Breaking the Minerals Monopoly
In this article, Ajay Kumar explores the strategic importance of critical minerals like lithium and neodymium, China's dominance, and India's initiatives for mineral security.
Projects
Technology and Society
About the Project
This program focuses on five sets of imperatives:
- Data: on all issues related to data governance, privacy, cross-border data flows, and data access.
- Strategic Technologies: on industrial policy around India’s emerging semiconductor eco-system, space policy, export controls, new and transformative defense technologies, and their effects.
- Emerging Technologies: on biosafety and security, practices and efforts to shape distinct artificial intelligence (AI) regulatory practices, models of accessing AI compute, and the emerging global imperatives on the military applications of AI.
- Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI): on (i) shaping outcomes on DPI principles (ii) providing practical roadmaps for alternative ways to build DPI rapidly (iii) DPI at the centre of inter-state dialogues (iv) working with DPI builders, architects, and implementers.
- Strategic Partnerships: on the India-U.S. initiative on Critical & Emerging Technology (iCET) with ideas, convenings, and practical research. We are starting work on supporting the EU-India Trade and Technology Council (TTC).
The Technology and Society Program at Carnegie India is supported by Tata Trusts, Mohandas Pai, Nilekani Philanthropies, Meta India, Google India, Salesforce India, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Biocon, Syngene, Intel India, Amazon India, Microsoft India, SAP India, AWS India, WhatsApp India, BillDesk, Qualcomm India, Walmart India, LinkedIn India, and the National Payments Corporation of India. The Global Technology Summit is also supported by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs.
Our team
Rudra Chaudhuri
Director, Carnegie India
Rudra Chaudhuri is the director of Carnegie India. His research focuses on the diplomatic history of South Asia, contemporary security issues, and the important role of emerging technologies and digital public infrastructure in diplomacy, statecraft, and development. He and his team at Carnegie India chair and convene the Global Technology Summit, co-hosted with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
Shruti Sharma
Fellow and Chief Coordinator, Global Technology Summit, Technology and Society Program
Shruti Sharma is a fellow with the Technology and Society Program at Carnegie India, where she is currently working on exploring the challenges and opportunities in leveraging biotechnology to improve public health capacity in India.
Konark Bhandari
Fellow, Technology and Society Program
Konark Bhandari is a fellow with Carnegie India.
Tejas Bharadwaj
Research Analyst, Technology and Society Program
Tejas Bharadwaj is a research analyst in the Technology and Society Program in Carnegie India.
Amlan Mohanty
Nonresident Research Fellow, Technology and Society Program
Amlan Mohanty is a nonresident research fellow with Carnegie India. His areas of expertise include privacy, content policy, platform regulation, competition and AI.
Aadya Gupta
Research Analyst, Technology and Society Program
Aadya Gupta is a research analyst with the Technology and Society Program at Carnegie India.
Shatakratu Sahu
Research Analyst and Co-Convenor, Global Technology Summit, Technology and Society Program
Shatakratu Sahu is a research analyst and co-convenor, Global Technology Summit with the Technology and Society program at Carnegie India.
Ajay Kumar
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Technology and Society Program
Ajay Kumar is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie India.
Arun K. Singh
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Technology and Society Program
Mr. Arun K. Singh is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie India. Mr. Singh has extensive experience across the globe, including as India’s ambassador to the United States, Israel, and France.
R. K. Misra
Nonresident Scholar, Technology and Society Program
R. K. Misra is a nonresident scholar at Carnegie India. Based in Bengaluru, he drives Carnegie India’s Technology and Society program, and engages with technology innovators and policymakers.
Anirudh Suri
Nonresident Scholar, Technology and Society Program
Anirudh Suri is a nonresident scholar with Carnegie India. His interests lie at the intersection of technology and geopolitics, climate, and strategic affairs.
Anantha S.
Nonresident Scholar, Technology and Society Program
Anantha S. is a nonresident scholar with Carnegie India.
Susmita Mohanty
Nonresident Scholar, Technology and Society Program
Susmita Mohanty is a nonresident scholar at Carnegie India. She is the director general of Spaceport SARABHAI, a ‘space’ think tank.
