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India Realizing 1.4 Billion Dreams Through Tech Power
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00:04Bonjour, c'est un grand honneur d'être au stage avec le ministre de Réalways, Telecommunication,
00:18Communication, Electronic Information, qu'il y a d'autres ?
00:24et de la friendship, de l'India.
00:28India, comme il a été dit, est le pays du jour, et l'India a fait beaucoup de progress dans
00:38plusieurs zones.
00:40Et si il y a une zone où l'India est clairement séparée de l'autre pays,
00:46c'est quand il s'agit de création d'ingénieurs, leaders dans le secteur digitale et de l'innovation.
00:54C'est juste agréable de voir le nombre d'Indiens qui sont leading une très grande compagnie,
01:04en plus, à Publicis, Sapient est led par un Indien qui est Nigel Vaz.
01:10Donc, vous voyez, c'est quelque chose qui est absolument incroyable.
01:14Je vais vous donner la parole pour votre keynote,
01:18et après votre keynote, nous serons pour une ou deux questions, et peut-être avec la table.
01:25Absolument.
01:26Merci.
01:29So, friends, at the outset, I would like to thank VivaTech and France
01:36for honouring India as the country of the year for this VivaTech.
01:42This is one of the biggest tech events in the whole of Europe,
01:46and we are very happy to be partnering with France
01:50and very happy to have our start-ups visiting this event
01:55and interacting with you for looking at some shared opportunities
01:59and some shared goals.
02:01Friends, when you think of India, I'm sure you would have seen many images,
02:08many different ideas you might have about India.
02:12I will present before you an aspect which is the emerging technology,
02:21the emerging energy, the brain, the entrepreneurship of young Indians,
02:26how it is making a big difference in people's lives.
02:30That's what I'll present before you.
02:31So, I'll start with asking you a question.
02:35If you have 1 billion bank accounts, 1 billion digital identities,
02:49and a payment system that can take billions of transactions flawlessly
02:57without making a single mistake,
02:59what would be the thought process that you will get?
03:01What will be the kind of solutions you can create
03:04if you have this kind of scenario in front of you?
03:08So, if you have this kind of ecosystem,
03:12you can create solutions which are born digital,
03:17which take digital birth,
03:19which are created with a digital implementation in mind,
03:23which are right from beginning, from point zero,
03:26from saying go, they are digital in nature.
03:29So, I'll give one example of that.
03:32We all passed through this great pandemic,
03:34very huge, disruptive kind of scenario.
03:38For two years, India, the whole world,
03:42we had to face COVID.
03:44Now, a country which has such a diverse population,
03:48a country which is so huge in terms of the challenges it faces,
03:54how did it face the challenge of COVID?
03:58So, we started with digital base when we created our own vaccine,
04:04and we said that, yes, we have to take this vaccine to 1.4 billion people,
04:09then the solution has to be digital.
04:12So, we created a purely digital solution called CoWin,
04:16winning over COVID, right?
04:18CoWin.
04:19And that digital solution helped us reach vaccination to today.
04:28As on today, 2 billion doses of vaccines have been administered.
04:332 billion doses of vaccines have been administered to a very diverse population,
04:41to people living in very different geographies,
04:45from the hills of Himalayas to the beaches of Goa.
04:49That kind of diversity we are able to reach.
04:51and that's possible only because we have created a digital ecosystem
04:57where new ideas, new thoughts, new solutions can be born digital.
05:06And that's what I would like to share with you in maybe three or four different points.
05:14So, the first point is about how do we create an ecosystem
05:19which enables such solutions to be created.
05:23So, the way we approach this problem,
05:25so different countries have approached this problem in different ways, right?
05:29So, there are countries which have very big tech companies
05:33which dominate the technology, dominate the thought process.
05:37They decide what to do.
05:39There are other countries where the government decides everything, right?
05:43Instead of these two extremes, in India, we decided to democratize technology.
05:51And how did we do that?
05:53We created public digital artifacts which are available to everybody
06:00as open public digital goods, free of cost.
06:06Anybody can use it and create solutions
06:11which are needed by the society.
06:14So, for example, digital identity.
06:17Now, digital identity using biometric is today 1.3 billion people have digital identity
06:29which is flawlessly used by a variety of industries,
06:34whether it is banking industry, insurance industry, logistics.
06:38Anybody can use it, right?
06:41A digital locker system in which you can put your certificates in a very safe way.
