Secretaries of several crucial government departments including telecommunications will attend on Thursday, December 14, a brainstorming session organized by Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad with select top chief executives of IT companies as part of government's efforts to transform the country into a trillion-dollar digital economy by 2025.
Electronics and Information Technology Secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney said the meeting was designed to solicit the opinion of IT's top honchos on the right direction with regards to digital economy development. The meeting will also discuss how more IT technologies can be used in other activities such as agriculture.
The digital economy in India is currently estimated at $170 billion.
The meeting will take place in the background of a new FICCI-Nasscom and EY report stating that by 2022, as much as 9 percent of the country's 600 million estimated workforce may be employed in jobs that do not even exist today.
According to the report, there may be a job slowdown for the next two years as companies will struggle to restructure their business models, and by 2022, the entire job landscape may see a drastic change.