{"id":992800,"date":"2026-02-17T09:10:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992800"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:50:16","slug":"india-can-lead-in-making-ai-more-accessible-to-global-south-bcg-india-md-partner-sidharth-madaan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/17\/india-can-lead-in-making-ai-more-accessible-to-global-south-bcg-india-md-partner-sidharth-madaan\/","title":{"rendered":"India can lead in making AI more accessible to Global South: BCG India MD &amp; Partner Sidharth Madaan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India can clearly lead in making AI more accessible to Global South, having cracked the language models which can be phenomenally powerful, BCG India Managing Director &amp; Partner, Sidharth Madaan said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Yet, India faces a risk of not catching up fast enough with new upcoming technologies and converting its demographic advantage into a productivity advantage, for which AI can play a pivotal role in skilling its existing workers and those who are entering the workforce, Madaan told PTI here on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India can clearly lead in making AI more accessible to Global South, having cracked the language models which can be phenomenally powerful, BCG India Managing Director &amp; Partner, Sidharth Madaan said on Monday. Yet, India faces a risk of not catching up fast enough with new upcoming technologies and converting its demographic advantage into a productivity advantage, for which AI can play a pivotal role in skilling its existing workers and those who are entering the workforce, Madaan told PTI here on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit.<\/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-992800","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\/992800","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=992800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}