India lighthouse for smaller, aspiring space nations: WEF official
World Economic Forum (WEF) official said. The Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR), a platform of the WEF, launched the space technology programme in India last week to forge global collaborations among various stakeholders as the private space sector takes wings in the country.
«India is seen as a role model, a lighthouse for smaller, aspiring space nations, which also look to India for support. This is something the WEF would like to facilitate, an exchange between large and emerging space nations in the interest of growing the space sector overall in an inclusive and responsible manner,» Sebastian Buckup, member, Executive Committee, C4IR told PTI in an interview.
He said there was immense interest among entrepreneurs keen on leveraging the space sector.
«The fact that India is investing into shared infrastructure, for instance, launch infrastructure for small satellites, could eventually become an equivalent of the digital public infrastructure and what it has done for digital entrepreneurship,» Buckup said.
He said if India managed to create a «space public infrastructure», it could be a cause for a boom when it comes to space entrepreneurship.
Buckup, during his India visit, had meetings with various stakeholders from the space sector, including officials from INSPACe, ISRO, and representatives of space start-ups and established players.
«I think many people outside of India are still describing India as an emerging space nation. The reality is that India has arrived in the top section of space
