Friday, December 18, 2020

TN Safe & Ethical Artificial Intelligence Policy 2020

Government Of Tamil Nadu, Information Technology Department  announced Safe & Ethical Artificial Intelligence Policy 2020

Following are the primary objectives of this Policy –

1.  To  provide  a  framework  for  inclusive,  safe  &  ethical  use  of Artifi cial  Intelligence  in  Government domain and to build fairness, equity, transparency and trust in AI assisted  decision making systems.

2.  To  establish  guidelines for the  evaluation  of  an AI Systems  before  it’s  rolled  out for  Public use. 

3.  To build a mature and self-sustaining Artifi cial Intelligence community to aid the growth  of Artifi cial Intelligence  in Tamil Nadu  and to train  and  skill  people  in Tamil Nadu  in  Artifi cial Intelligence.

4.  To provide access to Open Data, Data Models, and Computing Resources.

5.  To build a regulatory sandbox that can be used for researching, building and deploying  Artifi cial Intelligence based applications by Start-ups, Private and Public Enterprises,  and Academia.

6.  To promote investments in AI R&D in Tamil Nadu.



In a path breaking ICT Initiative, the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu had recently announced  setting  up  of  a  “Center  of  Excellence  in  Emerging  Technologies  (CEET)”  under the aegis of Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA). The Center has been set  up and has started functioning with few  resources in place. CEET is mandated to work  with government departments and help them solve their key governance problems with  help of emerging technologies such as Artifi cial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT),  Blockchain, Drones, Augmented Reality (AR) / Virtual Reality (VR) and others. CEET has  started  conceptualizing  and  developing  solutions  for  problems  from  health,  education, rural  development  department,  agriculture  and  land  registration  departments.  A few solutions using Image Recognition have been developed and are ready to roll out at  scale. In addition, CEET also extensively engages with Startups and provides them with opportunities,  resources  and  mentoring  to  help  them  solve  problems  with  high  social impact and big scale.

>>Click Here for TN Safe & Ethical Artificial Intelligence Policy 2020

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