This report recommends the development of an enriched National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Resource Platform (NAIRP) of India: a platform that will bring together all publicly shareable data, information, tools, literature, solutions, best-practices to enable a large number of people to individually and in collaboration take up AI tasks to fuel all aspects from capacity building to building solutions in different domains that will benefit the society, enrich national prosperity and enable international cooperation. The platform will also have scope for sharing and driving standards, policy guidelines, entrepreneurship and developing a creative economy.

It is expected that this platform will be built in a contributory and participatory manner by all stakeholders, initially primarily driven and mainly funded by the Government along with Academic and Research Institutions, Industry and corporate bodies, Entrepreneurs, and Thought Leaders. The platform will be a key component of the Indian AI ecosystem which will also consist of Knowledge Parks, Mission Programmes and Projects, Capacity Building and Re- Skilling and Policies and Guidelines. This National AI Resource Platform (NAIRP) has the potential to develop into a central repository of various components of the AI Ecosystem making it a critical knowledge integration and dissemination base.

This National AI Platform (NAIRP) will be an Open Data and Knowledge-cum-Innovation Platform that will enable usage by all categories of users for a variety of purposes including but not limited to training, research, projects including educational, competitive, funded and mission projects, start-ups and commercial development for socio-economic good. It will encourage the highest quality talent and innovators from all over the country and world to participate in this programme and help solve national challenges.

This platform will also catalyze the development of a partnership/ collaboration/ contribution/ participation model for knowledge sharing, data sharing, meta-data structure, annotation, API framework, IP creation, innovation, value added AI services, government adoption and human interactions.

The success of the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) Project (https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/) will be replicated for developing this AI repository and the potential of the data.gov.in resource can be the starting point to develop this National AI Resource Platform (NAIRP).

It is recommended that the initial development of NAIRP be carried out in project mode to be funded by the Government of India through MeitY. This Committee is willing to take up the responsibility to carry out this project through a National Institute of Importance such as IIT Kharagpur (which has successfully developed the National Digital Library of India) in collaboration with National Informatics Centre (NIC), other academic institutes and industry partners.

To develop a public open platform, a network of partners will be essential. . A unique meta- data and date / knowledge sharing paradigm will be adopted for populating and integrating elements in the platform. A gap analysis of the existing open data policy and how best to ensure recommendations above for quality data platform can be initiated. A set of metrics will be defined for evaluation of the platform for its performance, efficiencies and utilities. Finally it will disseminate the information, knowledge and awareness of AI through various on-line initiatives including those related to skilling, projects, policies and innovation.

It is estimated that the development will require a budget of about Rs 100 crores over a period of 3 to 4 years after a detailed proposal and scoping is made.

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