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31/05/22 07:40 AM IST

National AI Portal

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  • The second-year anniversary of 'National AI Portal (https://indiaai.gov.in)' is celebrated on May 30, 2022.
About the portal 
  • The National AI Portal is a joint initiative by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), National e-Governance Division (NeGD) and NASSCOM.
  • The portal focuses on creating and nurturing a unified AI ecosystem in the country to drive excellence and leadership in knowledge creation to develop an AI-ready robust workforce for the future and use AI to foster economic growth.
  • The portal was launched by the Hon’ble Minister for Electronics and IT and Communications on May 30, 2020.
  • Since its inauguration, the portal has been visited by more than 4.5 lakh users with 1.2 million page views.
  • The portal currently has an impressive repository of 1151 articles on AI, 701 news stories, 98 reports, 95 case studies and 213 videos.
  • It also has one of the best databases on India's AI ecosystem featuring details of 121 government initiatives and 281 startups.
  • The portal has played a crucial role in evangelising and nurturing the AI ecosystem through numerous impactful initiatives such as the lab2market, Women in AI Roundtable, AI patent report, Responsible AI handbook for startups, Responsible AI Startups survey, podcasts, and the AI Standards.
INDIAai 
  • INDIAai released a book on the basics of AI titled ‘AI for Everyone’.
  • The booklet aims to provide free and open AI literacy to the community of young minds and new learners to enable them in their aspirations beyond the digital divide.
Benefits of AI 
  • AI can help professionals in a great way to save time from repetitive work to focus more on human centric work.
  • She also talked about FutureSkills Prime and use of coding to learn new skills related to AI.
Source- PIB 

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