India’s Leader Maps Out a More Robust Digital Future

Standing alongside some of the titans of Indian industry and senior ministers in his Cabinet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the start of a “Digital India week” at a packed stadium in the capital this past week, highlighting his government’s push for greater Internet connectivity and services for more of the country’s people and a desire to jump-start Indian manufacturing in electronics.

With an analogy, he evoked the image of a small child, once enthralled with a pair of glasses in an adult’s pocket, or a pen, now captivated by a mobile phone.

“That means that he may or may not understand anything else, but he can understand digital power,” he said Wednesday. “Time demands that we understand this change, and if we don’t understand this change, then we will be left in a corner and the world will move far away and we will be left watching.”
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