JAPAN-INDIA TRANSFORMATIVE TECHNOLOGY NETWORK

Network Format

The Network is designed to generate catalytic and scalable impact resulting from the application of technological innovation to products, processes, policy-making, organizational practices, and financing. Over its planned three-year period and including in-person meetings in both Japan and India, it will focus on areas of rapid technological development and the ways such technological innovations can drive transformations across three inter-related challenge areas: social inclusion; living and livable communties; and health systems. The Network will consider immediate challenges facing Japan and India, and also consider the issues that will be most urgent for generations to come.

The Network comprises four cohorts. The first began in 2020, the second in 2022, the third in 2023, and the fourth in 2024.

Regular online workshops allow Fellows to gain a broader and deeper understanding of the three social challenges and build the foundations for collaboration on solutions. Fellows work in small teams to design projects that take the power of technology and apply it to one of the three social challenge areas. These three challenge areas are ripe for disruptions from new technologies, partnerships, and innovations that can deliver benefits relevant for Japan, India, and the world as a whole:

Accessibility, Mobility, and Inclusion

Recent advances in technology have made available information, products, services, and markets to the elderly, disabled, and other disadvantaged groups. Can further advances help create equitable societies, in which everyone can participate fully? Furthermore, what possibilities does technology hold to enhance the existing abilities of the population and overcome individuals’ specific access challenges?

Health Systems

Healthcare systems around the world are under increased pressure to deliver high-quality and efficient care to growing and ageing populations under conditions of limited and often strained resources. How can new technologies help address the expanding needs of transforming populations, while at the same time meet the growing demand for customized and personal care? What are the concrete immediate and long-term challenges then can help to solve?

Living and Livable Communities

Smart cities promise greatly increased efficiency and connectedness in urban environments. Can these technologies help the world’s most rapidly urbanizing countries ensure their cities achieve carbon-neutrality while tackling systematic inequality and providing quality housing, clean air and water, and efficient and effective transport solutions?

To maximize the potential of technology, we need agility, innovation, and collaboration. By focusing on innovative applications of artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous systems, blockchain, financial innovation and other technologies across these interconnected areas related to human and planetary health, the Japan-India Transformative Technology Network will leverage interdisciplinary and cross-sector collaboration to spur new solutions and encourage partnerships.