PM Modi, Bill Gates discuss AI, India’s key role in tech

In a one-on-one interaction with Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates on February 29, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that health, agriculture and education are the focus areas for digital governance, and that he has been working to ensure that digital divide does not plague India..

Digital governance, artificial intelligence, and deepfakes dominated the first half of the 45-minute video of the interaction which was released on Modis personal YouTube channel a month later on Friday.I)..

The video was not released on any government handles including those of the Prime Ministers Office, or the Press Information Bureau..

In February, the parliamentary standing committee on communications and technology asked the government to promote local Indian players in the fintech sector following a submission by the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) which said that Walmart-owned PhonePe and Google Pay account for 83.3% of the UPI market in the country, HT reported on February 10..

In its latest advisory to eight social media platforms with more than 5 million users in India on March 15, MeitY told them to ensure that all deepfakes and misinformation are easily identifiable either through labels, or unique metadata or identifiers embedded in the content..

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