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India generates enormous amounts of public data across agriculture, trade, health, and enterprise. But for a farmer asking which mandi offers the best price, or a business owner trying to find out if she qualifies for an export scheme, that data rarely makes it to the right place at the right time. That's a structural gap that we're working to address. The Data Boarding Pass is a framework for making India's institutional data AI-ready. "The problem isn't a shortage of data. It's the absence of a shared framework for moving data from where it lives to where it can do something useful." Read the full report: peopleplus.ai/data

Today EkStep Foundation and collaborators announced '100 Pathways to 2030.' It's a shared mission to build 100 proven, reusable routes from AI pilot to population scale impact by 2030. The world isn't short of AI breakthroughs. It's short of the infrastructure that turns them into sustained adoption at scale. A diffusion pathway is what bridges that gap as a proven route that makes the next deployment faster, cheaper, and more effective than the last. Adoption is the bottleneck. Diffusion is the breakthrough. We're grateful for our partners in this mission: Rudra Chaudhuri, Srinath Srinivasa, Keyzom Ngodup Massally, Robert Opp, Mary Kerema, Jagadish Babu, Prem Ramaswami, Dawit Phillipos, Girum Kerema, Courtney Diesel O'Donnell, Shikoh Gitau, Harish Iyer, and the organisations represented: International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, Gates Foundation, Observer Research Foundation, Carnegie India, Anthropic, UNDP, ATI, Qhala, G7 AI Hub, and the Government of Kenya. #AIImpactSummit #AIDiffusion #100Pathwaysto2030 #GlobalSouth @NandanNilekani @Shankar4EkStep @EkStep_Org @Rudra_8 @IIITB_official @NidhiSinghLive @KeyzomN @Robert_Opp @UNDP_India @MoICTKenya @kerema6903 @Openagrinet @jagadishbabu @GoogleAI @DawitPhillipos @Ethiopian_ATI @AnthropicAI @courtdiesel @DrShikoh @QhalaHQ @arnavkapur

There are insightful conversations, learnings, and ideas being shared at the People + Possibilities Pavillion. Come join us at the governance Arena, Hall 3, 1st Floor Look for “The Kapalavriksha of AI” 🌳

Sharing two pieces from @livemint: 1️⃣ @anadianant on how MahaVISTAAR in Nashik and Amul’s Sarlaben bot are bootstrapping farm incomes. 2️⃣ @Shankar4EkStep on the importance of trust frameworks for technological adoption at country-scale.

At the @OfficialINDIAai Summit?Join me today as I moderate this panel with rich experience and insights on Open AI Platforms with Pradeep Gupta @nvidia,Tanvi Lal @PeoplePlusAI, Vineet Singh @digitalgreenorg Trust, Sravanath Aluru Avataar.ai & Jibu Elias @mozilla foundation.

We hosted an incredible panel on AI adoption today. The conversation was focused on what it genuinely takes to move AI from promising pilots to systems that work at population scale. Thank you to Shalini Kapoor, Vilas Dhar, Sriram Viswanathan, and Manmohan Singh for a thoughtful, grounded discussion on the enablers, metrics, and pathways that make the difference. The question driving the room: AI capability is here. How do we make AI diffusion possible? #AIImpactSummit @vilasdhar @TanviLall26 @1sriram @Manmohan4Peace @shalinikap

Day 2 of the AI Impact Summit featured a panel on Scaling Impact from India's Sovereign AI and Data Infrastructure. Tanvi Lall explained what it takes to move AI from pilot to population scale, using MahaVISTAAR as a live example. Three ingredients matter: operational readiness, AI-ready data systems, and institutional trust. Farmers need to know trusted institutions stand behind the advice they receive. #AIImpactSummit

From 9 months to 3 months to 3 weeks. When you crack operational readiness, institutional capacity, and trust, AI solutions scale fast. Tanvi Lall on how MahaVISTAAR's playbook is now powering farmer advisory systems across states and countries. @TanviLall26 #AIImpactSummit

Education for Social Empowerment: Building Resilient, Inclusive Learning Systems Please join us for an essential conversation on reimagining education through Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and AI-enabled adaptive learning in Room 15, Bharat Mandapam, at the India AI Impact Summit 2026. Tuesday, February 17, 2026 Time: 1:30 PM - 2:25 PM IST In this session leaders across government, international development, AI innovation, and philanthropy will explore how technology can make education more inclusive, resilient, and responsive to rapid change. Please register: luma.com/v7l6ltgu

Most AI pilots succeed. Few scale. Join us to hear from people that have crossed that gap at the AI Impact Summit. UCAF Sessions - Demo Day 1 📅 Tuesday, Feb 17 | 10:30 AM IST 📍 Bharat Mandapam, Hall 3 Speakers: Arghya Bhattacharya, Adalat AI Jay Patel, Jacaranda Health Register: luma.com/ij7bmrqp @orgho12 @Adalat_AI @jacarandakenya

