IIT Madras launches Nilekani Centre at AI4Bharat

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10Pointer
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Science & Technology
Published
30th Jul, 2022

Context

IIT Madras launched the ‘Nilekani Centre at AI4Bharat’ to promote the state of Indian language technology with the intention to create a societal impact.

Key-points

It is an initiative to build open-source language AI for Indian languages.
The idea is to energise the ecosystem to do more for Indian languages, all the researched data will be available for start-ups and other industries working on Indian language technology.
This data, which can be accessed from the official website — iitm.ac.in— would include datasets, tools, and pre-trained models being developed at the Centre.

About Bhasini [BHASHaINterface for India]

It is India’s AI led language translation platform.
It is a part of the National Language Translation Mission.
It will make Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources available to MSMEs, Startups and Individual Innovators in the public domain.
It is interoperable and will catalyse the entire Digital Ecosystem.
It is a giant step to realise the goal of Digital Government.
It will create and nurture an ecosystem involving Central/State government agencies and start-ups, working together to develop and deploy innovative products and services in Indian languages.

Objectives

It aims to increase the content in Indian languages on the Internet substantially in the domains of public interest, particularly, governance-and-policy, science & technology, etc. , thus will encourage citizens to use the Internet in their own language.
It aims to build a National Public Digital Platform for languages to develop services and products for citizens by leveraging the power of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.