Key Announcements By US Tech Titans During Modi’s Visit

“I am sure Prime Minister Modi will take Digital India to greater heights”, Narayen said, who moderated the discussion.

Pichai explained navigational, safety and other uses of Street View and Google Earth to Prime Minister Modi. India’s per capita emission is still 1.7 and US’ is 16 or 17, and so the issue is of equity and justice “that you cannot now condemn the developing world which is still at a very low carbon stage” for their developmental objectives and say that there should be pollution, he said.

“If India has become a success in the field of telecom, the credit for that should go to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi who actually laid the foundation of the entire information technology revolution in the country”.

Observing that mobile technology is changing everybody’s life, he said India is poised to be leader in digital technology. In Silicon Valley, he attended a townhall at Facebook and visited the headquarters of Google in California, in his push for a digital India.

“But you know we don’t need it for whole of India”.

September 28 (ANI): Google CEO Sundar Pichai today announced a proposal for introduction of broadband connectivity through Wi-Fi hotspots for 100 railway stations in India and said that it would be expanded to 400 by the end of next year.

Modi said the government wants to turn villages into smart economic hubs and connect farmers better to markets and make them less vulnerable to the whims of weather.

This is due not only to lack of availability but also to lack of support for local languages and, of course, cost. “In a country with 22 official languages, it is a formidable, but an important task”, he said. We will promote manufacture of quality and affordable products in India.

The MEA spokesperson further said another project that was demonstrated for the Prime Minister was “Project Loon”.

He said along with promoting connecting the different services, the government will also give the highest importance to data privacy and security, intellectual property rights and cyber security.

Modi has accelerated effort to make India the next driver in innovation, said Sunder Pichai, CEO of Google.

Modi has traveled from India to the US and has been visiting tech companies this weekend. It hinges on two major reasons.

“By many matrices, India is the fastest growing startup nation in the world”.

“We have the responsibility to shape a future of peace, stability and prosperity in this region”, Modi said.