vincent infrastructure investment plants are likely to impact the country's marine ecosystems, and germany is lagging behind when it comes to digitalization. we'll get an expert view on the government's most recent plans to change. i'm chris global. welcome to the program. india starts to flex its muscles in the global semiconductor markets in the us, tata group will begin producing semiconductors in the country within a few years. a move that the chairman of the groups main company said will make the south asian country a key part of global chip supply chains. totter son's chairman, not a raj on chandra. a car on revealed that the conglomerate plans to launch new businesses and emerging feels such as electric vehicles. let's get more of this from the w correspondence. charo car to k and deli charo taught are producing semiconductors in a couple of years is not going to solve the shortage now. so what is their

motivation to get into chip making? well, chris tara, there have been rumors about this for over the years with the daughters of essentially only confirmed rumors that answers the now part. the motivation is primarily to get into this race to develop india as a semiconductor hub of the future. now the federal government came up with a mission on this according to which a company that would be setting up businesses will be receiving some subsidies and benefits from the government. so at least a half a dozen companies across the country, they've already expressed interest in setting up the units into this business. but the top of that definitely the biggest of them all. so they're going to most likely have an advantage. so you say rumors have been there for quite a while. how far along is this plan then? well, chris, 1st of all that i set up a brand new electronics company for the day 2020. this pointed to see your in 2021,

and it's only now that they've gone public with their plans. so initially, as of now, they are planning only to get into assembly and the packaging part, which is the downstream part of the business. really, the upstream part is actually manufacturing of semiconductors which, which is quite a gigantic uphill task and that will require brand new technology as well as partners to get into this, which is why it would take some time. and which is why the plan to begin from the downstream part of the business they've decided to put in $90000000000.00, and they're gonna do it over the next 5 years. and you mentioned it, i mean, this can turn out to be quite a difficult operation. what are the pitfalls that you're seeing? well, chris, i think the only pitfall that i can imagine is that this is of an absolutely greenfield project. in fact, the industry itself is, is green field data. we'll have to begin from scratch. so that's, that's

a bit fall, but that's a pitfall that is most likely to be faced by smaller companies that taught us, as we know, they are in the us largest conglomerate rate, the popularly known as the salt, to steal kong. romney, because everything that you can imagine under the sun that does make it from salt to retail, to aviation, to hospitality, to steal, to a software, anything you name it under the sun and the daughters are doing it. so if, if there's anyone who is well pleased to take on this challenge and her do it successfully, it is the daughters chris did abuse charo carter gay and delhi, tara, thank you and staying with investments in india over the next 25 years, the country wants to put $1.00 trillion dollars into infrastructure projects, that means no shortage of work for the sand. divers of mom buy and have more damage to more india marine ecosystems. ah,

it's just before midday, when a small fishing boat approaches the shore near mom by but the men on board, on making a living from fishing as their fathers and grandfathers did. instead they have been pulling sand out of the sea, bucketful after bucketful. among them this jerome channel, he can dive up to depths of 12 meters. when he started 20 years ago, he was just the person who hold the buckets on board. but then he started diving. the spending of the firewall was in the water doing dive after dawn with no protective equipment and no oxygen tank. it's dangerous work. only then on the day i go into the water with the pipe in one hand and the bucket in the other. we hold the pipe with our legs and used a bucket to dig out. sam, i thought nobody, i say it, this goes the region of the decades long tradition,

not pulling sand out of the sea for use and construction. the problem now is the scale. several 1000 people earn a living by mining the sea for san. meanwhile, the demand for sand is growing as a raw material for the construction industry. since 1990 mom wise population has more than doubled to almost 21000000 people in 10 years. that number is expected to grow by another 5 me and in my growth need send in the waters all around mumbo you send, mining is prohibited but illegal. send money is trying business. what 1000000000 rivers, dull doesn't cost lines, are being destroyed in the search of san and with them, the habitats of plants and animals, as well as natural flag barriers at the indian institute of technology bumper researches are looking for alternative materials for the construction industrial. she arm also, nick has been looking for

