'I think small businesses are being brought into a digital world, getting access to markets, and companies can now start leveraging their own data,' says Nilekani
Firm's chief says Live Enterprise is an idea of how companies will be run in the future and a lot of it has come out of Infosys' own experience over the last three years
To achieve scale, one has to vaccinate 5-10 million people a day and this would need strong cooperation between govt and private sector, he says
He said the strategy for the companies is to be an active player in every market that they operate and have an articulation of partnership with that country and which reflects its priorities
Nilekani is the architect of India's Aadhaar ID system
Nilekani spoke at the Infosys Media Day 2020 event on Tuesday
Billions of dollars were transferred through the cash transfer programme using the Aadhaar platform during the Covid-19 crisis directly into the bank accounts of vulnerable people
Experts say the move will also encourage companies to focus on innovative products and solutions and improve BPM delivery efficiencies
Covid-19 inoculations pose an unprecedented challenge
The Aadhaar architect pointed out that Canada is a great centre for artificial intelligence (AI) and University of Toronto and Montreal are big centres for the new-age technology
The firm believes the strategy it has put in place and investments it has made in the past couple of years will help it achieve the target sooner than later
Impact on the economy would be heavier than estimated
In an interview with Bibhu Ranjan Mishra, he talks about how the learning from Aadhaar implementation, of doing things at scale using technology, will come in handy for implementing agencies
He said that during Covid-19 crisis, digital and medical technologies stood out, which enabled people to work from home, and helped in dealing with the virus by developing better tests, drugs, vaccin
The group of ministers (GoM) on Information Technology (IT) led by Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi took stock of the preparedness and the timelines in a meeting held on Friday
"The payment architecture OCEN can truly democratise credit flow, making the process hassle-free," said Nandan Nilekani
Speaking on the learnings from the pandemic, Nilekani said, organisations would emerge more agile and resilient from the crisis
Revisiting the basics, decoupling schooling from schools, ensuring trust of students and parents with alternative teaching methods were few areas outlined by him
Non-profit body eGovernments Foundation has developed an electronic pass, or e-pass, to help governments at various levels to manage people movement
PayNearby's managing director & chief executive officer plans to raise $50 million through equity dilution in what is inherently a 'people's business'