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Global India AI Summit 2024

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The Global India AI Summit 2024, organized by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, will be held on July 3-4, 2024, in New Delhi. The summit underscores the Government of India’s unwavering commitment to the responsible development, deployment, and adoption of artificial intelligence. The event aims to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange among global AI stakeholders, ensuring the ethical and inclusive growth of AI technologies in India.

Key Objectives

The summit is designed to bring together leading international AI experts from science, industry, civil society, governments, international organizations, and academia. The primary objectives are to foster collaboration, share insights on key AI issues and challenges, and ensure the ethical and inclusive development of AI technologies. Through this summit, India aims to establish itself as a global leader in AI innovation, ensuring that the benefits of AI contribute significantly to the nation’s socio-economic development.

India's Role

As the lead chair of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), India will host member countries and experts to advance GPAI’s commitment to safe, secure, and trustworthy AI. This leadership role emphasizes India's dedication to fostering global collaboration in AI and highlights its aspiration to be at the forefront of AI innovation on the world stage.

Focus Areas

The summit will focus on several critical areas of AI development, including Compute Capacity, Foundational Models, Datasets, Application Development, Future Skills, Startup Financing, and Safe AI. Each of these areas is pivotal in building a robust AI ecosystem in India and ensuring the technology’s benefits are widely accessible.

 

IndiaAI Mission

 

The IndiaAI Mission aims to build a comprehensive ecosystem that fosters AI innovation. The mission's goals include democratizing computing access, enhancing data quality, developing indigenous AI capabilities, attracting top AI talent, enabling industry collaboration, providing startup risk capital, ensuring socially impactful AI projects, and promoting ethical AI. This mission drives responsible and inclusive growth of India's AI ecosystem through various strategic initiatives.

Key Pillars

IndiaAI Compute Capacity The objective is to establish a scalable AI computing ecosystem with over 10,000 GPUs through public-private partnerships. An AI marketplace will be developed to provide AI as a service and pre-trained models, acting as a central hub for essential AI resources.

IndiaAI Innovation Centre This center focuses on developing and deploying indigenous large multimodal models (LMMs) and domain-specific foundational models. These models will cater to the unique needs of India’s diverse industries and sectors, fostering innovation and addressing specific industry challenges.

IndiaAI Datasets Platform The platform aims to streamline access to high-quality non-personal datasets for AI innovation. A unified data platform will be provided, offering seamless access to Indian startups and researchers, aiding in the development of robust AI models.

IndiaAI Application Development Initiative This initiative promotes AI applications in critical sectors by addressing problem statements from Central Ministries, State Departments, and other institutions. The focus is on developing impactful AI solutions for large-scale socio-economic transformation.

IndiaAI FutureSkills The objective is to reduce barriers to AI education by increasing AI courses at various academic levels and establishing Data and AI Labs in Tier 2 and 3 cities. This ensures a steady pipeline of skilled AI professionals nationwide, supporting the growth of India’s AI ecosystem.

IndiaAI Startup Financing This pillar supports deep-tech AI startups with streamlined access to funding. By providing risk capital and financial support, the mission aims to nurture a vibrant ecosystem of AI startups, driving technological advancements and economic growth.

Safe & Trusted AI Ensuring responsible AI development is a key objective, achieved through implementing Responsible AI projects, developing indigenous tools and frameworks, and establishing guidelines for ethical, transparent, and trustworthy AI technologies. This initiative ensures that AI technologies are developed and deployed in a manner that is safe and trustworthy.

 

Special Campaign for Family Pensioners' Grievances

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The Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, is launching a month-long special campaign for the effective redressal of family pensioners' grievances. This initiative will run from July 1-31, 2024, involving 46 Ministries/Departments with the aim of significantly reducing the pendency of such grievances.

Key Objectives

The special campaign seeks to address and resolve 1,891 family pension grievances identified from the Centralized Pension Grievance and Redress System (CPENGRAMS) Portal. The primary goal is to provide timely and effective solutions to the grievances of family pensioners, especially focusing on issues faced by women pensioners, defense pensioners, railway pensioners, and CAPFs pensioners under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

 

Sankhyiki Portal

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The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has launched the eSankhyiki portal, aimed at enhancing user experience and ease of data access. This initiative aligns with the Ministry's commitment to the integrated development of the national statistical system in tune with global statistical practices and data dissemination standards.

Objective

The primary objective of the eSankhyiki portal is to establish a comprehensive data management and sharing system that facilitates the ease of dissemination of official statistics in the country. The portal provides real-time inputs for planners, policymakers, researchers, and the public at large, supporting evidence-based decision-making processes.

Key Features

The eSankhyiki portal has been designed with user-centric features, incorporating cutting-edge technologies and global best practices to ensure enhanced accessibility and usability of statistical data. The portal offers two main modules:

1. Data Catalogue Module

2. Macro Indicators Module