As the Indian government rolls out its Digital India programme that seeks to transform the entire public service ecosystem by leveraging information technology (IT), it is curiously the Communist-ruled state of Kerala that has taken up this mission in earnest to set itself on the path to becoming a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.
Kerala today is the only one of India’s 29 states that is under Communist rule and has been pursuing transformative initiatives for raising the quality of life of its people.
A recent global digital summit, labelled ‘#FUTURE’ and having the theme Towards a Digital Future, helped launched the southern Indian coastal state towards its goal of becoming a knowledge-based society. The landmark event was attended by over 2,000 IT professionals and experts, government and industry leaders, start-up entrepreneurs, and knowledge stalwarts.
At the inaugural, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan informed the gathering – that included S.D. Shibulal, Kris Gopalakrishnan and Nandan Nilekani, the founders of India’s second largest software major Infosys, former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan, Kerala’s economic advisor and Harvard University economist, Gita Gopinath, and a galaxy of achievers from the Indian diaspora – that his government is putting in place all infrastructure and policy framework to achieve this objective…Click here to read full article.
