Milestones planned NEXT THREE MONTHSTHREE TO SIX MONTHSSIX MONTHS TO A YEARANNUAL IMPACT REPORT Build a community of senior stakeholders from both the public and private sectors. This will include a national-level chief experience officer community as a steering committee and a working group community of subject-matter experts.Undertake the official launch of India Activator’s first hub in Telangana with a focus on regional digital health priorities. Activators are regionally focused multisectoral coalitions that drive concrete impact at scale and demonstrate effective blueprints for public– private collaboration, generating new partnerships, solutions and best practices. There will be a focus on identifying supply-side and demand-side gaps and opportunities.Launch a national dialogue among key stakeholders to strengthen and align digital health efforts for the first hub. Identify the second hub and create a working group to focus on the hub’s priority areas.Publish an annual impact report for target release at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2026. CASE STUDY FIRST Health FIRST Health (Fourth Industrial Revolution for Sustainable Transformation of Healthcare) was launched in January 2021 with the Ministry of Health and a core group of industry partners and subsequently expanded into the FIRST cancer care project7 in April 2022, with Meghalaya state as a key partner. The Meg Can Care project was launched with the aim of screening 1 million people free of charge, making it an ambitious initiative to reach around a third of the state’s population. The project’s primary goal is to ensure the early identification of suspected cancer cases through comprehensive screening programmes. It emphasizes the importance of timely diagnosis and follow-up testing to enable early intervention and improve patient outcomes. The collaboration between the Meghalaya government, the Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation and the World Economic Forum has been crucial, using expertise and resources to implement effective cancer-screening programmes. The project’s focus on telemedicine highlights the importance of technology in extending healthcare services to remote areas and facilitating access to specialized consultations for cancer patients. The implementation pilot project was officially launched in Meghalaya in East Khasi Hills in the presence of the chief minister and the health minister of Meghalaya on 31 May 2023 at the state Central Library Auditorium in observance of World No Tobacco Day. A cycle rally was organized in the city of Shillong and its outskirts to raise awareness of the project. 7. World Economic Forum. (2022, February). FIRST cancer care: Leveraging Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies for cancer care. https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_FIRST_Cancer_Care_2022.pdf. Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) India – an Impact Journey 37

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