a sam substitute for years. he and had the students have funny, you found one in decade old garbage just like so. the solid waste can be used in a multitude of different ways on building sites. so give me very quickly anywhere between 90 and 95 percent, my bill can be put in dollars several recycle and then can were dead. and if i wished into various other construction my deal and substitute which can go again back into the construction industry. it will take time until rest can replace san as of all material and pursuing them by sun divers to give up their jobs will be no easy task. a direst, we had a 1000 groupies around 12 euros a day, a bucket pool again, and 400 rupees, much needed income for several 1000 families. and that to some of the other global business stories making news. microsoft glands to purchase video game company

activision blizzard for $69000000000.00 may be on indefinite hold. as the u. s. federal trade commission sues to block the b. u. s. of european regulators have voice fears over competition, including games being exclusive to microsoft's expert munich base startup sono. motors says it's a solar powered car cy on may soon drive under the sunset. the company missed its latest fundraising targets and said it will and efforts to produce the science if by the end of january, there's no new cash. so no motors lost 104000000 euros this year. transit economy is set to end the year on a positive note growing 110th of a per cent of the 4th quarter. according to the country central bank, monthly survey reported, and improving business outlook with supply chain tensions and labor supply problems both easy. now germany is europe's economic powerhouse known for its engineering and auto industry. but in digitalization,

germany lacks behind comparable e economies, the european commission ranks, finland, denmark, and the lens, top 3 in digital competence. germany is far behind and 13th place only slightly above the e u. average europe, largest economy scores badly due in large part to its public agencies which rely heavily to this day on paperwork. a big chunk of the country's bureaucracy is not digitalized and germany also lex skilled tech workers, an estimated $140000.00 i. t job vacancies. still need to be filled. that's according to german i t association midcom. now those are among the issues that will come up to day when the german government is holding another digitalization summit. let's get the view of carla hosted on this. she is the director of the center for digital society at the mercator foundation, a welcome to d, w, a. carla. it feels like these events have been happening on an annual basis and

still germany is lagging behind when it comes to digitalization. so what has come of these meetings so far? to be honest, i was there yesterday and again we heard a lot of great, great ideas, great commitments that was made in the car. listen to me. but when you look at germany's digitization politics over the last couple of years, you're just seeing that digitalization, the digital transformation just hasn't been a priority. and that we somehow haven't been able to move from these promises to actual implementation. and i think one reason is because in germany, when we think about the digital transformation, it's often still thought off as making analog process is digital. and we don't think of it enough as a true administrative transformation and something that requires entirely new processes and new ways of thinking, for example, of how public sector,

how governance works. so what then needs to be done to accelerate this whole process. i mean, a change of mindset i would assume yeah, definitely. i mean, you mentioned before did, there's a couple of countries in the u that away ahead when they're digital jeremy, ahead of germany. and i think there's a lot to learn from them. countries like denmark, finland, estonia, actually or even looking more international lead taiwan. and to take is tony as an example, which has been a real digital success story. something they did was they chosen approach. they called digital 1st where they didn't just take an ella processes and made them digital, but we really saw through administrative reform rather than just adding it to layer . and this is yet the opposite of how we do it in germany right now. taiwan is another digital champion, 2 things over there, go hand in hand. one for sure is pass and easy internet access. and the other one that is really interesting is that they really saw the digital transformation as an

opportunity for democracy. so including citizens using in that as an opportunity for participation and accountability. carla, a lot of for beeble and germany are concerned and when it comes to data protection, is that an obstacle here? briefly if he could it would be so easy if he could just blame data protection. i think for sure, we need to think about new governance model for using data and we using to attain this. became very apparent in the koran pandemic, but many times that protection is also used as a scapegoat simply because we're lacking the true culture. we're lacking investments, we're lacking research that this process, our answers. and i believe that there are cases where we need to balance values such as to protect of healthcare and the protection of privacy and an individual sovereignty over the use of data. but in many ways and other countries have shown that this is possible, right?

we can actually come to and there's very little academic evidence that data protection is actually a burden for example and there, okay, there's actually, it's that show how it can boost innovation and create new with color set of the market foundation. thank you for your thoughts and is a quick reminder of our top person story at the sour india's topic grove will begin producing semiconductors in the country within a few years. it's a move that the chairman of the groups main company said will make the south asian country a keep part of global supply chains. that social thanks so much ah, [000:00:00;00]

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