just the startup unicorns but also the small businesses, public sector enterprises, large multinationals that are making intense use of digital technology in India to further create more digital technology for their users and customers.
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