Nadella urged to help boost India’s DigiGaon initiative
new delhi — India’s Union IT and Electronics Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday met Indianborn CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella and urged him to consider the use of Microsoft’s innovative technology in the upcoming DigiGaon (Digital Village) initiative.
“Had a good &productive meeting with @satyanadella. He deeply appreciated the success of ongoing #DigitalIndia program, which is transformative,” the minister tweeted after talks with Nadella.“Requested @satyanadella to consider the use of their innovative technology in the proposed Digigaon (Digital Village) initiative,” Prasad added.
In the Union Budget for the 2017-18 fiscal, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that a DigiGaon initiative will be launched for the provision of telemedicine, education and skills with the help of digital technology.
“It was fantastic to spend time with Minister Prasad, talking about the great progress India is making with IndiaStack and Digital India,” Nadella said. IndiaStack is a set of application proxxgramming interface (APIs) that allows governments, businesses, startups and developers to utilise an unique digital infrastructure to solve India’s problems towards “presence-less, paperless, and cashless service delivery”.
“For us at Microsoft, our mission is to empower every Indian and every Indian organisation to be able to achieve more and with the policies of the Government of India. We are excited to contribute to help take advantage of Digital India,” Nadella said in a video posted by Prasad on his Twitter account. — Ians