You could now go shopping without credit card or cash and pay by scanning your thumb impression onto a machine, and approving the transaction on your phone. This is the future of demonetization, said Pamela Kumar, Vice President, Cloud Computing Innovation Council of India, Bangalore, in her speech at the Indian Science Congress in Tirupati, held in the first week of January this year.
Digital India initiative of the Government of India aims to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. The vision, however, faces many challenges. The mindset of the common man is not open to accepting new technologies that are both rapid and disruptive to the existing market. Most technologies are last mile solutions that are not designed according to the Indian needs or infrastructure. The problem is exaggerated by the fact that the public, decision makers, and government offices have limited technological knowhow.
“We need a Mangalyaan version of data centers in India, not the NASA version”, said Pamela Kumar, Vice President, CCIC urging the industry and decision makers to set up cost efficient data centers that are suited to Indian needs and are crucial for national digital development.
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