Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day visit to France, where he held discussions with French President Emmanuel Macron, resulted in a mutual agreement to strengthen collaboration in the digital sector and advance the Indo-French Roadmap on Cyber Security and Digital Technology. The visit encompassed a range of significant agreements, with the strategic roadmap Horizon 2047 at the forefront, outlining long-term cooperation in defense, space, nuclear energy, climate change, green transitions, education, and people-to-people connections. Key digital areas of focus include digital public infrastructure, cybersecurity, startups, AI, supercomputing, 5G/6G telecommunications, and the development of digital skills.

Here are the leading digital outcomes of the meeting of the two leaders and their respective delegations:

• Artificial Intelligence:Parties agreed to pursue bilateral cooperation on advanced digital technologies, including supercomputing, cloud computing, AI, and quantum technologies, within the framework of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPIA).
• Digital advancement and cybersecurity:Parties reaffirmed their commitment to collaborate on promoting peaceful, secure, and open cyberspace, including joint efforts between cybersecurity agencies and related ecosystem partners.
• Cyber dialogue and UN engagement:India and France will prioritise the strategic importance of cyberspace and commit to close collaboration on cyber dialogue and UN-related cyber processes.
• Support for startups and innovation:Facilitating bilateral cooperation and connectivity within the startup and entrepreneurial networks.
• Empowering digital economies through DPI:Both countries share the belief in the transformative power of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) to foster inclusive digital economies and societies.
• UPI implementation for empowering citizens:India's Unified Payment Interface (UPI) will be introduced in France and Europe, providing citizens with seamless digital payment options by September 2023.
• Infrastructure and innovation:Advancing multi-stakeholder exchanges through platforms like InFrastructures (India France Structures) and InFinity (India France Innovation in Information Technology) to promote open, free, democratic, and inclusive digital economies.
• Science, technology, and academic cooperation:Partners have agreed on improving collaboration that would span across research institutions in scientific fields, critical technologies, health, cyber, digital regulatory frameworks, and digital technologies.