Digital will enable cross-border collaboration on tech innovation and R&D: Roshni Nadar Malhotra
Roshni Nadar Malhotra, chairperson of HCL technologies, said in the national capital on Saturday.
Speaking at a B20 panel on technology, innovation and R&D, she said, “One of the issues with global technology and skilling is that innovation is very specific to countries,” adding that the challenge is taking solutions to scale.
Nadar-Malhotra, who also co-chairs the B20 Taskforce on Digital Transformation, said the B20 Task Force on Technology, Innovation and R&D’s recommendation for such a digital platform aligns with that of her own task force’s focus on bridging the digital divide, addressing digital literacy and the skills gap, enterprise transformation of MSMEs with a digital toolkit, and fostering digital trust.
Developing future skills will be key and has boded India well since it invested in R&D in information technology since the 1970s, she said. This attracted international companies to come and leverage its capabilities.
“It’s not just a young population, but it’s a population which is at the frontier of what’s happening in digital technologies,” Nadar-Malhotra said.
Innovation and R&D for water as a resource will also be extremely necessary for investment going forward, she added. Efforts should be made to bring such innovators to India to see how their solutions can be scaled in our context.