Global Technology Summit
The Global Technology Summit—Carnegie India’s annual flagship event, co-hosted with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India—brings together industry experts, policymakers, scientists, and other stakeholders from all over the world to deliberate on the changing nature of technology and geopolitics. Its aim is to create a new framework of engagement that addresses concerns of all stakeholders without hindering technological progress and innovation.
Global Technology Summit
The Global Technology Summit—Carnegie India’s annual flagship event, co-hosted with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India—brings together industry experts, policymakers, scientists, and other stakeholders from all over the world to deliberate on the changing nature of technology and geopolitics. Its aim is to create a new framework of engagement that addresses concerns of all stakeholders without hindering technological progress and innovation.
India-U.S. Emerging Technologies Working Group
At the end of January 2023, India’s National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and the U.S. NSA Jake Sullivan officially launched the United States-India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET). The Carnegie India Working Group studies, analyzes, and makes policy-relevant interventions in the various priority areas under the iCET. These include uncovering and recovering avenues for cooperation on semiconductors, civilian space technologies, defense innovation, bioeconomy, and quantum computing as well as the overall deepening of ties pertaining to science and technology. The working group is made up of experts within Carnegie India.
India-U.S. Emerging Technologies Working Group
At the end of January 2023, India’s National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and the U.S. NSA Jake Sullivan officially launched the United States-India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET). The Carnegie India Working Group studies, analyzes, and makes policy-relevant interventions in the various priority areas under the iCET. These include uncovering and recovering avenues for cooperation on semiconductors, civilian space technologies, defense innovation, bioeconomy, and quantum computing as well as the overall deepening of ties pertaining to science and technology. The working group is made up of experts within Carnegie India.
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The Semiconductor Long Game—the Way Forward for India and China?
In this essay, Konark Bhandari discusses India and China's semiconductor sector efforts. While India attempts to integrate itself into a global supply chain from which it was largely missing, China, at the same time, is seeking to pursue self-sufficiency.
· June 28, 2024
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
The Importance of AI Safety Institutes
This essay traces the evolution of AI safety institutes around the world, explores different national approaches, and examines the need for an AI safety institute in India.
· June 28, 2024
The Rise and Rise of Rechnology
In this piece for Business Standard, Ajay Kumar explore how technological advancements shape our world across social, military, economic, and geopolitical dimensions.
One Year of the INDUS-X: Defense Innovation Between India and the U.S.
Since its launch nearly a year ago, the INDUS-X has marked many milestones in the India-U.S. relationship. Much has been achieved, but there is room to further enhance defense cooperation between the two countries in the coming years.
· June 18, 2024
Bio-X: A New Frontier of Biotechnology Cooperation Under the iCET
India and the United States should consider launching “Bio-X,” to foster cooperation in biotechnology. This initiative would leverage the synergies between the domestic programs of the two countries, thereby boosting the competitiveness of their biotech industries.
· June 12, 2024
AI & India - Policy, Power & Potential
In this podcast for "The Citizens Talkshow," Amlan Mohanty joins Anirudh Narayan and Mayur Bommai to discuss a wide range of topics related to AI, including its definition, impact on businesses and society, and the evolving landscape of AI policy both globally and in India.
India's Techscape is Complex, Uneven, yet has the Potential to get it Right
In a roundtable discussion hosted by StratNewsGlobal, Shatakratu Sahu discussed India's AI focus, calling for a comprehensive regulatory framework and better workforce skills. He also highlighted the issue of English being the predominant internet language in data-rich India.
Digital Transformation and Digital Public Infrastructure in India with Shatakratu Sahu
In this episode of Building the Future podcast, Romina Bandura is joined by Shatakratu Sahu, to discuss the role of digital public infrastructure (DPI) in the Indian context, and what Sahu sees as the opportunities and challenges that DPI brings to the world.
BharatCompute for AI Ascendancy
In this article, Ajay Kumar discusses BharatCompute's initiative to deploy 10,000 GPUs, enhancing India's AI capabilities through public-private partnerships and fostering innovation to establish global AI leadership.
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