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The convergence of connectivity and compute will reshape how citizens, enterprises and governments interact in India, with artificial intelligence poised to amplify the country's already robust digital public infrastructure, a top executive at Reliance Jio said on Tuesday. Speaking at the AI Impact Summit, Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar - CTO, Mobility, at Reliance Jio, said India stands nearly a decade ahead of many developed economies in building population-scale digital platforms from digital payments and online banking to Aadhaar-based identity systems and paperless air travel through Digi Yatra. "India's digital infrastructure is already a humongous success story," Mardikar said at the five-day summit, which began on Monday. "Now imagine putting intelligence on top of it, making it aware, inclusive and accessible to the last citizen in the last village," he added. He said putting AI into existing nationwide digital rails could expand the government's reach and improve decision-makin
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Wednesday said it has launched a pilot project in two NH corridors for real-time stray cattle safety alert on National Highways to reduce accidents caused by sudden cattle movement. State-owned NHAI, in a statement, said the pilot project is being implemented on the Jaipur-Agra and Jaipur-Rewari NH corridors. As part of this initiative, Reliance Jio has upgraded its platform to enable nationwide delivery of these real-time stray cattle safety alerts. Last month, NHAI signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Reliance Jio to introduce a telecom-based safety alert system across the National Highway network. The initiative aims to reduce accidents caused by sudden cattle movement on the National Highways, particularly during fog and low-visibility conditions. "Under the pilot project, location-based alerts will be triggered for the National Highway commuters, providing advance warnings approximately 10 km before identified ...