INDIA CAN SHAPE THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET

‘Digitising India’ is a deceptively pithy use of words that belies the incredible complexity of mapping onto technology the many disparate levers that work in concert to help a country of this size to run. That said, if this attempt isn’t the true zero to one experiment of our lifetimes, I’m not sure what else is.

In our journey of over 15 years in India, we, at Google, have had a unique players’ view of the arena. Many of our products and features that are today used globally were first piloted in India, because India provides a unique crucible that puts to the test a product’s ability to talk simultaneously to someone in Bhilai and another one in Bengaluru while at the same