POLICY & REGULATION BIAS INDIA

Does India Have The Infrastructure To Implement Policy Recommendations To Avoid Algorithmic Bias

December 8, 2020, by Kashyap Raibagi

In recent news, the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) in the UK, published a review study on the risks of bias in Algorithmic ...

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SMART CITY AUSTRALIA INDIA

How India-Australia’s New Partnership Could Lead To AI & Smart City Development

November 26, 2020, by Kashyap Raibagi

A recent report by the Observer Research Foundation argues that the governments of India and Australia should invest in the construction of a new India-Australia ...

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EDUCATION INDIA

Artificial intelligence in education in India: questioning justice and inclusion

November 18, 2020, by LSE Research Online: No conditions. Results ordered -Date Deposited.

Nandi, Anulekha (2019) Artificial intelligence in education in India: questioning justice and inclusion. In: Artificial Intelligence: Human rights, social justice and development. GISWatch reports (2019). ...

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POLICY & REGULATION EUROPE AlgorithmWatch INDIA

What Do Policy Recommendations For ADM Systems In Europe Mean For India?

November 17, 2020, by Kashyap Raibagi

A recently released report, Automating Society 2020, provides policy recommendations with an aim to better ensure that Algorithmic Decision Making (ADM) systems currently being deployed ...

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PEACE & GEOPOLITICS INDIA

How Can India Trump China In Higher Education Reforms For AI

November 15, 2020, by Kashyap Raibagi

India has many milestones to achieve if it is to catch up with China, concluded a study published by the Observer Research Foundation, that offered ...

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GOVERNING & PUBLIC SECTOR INDIA

Use Of Algorithmic Decision Making & AI In Public Organisations

November 13, 2020, by Kashyap Raibagi

The Japanese government is considering the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for speedy policy decision making, as it holds talks with Palantir Inc to discuss ...

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FOOD SECURITY & AGRICULTURE INDIA

Analysis: India startups seek high-tech solutions to colossal food waste

November 12, 2020, by Channel NewsAsia

NEW DELHI: Startups and venture capital are pouring into what might seem an unlikely place: India’s vast, outdated agriculture industry. Seizing on controversial new deregulation, ...

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HEALTH & WELL-BEING COVID19 PRIVACY INDIA

India bets on AI tech to curb coronavirus infections, amid privacy fears

November 11, 2020, by Reuters

From a tracker that can tell where someone sleeps at night, to a device detecting whether they have a mask on or not, India’s government ...

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HEALTH & WELL-BEING COVID19 INDIA

Trackers to mask detectors: India bets on coronavirus tech amid privacy fears

November 10, 2020, by The Straits Times Asia News

NEW DELHI (REUTERS) – From a tracker that can tell where someone sleeps at night to a device detecting whether they have a mask on ...

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PEACE & GEOPOLITICS INDIA

The Role Of AI Collaboration In India’s Geopolitics

November 10, 2020, by Kashyap Raibagi

Global power shifts in the post-Cold-War era characteristically moved away from traditional military rivalries to economic expansion and prowess. While physical resources like oil and ...

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FOOD SECURITY & AGRICULTURE DAIRY INDUSTRY INDIA

How AI can help Indian dairy farmers

November 9, 2020, by Arunima Sarkar

Artificial Intelligence can prove to be the game-changer for the dairy industry – if the right data can be made available to the right stakeholders.

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HEALTH & WELL-BEING LOW BIRTHWEIGHT INDIA

Empowering the Asha worker

November 2, 2020, by Patanjali Pahwa

Asha in Hindi means hope. In 2005, the government of India, as part of the National Rural Health Mission, started the Asha (Accredited social health ...

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WORK & ECONOMIC GROWTH INDIA

Automating Informality: On AI and Labour in the Global South (Research Summary)

November 2, 2020, by MAIEI

Summary contributed by Abhishek Gupta (@atg_abhishek), Founder and Principal Researcher of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute. *Link to original paper + authors at the bottom ...

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FOOD SECURITY & AGRICULTURE PEST MANAGEMENT INDIA

How AI is helping Indian cotton farmers reduce pesticide use

October 30, 2020, by Ivan Mehta

There are more than 5.8 million cotton farmers in India according to the country’s Textile Ministry. Every year, they face heavy losses due to pests ...

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FOOD SECURITY & AGRICULTURE FARMING PEST INDIA

What does the pest management tool mean for farmers?

October 19, 2020, by Patanjali Pahwa

Over the past three months, the team at Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence has been working with over 100 cotton farmers in Karnataka. A small ...

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HEALTH & WELL-BEING CONVERSATIONAL AI COVID19 INDIA

How Government Of India Used Conversational AI During COVID-19: A Case Study

October 19, 2020, by Sejuti Das

Founded by the government of India, MyGov is the world’s largest citizen engagement platform, with more than half a billion users on the platform. However, ...

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HEALTH & WELL BEING COVID19 INDIA

One cough at a time

October 14, 2020, by Patanjali Pahwa

There is research that shows that a cough contains a lot of information. We wanted to prove that this cough has indicators that would help ...

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FOOD SECURITY & AGRICULTURE FARMING INDIA

How do you build an app for farmers? 

October 12, 2020, by Patanjali Pahwa

It is a tricky question to answer. How do you communicate with a set of users whose relationship with their phone is scant? Let’s take ...

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IBM INDIA

IBM To Set Up AI CoE In India

October 6, 2020, by Sejuti Das

Speaking at the RAISE 2020 — Responsible AI for Social Empowerment — event, Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM, announced the set up of AI ...

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GOVERNING & PUBLIC SECTOR LANGUAGE BARRIER INDIA

Meity to seek Cabinet nod for policy on AI-based solutions

October 4, 2020, by PTI

‘Goal to use tech to address problems like language barrier’

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