India's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is a wonderful model. It is focused on public interest. This broad-based technology-driven model is excellent for other countries to use to digitally empower their citizens. When it comes to building digital public infrastructure, India is unique at the scale it has been done and based on the philosophy of public good, said Nick Clegg, META's president of global affairs, on Wednesday. The most important aspect of this is its massive launch.
Even though it is not run by the government, it has been ensured that it is an open and universal system, he said. The big thing for me is that more attention has been given to the interest of the citizens than the benefit of the state.
Big companies imbibe digital initiative
Speaking at an event on 'Digital Transformation...Story of India', Clegg said Meta and WhatsApp have embraced India's digital public initiatives, including health (during Covid vaccination certificate downloads) and payments. helped him move forward. Other large private sector companies like Meta are also keen to join and take forward India's digital transformation story. We are currently working with ONDC to see what else we can do, Clegg said. We are also working towards ensuring that card payments and merchant payments are facilitated.
Citizens should get benefits of technology: Kant
At the event, India's G-20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant said, "Technology is helping to make a quantum leap for society a reality as it is open source." Large technology companies need to adopt a similar approach. He said, Artificial Intelligence (AI) can bring about a significant change in education, health, nutrition, and solutions to many challenges in emerging markets. Therefore, technology should be allowed to progress and its benefits should go to the citizens.
That's why Europe lags in innovation
Regulators lag far behind in innovation, Kant said. So, don't try to bring AI under too much regulation. Europe is doing the same. He has made the AI Act. Europe has lagged behind America in innovation because of its excessive emphasis on regulation. AI can have adverse effects. In such a situation, instead of rules and regulations, we need to clearly define the user cases.
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