KTR invited for World Economic Forum summit

Hyderabad: State IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao has received invitation from the World Economic Forum (WEF) for its Global Technology Governance Summit in Japan from April 5 to 7 this year .

Inviting KTR to the summit, WEF president Børge Brende in the letter said "under your forward-looking leadership, Telangana has been at the forefront of using emerging technologies for societal benefits. Thank you for your support of the AI4AI: (Artificial Intelligence for Agriculture Innovation) and G20 Smart Cities Alliance. It will be a pleasure to work together to further deepen their impact."

"The emerging technologies of the fourth industrial revolution have a vital role to play as countries recover from and rebuild following the Covid pandemic," he added.

The GTG summit will build on the forum's pioneering work on global technology governance and bring stakeholders from the government, business and civil society to identify how to harness and regulate the technologies to accelerate growth, encourage innovation, and build resilience.

The summit will also aim to help scale public-private initiatives to nurture the development of fourth industrial revolution technologies while mitigating their risks.