KTR expresses confidence after Davos Summit

Hyderabad: Artificial Intelligence (AI) should be used to solve local problems with the help of global technology, said IT and Industries Minister K Taraka Rama Rao, adding that technology solutions should first focus on streamlining processes and generating meaningful data to ensure that benefits of AI can percolate to individuals and communities.

The Minister who is leading the Telangana delegation at the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2018, was speaking at a session on ‘Global Tech and Local Solutions: Artificial Intelligence’ on the sidelines of WEF, in Davos on the last day. He underlined the crucial role played by high-quality training and testing data in any machine learning algorithm. He also emphasised the need for governments to upskill themselves to maintain the desired quality in data collection.

Rama Rao also took the opportunity to discuss the Telangana government’s Open Data Policy, launched in 2016, which has now over 50 datasets open to public. He explained that the open data policy stands out not just for its transparency, but also for the high quality of the data collected and for the scope of it being used to derive meaningful insights or to build AI-based solutions. “Telangana State plans to identify ‘Problem Statements’ and run hackathons based on the data collected once a critical mass of datasets reaches the platform,” he announced.