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Lauding the Indian development story, a prime chief of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on January 16 mentioned different international locations can use India’s profitable digital public infrastructure mannequin to assist obtain their healthcare and different improvement objectives.
Speaking to PTI in Davos on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting, the Foundation’s president of Global Development, Christopher J Elias additionally mentioned AI may also help speed up obtain world improvement targets nevertheless it have to be used responsibly and with cautious consideration to ethics and rules.
“In India, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has worked in a wide range of sectors and areas including health, agriculture, water and sanitation, digital public infrastructure and inclusive financial services. We will continue to work in these areas,” he added. Mr. Elias mentioned the Foundation’s oldest subject workplace is in India and that’s greater than 20 years previous.
“We work very closely with the Central government and many State governments there on some of the very important issues. We work particularly closely in States of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar on maternal health and new-born child health issues, we work in Odisha on issues related to water sanitation, agriculture development and improving lifecycles related,” he added.
Mr. Elias mentioned it is extremely thrilling to see such an enormous presence from India. He additionally recalled that as G20 Chair final 12 months, India introduced collectively the worldwide neighborhood to know how greatest to speed up progress with sustainable improvement objectives of the United Nations.
“That I think is going to be talked about a lot here at Davos,” he mentioned including, “One area of particular accomplishment in India that I think can be a good model for the world to follow is digital public infrastructure that has helped achieve a lot of progress in financial services, health etc,” Mr. Elias mentioned.
He mentioned issues akin to common ID, common cost interface and so on have actually served India very properly within the final decade to speed up progress and improvement.
Mr. Elias mentioned the leaders attending the WEF assembly can talk about how that success mannequin of India might be shared with different nations particularly in Africa and Asia and in the event that they may also help them obtain their improvement targets as properly.
Talking about alternatives and threats from synthetic intelligence, Mr. Elias mentioned AI presents an enormous alternative to speed up world improvement nevertheless it must be achieved responsibly.
“It needs to be done with careful attention to ethics and regulations so that we can harness this tool of cutting edge science and technology for the best use of mankind,” he mentioned.
Mr. Elias mentioned AI could be of nice use to assist frontline healthcare employees get essentially the most correct info to assist handle neighborhood wants. “There is tremendous potential for AI but we need to use it in a responsible manner.”
Source: www.thehindu.com
