Our cherished world is on the crossroads at this time. The battle in Europe has introduced to note how fragile is the peace on this in any other case pretty world. Conflicts, as we have now realized over the course of centuries, all the time go away behind thick clouds of fabric destruction, unnerving lack of human lives and scarring of human minds that thousands and thousands of households, on either side (Victor and the vanquished) will endure from in years to come back. Just because the world was recovering from Covid, we have now been thrust into one other disaster, the place the enemy just isn’t a virus, however one other human being.  History has confirmed that unequal worlds all the time result in conflicts. So, the one approach to keep away from conflicts basically is to take a look at creating an inclusive and equal entry world, the place we’re all working collaboratively collectively within the spirit of “Vishwa Bandhutva”(Planet-wide brotherhood). While the concept is outdated in India, it actually couldn’t be extra related to world proper now.

As India seems to be on the subsequent 25 years of Amrit Kaal (golden interval), properly poised to take a look at finishing 100 years of messy, however with functioning democracy, it’s taking a look at driving two huge waves. First one is concerning the huge demographic dividend, the place a majority of its inhabitants goes to be younger and productive. It goes to have the most important working inhabitants on this planet for the subsequent 15 years with greater than 900 mn folks within the productive age. If India can improve alternatives to this huge workforce, India can multiply its GDP by greater than 10x within the subsequent 25 years. The second large wave is the approaching collectively of the computing and communication revolution with huge quantities of knowledge and intelligence. Ray Kurzweil predicted that by 2029, the sum of AI goes to be greater than human intelligence. We are going to finish this decade with 7.5bn related human beings and 30 Bn related and clever machines (Cisco analysis), in what we name the start of the AI pushed expertise economic system. Transitioning from the information economic system, within the upcoming expertise economic system, we can be deriving greater than 90% of the worth in what we name digital clever intangible experiences constructed on prime of an more and more digital bodily world. This wave goes to create a brand new financial worth of greater than $15.7tn (PWC analysis), virtually 5 occasions the present GDP of India. This huge intelligence shift goes to alter our companies, lives and even society based mostly on the alternatives that we make in constructing AI at this time.

With greater than 11% of prime tier AI expertise being Indian, coupled with the huge quantity of drawback knowledge and desperation to create leapfrog options to unravel its societal scale challenges, India can probably turn into the highest 2 expertise middle’s on this planet. With greater than 100+ digital unicorns, the Indian innovation expertise is primed to digitize India throughout sectors at a livid tempo. This in flip drive the flywheel of huge change, with digital companies producing extra knowledge, knowledge turning into intelligence and intelligence resulting in new sorts of usages and options. Take for instance, at this time with house grown UPI fee ecosystem India is doing 2.5 occasions the digital funds performed in China every day. While digital fee, a small however vital vector to total digitisation, goes to speed up different areas and likewise a great indication of the sort of scale India goes to generate in close to future.

By connecting its huge inhabitants with digital mobility with 5G, it may possibly turn into the distant work hub for the world with improvements in tele operations. Transforming bodily mobility with EV shift, micro mobility and advance air mobility, it may possibly create sensible clusters round its organically grown cities making it straightforward for its billion plus inhabitants to maneuver digitally and bodily at velocity. Its digital clever healthcare system, with examples like COWIN, which allowed it to vaccinate 10mn+ every day level to a future, the place it could ship 80% of the healthcare outdoors of the normal hospital ecosystem. By quickly implementing the NEP 2020 (National Educational Policy) with bias on open curriculum and interdisciplinary expertise creation, constructed to go well with the upcoming AI pushed expertise economic system, it may possibly get 300 mn younger children prepared for the long run. These initiatives constructed collaboratively with the world, within the true “Atma Nirbhar” (Self reliance) could possibly be recreation altering and likewise pattern setting for the remainder of the world in use of AI & digital improvements to leapfrog. Further these options may be relevant in remainder of Asia, Africa and even in US & EU. A living proof is a younger firm known as Touchkin, constructing a psychological well being chatbot known as Wysa, grown within the messy by-lanes of Bangalore, helps the ten mn+ sufferers throughout the worldwide together with EU and US cope with anxiousness and melancholy.

As we rejoice India – Sweden Innovation Day on twenty seventh Oct 2022, the core query from the angle of humanity to ask is, if we will use this huge expertise shift and big expertise mashup of innovators to probably wage a brand new sort of conflict. A conflict for humanity, not towards, to construct expertise that may deliver equitable and sustainable progress for the world. Growth that can create enduring peace by making a world that will be a secure and honest place for our youngsters and the place one received’t need to rely on the beginning lottery of being born to a wealthy mother or father or a wealthy nation.

The decisions of two democracies working collectively on north-south collaboration by leveraging these huge levers of change has the potential to supply a greater and extra inclusive template for the world. While we’re offered on the aspiration of going to Mars, a dying planet, we would need to work more durable on ensuring that our dwelling planet has a sustainable future. If we make the best decisions, we may create a world, the place everybody has an equal entry to good well being, schooling and higher mobility (digital, bodily and monetary). Where everybody just isn’t working to make ends meet, however slightly is trying to specific the human potential and intelligence inside. With India being the Sherpa for G20 and Sweden going to guide the EU subsequent yr, the timing is excellent to start out a critical collaboration between the 2 innovation ecosystems with this intent and sharing it with the world. Can India and Sweden take a pledge to guide the world on this new method? Are we collectively able to wage a conflict on psychological well being, on machine illiteracy and inclusive entry to raised high quality of life and alternative, not simply to some, however to billions within the creating world? Can we create a world the place we’d deal with one another with empathy and respect, a future, the place autonomous human beings can collaborate with autonomous machines to construct an inclusive and sustainable future for the pale blue dot.

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