S. Jaishankar addresses 5th Annual Global Technology Summit

The 5th edition of the annual Global Technology Summit (GTS) was organised virtually by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India in collaboration with Carnegie India (CI). GTS is one of the four flagship annual conferences organised by MEA. The other three conferences are the Raisina Dialogue, the Geo-economic dialogue, and the Indian Ocean Conference.

The theme of the 2020 GTS was “The Geopolitics of Technology”. The speakers from included the External Affairs Minister, Dr S. Jaishankar, and Dr K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India.

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The industry experts, policymakers, and scholars from all over the world participated in the five-day event to deliberate on five comprehensive sub-themes, which included:

  • Geopolitics of Technology
  • Data: Linking the World
  • Digital Payments: The Future of Global Financial Highways
  • Digital Inclusion: Taking the Local to the Global
  • Transforming Healthcare for a Post-COVID World

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