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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’
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
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- 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