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Digital India: Technology to transform a connected nation

Indian consumers have strongly embraced digital technologies. Now India’s companies must follow suit.

With more than half a billion internet subscribers, India is one of the largest and fastest-growing markets for digital consumers, but adoption is uneven among businesses. As digital capabilities improve and connectivity becomes omnipresent, technology is poised to quickly and radically change nearly every sector of India's economy. That is likely to both create significant economic value and change the nature of work for tens of millions of Indians.

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