India a leader in taking tech to the people, says Vaishnaw

India's work in digital infrastructure has shown the world a way to bring technology to the people, minister of electronics and information technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said, adding that several countries are now interested in replicating them.

In a conversation with HT's editor-in-chief R Sukumar during the virtual session that kickstarted the 21st edition of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Vaishnaw said the India stack a collection of government and government-linked services and products has transformed millions of lives and is a demonstration of solutions that can work at scale.

"The thought process was to create an ecosystem where the public and private sectors can collaborate in a way that opens up digital technologies to a large number of people, in a way that opens up creative energies of the people the whole focus was on making sure technology is democratised, that it reaches the last village in the country and every section of society," said the minister.

India's approach, he added, was inverse that of developed countries, where technologies trickle down from the rich who adopt it before the poor do.