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Technology should be used for development and not destruction: Modi

| | Feb 11, 2018, at 10:03 pm

Dubai, Feb 11 (IBNS): Prime Minster Narendra Modi on Sunday addressed at the  World Government Summit in Dubai and said governments should ensure that technology is used for development and not destruction.

"In Dubai, PM Modi says Governments must ensure technology is used for development, not destruction," Modi said.

He said: "Technology is changing at speed of thought, necessity not the mother of invention anymore."

Modi said technology has empowered commonman.

"Technology has empowered the common man, which has given a fillip to minimum government," he said.

Speaking on 6R's, he said: " The 6 R's - reduce, reuse, recycle, recover, redesign, re-manufacture - and technology will take us to a point where we can rejoice."

Modi is currently touring the UAE.

 

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