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01/12/23 12:14 PM IST

India is building its own ‘sovereign AI’

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  • Minister of State for Electronics Rajeev Chandrasekhar said recent that India was determined to have its own 'sovereign AI'.
India's plan for controlling AI
  • Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) released a draft of the National Data Governance Framework Policy under which it proposed the creation of an India Datasets platform, which will consist of non-personal and anonymised datasets from Central government entities that have collected data from Indian citizens or those in India.
  • The idea is that the non-personal data housed within this programme would be accessible to startups and Indian researchers.
  • The policy is to modernise the government’s data collection, with an aim to improve governance and to enable artificial intelligence (AI) and data-led research and startup ecosystem in the country.
  • India datasets program is a “unified national data sharing and exchange platform to enable various data sharing and exchange use cases of all stakeholders including but not limited to Central/State/UT Governments, public sector undertaking, private sector companies, industry bodies, MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises) and startups, academia and researchers, civil society and media organisations, open technology communities, etc.”
Regulation of AI
  • Europe’s approach is based inherently on regulation for the rights of the citizens and the US approaches this from a point of regulation for markets. “Our approach will be a hybrid of both.
  • The Centre is considering issuing a directive to big tech companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon to share anonymised personal data in their possession with a government-backed database.
    The directive, which is understood to be part of the draft Digital India Bill, could mandate big tech companies to deposit all the non-personal data they hold to the India datasets platform.
    The idea of harnessing economic benefits from aggregated non-personal datasets was first proposed by a MeitY-appointed committee chaired by Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan.
  • In a draft report of January 2021, the committee recommended the identification of certain “high value datasets” which could be shared for the purpose of encouraging innovation and ensuring national security.
Source- Indian Express

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