Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that India’s Digital Public Infrastructure offers scalable, secure, and inclusive solutions for global challenges. Virtually addressing the G20 Digital Economy Ministers’ Meeting in Bengaluru today, the Prime Minister stressed the unique opportunity with the G20 forum to lay the foundation of an inclusive prosperous, and secured global digital future. He has called upon G20 delegates to work on a global technology-based ecosystem to address the challenges faced by humanity. He said this will advance financial inclusion and productivity through Digital Public Infrastructure. He laid emphasis on establishing the framework to build a global health ecosystem and also for the use of safe and responsible Artificial Intelligence.
The Prime Minister welcomed the efforts of the G20 Working Group on Digital Economy to create a Virtual Global Digital Public Infrastructure Repository that would help create a transparent and accountable digital ecosystem for all. He also welcomed the initiative to lay a road map to facilitate cross country repository of digital skills and to set up a virtual centre of excellence on digital skills for meeting the needs of a workforce that is future-ready. He noted that as the digital economy spreads globally, it will face security threats and challenges. In this context it is important to build consensus on G20 high-level principles of a secured, trusted, and resilient digital economy, he added.
