{"id":52589,"date":"2018-05-10T19:56:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T02:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=52589"},"modified":"2018-05-10T19:56:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T02:56:22","slug":"technology-can-help-india-leapfrog-into-inclusive-growth-bill-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/technology-can-help-india-leapfrog-into-inclusive-growth-bill-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology can Help India Leapfrog into Inclusive Growth: Bill Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, looks on during the discussion ‘Building Human Capital: A project for the world’ in the IMF\/World Bank spring meeting in Washington, D.C., April 21. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n

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The use of technology coupled with bold decisions can help India leapfrog into inclusive growth and improve the quality of health and education, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has said, writes Lalit K. Jha.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Appreciating Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s \u2018Digital India\u2019 campaign along with the socio-economic reforms, Gates said that digitization can help monitor quality and eventually help the education system.<\/p>\n

The idea is \u201cif you take care of their health, including nutrition and you improve the education system then the promise for India is really unbelievable,\u201d Gates told PTI in an interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely yes,\u201d Gates said when asked if digitization and modern technologies would help India achieve the goals of an ideal society as being articulated by top Indian leaders\u2019 post-independence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea of growing up is having very high survival rates, growing up without malnutrition, giving birth without the mother\u2019s life being at risk; the next 20-25 years India will make a lot of progress on these things,\u201d said Gates, who now is involved in major philanthropic activities globally as head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not the only thing… it will help with the gender imbalance that we see,\u201d Gates said.<\/p>\n

He said by driving innovation and better measurement one could actually accelerate the process of growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think that for a lot of these issues, India is very much on the cutting edge. For a lot of things, we do, we work with partners in India and the ones that are most successful are Aadhaar-linked things related things,\u201d Gates said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we looked at how the countries that are in earlier stage of development can benefit. So, a lot of these ideas will have a positive impact in Africa over time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Referring to India\u2019s demographic profile, Gates described it as a young country.<\/p>\n

He was highly appreciative of the steps being taken by Prime Minister Modi.<\/p>\n

\u201cCertainly, some of the things he\u2019s taken on as priorities, like financial inclusion, improvements in sanitation, improving the vaccine system and adding new vaccines. I think that\u2019s really good,\u201d Gates said.<\/p>\n

Gates said he has had some interactions with Modi, even independent of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause he\u2019s been a leader on some climate change issues. He came to the Paris event and talked about the need for innovation and actually coined the term mission innovation that over 30 countries have signed up to about increasing R&D,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Gates, while responding to a question, said that a critical mass of digital accounts at the time of demonetization would have made things easier for Indians in the immediate aftermath of demonetization.<\/p>\n

Well, the idea that over time a lot of the financial transactions will be done digitally instead of using hard currency, I think that\u2019s a good trend, both for efficiency and visibility, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, looks on during the discussion ‘Building Human Capital: A project for the world’ in the IMF\/World Bank spring meeting in Washington, D.C., April 21. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds\/AFP\/Getty Images) The use of technology coupled with bold decisions can help India leapfrog into inclusive growth and improve the…<\/p>\n

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