The scale and speed with which India has managed to implement vaccination to combat covid pandemic, showcases unprecedented implementation skills. It clearly seems that India has seized upon the opportunity to see what it wants to learn and copy, and more importantly what it wanted to leap frog and skip. India has relied on both traditional form of innovation, finding new ideas to unsolved problems, as well as innovations towards efficiency, also termed as frugal innovations or workable solutions, enablers and solutions needing much lower resources and super cheap prices. These abilities are bound to put India on a virtuous cycle towards rapid development across sectors as vision of ‘Century India’ is realised. Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh says, “INDIA@2047 would have evolved beyond imagination. Not only are things moving fast, but also the pace of this movement is much faster than ever before, which makes it very difficult to visualise the exact shape of India that would emerge 25 years from now.”
In this light, a three-day symposium has commenced from March 7 in Chennai under the theme ‘Imagining India at 2047 through Innovation.’ The symposium aimed to bring the government and the citizens together by the use of digital technology. It goes without a doubt that digital technology will pave the way for future innovations, furthering the development of any nation. The use of digital technology will also lead to next-generation reforms and innovations with policy objectives of “Maximum Governance, Minimum Government”, entailing Government process Re-Engineering, Universal access to e-services, excellence in digital initiatives at the district level and excellence in adopting emerging technologies. Around 200 participants are chosen for nucleus and cell teams composed of one lAS officer, a young faculty member and a young entrepreneur and they will sit together for discussions.
Under the overarching themes of ‘Research and Development,’ and ‘Innovation and Digital Governance,’ ten key areas are being explored, namely, Energy and Net Zero, Education, Health Care and Assistive Technologies, Water, Infrastructure and Communications, Transport and Mobility, Urbanization and Housing, Rural Development and Agriculture, Fintech and Inclusion, Information Security and Defence. These are clearly the core domains which require concerted efforts of academia, industry and bureaucracy to leap India into pole position.
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