Minister for IT and Municipal Administration K. T. Rama Rao had a busy day at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday with a series of meetings with business heads, including chairman of Bharti Enterprises (Airtel) Sunil Bharti Mittal, and vice chairman Rajan Bharti Mittal, chief executive officer of Novartis Vasant Narasimhan and Deloitte Global CEO Punit Renjen and HCL’s managing director Vijay Guntur, among others.
The Minister pitched for investments in Telangana while explaining the industrial-friendly policies and the easy availability of manpower required for the respective industries.
Mr. Rama Rao also joined a panel discussion on ‘AI on the Street: Managing Trust in the Public Square’ and said: “Big challenge in using technologies like Facial Recognition coupled with AI, is for us to be able to gain citizens’ confidence that the government is unbiased in their use of data and citizens are not surveilled unless they have been notified.”
