If Y2K brought global attention to brand India in 1999, today it is India’s startup ecosystem, backed by technological innovations, that is doing the trick. Bill Gates, who was on a three-day visit to India, also said something along the same lines. “Overall, I am a believer that most technologies can be shaped to have more benefits than negatives,” said Bill Gates in a media interview recently.
The global business magnate further said that technology has helped improve the human condition. “Our lifespan is better than 200 years ago — electricity, transport, better seeds, vaccines for things like measles, and other childhood diseases. With every advance, you get challenges. I see technology, as if we shape it in the right way, very positive,” he added.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation started work in India more than a decade ago and since then been supporting many startups in the health sector. The foundation’s health efforts in the country have expanded to include maternal and child health, nutrition, vaccines and routine immunisation, family planning, and control of selected infectious diseases in the last ten years.
Source: Inc42
