Satya Nadella appreciates the growth of digital public goods in India
- ByStartupStory | January 6, 2023
Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, spoke to a group of executives from the IT sector, developers, and startups on Thursday at the Microsoft Future Ready Technology Summit in Bengaluru. He emphasised the significance of digital public goods in India. The head of Microsoft claimed that the country places a unique emphasis on creating digital public goods that are unmatched anywhere else in the world, “What’s happening with digital public goods in India is phenomenal,” he noted, adding that it is wonderful that India leads the globe and then gives something back to it.
Nadella Elaborated, ““It’s a virtuous cycle of digital public goods that raises the bar of private enterprise, increases competition, reduces transactional costs of the citizens of the country, and… a set of governance principles, policies that reinforce all of this.”
The Microsoft CEO also spoke on digital public goods in India and how they enable a community and an economy to be more inclusive during a fireside talk with Nandan Nilekani, Co-Founder and Chairman of Infosys and a well-known creator of the Aadhaar system. According to Nilekani, the major aim is to use technology to better people’s lives, promote economic growth, increase equity and inclusion, promote open access, and permit individuals to use their own data. He continued by saying that numerous newly generated digital public goods had benefited numerous businesses. For example, companies like Jio and Zerodha used Aadhaar e-KYC to scale their operations.
Nadella, who began his trip to India on January 3 in Mumbai, said, “For me, perhaps my most mic-drop moment on this trip was what I saw with Bhashini.” It is a National Language Translation Mission programme.
Nadella said, “We are working with them [Bhashini] along with all the other mentors of this programme to enable essentially a digital public good around language translation so that everybody in India has the ability to tap into great AI models.”
Nadella highlighted his vision for how technology might influence India’s future during the summit, as well as how the tech giant is working with Indian companies to prepare them for the future.
“We are making them in India so that others can Make in India, whether it is a small business out of Kolkata using it to scale to everywhere in India, or a public sector project like Bhashini, developing state-of-the-art AI to democratise language translation in India,” said Nadella, mentioning the outcomes for health and education, among other purposes, might be exported to other nations. Nadella reaffirmed the digital imperative for every organisation earlier this week while speaking with prominent business executives. He also discussed how the Microsoft Cloud can promote innovation, advance the general economy, and hasten the expansion of companies in India. He emphasised how Microsoft is developing across the tech stack to help the nation’s community of developers, entrepreneurs, and businesses in every industry, and how the cloud will be the cornerstone of scaling India’s digital journey.
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