The Union Cabinet on Friday accredited 4 memoranda of understanding (MoUs) on digital expertise with Saudi Arabia, the United States, Italy and Tanzania. The MoUs had been signed at totally different factors this yr. The MoU with Saudi Arabia issues ‘Digitization and Electronic Manufacturing,’ in addition to cooperation on Artificial Intelligence and rising applied sciences. 

The MoU with Tanzania, signed in October, offers with sharing of knowledge associated to ‘Digital Solutions implemented at Population Scale for Digital Transformation’, an obvious reference to identification applied sciences. “Both G2G and B2B bilateral cooperation in the field of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) will be enhanced,” the Union authorities stated in a press launch.

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The MoU with the US offers with “enhanc[ing] innovation ecosystems through an innovation handshake,” and was signed in March on the fifth India-US Commercial Dialogue when the nation’s Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo was visiting. The MoU seeks to “connect the two [countries’] dynamic startup ecosystems, address specific regulatory hurdles to cooperation, and promote innovation and job growth, particularly in critical and emerging technologies,” the federal government stated.

The Italy MoU offers with “establishment of a mechanism that allows them to develop cooperation activities in the field of IP and information technology services related to this field,” and was additionally signed in March.