The potential for India and US to work together to address the common global challenges through scientific and technological interventions was underscored at the twenty second meeting of Governing Body Indo-US Science Technology Forum held on 15 December 2022.

Both sides shown keen interest to work together in the critical and emerging areas such as artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning, quantum technology and applications; precision and climate resilient smart agriculture; biotechnology, bio-economy, clean coal technologies, carbon capture utilization and storage, hydrogen fuel cell technologies at the meeting co-chaired by Dr. S. Chandrasekhar, Secretary Department of Science and Technology the Indian side and Jason Donovan from the US side.

The board members and observers from Governments, academia and industry also participated and contributed in review and; Visioning and Strategy for enhancing scale and scope of India-US collaboration in science, technology and innovation.

Science and Technology cooperation has been a cornerstone of the strategic partnership between the world’s two largest democracies.  In 2000, the governments of India and the United States of America agreed to establish the binational Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) to promote, catalyse, and seed bilateral collaboration in science, technology, engineering and innovation through substantive interaction amongst federal agencies, academia and industry.

As a result there are many joint scientific programme in place and several projects have been supported in different areas like energy, water, health, ocean and earth sciences, space and mega science projects and the necessity of taking these forward was also highlighted in the meeting.