Digital India is lovely! But can it get past the real India?

ISPP is organizing a webinar with Bhaskar Chakravorti on the topic Digital India is lovely! But can it get past the real India?

Topic Brief:

India is the world’s fastest growing large economy. It is also one of the world’s hottest digital destinations. In the meantime, the government has also made digitization of the country a priority – a process that has progressed in fits and starts. This raises many questions: How has India been performing in its digital evolution relative to the rest of the world and relative to its peers? How is it doing in accumulating data as the fuel that might drive the coming generation of an AI-led digital economy? What is the state of digital trust in India? How inclusive is the state of digital uptake in India?

About The Speaker:

Bhaskar Chakravorti is the Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University and the founding Executive Director of Fletcher’s Institute for Business in the Global Context.

The Institute’s mission is that of “connecting the world of business with the world,” exploring issues at the intersection of business and global context, including geopolitics, security, development and the human condition. Bhaskar serves on the Fletcher faculty as Professor of the Practice of International Business and is the Chair of the Council on Emerging Market Enterprises. He also served on the Global Future Council on Innovation for the World Economic Forum and is Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the Brookings Institution India, Senior Advisor for Digital Inclusion at the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and on the Advisory Board of the UNDP’s Center for Private Sector in Development.

Prior to joining Fletcher, Bhaskar was a Partner of McKinsey & Company, a Distinguished Scholar at MIT’s Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship and on the faculty of Harvard Business School and Harvard University Center for the Environment. He was a leader of McKinsey’s Innovation and Global Forces practices, served on its Knowledge Services Committee and taught innovation and entrepreneurship at Harvard. In a 25+ year career, he has been an advisor to CEOs, senior management and Boards of over 30 companies in the Fortune 500 and worked across the Americas, EU, Asia and Africa, and multiple industries. He is the author of the Amazon best-selling book, “The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World” (Harvard Business Press) and is the creator of the widely-used Digital Evolution Index. His papers and articles appear in top-tier academic journals, multiple books and in widely-read media, e.g., Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, CNN, Foreign Affairs, Newsweek, Businessweek, among many others. He was a former columnist on innovation for the Washington Post and currently has regular columns in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, the Indian Express and Anand Bazar Patrika; he is regularly interviewed by the press, and has appeared in a wide variety of leading media, including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, NPR, The Economist, New Yorker, CNBC, CBC, CCTV, Times of London, Al Jazeera, Economic Times, Times of India, among many others.

Bhaskar’s prior appointments were as a Partner and Thought Leader at the Monitor Group, a game theorist at Bellcore (formerly Bell Labs), assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and TAS (the Tata Group’s “talent pipeline for leaders”). His PhD in economics is from the University of Rochester, where he was a University Fellow. He is a graduate of the Delhi School of Economics and in economics with honors from Delhi University’s St. Stephen’s College.

Date: Fri, Apr 26, 2019
Time: 06:30 PM – 07:30 PM
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV7EKpqYgo0