India not just observing the future unfolding, but actively shaping it: Ruchira Kamboj

Ms. Kamboj said that projects by the country’s youth, ranging from sustainable agriculture to healthcare innovation are “shining examples” of how technology can be a force for good, transforming challenges into opportunities.

India, home to the world's largest youth population, is actively shaping the future and its young minds are leveraging technology as a powerful tool to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, India’s envoy to the UN has said.

In her special address to the annual ‘1M1B Activate Impact Summit’, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj said that India truly believes in the “transformative power” of youth.

“We recognise that the path to achieving the SDGs by 2030 is through harnessing the energy, the creativity and the innovation of our young population,” she said on Thursday.

“India is home to the world's largest youth population, which is very unique. So we are not just observing the future unfolding, we're actually actively shaping it,” she said.

Ms. Kamboj said that India’s young minds are leveraging technology as a powerful tool to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She said that projects by the country’s youth, ranging from sustainable agriculture to healthcare innovation are “shining examples” of how technology can be a force for good, transforming challenges into opportunities.

The summit was organised by the UN Department of Global Communications (DGC) associated NGO, 1M1B with the support of the Civil Society Unit, DGC. 1M1B (One Million for One Billion) is a United Nations-accredited nonprofit organisation established in 2014.

The organisation is dedicated to digital skilling, change-making and entrepreneurship and has undertaken efforts to train young people throughout India in skills such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Green Skills, Entrepreneurship, Digital Citizenship, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and other emerging technologies. Over 500,000 students have participated in 1M1B’s programmes so far.