A4I
AI Innovation and Inclusion Initiative
ABOUT US
WHY A4I?
The AI Innovation and Inclusion Initiative (A4I) is a collaborative effort between Microsoft and the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B). The initiative aims to establish a sustainable framework for partnerships and governance to help scale impactful innovations developed at Microsoft. These solutions, which have already been proven at a smaller scale, will be developed into Digital Public Goods (DPGs) for wider use. The larger goal is to build a strong ecosystem for AI-driven innovation focused on social impact with support and funding by Microsoft Philanthropies.
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AI holds immense potential to drive meaningful change, especially in areas like healthcare, education, and accessibility. However, for these technologies to truly benefit society, they must be designed with intentionality and inclusiveness and governed through sustainable partnerships. A4I is rooted in this belief. The initiative will collaborate with domain-specific partners in multiple sectors to build solutions that are impactful and replicable at scale.
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OBJECTIVES
CURRENT DOMAIN PARTNERS
Our current partners include:
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Khushi Baby:
In the Healthcare project, 11,000 ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist), who are all females from rural areas of Rajasthan, Telangana and Maharashtra will be trained to use expert-in-the-loop bot as primary touch point to the community members or health and nutrition related issues. They attend to 1000 people each as per government mandate making it to impact 1,10,00,000 community people in 8 districts across 3 states under this project.
Given the current number of ASHAs in the field, the project services have reached over a million indirect beneficiaries already. Khushi Baby works across 40,000 villages across India, with an extensive network of 70,000+ health workers, whose services have benefited more than 40 million people over the years.
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Sikshana Foundation:
Under the Shiksha Copilot project 7000 teachers in Karnataka and 1000 teachers in Telangana will be trained on the use of Shiksha copilot and provided access. Another 1000 teachers from the prior year will also be upskilled for continued use of Shiksha copilot. Impacting 690000 students in 4750 schools.
As an organization Sikshana is already working across 6 states and 4,456 gram panchayats, where they have impacted more than 3 million children across over 50,000 schools. Through the current 1000 teachers (majority of them females) pilot across 750 schools in Karnataka, tens of thousands of students are set to reap the benefits of better teaching facilitated by the platform.
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Vision Empower:
As an organization is active across 15 states in India, benefiting more than 3000 visually impaired students across 134 schools and 1555 teachers and the same universe of beneficiaries will be used to enhance the impact of an ongoing effort under this project.
CONTACT
Email: a4i.cags@iiitb.ac.in