position in digital payment transactionswe must harness the potential of our countrys tech prowess and implement scientific methods to accelerate the discovery of novel solutions towards sustainable agriculture efficient citizen services remote healthcare smart energy use safety and security and so on the country needs communities of discovery that bring together technology and expertise from industry government and academia who want to tackle these pressing challenges foster an open approach to participate in the advancement and research of deep techhowever this will need a robust infrastructure and access to largescale data to meet the required urgency to develop it will also need adequate investments from all fronts to help us scale up and commercialise products and solutions nurturing innovators and society to adopt these technologies for a strong future is not only critical but also fundamental in creating an inclusive societyso what will be indias next move the writer is director ibm research india and cto ibm indiasouth asia