While addressing the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized that India fully supports the expansion of BRICS and we welcome moving forward with consensus on this. He talked about using technology to bring progress.
“We will need to make our respective societies future-ready to make BRICS a future-ready organisation, and technology will play an important role in this,” he said.
“In India, to provide education to the children living in rural areas, DIKSHA- Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing Platform has been developed. Along with that, to boost innovation amongst school students, we have established 10,000 Atal Tinkering Labs,” he said.
In his address, PM Modi talked about using AI-based language platform to remove language barriers in society. “To remove language barriers, India has started AI-based language platform ‘Bhashini’ which has been widely used,” he said.
PM Modi said that the CoWIN platform was built to track vaccination. “For vaccination, the CoWIN platform was made. Digital public infrastructure, i.e. through ‘India Stack’, public service delivery has been revolutionized,” he said.
During his address, the Prime Minister called for a strengthened BRICS that will be breaking barriers, inspiring Innovation, creating opportunities and shaping the future. Mentioning the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission to land on the moon’s south pole, Modi proposed the creation of a BRICS Space Exploration Consortium.
He noted that India had given a lot of importance to the countries of Global South under its G20 Presidency and lauded South Africa for the initiative as the chair of the BRICS summit.
“We welcome the move to give special importance to the countries of the Global South in BRICS under the chairmanship of South Africa. This is not just the aspiration, but also the need of the present times. India has also given importance to this subject under its G20 presidency. One Earth One Family One Future – we are trying to move forward with all countries on this mantra. In the Voice of Global South summit in January this year, 125 countries participated and shared their concerns and priorities,” he said.
“In around two decades, BRICS has undertaken a long and magnificent journey. In this journey, we made numerous achievements,” he added.
