National AI Portal (INDIAai): First Anniversary 2021


Why in News?

The ‘National AI Portal (https://indiaai.gov.in)’, celebrated its first anniversary on May 28, 2021.

AI PeCharcha:

Wherein key leaders from MeitY, NeGD, NASSCOM and knowledge partner Infosys conducted discussion on how India can become a global AI leader and explored ideas around implementing trustworthy AI solutions.

Theme: ‘Implementing Trustworthy AI Solutions’

 

National AI Portal

About INDIAai:

The Union Minister for Electronics and IT, Law and Justice and Communications Ravi Shankar Prasad was  India’s national Artificial Intelligence Portal in May, 2020.

The National AI Portal is a joint initiative by –

  • Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY),
  • National e-Governance Division (NeGD) and
  • NASSCOM

The portal work as a one stop digital platform for AI related developments in India, sharing of resources such as articles, startups, investment funds in AI, resources, companies and educational institutions related to AI in India.

The portal also share documents, case studies, research reports etc. It has section about learning and new job roles related to AI.

It is serves as a central hub for AI related news, learning, articles, events and activities etc., in India and beyond.

 

Responsible AI for Youth:

It was launched by Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Communications and Law & Justice, Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Its a National Program for the youth.

Aim: This Program is to give the young students of our country a platform and empower them with appropriate new age tech mind-set, relevant AI skill-sets and access to required AI tool-sets to make them digitally ready for the future.

The Program has been created and launched jointly by the National e-Governance Division, Ministry of Electronics & IT in collaboration with Intel India, with support from Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L), Ministry of Human Resource Development.

It empower the youth to become AI ready and help reduce the skill gap, while enabling youth to create meaningful social impact solutions.

 

Significance:

The portal would showcase more and more AI initiatives from the public sector and constantly strive to remain as the top choice for AI related knowledge repository amongst the AI community.

The time is right to apply AI across the board to India’s most challenging issues, whether it’s healthcare, education or judicial pendency. Both on the business side as well as on the Government and national side, we are well-placed to apply AI in a very unique way to India’s challenges as well as opportunities.

The single most important area is to apply AI, to improve services, the quality of service delivery and decision making.

The future lies in the uplifting of digital initiatives to national public digital platforms, which are simple, nimble and bring together existing systems, players and open the doors for innovation and value-added services roping in the ecosystem players.

In the last 1-1.5 years, there have seen the true potential of Artificial Intelligence. We have realised that the ways for AI are just beginning.

It is very relevant and helpful to fight against current COVID-19 Pandemic.

The role of digital technologies with special reference to pandemic-afflicted world, said that such technologies have proved to be our saviours during the difficult times.

These have been of very crucial help especially in the field of education, agriculture, healthcare, e-commerce, finance, telecommunications, etc.

 

India must be a leading country in the development of Artificial Intelligence in the world, leveraging upon its vast Internet savvy population and data it is creating. India’s AI approach should be of inclusion and empowerment of human being by supplementing growth and development rather than making human beings less relevant.


Also Read: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare in India 


Source: PIB

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