Hyderabad: The onus lies on the governments to help people build local skills and get global firms to work locally, said IT minister K.T. Rama Rao at the session on ‘Global Tech and Local Solutions: Artificial Intelligence’ on the sidelines of WEF summit, in Davos.
Emphasising the need for governments to skill themselves to maintain the desired quality in data collection, the minister said that artificial intelligence should be used to solve local problems with the help of global technology.
The minister discussed the Telangana state government’s open data policy, which has now over 50 datasets open to public. He said, “Telangana plans to identify ‘problem statements’ and run hackathons based on the data collected once a critical mass of datasets reaches the platform”.
The solutions that work in one part of the world may not work in another, so regional and linguistic differences need to be taken into consideration, said Mr Rao.
He added that a centre of excellence in data sciences is one of the initiatives taken up by the state in this regard.
