{"id":1041388,"date":"2026-10-07T08:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041388"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:54:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:24:37","slug":"imc-2026-pm-modi-discusses-digital-inclusion-ai-with-gsma-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/07\/imc-2026-pm-modi-discusses-digital-inclusion-ai-with-gsma-board\/","title":{"rendered":"IMC 2026: PM Modi discusses digital inclusion, AI with GSMA board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday interacted with Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) Board members at Seva Teerth, preceding the India Mobile Congress, which will commence from Wednesday (October 7). <\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister emphasised technology as a tool for inclusive and sustainable development, underscoring the need for democratisation. He stressed affordable and accessible technology and digital services for the Global South, highlighting last-mile connectivity to prevent a digital divide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday interacted with Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) Board members at Seva Teerth, preceding the India Mobile Congress, which will commence from Wednesday (October 7). The Prime Minister emphasised technology as a tool for inclusive and sustainable development, underscoring the need for democratisation. He stressed affordable and accessible technology and digital services for the Global South, highlighting last-mile connectivity to prevent a digital divide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041418,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041388\/revisions\/1041418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}