article on empowering people through digital technology
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Despite continuing efforts and significant success, chronic poverty and inequity continue to persist
and disparities are even widening globally. At the same time, a greater recognition of the inter-
connectedness of the multiple causes and impacts of inequality within societies and among
nations is in turn improving the approaches and tools to overcome these challenges, often using
modern technologies.
There is no dearth today of financial resources, scientific knowledge or technological solutions
that can help overcome the social divides and meet the challenges of providing affordable food,
water, energy, healthcare, sanitation, housing and meeting other basic needs of the 8 billion
people of the world.
In a world rife with conflicts, sustaining peace requires long term sustainable development that in
turn must focus on eradicating poverty, especially extreme poverty in a spirit of achieving
genuinely inclusive societies. This spirit led in large measure to the adoption of the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development, Paris Agreement and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda.
India, representing one sixth of humanity reflecting all its diversity, is like a microcosm of the
challenges, potential and opportunities of development that exist globally. India is playing a
significant part in the global efforts to reduce poverty and the success of its ongoing efforts will
have global implications.
In pursuing these efforts to overcome challenges that have evolved over history, including the
centuries long colonial subjugation, the government has drawn inspiration from the work of great
visionary leaders.