SAN JOSE (USA), SEPT 27, 2015: Lauding Prime Minister Narendra Modi for accelerating India’s effort to become the next global hot bed of innovation and entrepreneurship, Google CEO Sunder Pichai said today that India will play a big part in driving technology forward in the future.
“He (Modi) has accelerated India’s effort to become next global hot bed of innovation and entrepreneurship,” Pichai told a gathering of top Silicon Valley CEOs at a dinner hosted in honour of the Indian Prime Minister, who is on a two-day visit to the city of San Jose.
Modi understands that technology is an enabler to drive change at a massive scale, the kind of scale that India needs, Pichai said.
The 43-year-old IIT alumnus who was in India last year, praised the presence of what he described as “hungry” entrepreneurs, the same kind one would like in the Silicon Valley.
He said that Google is proud at what is happening in India and share Prime Minister’s vision for a Digital India and want to play a part in it.
Stating that it is very important for people to type in their native languages in order to push digital literacy forward, Pichai announced that next month Google would make it possible for people to type in 10 different languages in India, including Gujarati.
