IT Ministry Holds Brainstorming Session On Digital India

The Ministry of Electronics and IT held a brainstorming session with Researchers and Start-ups, aimed to shape strategy for Digital India BHASHINI, which is India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) led language translation platform. The government intends to integrate start-ups' innovation, development and consumption of technology.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State (MoS), MEITY said," It is an important part of PM Modi’s vision to provide opportunities for Indian youth and connecting the country. While BharatNet and 5G will catalyse ‘connecting all Indians’ to Internet goal, Bhashini will ensure citizens consume the internet and Digital Government service in their own languages”.

BHASHINI utilises AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources in an interoperable manner with an intention catalyse the entire Digital Ecosystem including MSMEs, startups, and individuals.

“Start-ups are an important part of our Digital ecosystem and will be supported for developing India-specific and Indian Languages enabled IT solutions through Mission Digital India Bhashini. I hope this leads to more AI/Language based start-ups becoming unicorns one day.", MoS further added.