US Ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti, announced that the United States and India are celebrating the US-India Tech Partnership in July, highlighting significant advancements in technology collaboration between the two nations.
“This month, we’re highlighting the many ways that the United States and India are moving forward on technology cooperation, working together to harness the cutting-edge science of the future to build a safer, more prosperous, more informed world today,” said Ambassador Garcetti in a video message on X adding, “So, I invite you to join us this month in celebrating the large-scale Technology Partnerships and the day-to-day tech miracles that have expanded our opportunities, and our potential.”
Underscoring the significance of US-India partnership, Ambassador Garcetti expressed that the technology being jointly built by both countries encompasses the full spectrum of human creativity, forges closer collaborations than ever before while safeguarding against both visible and invisible threats. He further highlighted that from microchips to rocket ships, both countries have undergone significant transformation in how tasks are accomplished.
He recalled that President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed an agreement on the semiconductor supply chain and innovation partnership. Both countries are collaborating closely on this partnership to enhance India’s capabilities in semiconductors technology.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Indian Space Research Organization are launching “a complex satellite to probe the vast reaches of the cosmos and to teach us more about the planet that we share,” Ambassador Garcetti noted while adding that both countries are collaborating to co-produce advanced defense systems aimed at safeguarding people and those across the Indo-Pacific region. Additionally, both countries are pioneering in groundbreaking healthcare solutions through partnerships focused on vaccines and biotechnology.
For instance, according to Ambassador Garcetti, detecting tuberculosis could become as simple as coughing into your phone. Central to this narrative is the US-India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET), a critical framework that has significantly enhanced US-India technological collaborations and fostered synergies among government, private and academic sectors. This partnership spans from local to global scales, marking a transformative stride in technology engagement, he added.
President Biden and Prime Minister Modi announced iCET initiative in May 2022 “to elevate and expand our strategic technology partnership and defense industrial cooperation between the governments, businesses, and academic institutions of our two countries.”
“Through Nexus, Mission India’s premier incubator initiative, we’re partnering to cultivate the innovators and thought leaders of tomorrow. We’ve already graduated 19 cohorts of 230 startups who have raised over $80 million in outside funding and have concluded over 120 deals with US companies. That’s what I call incubating success. The best part of it, 47 per cent of them are either owned or run by women,” added Ambassador Garcetti.
“Together, we’re leveraging the power of technology to address the world’s most urgent challenges, from climate change to national security, and we’re taking care to get it right,” he added while emphasizing that decisions that are undertaken today regarding emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing will profoundly impact the future world for generations to come.
