{"id":1033544,"date":"2026-09-07T07:40:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033544"},"modified":"2026-09-07T07:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:24:58","slug":"social-impact-summit-how-customised-ai-can-drive-grassroots-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/07\/social-impact-summit-how-customised-ai-can-drive-grassroots-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Impact Summit: How customised AI can drive grassroots change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a session on tech and AI in scaling change, panelists highlighted ways in which they&#8217;d each worked with technology and underscored how it could be customised to local contexts. <\/p>\n<p>Aniket Doegar, co-founder and CEO, Haqdarshak, spoke about his organisation&#8217;s use of tech to help people access the government&#8217;s 20,000 schemes, including cash transfers, from which many are excluded because of &#8220;information asymmetry&#8221;. AI use, on the other hand, was more evident on the &#8220;supply&#8221; side, with governments using it to simplify and standardise scheme data across states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a session on tech and AI in scaling change, panelists highlighted ways in which they&#8217;d each worked with technology and underscored how it could be customised to local contexts. Aniket Doegar, co-founder and CEO, Haqdarshak, spoke about his organisation&#8217;s use of tech to help people access the government&#8217;s 20,000 schemes, including cash transfers, from which many are excluded because of &#8220;information asymmetry&#8221;. AI use, on the other hand, was more evident on the &#8220;supply&#8221; side, with governments using it to simplify and standardise scheme data across states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033576,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033544\/revisions\/1033576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}