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NEW DELHI, July 24 (UPI) -- Microsoft founder Bill Gates says the key to solving many of India's healthcare and education problems lies with technology.
In a visit to the country, Gates said the creation of a national identity database in India would help track infants who need immunizations and allow all Indians to have bank accounts, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Gates told a media briefing in New Delhi that as computers and cell phones can be used to modernize access to public services in rural parts of India as they become more user-friendly.
For example, he said computers could be used to deliver video lectures to villages or allow doctors to examine patients remotely.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced it is increasing its funding to reduce the spread of human immunodeficiency virus in India to $338 million.
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