Hyderabad: With Telangana declaring 2020 as the Year of AI, the IT and Industries department principal secretary Jayesh Ranjan said that the State is focusing on Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture and it has created many data sets on reports covering weather and agriculture prices, location of market yard.
Speaking at the Indo Data Week organized by DAV Data Solutions, Ranjan said that Telangana is one of the first two states in India to have an Open Data Policy after Sikkim. “The policy which came into being four years back puts the responsibility on government, institutions and other stakeholders,” he said.
The two-day meet was organized virtually and data scientists and data professionals gathered virtually from all over the world at the inauguration of the second Indo Data Week being organized from Hyderabad. The theme of the meeting is Applied Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, informed Parvathy Krishnan of DAV Data Solutions, the organizer.
The conference features more than 40 speakers from all over the globe. Speakers and delegates from organizations such as World Bank, Pulse Lab Jakarta, Emerging Technologies Wing — Government of Telangana, National Health Authority — Government of India, startups and innovation hubs, Impact Scientist, Knowledge Exchange Innovation Center Thailand, FluxGen Technologies, research and academia such as Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad, and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad are participating.
“AI has to be effectively used for social innovation. Modern farmers have to be digital farmers. We at the government embarked on AI for Agriculture Innovation. Telangana Government uses AI for Agricultural Innovation,” Ranjan said. He added that State-owned Agriculture University is creating a Data Hub and standardizing it along with other partners.
