Digital India movement to push nation towards Viksit Bharat, says IBM’s Patel [Video]

The Digital India movement is the foundation for moving towards a Viksit Bharat, said Sandip Patel, Managing Director of IBM India.

In an interview with IANS, Patel said the country is witnessing this with the government’s significant investments in frontier technologies like AI, semiconductors, and quantum technologies. Here are some excerpts from the interview:

IANS: How can India become the AI capital of the world?

Patel: We are already seeing a huge amount of experimentation with AI in India. We recently did an AI adoption index survey globally and found that 59 per cent of Indian enterprises — the highest among all the countries surveyed — said that they were experimenting or deploying AI within their enterprises in some way, shape, or form.

So we are already ahead in terms of adopting and using AI in our businesses. Further, looking at the demographic dividend that exists in India, if we can skill that …