India, Italy, and Kenya partner to drive sovereign AI adoption across AfricaIndia, Kenya, and Italy have launched a strategic trilateral partnership to co-design and deploy sovereign AI solutions across Africa. This...
20 Feb, 2026, 10.13 PM IST
India must use AI to create real economic value: Nandan NilekaniNandan Nilekani urges India to prioritize AI for improving lives and economic growth. He advocates for a 'race to the top' in AI adoption, ...
29 Jan, 2026, 04.53 PM IST
Infosys cofounder Nandan Nilekani commits second multi-year grant to AI4Bharat; total Rs 70 croreAI4Bharat aims to gather 15,000 hours of transcribed data from over 400 districts encompassing all 22 scheduled languages of India. In para...
06 Jun, 2025, 06.50 PM IST
Hyperscalers host EkStep digital public goods, build AI botTech giants Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud are providing cloud storage and services to make the digital public goods (DPGs) cre...
27 Jun, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Google Cloud, EkStep Foundation partner to accelerate adoptions of Digital Public InfrastructureThe company statement said this will enable proof of concepts for creating and enhancing DPGs and DPIs, and identify Google Cloud products ...
30 May, 2024, 04.32 PM IST
India to become AI use case capital of the world: Nandan NilekaniNandan Nilekani's People+ai introduces 'Adbhut India' and OCC project, emphasizing frugal AI innovation in India. The initiatives aim to le...
13 May, 2024, 09.59 AM IST
People+ai partners with 24 tech organisations to enable open cloud compute infraAMD, Oracle, and various technology providers collaborate to address the increasing compute requirements. The partnership aims to enhance t...
07 May, 2024, 08.42 PM IST
14 years on, the marvel of DPI’s expanding universeIt has been 14 years since the first Aadhaar number was issued, a decade since the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) was designed.Ever since...
31 Mar, 2024, 07.28 PM IST
AWS, EkStep Foundation partner to develop digital public goodsAmazon Web Services India and EkStep Foundation have established a Joint Innovation Center (JIC) to develop digital solutions for public se...
27 Mar, 2024, 09.34 PM IST
India should have its own contextual language model: ExpertsExperts at Nasscom Future Forge conclave on Tuesday, said that India needs its own contextual language model. Experts also proposed certain...
07 Nov, 2023, 05.06 PM IST
Airtel to provide cloud, content delivery services for government edtech platform DIKSHAAirtel will provide end-to-end management of DIKSHA’s online platforms across its mobile application and website, and will be made accessib...
07 Jun, 2023, 08.12 AM IST
Nandan Nilekani to invest $3 million in Centre for Digital Public InfrastructurePhilanthropist and non-executive chairman of Infosys Nandan Nilekani will make the investment over two years through non-profit Co-Develop....
01 Jun, 2023, 02.11 PM IST
NCERT starts DIKSHA security audit after data breach reportsDiksha is a national platform for school education developed by Bengaluru-based EkStep Foundation. It is an initiative of the NCERT under t...
26 Feb, 2023, 10.21 PM IST
Nandan Nilekani’s EkStep to be part of philanthropic venture by Bill and Melinda GatesThe venture’s initial core partners include Bill and Melinda Gates, Richard Chandler, Jeff Skoll, Dr Romesh and Kathy Wadhwani and the Rock...
15 Nov, 2017, 11.07 PM IST
NIIT acquires EdTech startup, PerceptronPerceptron's acquisition will further look at building the multi-modal learning platform and 360 degree learning eco-system.
27 Sep, 2016, 02.17 PM IST
Nandan is able to imagine scale in a way that is rare: Rohini Nilekani on working with him on EkStep"Many people advised me not to work with my husband. But we’ve taken that risk. So far, so good. We haven’t had too many fights yet," says ...
12 Jul, 2015, 07.44 AM IST
Nandan Nilekani may quit Congress to focus on education initiativeFormer Infosys co-founder Nilekani is expected to shortly quit the Congress to focus on a nationwide education initiative — EkStep.
27 Jun, 2015, 11.26 AM IST