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A consortium of experts in data science and artificial intelligence from academia, industry and research institutes have voluntarily come together to support public authorities in managing the COVID-19 pandemic by building and deploying technology solutions.

About the Consortium

As SARS-CoV-2 continues to test human resolve by overwhelming health systems and governments, we need to do our part.

The Covid19 Consortium brings together scientists, researchers, technologists, global corporations, philanthropies and startups—to collaboratively and expeditiously build and deploy technology solutions to help fight the pandemic.

Bringing partners across the board will be critical to formulating rapid and effective responses to emerging needs. To focus on localised efforts and to track the effectiveness of interventions, this coalition seeks to:

Engage a diverse set of individuals and organizations (epidemiological modelers, AI & data scientists, engineers, data sources, and data management and governance experts) to seamlessly work together.
Enable data, models, and dashboards sourced from members to be combined in order to produce improved models, insights and dashboards.
Support the needs of public authorities to guide solution development, and to deliver actionable insights and tools.
Maintain data governance policy and standards in line with governing laws and industry best practices towards ensuring the observance and protection of privacy and ethics.

Members

Wadhwani AI

Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

DataScienceIndiaVsCovid

PWC

Quantela

Infinite Analytics

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (US & India)

Institute for Disease Modeling

Stanford Centre for Population Health Sciences

Harvard-led COVID-19 Mobility Data Network

I-DAIR

Reliance Jio

Facebook Data for Good

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

PATH

UNICEF

Consortium Leadership

CHAIR
Mr. R. Chandrashekar
Former Secy MEITY and DoT, ex-President, Nasscom

CO-DIRECTORS
Dr. P. Anandan
Wadhwani AI

Prof. Bharadwaj Amrutur
IISc

R&D AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT LEADS
Dr. Alpan Raval
Wadhwani AI

Dr. Srujana Merugu
Co-convener, DataScienceIndiaVsCovid

Dr. Mohit Kumar
Co-convener, DataScienceIndiaVsCovid

Mr. Ankur Seth
PWC India

Mr. Raghu Dharmaraju
Wadhwani AI

We are building a community to fight COVID-19. Find out how you can help.

Resources

WHO COVID-19 Dashboard

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

JHU Coronavirus Resource Center

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Centre

On Twitter

Wadhwani AI@WadhwaniAI·

19 Jan

We've all encountered social media platforms locating us in photos and suggesting people to 'tag'.

We use object detection differently – to identify and count pink and American bollworms in images uploaded by cotton farmers. Here's how: https://www.wadhwaniai.org/2021/01/18/object-detection-how-we-use-it/

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Janak S @Janak_S·

18 Jan

Thank you @AshwiniBhide for acknowledging Wadhwani AI's role in helping BMC during Covid-19. It was a pleasure to work with you, TIFR, IISc & others

We at @WadhwaniAI salute you and @mybmc for bringing the city's situation under control through a planned epidemiological approach https://twitter.com/ThePrintIndia/status/1351025572399501313

ThePrintIndia@ThePrintIndia

How IISc & TIFR scientists helped Mumbai civic body anticipate Covid spread, make strategy

ThePrint's Manasi Phadke @manasi87 reports

http://bit.ly/3irDWMv

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Wadhwani AI@WadhwaniAI·

14 Jan

"AI needs governance, a redressal system, public rules, tools, forums, etc, to be able to have responsible AI at scale." - @RahulAPanicker

Read more at: https://yourstory.com/2020/12/year-in-review-2020-digital-transformation-quotes

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Wadhwani AI@WadhwaniAI·

5 Jan

Proud to partner with and support initiatives such as @EmergingTechTS in bringing technology and AI to all, @MinisterKTR @jayesh_ranjan @ramadevi_lanka

Emerging Technologies Govt. of Telangana@EmergingTechTS

Despite the pandemic, the Emerging Technologies Wing could achieve significant milestones. Thanks to our visionary leadership @MinisterKTR @jayesh_ranjan
A Big Thanks to all our Ecosystem Partners, Wishing everyone a Happy New Year, hoping the very best in 2021!

@ramadevi_lanka

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Wadhwani AI@WadhwaniAI·

5 Jan

As the country slowly reopened, we expanded our pest management pilot into four districts across India, reaching 700 lead farmers and 17,000 cascade farmers.

Product manager @rohan_parakh reflects on lessons learned and new challenges along the way: https://www.wadhwaniai.org/2021/01/04/going-offline-and-other-changes/

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