Rebooting India: Realizing A Billion Aspirations

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India, poised to become the world’s youngest nation with a working-age population of approximately 800 million, holds immense potential. However, realizing this demographic dividend requires addressing societal disparities. Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah argue that technology-driven government reinvention is crucial to fulfilling the aspirations of all 1.2 billion Indian citizens. Rebooting India outlines twelve citizen-centric, high-tech initiatives offering cost-effective solutions to major national challenges. Drawing on their Aadhaar experience, the authors propose initiatives projected to save the government at least Rs 1,00,000 crore annually—approximately 1% of India’s GDP—a sum sufficient to fund 200 Mangalyaan missions yearly. The authors contend that this transformation requires not a massive workforce, but rather a small, highly skilled team and governmental support.

About the Author

Nandan Nilekani, co-founder and former CEO of Infosys Technologies, was founding chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (Aadhaar). Author of the book Imagining India, he was twice listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME. In 2014, he was awarded The Economist’s Innovation Award in the category Economic and Social Innovation. He is chairman of EkStep, a non-profit literacy and numeracy platform.Viral Shah worked at the intersection of policy and technology at the Unique Identification Authority of India, where he led the design of the government’s payments and subsidy platforms using Aadhaar. He is a co-inventor of the Julia programming language, and co-founder of FourthLion Technologies. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Business & Economics
9780670087891 ISBN
Nandan Nilekani Book Author