DIGITAL INDIA BHASHINI

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Context

• The Ministry of Electronics and IT today conducted a brainstorming session with Researchers and Start-ups. The session was aimed to shape strategy for Digital India BHASHINI.
• The government wants to integrate start-ups in innovation, development and consumption of technology.

About

• Digital India BHASHINI is India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) led language translation platform.
• Bhashini 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.
• A Bhashini Platform will make Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources available to MSMEs, Startups and Individual Innovators in the public domain.
• This mission aims to empower Indian citizens by connecting them to the Digital Initiatives of the country in their own language thereby leading to digital inclusion.
• The Bhashini platform is interoperable and will catalyze the entire Digital Ecosystem. It is a giant step to realize the goal of Digital Government.
• Mission will create and nurture an ecosystem involving Central/State government agencies and start-ups, working together to develop and deploy innovative products and services in Indian languages.
• Mission Digital India Bhashini also aims to increase the content in Indian languages on the Internet substantially in the domains of public interest, particularly, governance-and-policy, science & technology, etc. , thus will encourage citizens to use the Internet in their own language.

https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1827997