Sam Pitroda

Redesign the World - A Global Call to Action (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The world was last designed seventy-five years ago, about the same time that Sam Pitroda was born. That design, which gave birth to organizations like the UN, World Bank, IMF, NATO and WTO, among others, has now outlived its utility. Hyperconnectivity and the COVID-19 pandemic offer a unique opportunity to redesign the world and take humanity to the next level. Redesigning the world is not about looking at it from the point of view of liberal or conservative; left or right; capitalism or socialism; public or private; democracy, dictatorship or monarchy; open or closed systems; rich or poor; urban or rural; east or west; white, brown, black or yellow. This proposed redesign of the world has the planet and its people at the centre; it is built on the foundations of sustainability, inclusion, equality, equity and justice so that everyone on earth can enjoy peace and prosperity. It is not an idealist or a utopian vision, but one with humanity at its core.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Pitroda Group LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781732580411
• Artikelnr.: 61821470

Autorenporträt

SAM PITRODA is an internationally respected development thinker, policymaker, inventor and entrepreneur who has spent over fifty-five years in telecom development.

Credited with having laid the foundation of India's technology and telecommunications revolution in the 1980s, during Rajiv Gandhi's government, Pitroda has been a leading campaigner in helping to bridge the global digital divide. In the mid-1990s, he founded Worldtel in London to help privatize telecom in developing countries. He invented the electronic diary in 1974, the mobile wallet in 1996, and set up C-SAM Inc., acquired by MasterCard in 2013. From 2005 to 2014, Pitroda was chairman of the National Knowledge Commission and adviser to the Indian prime minister with a cabinet minister's rank. He was also chairman of the National Innovation Council and Smart Grid Task Force, and a key part of efforts in railway modernization, and the development of public broadcast reforms. He is the founder, investor and chairman of six start-ups and five non-profit foundations. Pitroda holds over 100 patents and 20 honorary PhDs and has published and lectured extensively around the world. He is a member of the American Academy of Engineers. His autobiography, Dreaming Big, was published in 2015.