Microsoft AI Summit: Reimagining digital governance with Cloud, AI, IoT

NEW DELHI: Reimagining a tech-enabled future, using data and technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform services and drive adoption within government and public sector with the help of industry will be critical for India, said senior government and public sector leaders at the Microsoft Digital Governance Cloud & AI Summit held on Friday.

“The government is looking to create collaborative mechanisms with the private sector to participate in problem solving by using new technologies. We are excited about the potential of data analytics and AI technologies. We are also looking at ways in which the startup ecosystem and SMBs can participate with value added services on top of these platforms, to make use of AI technologies, blockchain, geospatial technologies, AR/VR,” said Ajay Prakash Sawhney, secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India.

Sawhney added that it will be critical to create a digital ecosystem, where it is not just the government which works in a silo trying to provide services to the citizens, but are able to create opportunities for others who are attempting to provide similar services to join in and build on top of these platforms in a fair and trustworthy manner.