DIGITAL FLUENCY WITHIN GOVERNMENT IS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGH

On the sidelines of the AWS Summit 2022, Washington, Prabhu Ram, Head- Industry Intelligence Group (IIG), CyberMedia Research (CMR) sat down with Rahul Sharma, President, Worldwide Public Sector at Amazon Internet Services Private Limited (AISPL), AWS India and South Asia

- Prabhu Ram

A key theme that emerges in India, from AWS perspective, is one of the Government embracing technology in new domains. The Indian Government always had a strong intent to double down on Cloud much before the pandemic. They have been consistent in their planning and delivery of their Cloud strategy.

Over the course of the pandemic, we have witnessed citizen-centric national platforms being launched from grounds-up in India and anchored squarely on delivering on citizen outcomes. We are focused on enabling the Government to experience emerging technologies through concepts to pilots, and deliver on the significantly large addressable opportunity.

In the backdrop of Covid-19, how do you view Government of India's Digital Fluency, and flagship national level initiatives?

The digital fluency within the Government is significantly high. There is keenness to learn and adopt new technologies. With Digital India, there has been a consistent strategy to bring innovations across all spheres of citizen services.