Education for Social Empowerment: Building Resilient, Inclusive Learning Systems Please join us for an essential conversation on reimagining education through Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and AI-enabled adaptive learning in Room 15, Bharat Mandapam, at the AI IMPACT SUMMIT, 2026 Tuesday, February 17, 2026 Time: 1:30 PM - 2:25 PM IST In this session leaders across government, international development, AI innovation, and philanthropy will explore how technology can make education more inclusive, resilient, and responsive to rapid change. Please register: luma.com/v7l6ltgu

Shalini Kapoor, Chief Strategist, Data & AI at @EkStep_Org and Tanvi Lall, Director, Strategy for @PeoplePlusAI talk about the “AI Adoption Journey for Population Scale: The UCAF Framework,” on @CarnegieIndia's “Interpreting India” podcast. Drawing on research spanning across 1,000+ use cases across 25 countries, the duo unpack why many AI initiatives get stuck after impressive demos, and what it takes to move from pilots to adoption. Through their discourse they introduce their ‘Use Case Adoption Framework (UCAF)’  which explains how India can translate AI ambition into population-scale impact across public services, education, agriculture, health, and other high-priority sectors. Check out the complete podcast here: interpreting-india.simplecast.com/episodes/ai-ad…

People+ai is grateful to be part of the delegation to Geneva for the “AI For People” Summit organised by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), the ‘Permanent Mission of India’ in Geneva, @CarnegieIndia and Observer Research Foundation (@orfonline). The delegation was led by the Hon’ble Minister of State Jithin Prasada, along with Members of Parliament; Manish Tewari and Dr. Sasmit Patra , and Ambassador Arindam Bagchi. Tanvi Lall, Director, Strategy, People+ai spoke at the “AI for People“ lnkd.in/gpCVau6a, discourse, hosted by the ‘Permanent Mission of India’ in partnership with ‘AI for Good’ and the International Telecommunication Union (@ITU), in Geneva, Switzerland on January 14th. Key takeaways: AI isn’t just a tech challenge - it’s a systems design challenge. Impact comes from diffusion, embedding AI into institutions, workflows, and mindsets. The focus is clear: put people at the center, build mechanisms for adoption, and create cross-sector, cross-country adoption networks that deliver real impact. We presented @Openagrinet's MahaVISTAAR program and its on-ground impact for farmers in Maharashtra. Currently, MahaVISTAAR is providing voice and text-based agricultural advice in Marathi for more than 15M farmers. Read more about the approach here: carnegieindia.org/posts/2026/01/… Watch out for the ‘AI Impact Summit’ from February 16-20, 2026 in New Delhi, India to continue walking with us on this journey. #PeopleCentricAI #SystemsThinking #AIAdoption #UCAF

⏳ 4 days to go. And the stage is filling up fast. Voice AI in India has crossed a tipping point — from pilots to production systems running at scale, across languages, sectors, and millions of users. To celebrate and spotlight this shift, @EkStep_Org, along with our technology partner @nvidia, is bringing together: 🎤 Voice AI – Making the Best Work for India 📍 The Ritz-Carlton, Bangalore 🗓️ 28th January 2026 This is a national, demo-first showcase where industry innovators and leaders will take the stage to demonstrate real, production-grade Voice AI systems — live, in front of the ecosystem. 🌟 What makes this special: - A fireside chat between Nandan Nilekani (Co-Founder and Chairperson, EkStep Foundation) and Vishal Dhupar (MD, Asia South, NVIDIA) - Live demos and interactive booths with working voice bots - A curated audience of builders, enterprises, investors, researchers, and policy makers - Rewards and goodies powered by Yotta for selected participants 🚀 40+ strong applications already submitted — and we’re curating a limited set of teams for the main stage. If you’re building Voice AI that’s already out in the real world — handling real calls, real conversations, real impact — this is the stage your work deserves. Would you like to participate? ⏰ Applications close in 4 days — 18th January 2026 🔗 Apply here: forms.gle/mWRde51Drkbryf… . #VoiceAIMakingTheBestWorkForIndia #VoiceAI #IndicAI #AIInProduction #EkStep #NVIDIA #Yotta #BuildingForIndia #DemoDay

Tanvi Lall, Director, Strategy, @PeoplePlusAI is speaking at "AI for People" aiforgood.itu.int/event/ai-for-p…, hosted by the ‘Permanent Mission of India’ in partnership with ‘AI for Good’ and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in Geneva, Switzerland on January 14. This event is bringing together distinguished speakers from the Government of India, the ITU, Geneva-based UN agencies and international organizations, senior country representatives, technologists from India and global technology companies, as well as leading policy experts and thought leaders. Her discourse will address how AI isn’t just a technology problem but a systems design challenge. How real impact comes not from isolated innovations, but from diffusion: from AI that is embedded into infrastructure, workflows, institutions, governance, and everyday mindsets. . @Shankar4EkStep @shalinikap @orfonline @CarnegieIndia @ITU