Platform to empower youths
India’s national Artificial Intelligence Portal (www.ai.gov.in), launched on 30 May 2020, will work as a one stop digital platform for AI related developments, sharing of resources such as articles, startups, investment funds in AI, resources, companies and educational institutions related to AI in the country.
The portal will also share documents, such as case studies, research reports, and has section about learning and new job roles related to AI.
It has been jointly developed by the Ministry of Electronics and IT and IT Industry. National e-Governance Division of Ministry of Electronics and IT and NASSCOM from the IT industry will jointly run this portal.
The Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Communications and Law & Justice, Ravi Shankar Prasad, also launched a National Program for the youth, “Responsible AI for Youth”.
“The 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,” he said.
The Program has been created and launched 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. DoSE&L will help reach-out to State Education Departments to nominate teachers as per eligibility criteria.
Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “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”.
Handholding by Intel certified AI coaches and mentors will ensure that ideas mature as prototypes.
Experts will shortlist top 50 project ideas and students will be invited to showcase their projects either face to face or in an online format.
Further, top 20 innovative projects will be selected by an independent committee of experts and provided opportunities to showcase at relevant platform, said the Ministry in a release on 30 May 2020. fiinews.com
