India's Digital Public Infrastructure for Agriculture and Health

Another place that India leads, uh, but there's a lot more that all of you can be involved in driving forward, is this digital, uh, public infrastructure. You know, no country is more able to take government benefits and get them out efficiently and effectively to their citizens, uh, than

India. You know, you would have expected rich countries or others to do that, but in fact, uh, uh, they did not.

And so that basic structure that starts with identity and bank accounts and payments is, is just foundational.

And as part of this visit, I'm now seeing how that foundation is being built out. Built out in, uh, agriculture, uh, with profiles of farmers to understand, uh, what they need and give them advice.

Uh, built out with health records, uh, so that we can help people not only with infectious diseases, but, uh, the challenge that's coming in the future with the growth of the non-communicable diseases being a huge thing. And, uh, that digital public infrastructure will help us, uh, with these, uh, climate, uh,

problems. I was in Odisha, uh, yesterday and, and what they showed is that they've registered the farmers and, uh, registered what type of crops they grow and what land they own.

They literally have a control center. You know, when you walk in, you think, "Wow, this is agriculture?" But, you know, you've got a command center and maps and people doing queries and sending out messages. And so that all starts, you know, with an Aadhaar identity, listing those farmers, uh, getting the

information, making sure it's up to date