‘Digital today is the most advertised category’ – 30 quotes of the week on digital transformation
From digital change to Digital India, these quotes from the week of February 1-7 capture tech impacts sweeping across the world.
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Only three percent of the world is on the cloud. If you don t get senior management together, it does not happen. - Andy Jassy, Amazon
Climate change is an urgent and complex challenge, and CXOs need to come up with stricter regulations. Sustainability needs to be managed every day. - Mayank Chauhan, LogicLadder
Budget 2021: Reactions from the social sector
On February 1, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented India’s first-ever paperless Budget. A lot of reforms were announced on migrant labour, renewable energy, and women and child welfare. Experts from the social sector weigh in.
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Union Budget 2021-22 was a first-of-its-kind on many fronts. In addition to being the first paperless Budget, it was also the first since the pandemic forced the country into months of lockdown, which impacted not only the economy, but also the livelihoods of Indians, particularly in lower-income sections. So, it came as no surprise that there were a number of welfare schemes announced. We asked a few experts what they thought of
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Roopa Kudva, MD, Omidyar Network India, welcomes Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman s Budget 2021 for emphasising the use of technology to enable social impact and inclusion in important areas such as healthcare, education, and provision of benefits for migrant workers; a snapshot of her reaction:
Emphasis on technology as an enabler for social impact a positive
Education delivery can benefit from 45 percent increase in allocation to e-learning and other schemes
A platform for unorganised migrant workers to access welfare schemes a positive for social inclusion
Need to continue focusing on improving digital infrastructure going forward
Need for good data governance to ensure Budget benefits all
I expect my own industry, impact investing, to become significantly more mainstream globally
Illustration by Raj Verma
The end of one year and the beginning of another is a good time to take stock of the time gone by. But where does one begin in a year that has upended nearly every aspect of our lives? 2020 was at once a reality check and a time of reckoning. It confronted us with problems we had never imagined and taught us lessons to last a lifetime.
Covid-19 laid bare the vulnerability of several sections of our population which were disproportionately affected on economic and health fronts. Most of these people are from the bottom 60 per cent of India s income distribution, the lower and lower middle-income segments, which we refer to as the Next Half Billion.
Budget 2021 must reinvigorate demand, boost infra spend, says India Inc
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. Updated: 20 Jan 2021, 05:56 PM IST PTI
India Inc expects the government to continue with its policy focus on strengthening the manufacturing ecosystem, promoting research and development, and incentivising futuristic technologies in the upcoming Budget
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The upcoming Budget must focus on creating demand, encouraging infrastructure spending and increasing outlays for the social sector, India Inc said in a survey released on Wednesday.
India Inc expects the government to continue with its policy focus on strengthening the manufacturing ecosystem, promoting research and development, and incentivising futuristic technologies in the upcoming Budget, the survey by Ficci and Dhruva Advisors said.