Economic development? Control over your own media? Surely this is not a serious question. Heck, controlling your own media and tech stack is far more important to a country like india than landing probes on the moon. Ideally india should do both. Not sure why they are lagging so far behind in the tech sector when so much of the tech industry is powered by indians.
Which is disappointing. India should have their own video sharing/livestream platform.