{"id":974567,"date":"2025-11-18T07:58:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974567"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:43:52","slug":"karnataka-launches-keo-an-affordable-ai-pc-to-bridge-the-digital-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/18\/karnataka-launches-keo-an-affordable-ai-pc-to-bridge-the-digital-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka launches KEO, an affordable AI PC to bridge the digital divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka government on Monday launched KEO (knowledge-driven, economical, open-source), a personal computer powered by RISC-V processors and a Linux-based operating system. IT-BT (IT and biotech) minister Priyanak Kharge said these affordable \u201cAI-ready computers\u201d aim to address the digital divide in the state. He added that Karnataka stands at only 15%, far below what\u2019s required for modern education and digital-first jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka government on Monday launched KEO (knowledge-driven, economical, open-source), a personal computer powered by RISC-V processors and a Linux-based operating system. IT-BT (IT and biotech) minister Priyanak Kharge said these affordable \u201cAI-ready computers\u201d aim to address the digital divide in the state. He added that Karnataka stands at only 15%, far below what\u2019s required for modern education and digital-first jobs.<\/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-974567","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\/974567","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=974567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}