06:45So, somebody who wants to, let's say an insurance company,
06:48wants to see what is your educational qualification.
06:52They can simply go to the digital locker, check what is the educational qualification
06:57and you are there.
06:59Without actually going out and producing certificate, you can go and check your educational qualification.
07:07Now, creating this kind of system, e-consent, a system by which consent can be taken in a very seamless
07:16manner,
07:17in an absolutely easy manner, very user-friendly manner.
07:21So, that kind of almost 20 odd public digital artifacts have been created, opened up to the public,
07:30then an open API system has been developed and bingo.
07:34The solution is, young brains, energetic brains, are today using that digital platform, ecosystem
07:46to create solutions which are scalable over a billion people,
07:52which can be developed in India, then taken to the world, that kind of solutions.
07:57Now, am I just talking empty things or is there evidence behind it?
08:04The evidence behind this is 102 unicorns, 100 plus unicorns,
08:13which have created such solutions using the public digital goods, using this ecosystem,
08:21creating solutions which are now used by the people.
08:25So, that's the power of technology when it is democratized,
08:30when it is given as a very large public digital goods kind of ecosystem,
08:36which can be used by, so today, the digital platform for payments,
08:43we called it unified payment interface,
08:47is doing five and a half billion transactions a month.
08:52And since its inception, practically not a single transaction has failed.
08:57So, that kind of solution, when it is brought, it really, really brings a meaningful difference in the people,
09:05in the lives of people at the bottom of the pyramid, in the lives of poor people,
09:10in the lives of marginalized people, people who need the support of the government.
09:14So, that's the thought process with which we are approaching.
09:18So, I request, there are so many start-ups from various countries who have assembled,
09:23who have come to this great tech event, to ViverTech.
09:27I request, examine these public digital goods, see what you can learn from,
09:34see what you can take to your own countries, your own economies and use them.
09:39All these public digital goods are available as open source, free of cost.
09:46If, let's say, in Europe, I'll just give an example.
09:51There are more than 20 countries having different payment systems.
09:56You want to have a unified payment system for Europe,
09:59you can straight away use the India's UPI, take it, it's an open source,
10:07let the banks voluntarily join it, let the payment companies voluntarily join it,
10:13let the consumers get used to it.
10:16I can promise you, within two years, within three years,
10:19you will have a very good, seamless payment interface
10:23which works throughout the continent.
10:26So, this is the potential of technology that is open for you.
10:30I'll share a couple of more things.
10:34We are today living in a world which has,
10:39which needs very trusted telecom solutions,
10:42very trusted internet solutions.
10:45And why do we need that?
10:46Because we all know that the smartphone in the hand of you,
10:51in your hand, that smartphone has become the primary source
10:56of consuming entertainment, education,
11:01large part of healthcare, payment systems.
11:06Practically everything in our life is today,
11:08the smartphone is the primary source of accessing all those services.
11:13Right?
11:15And the smartphone works on the telecom network.
11:19If the telecom system itself is not trusted, then what do you do?
11:24It's a challenge faced by many democracies all over the world.
11:28It can be disruptive for a democracy.
11:31So, how do you get a really trusted and a good solution
11:38which works at large scale, at a very big scale?
11:42Because today, digital transactions, whether it is your payments,
11:47whether it is entertainment, whether it is downloading a movie on,
11:51I mean, watching a movie on Netflix,
11:53it is huge amount of data, huge amount of transactions which are happening.
11:59So, we decided that the only way to have a very secure and trusted telecom infrastructure
12:08is to start developing 4G and 5G stack, the core network, the radio network,
12:16the telecom equipment, the design of chipsets, everything in a very secure and absolutely open kind of manner.
12:27And believe you me, it took us some effort of about 30 odd months.
12:32By this March 22, our 4G technology stack, end to end, core, radio, everything got fully commissioned,
12:45fully ready, ready for deployment over a very large number of towers.
12:51And simultaneously, we had started the development of 5G technology stack.
12:56So, as on today, the 5G technology stack is ready in the lab,
13:00and by next year, March, the 5G technology stack will also be available for deployment over a large area.
13:08Now, this is a source, this is an application where throughout the design process,
13:21trust and scalability was kept at the center of our design process.
13:26We know that today, a large number of countries are looking for a good trusted source.
13:34And that's why we said, this will be a system which will be absolutely trustworthy from the point of view
13:43of any country.
