The ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY), weeks after launching AIKosh — a platform that provides repository of datasets, models and use cases to enable AI innovation, invites private companies and research institutions to contribute non-personal, India-specific datasets, as part of the IndiaAI Mission. According to an expression of interest (EOI) document, the objective is to "expand the availability of India-specific, non-personal and anonymized datasets to support AI research, innovation, and policymaking."

AIKosh, the flagship platform under IndiaAI, is aimed to make high-quality datasets accessible for developing AI technologies such as NLP, LLMs and so on. 

The government also currently works on developing India-specific AI language models and has till now received 67 proposals. The invite for contributions extends to entities, including startups, corporates, academic institutions, and non-profits, forbidding individual submissions.

 

Participating organizations must be compliant with existing data governance frameworks along with demonstrating relevant expertise and legal standing.
 

 

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The contributors are set to gain AIKosh’s collaborative features along with enhancing India's AI ecosystem. The platform offers tools for data standardization, iterative refinement, and versioning to improve dataset quality. Additionally, organizations can leverage AIKosh to run challenges and hackathons on their datasets, gaining visibility and attracting top talent for innovative solutions.

The applications have been invited on a rolling basis with periodic reviews for compliance. The India Datasets Platform is one of the seven pillars of the Rs 10,738-crore IndiaAI Mission aiming to streamline access to non-personal datasets for entrepreneurs and startups that are crucial for developing AI technologies like foundational models.

The platform was in development for months and has undergone internal testing among various government agencies.