Cross-border Data Flows Fundamental for AI Growth in India

/ -- While at the same time, ensuring privacy of citizens while deploying AI technology will be the cornerstone for the future of emerging technologies
Founding Director of The Dialogue, Mr. Kazim Rizvi, stated, "This paper addresses two key challenges - enabling cross-border data flows to drive AI and ensuring that high-level privacy standards are complied with for AI deployment. For India to emerge as a leader in AI, it is crucial to harness its potential while maintaining privacy of citizens, while at the same time, we must ensure that data is allowed to flow across borders to give our technologists, scientists, engineers and developers the best possible opportunity to leverage AI for India's development."

Emphasizing that AI-driven strategies need to be developed by our country for social welfare, Dr. Neeta Verma, DG, NIC, Government of India said, "An inclusive growth of our country is required. We can't let AI be just a privilege to the elite, it should include people from all spheres. Look at healthcare in India. There is a lack of access to healthcare and quality healthcare. The problem is not that these facilities are not available in remote areas, but it is that doctors don't want to go to such areas. AI can assist doctors - whether it's robotic heart surgery that we saw last week in Gujarat or early diabetic detection. Agriculture, Education and Smart Cities are some of the other areas vital to India's development."

Mr. Deo added, "Rather than a threat, AI can be an opportunity. The engineering graduates can develop new spheres using technology and Artificial Intelligence, which in turn can create new jobs."
Dr. Narendra Jadhav, MP, Rajya Sabha in his remarks mentioned the importance of cross-border data flows and provided some key statistics. "The cross-border data flows has increased 45 times between 2004 and 2014. In 2014 only, they accounted for US $2.8 trillion in GDP and hence, cross-border data flows are important for the development of Industry 4.0." He further stated, "Moving forward, trade agreements would hold the key to cross-border data flows. For data privacy and security, there needs to be a stakeholder consultation and anonymization of data must be done to protect citizen's identity."

Kindly find the link to the paper here- Intersection of AI with Cross-Border Data Flow and Privacy
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