{"id":953966,"date":"2025-08-11T06:58:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=953966"},"modified":"2025-08-11T07:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:41:08","slug":"indias-ai-strategy-aims-to-democratise-technology-and-boost-jobs-ashwini-vaishnaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/11\/indias-ai-strategy-aims-to-democratise-technology-and-boost-jobs-ashwini-vaishnaw\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s AI strategy aims to democratise technology and boost jobs: Ashwini Vaishnaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, said that India&#8217;s artificial intelligence (AI) strategy is designed to democratise access to technology and create widespread economic and employment opportunities. <\/p>\n<p>Vaishnaw said that the strategy, aligned with Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s vision, builds on the country&#8217;s rapidly growing technology sector. With annual revenues projected to exceed $280 billion and over six million people employed, India hosts more than 1,800 global capability centres (GCCs)&#8211;500 of them focusing on AI. The start-up ecosystem is also booming, with 89% of last year&#8217;s new startups powered by AI, he informed the Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, said that India&#8217;s artificial intelligence (AI) strategy is designed to democratise access to technology and create widespread economic and employment opportunities. Vaishnaw said that the strategy, aligned with Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s vision, builds on the country&#8217;s rapidly growing technology sector. With annual revenues projected to exceed $280 billion and over six million people employed, India hosts more than 1,800 global capability centres (GCCs)&#8211;500 of them focusing on AI. The start-up ecosystem is also booming, with 89% of last year&#8217;s new startups powered by AI, he informed the Rajya Sabha.<\/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-953966","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\/953966","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=953966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}