India to form One Future Alliance for willing nations to use Digital technology

New Delhi, June 13 (KNN) India has introduced the idea to form an alliance of countries, called One Future Alliance, which would allow nations with similar visions to use technology to improve people’s lives.

This was announced on Monday at the launch of the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) partnership which aims to enable countries, especially low and middle-income brackets, to learn from its experiences in harnessing technology to improve governance, and for social, economic, digital and sustainable development.

Speaking at the event, which is linked to a G20 working group meeting on digital economy, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Rajeev Chandrasekhar said, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made it clear that India’s technology capabilities, or the India stack, can be made available to any country that is interested in joining this accelerated digitalisation trend that is evident in the recent years.”

“Before this, any conversation on digitisation was, globally, one about haves and have-nots — technology and digitisation were the prerogative of advanced nations. Any conversation of digitisation was accompanied by a narrative of exclusion,” he said.

The Minister said that the poor were excluded while the rich benefited from.

“With the Digital India push, technology began to be used to improve governance and democracy, expand the digital economy, encourage entrepreneurship opportunities and transform India from being a consumer of technology to a producer of technology, he added.

Referring to the One Future Alliance, the Minister said that the countries will take the current open-source customisable stacks that are available and build, customise and innovate for the future for themselves and the rest of the world.

The event was attended by representatives of 15 countries and international experts working in areas of digital governance. (KNN Bureau)