Image Credits: AP IT Minister Mekapati Goutham Reddy Twitter
In a bid to promote innovation in emerging technologies of Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and robotics, National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), launched the Center of Excellence here in Vizag. This endeavour in a joint initiative of NASSCOM, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and Government of Andhra Pradesh. The centre was inaugurated by Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Electronics and Information Technology and of Mekapati Goutham Reddy, Minister for Industries & Commerce, Information Technology and Skill Development, Government of Andhra Pradesh.
Speaking on the occasion, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship & Electronics and Information Technology said, “Technologies like IoT and AI are going to deeply shape the future of technology landscape and the economy in general. It is absolutely essential that the Center of Excellence becomes not just academic extensions of university, but they become living, breathing growing centers of energy, dynamism, entrepreneurship, and technology development of the kind that we must deliver on in the coming months and years.”
The new centre is expected to advance Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India vision by providing open labs and infrastructure to create and validate solutions from design to prototype to democratise innovation. It also promotes entrepreneurship by providing an incubation facility for peer-to-peer learning and the benefit of an industrial environment.
Taking to Twitter, Mr Reddy shared, “Inaugurated NASSCOM’s Center of Excellence in AI & IOT in Vizag. These future ready technologies help in shaping the future economy. They connect different ecosystems to understand big problems and resolve them.”
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