Redesign the World - A Global Call to Action

The world was last designed seventy-five years ago, about the same time that Sam Pitroda was born. This design has outlived its utility. Hyperconnectivity and the COVID-19 pandemic offer a unique opportunity to redesign the world to take humanity to the next level. Redesigning the world is not about looking at it from the point of view of liberal or conservative; left or right; capitalism or socialism; public or private; democracy, dictatorship or monarchy; open or closed systems; rich or poor; urban or rural; east or west; white, brown, black or yellow. This proposed redesign of the world has the planet and its people at the centre; it is built on the foundations of sustainability, inclusion, equality, equity and justice so that everyone on earth can enjoy peace and prosperity. It is not an idealist or utopian vision, but one with humanity at its core.This book is about reshaping the world to meet the future challenges of our planet and our people.

SAM PITRODA is an internationally respecteddevelopment thinker, policymaker, inventor andentrepreneur who has spent over fifty-five years intelecom development.Credited with having laid the foundation of India'stechnology and telecommunications revolutionin the 1980s, during Rajiv Gandhi's government, Pitroda has been a leading campaigner in helpingto bridge the global digital divide. In the mid-1990s, he founded Worldtel in London to help privatizetelecom in developing countries. He invented theelectronic diary in 1974, the mobile wallet in 1996, and set up C-SAM Inc., acquired by MasterCard in2013. From 2005 to 2014, Pitroda was chairman ofthe National Knowledge Commission and adviser tothe Indian prime minister with a cabinet minister'srank. He was also chairman of the NationalInnovation Council and Smart Grid Task Force, and a key part of efforts in railway modernization, and the development of public broadcast reforms.He is the founder, investor and chairman of sixstart-ups and five non-profit foundations. Pitrodaholds over 100 patents and 20 honorary PhDs andhas published and lectured extensively around theworld. He is a member of the American Academy ofEngineers. His autobiography, Dreaming Big, waspublished in 2015.