The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, addressed the G20 Digital Economy Ministers' Meet in Bengaluru. While addressing the audience, PM spoke about the development of Bhashini, an AI-powered language translation platform that will support digital inclusion in all the diverse languages of India. 

Bhashini, developed by the government of India, aims to build a National Public Digital Platform for languages to develop services and products for citizens by leveraging the power of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. 

The model aims to act as an orchestrator to unify and align an extensive, diverse network across government, industry, academia, research groups and start-ups to bring all their contributions into an open repository. 

Bashini creates a multi-stakeholder ecosystem for delivering a scalable solution for digitizing Indian languages. Contributions by stakeholders will enhance the availability of multilingual content and enable citizens to use the internet in their language conveniently. 

It shall create a unifying architecture underpinned by open data principles and open-source software to enable contributions from the research initiatives and the ecosystem. This shall also catalyze the ecosystem to work on an integrated approach to build diverse solutions. The idea is to create a community of contributors with a unified approach to help Bhashini realize its stated objectives. 

"India's Digital Public Infrastructure offers scalable, secure and inclusive solutions for global challenges", the Prime Minister remarked. Noting the country's incredible diversity, the Prime Minister emphasized that India has dozens of languages and hundreds of dialects.  

He further added that it is home to every religion and innumerable cultural practices from around the world. "From ancient traditions to the latest technologies, India has something for everyone", the Prime Minister asserted. With such diversity, he continued, India is an ideal testing lab for solutions. He underlined that a solution which succeeds in India can be easily applied anywhere in the world.