13:44If a country wants to have privacy as the forefront, it can keep privacy at the forefront.
13:50If a country wants efficiency of transaction as the forefront, it can keep that as the forefront.
13:55So, that kind of thought process has gone in developing this.
13:59So, 4G and 5G technology stack will be available to the world.
14:04And another thing which I'm sure many of you would be aware of,
14:08we have virtualized the core and radio networks,
14:12which basically means that the hardware and the software are today independent of each other.
14:21It can be any server, need not be somebody's chipset which can have a pipe taking data to some different
14:29point.
14:29It can be your trusted servers on which the software runs,
14:34and it becomes a great, it becomes a very absolutely secure and trusted source for you.
14:41So, that's the kind of thought process we have followed in the country,
14:44and this will be open, available to everybody in the world.
14:47The third point I would like to make is, we all are facing the challenge of climate change,
14:55all the countries across the world, and we have to jointly fight it.
14:59So, in our country, in India, we have decided to shift in a very big way to green hydrogen.
15:08large investments have started pouring in, and I thank France.
15:15Recently, Total Energy announced a billion euro worth investment in green hydrogen ecosystem.
15:22And in parallel, we have started developing the solutions for trucking and railway.
15:28So, the first hydrogen train, hydrogen driven train, will be ready by June, July of next year,
15:39which will not be a prototype.
15:42It will be a real working train.
15:44It will be a real operating train, which can then be mass produced.
15:51And given the efficiencies of cost that we have in India, this will be a solution which will be available
15:58to the world,
15:59because we are all facing the same challenge.
16:02We are all fighting the same similar issues across the world.
16:07So, why not let's put all our energies together and create a solution which is good for the mankind,
16:13which is good for humanity.
16:14So, that's the thought process which we are working.
16:18And I invite all of you to come over to India, see how the young brains and energetic entrepreneurs
16:29are finding solutions to difficult problems which are at a very different scale
16:36than what you would generally see in many other countries, let me put it that way.
16:43So, a billion is a benchmark that we have to have for every solution.
16:48So, that kind of thinking creates a different way of solution designing.
16:54So, please come to India, see the solutions, interact with these startups who have come from India,
17:00see what kind of things they offer for your geographies, for your economies and your countries.
17:06Thank you.
17:07Thank you very much for your patient hearing.
17:08Thank you.
17:09Thank you.
17:11Thank you.
17:13And I agree.
17:14We should all go to India and see by our own eyes what's happening.
17:20Yeah.
17:21And I understand that you are providing a lot of solutions.
17:27Maybe we will please have a seat.
17:30We can stand also.
17:34And I understand also that you are offering a new system for banking and for payment for all Europe.
17:45But I have a question which is regarding what happened with the COVID in India.
17:50When things started, we were all fearing that it will be an incredible wave and it will be extremely difficult
18:01for India to control that wave due to the number of population, the sheer size of your population 1.3
18:10to 1.4 billion.
18:12This is quite a number.
18:14And also the fact that it is a big country with complicated communication.
18:21And you have decided to be self-reliant.
18:26And you have decided to be self-reliant.
18:27So I have on that front two questions.
18:30One is how have you been able to achieve such incredible tasks?
18:36And second is being self-reliant a mantra of your policy in India that you will be self-sufficient on
18:49most of the aspects.
18:51So there is a sovereignty in what you are doing and what you are controlling.
18:57OK, so thank you for asking this question.
19:01In case of COVID, our thought process was that the only way this pandemic can be checked is by having
19:12a very rapid vaccination program.
19:16A vaccination program which can be scaled up to a billion people over a few months.
19:23Not like 12 months, not like 15 months, but over three or four months.
19:28So how do you do that?
19:30First and foremost was to scale up the first was to design a vaccine.
19:36And when the world was still thinking how this pandemic will pan out.
19:42Our prime minister gave us a challenge that we should be among the first ones to develop the vaccine.
19:49And the vaccine should be not just for India.
19:52It should be for the entire humanity.
19:54That was always the thought process.
19:56That should be available to all the countries in the world because it's a common challenge we are facing.
20:01So we developed not just one, but three vaccines to begin with.
20:07The second one was very popular and very good, very effective.
20:10So we rapidly scaled up its production.
20:13And we, as I said in the beginning, we created a purely digital solution called COVID, on which any appointment
20:22for vaccination, the tracing of what are the stocks available at different points, then getting the certificate done, then reminding
20:31the citizens about when is their second date going to come.
