ASHA in Davos 2020: Creating a Platform for Indian entrepreneurs

Asha Jadeja, the spearhead of the ASHA movement, introduced her global think tank: The  Motwani Institute for Thought Leadership in Innovation (MITLI), to the World Economic Forum community for the first time at Davos 2020 through the ASHA initiative. 

ASHA (meaning hope or desire in Sanskrit) is an initiative led by the Motwani Jadeja Foundation and Motwani Institute for Thought Leadership in Innovation (MITLI) to inspire people to take action to change the world through cutting-edge innovation and state-of-the-art technologies, through a collective, equitable and human-centric approach.ASHA is a platform for enabling aggressive policy change in India (and other developing economies).ASHA seeks to facilitate the removal of oppression at all levels of life for humankind – from the lives of women and children to those living in poverty and ignorance.

With an estimated population of 1.5 billion people by 2030 or 17% of the world’speople living in India, it is imperative that the citizens of this country leapfrog into the future as rapidly and efficiently as possible. While the world is grappling to implement and achieve the Global Agenda 2030, India too has its sets of challenges across sectors like poverty, hunger, water, education, healthcare and environment. While India struggles to achieve its 5 trillion USD economy goal, an Indian diaspora is prospering in the Silicon Valley, leading the world into the future through its dynamic and visionary technology leadership.

Perhaps, now is the opportune time for India to connect with the Indian diaspora in the Silicon Valley for sharing of knowledge and technology and thereby leverage their success to address the development challenges back home.

Silicon Valley has an enormous presence of IIT alumni in founding and leadership roles.

With this influential presence of innumerable Indian diaspora in the Silicon Valley, it is natural that Indian companies with an innovative vision will benefit. The Motwani Jadeja Foundation and MITLI has been facilitating some of the top Indian startups into the global market place, especially in Silicon Valley, for the last seven years. And MITLI is determined to multiply this effort to speed up the integration of Indian Tech companies into the globalmarketplace rapidly and has been reaching out aggressively to IIT startups to leverage this powerful connection to the Valley.

ASHA aspires to reimagine the future by envisioning a Post-Nation-State world that will be inclusive, youthful, entrepreneurial and human-centric. ASHA wishes to see a brave new world with smart, just and fully transparent enforcement mechanisms to help our planet transition from a post-colonial present, to a dignified future where each human life is as sacred as the other.

Asha Jadeja, the matriarch of Motwani Jadeja Family Foundation and the spearhead of the ASHA movement, introduced her global think tank: The  Motwani Institute for Thought Leadership in Innovation (MITLI), to the World Economic Forum community for the first time at Davos 2020 through the ASHA initiative.

At Davos, ASHA showcased the potential of technology as demonstrated by the invaluable solutions developed by innumerable companies, start-ups and organisations at Silicon Valley, supported by the Motwani Jadeja Foundation and Motwani Institute for Thought Leadership in Innovation (MITLI).

ASHA organised a series of talks, TECH TALKS WITH ASHA and other interactions that provided insights into the future. These sessions comprised of some of the brilliant minds from Stanford, GoogleX, Boma International, CloudSmart Inc. and other leading global organisations and think tanks. Some of the key sessions included:

Zero-Sum to Win Win
An interactive session on enabling exponential innovation aimed at addressing pan Nation-State Crises
Humancentric Exponential Technology
An interactive session on addressing global challenges through technological interventions, startups, enterprises and quantum computing.
Global Women’s Leadership in a Post-Nation-State Future
An interactive session on addressing global challenges through the leadership of women in technology.

Building Powerful Pan Nation State Communities
An interactive session on the need to build robust communities for a reimagined future of post nation states.

ASHA hopes that this edition of its presence in Davos will be the first of many to time where India centric issues could be highlighted along with providing Indian startups and entrepreneurs a platform to interact and network with some of the world’s leading minds.