Govt will take a call on who can access Indian datasets, says MOS IT

Indian datasets will have restricted access and the government will decide the criteria for granting access to them, said Rajeev Chandrasekhar, minister of state for electronics and information technology, on Monday.

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The government on Monday held the first round of consultations on the IndiaAI programme with industry stakeholders, policy advocates, and academics to design a national AI (artificial intelligence) data platform and open up datasets held by the government for start-ups, researchers, and innovators. "We need to design a national AI data platform, making data held by government organisations and the private sector available to researchers and innovation. The India dataset has a particular relevance that has not been seen elsewhere. There's a perception that if we can do this right it will be a gold standard of datasets," said Chandrasekhar.