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Anaadi Rural AI Center

Making Rural Youth AI Ready

About

Anaadi Rural AI Center envisions a future where rural communities are empowered with the latest AI technologies, and are able to leverage them to improve their quality of life, address unique challenges, and promote economic development. The center recognizes that rural communities face significant challenges in accessing technology and educational resources, and that the current development and deployment of AI technologies have largely been concentrated in urban centers. Therefore, our Rural AI Center seeks to bridge this digital divide by providing rural communities with the resources, training, and collaboration opportunities they need to effectively use AI technologies. By doing so, the center shall create a new generation of rural leaders who can harness the power of AI to drive economic growth, improve education and healthcare outcomes, support sustainable development, conservation, and cultural preservation efforts in rural areas. Moreover the rural participation in the AI movement is essential to foster a balanced and values-based positive approach to aid humanity through AI.

Benefits

Enhanced rural participation

Enhanced CS Education

Better Career Opportunities 

Reduce Migration 

Access to Information

Innovation

Enhanced Rural Manufacturing

Preserving Local Knowledge

Envisioned Activities

Anaadi Foundation’s Rural AI Center is a shared space with access to devices, content and training modules. The activities envisioned through this center include:


  • High-quality AI and Data Science based educational modules for school and college students

  • Value-oriented education for appropriate use of AI tools and technologies

  • AI and data sciences based certification programs

  • Providing lab space for students pursuing online courses in AI/DS related areas

  • Learning tutors for rural AI students

  • Primary and secondary data analytics skills for rural students especially social work students

  • Providing exposure to rural communities on various relevant AI tools in local language including insights on livelihoods like farming

  • Capturing local knowledge that is complex for humans to gather, store and analyze. Eg: AI powered Temple motifs , weaving patterns etc preservation and reinvigoration

  • Impacting rural health through data-driven approach

  • Host exciting AI tools for rural students to learn joyously and tinker with

  • Harness the large rural population to work on Indian Knowledge Systems datasets like OCR, transcriptions, translations etc that involve semi-automated tasks

  • Signing of MOUs with schools and colleges for skill development

People

Dr. Venkatapathy S

Director, Rural AI Center

Senior Project Research Scientist, IITB

PhD,  Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy

Shyam Krishnakumar

Consultant, Rural AI Center

Co-Founder, Pranava Institute

Titiksha Vashist

Consultant, Rural AI Center

Co-Founder, Pranava Institute

Narenthiran A

Project Staff

Advisory Board and Mentor Panel

Dr. Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Institute Chair Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay 

Professor-in-Charge, Koita Centre for Digital Health, Co-PI for the National Disease Modelling Consortium (NDMC). 

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Vidhyashankar V

Global Supply Chain Manager

Apple Inc, California, USA

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Prof. Rahul Garg

Professor

Department of CSE, IITD

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Subir Ghosh

Strategic Advisor at Porter and ICF Accredited ACC Coach

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Dr. Latha Parameswaran

Dean, Computational Sciences

PSGR Krishnammal College for Women

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Dr. Kshitij Jadhav (MD, PhD)

Assistant Professor, Koita Centre for Digital Health

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Dr. Ravi Kiran

Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

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Sanat Pai Raikar

Author and Co-Founder, Quizarre

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Rural AI Center

Anaadi Foundation, Iyvar Malai

Palani, Tamil Nadu

ruralai@anaadi.org

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