IndiaAI Mission signs MoU with Karya to build inclusive AI ecosystem

Key facts

• The IndiaAI Mission, under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with nonprofit organisation Karya.
• The partnership aims to strengthen India’s inclusive artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem through collaboration in data, technology, and capacity building.
• The collaboration focuses on developing, curating, and sharing high-quality language and multimodal datasets to build inclusive and representative AI systems.
• Both organisations will work on strengthening AIKosh data infrastructure, model evaluation frameworks, and standards for dataset quality, validation, and interoperability.
• The partnership will support capacity building through training programmes, workshops, technical consultations, and knowledge-sharing initiatives across government bodies and partner institutions.