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Notes transcribed from Google for India YouTube livestream (July 2020)

500 million users can search on Google in 9 Indian languages
- If they find it difficult to type, they can use the Google voice assistant
Using AI for good
- Flood prediction
Things that are transitioning to the cloud
- School moved to the cloud
  - Need for personalized educational content
- Payments moved to the cloud
Transition instance
- Stationary store
  - Business came to halt, product info moved to cloud, immediately accessible to people, visibility ensured
  - He faced delivery problem: make APIs speak with each other: Google Maps — Swiggy delivery
Challenge: need to get next 500 million people to connect to the network
- Help them in edu-agri-health - digital socio
More work to be done
- From improving voice input and computing for all of India’s languages
- To inspiring a whole new generation of entrepreneurs
4 important investments for India’s digitization
- Affordable access and information flow to every Indian in their own language
- Building new products and services, suited for India’s needs
- Maintaining those services
- AI for social good: health-agri-edu
  - Great opportunity for 1.3 billion+ people (30-year seconds)
Atma Nirbhar Bharat - call for Indian entrepreneurs to create new digital products, which are made in India
- India’s app economy is growing very powerful
  - Not only download apps, but also upload apps made in India
- “Digital Village is a vision - model digital villages of empowerment, of scaling, of health care, of telemedicine, of distance education, from every culture to ruling parliament” - Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad
Power of internet in the hands of every Indian
- Android for everyone - the starting external software
Half of India’s population is under the age of 25
- Feel 320+ million students not attending school
  - Helping children to read with an in-app reading assistant
- Digital education fundamental challenges
  - Quality of digital content in Indian languages
  - Teacher readiness to use digital tools
  - Access to devices and internet
Combining digital with the strength of offline learning
India has a population of 130 crore people
- Get more India demographic facts?
Make India a knowledge superpower with the help of education
- Help us in sharing content and resources in these official 22 languages

Digital Revolutionary - A CAUSE

You need the right words
- Create a new vocabulary to look at this new world
  - Digital awakening
  - Digital literacy
- A lookup table associating and linking concepts
  - Revolutionary <---> Entrepreneur
  - Missionary <---> Influencer
  - Same things, different words
Change how you look at the world
- Digital mental models
  - Naval: how to get reach - Hindi variant
- Substitute industrial models with a new lens of seeing businesses
- We need a different outlook on how to see our surroundings
- A perspective shift
  - Looking for jobs outside ---> Look for problems to solve here
  - Looking for local crowd on streets ---> Looking at customers on the grid
  - See how to disconnect things ---> Look how to connect things
  - Lonely individual ---> Connected individual with amplified social powers
  - Asking others locally ---> Learning how to search effectively
  - Stagnant models ---> Change and update mindset
  - Lacking digital etiquette ---> Proper digital hygiene
    - Clean digital trails, proper digital presence, think before you ink
Morph and update values
- Digital vidya, digital vaidya, digital veda
2500 YouTube missionaries (PR) to spread the language of this cause, domino inspiration
India’s latent digital potential: the third biggest startup movement in the world
- Extraordinary manufacturing, software engineers, VCs. Global tech hub: Bangalore
The cornerstone people
- Manufacturers
- Developers
- Missionaries
For Laxmi and Basavanna, transforming the rural setting through affordable tech that improves the quality of life
- What about the school kids from Udupi, what about their online learning?
- They have no devices, nor net connection to jump to online medium