Tech can help solve some of India’s biggest challenges: Microsoft President

New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith on Thursday stated that expertise can help solve some of India’s biggest challenges, like local weather change and meals safety.

Smith, who’s in India this week, stated the nation can take a large leap by way of world-class improvements that can help solve world points.

“I’m in India because the nation celebrates 75 years of Independence. It’s an thrilling time to be taught extra about how expertise can help solve some of India’s biggest challenges — and the way India’s innovation is shaping the long run,” tweeted Smith.

A Twitter consumer from India responded: “Welcome to India, Brad. Food safety and local weather change are the biggest menace to humanity and I strongly imagine India will emerge as a worldwide chief, showcasing the right way to make the world a greater place for everybody”.

The Microsoft president earlier met Minister of State for IT and Electronics, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, within the capital.

“Brad Smith, Microsoft India’s Anant Maheshwari referred to as on me at my workplace. Had a dialogue across the future of rising applied sciences,” Chandrasekhar had tweeted.

Smith earlier stated that India will change into the worldwide superpower in synthetic intelligence (AI).

During the ‘RAISE 2020’ digital convention on AI inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he applauded the Indian authorities’s efforts in AI improvement, saying the nationwide technique on AI is the proper basis.

“AI can revolutionise just about each half of the economic system, and I believe in so some ways the nations that transfer the quickest to deploy AI extra shortly than others, will discover that they are going to be accelerating financial progress,” he had stated.

Last Year, Smith stated that India will play an essential function in regulating expertise.

“In my view, India has actually been on the forefront, along with the EU, in advancing ideas round digital sovereignty,” Smith had stated throughout a media interplay.

(Except for the headline, the remainder of this IANS article is un-edited)

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