20:36So that entire process was digital using one app and it worked flawlessly, it worked very smoothly and we were
20:45able to very rapidly scale up our vaccination programs.
20:48So that's how we took up this challenge.
20:50And is it policy that you will extend to other departments for the next few years or is it a
20:59policy which has been just set for that purpose of vaccination?
21:06Is India thinking that self-reliance is important in the next 20, 25 years?
21:14So self-reliance should be seen in the changing geopolitical context that we have.
21:21So we have supply chains which are today not as resilient as they were, let's say, a few years back.
21:26Today, supply chains get disrupted because of many multiple events.
21:31So our thought process of self-reliance is basically some of the core technologies we should try and develop ourselves,
21:39number one.
21:40Number two, we should become a very important supply chain partner, a trusted supply chain partner for large number of
21:48economies all over the world.
21:50So for example, today electronics manufacturing, which was practically nothing in the country a few years back, is 75 billion
21:57US.
21:58And it's on the path on a double digit growth rate for reaching 300 billion in coming five years.
22:04So thought process is not to be isolated.
22:08Thought process is to use our technical talent pool, create solutions which can be scaled up at a very large
22:18level,
22:19used in India, made in India, designed in India, made for the world.
22:23That's the thought process.
22:25When we look at the recent story of India, there is one aspect which is absolutely staggering
22:33because digital has been led by the US and then by China and all the countries were lagging behind.
22:42And India has been able to fill the gap at the speed which was absolutely unexpected that we have not
22:51seen anywhere else.
22:53So, two questions.
22:56What has made India so different and so effective?
22:59And what advice would you give to the Europeans in order to fill the gap?
23:06I would say our strategy of creating public digital platforms, absolutely open APIs and a series of public digital artifacts,
23:19that really helped us scale up very fast because it democratized the entire technology development process.
23:26It was not controlled by a few companies.
23:28So today, for example, our payment system.
23:31When Google and Amazon wanted to introduce their payment systems in India, initially they used their own systems,
23:38but once they evaluated the unified payment interface of India,
23:44they decided that yes, this is a far better solution because it's very resilient.
23:49N number of banks can join it.
23:52Billions of people can join it as consumers.
23:55N number of payment applications can join it.
23:58Any number of card companies can join it because it's a public digital platform.
24:02They decided to use this as their backbone, both Amazon and Google.
24:07So my request to the world would be instead of letting technology be concentrated either in the hands of the
24:15government
24:16or in the hands of big tech, it should be democratized and the way to democratize is to create public
24:23digital platforms.
24:25I'm an admin.
24:27And as an admin, I love advertising, obviously.
24:31And if there is something which has been, I think, appreciated and admired by many admin,
24:39is the work that has been done on India image, incredible India.
24:46And what is incredible is the journey that we went through.
24:51And what is absolutely incredible also is where you are today.
24:57And my question is, can you share with us a few of the future secrets of the decision that are
25:06not yet known by the public,
25:08tech that your government is going to take to continue to lead in the progress that you are making?
25:17Okay, so...
25:19Okay, so journalists, take notes.
25:22We are a very transparent government.
25:25We will definitely be focusing on creating technology stacks, which are, again, in the same way.
25:34So we are creating a public digital health platform, like the public digital payment platform, similar to that.
25:40Already, it has been launched and about 200 startups have already joined that.
25:46Similar platform for logistics, similar platform for education, similar platform for agriculture.
25:53So the thought process will be creating more and more digital public goods, which can help serve the people at
26:01the bottom of the pyramid.
26:02We believe that the governments have to take care of the poor people, the marginalized people.
26:08Rich people can take care of themselves, right?
26:11It's the poor who need the government support in a very big way.
26:14So we believe that, we believe in that, and we are moving in that direction, number one.
26:18Number two, there will be many technologies like hydrogen-based vehicles, like quantum computing.
26:26And I'm sure everybody is working in those directions.
26:30These are technologies in which we will definitely put in a lot of investment in terms of energy, in terms
26:36of funds, in terms of resources.
26:39So, ladies and gentlemen, I would like that we thank very warmly Minister Ashwani Ashraf for his comment, his keynote.
26:50And I remind you that India is country of the year.
26:54Minister, merci, thank you.
26:57And we look forward to seeing you back in Paris.
27:00Thank you.
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