And this is a wrap for my visit at the India Mobile Congress 2024 & the ITU-WTSA 2024. Here is my understanding of the engagements I had at the beautiful Bharat Mandapam.
Let's start with Union and State Governments in India & Foreign Governments.
1️⃣ The Government of Telangana had the best State Government feature on AI industry policy. I loved reading their case studies and understanding their specific focus towards building tangible, data-fied use cases.
2️⃣ The Government of Uttar Pradesh has the worst exhibition area ever. Although ETGovernment hypes about their AI use cases like Chakbandi.AI, it is perplexing why Chakbandi, and other AI solutions were not even featured in the exhibition area. Total disappointment.
3️⃣ Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India, Ministry of Railways, Government of India and SAMEER (R&D under MeitY, Government of India)'s exhibition areas were promising. They are focusing on specific solutions.
4️⃣ I loved how the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region had some interesting industrial technology use cases being featured in their exhibition area (they weren't AI-related, but their use in the construction, sustainability & other sectors is a good sign).
5️⃣ The Dominican Republic Government's work in having citizens to receive notification of data expiration in their e-governance infrastructure was impressive. I asked them and they claimed they inspired their initiatives from Riigikantselei / Government Office of Estonia. (cc Embassy of the Dominican Republic in India, Gregor Strojin)
Companies
1️⃣ Many (not most) companies talking about #GenAI were hyped up. Still, there were genuine initiatives to look for.
2️⃣ I met Swastik Grover from Datence Technologies and Anirudh Srinivasan & Pankaj Singh from BharatGen (I have already discussed BharatGen in detail here: https://tinyurl.com/3z6btbex).
3️⃣ Swastik's work at Datence is interesting. His awareness of the AI access policies, and piloting his deliverables to domain-specific stakeholders is hard, which many Indian legaltech entities don't even achieve (but yes, they love hypering). I love the scale they focus on, which is promising. They do remind me of SpeedLegal, and Webnyay (cc Vishwam Jindal).
4️⃣ Just one-liner: Orangewood is doing some crazy & fantastic work in telerobotics. That's it. No cap.
Academia
1️⃣ Indian Institute of Technology, Madras has collaborated on an interesting optical fibre-related project with multiple-level stakeholders and within a 2 km (or more) distance, they have achieved 10mbps speed. This is for government initiatives, I believe.
I think people are now realising that focus-specific AI solutions & deliverables will only make the cut. That is good.
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