JIO IS COMMITTED TO IMPROVE LIVES OF EVERY INDIAN - AKASH AMBANI

Akash Ambani shared the commitment of Reliance Jio in improving the digital literacy of Indians during the inauguration of India Digital Open Summit 2018. “Jio is committed to improve the lives of every Indian in a positive way. At Jio we are committed to contribute and use open source technologies to better our consumer experience. Our chairman believes that India is on the path to be a technology innovation leader and a technology superpower, and open source community will be a driving force behind this.” told Akash Ambani, Director of Reliance Jio Infocomm.

He was speaking at the first India Digital Open Summit inaugurated at Mumbai on January 19, 2018. This summit is co-partnered by Linux Foundation Networking Projects and supported by Cisco Systems. The main agenda of the event was to promote open source networking platforms and infrastructure in the Indian context to change how we experience telecom and networking in the coming days.

Akash also said how Jio is considering Open Source as an important element for future Jio projects. “The year 2017 was the tipping point for AR and VR globally.  In India, AR and VR are in the initial stages of adoption but at Jio, we believe it will grow at a 50 percent compounded rate for the next five years,” said Akash Ambani.

 He utilized this opportunity to hint at possible exploration to enter the mostly untapped block chain sector.  Akash Ambani said “ 2017 was the year of block chain and digital currency, highlighted by all the buzz surrounding bitcoin. Block chain provides a distributed ledger system for enabling secure transactions. One of the fundamental features was bitcoin but it can be used in other fields such as banking, education, real estate, etc."

Several eminent speakers from the relevant industry delivered keynotes in front of gathering. The audience comprised of representatives and stakeholders from start-ups to already well established companies. Keynotes of the speeches were about how open source has already been leveraged by the enterprise and various companies, resulting in today’s end user experiencing almost end to end open source implementations.