AI in the
Public Interest
Organised by Factly, supported by Meta and IndiaAI, to democratize AI infrastructure and make public data accessible, usable, and AI-ready for all citizens.
Organisers & Supporters
Factly is a Hyderabad-based civic-tech organisation dedicated to making public information and data more meaningful. We operate at the crossroads of public data/information, technology, and journalism.
Factly builds products that harness public data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to empower institutions and citizens. We have built innovative products that make public data more accessible, usable, and AI-ready.
Meta's mission is to advance AI for a connected world, pushing the boundaries through research, infrastructure, and product innovation to connect people through collaborative, responsible AI innovation.
Meta's AI research, conducted by the FAIR team, aims to achieve advanced machine intelligence and innovates in the open, sharing research with the community. They focus on AI Infrastructure, Generative AI, NLP, and Computer Vision.
Committed to building AI responsibly—guided by Privacy & Security, Fairness & Inclusion, Robustness & Safety, Transparency & Control, and Accountability.
The IndiaAI Mission aims to build a comprehensive ecosystem that fosters AI innovation by democratizing computing access, enhancing data quality, developing indigenous AI capabilities, and promoting ethical AI.
This mission drives responsible and inclusive growth of India's AI ecosystem, attracting top AI talent, enabling industry collaboration, providing startup risk capital, and ensuring socially impactful AI projects.
The Seven Pillars
The IndiaAI Mission drives responsible and inclusive growth through these foundational pillars.
Computing Access
Democratizing access to high-performance computing infrastructure for AI research and development.
Data Quality
Enhancing the quality, availability, and accessibility of datasets for AI training and applications.
Indigenous AI
Developing homegrown AI capabilities and technologies tailored to India's unique needs.
AI Talent
Attracting, nurturing, and retaining top AI talent through education and research opportunities.
Industry Collaboration
Enabling partnerships between academia, industry, and government for AI innovation.
Startup Capital
Providing risk capital and support for AI startups to foster entrepreneurship and innovation.
Ethical AI
Promoting responsible AI development with focus on social impact, fairness, and transparency.
What Factly Does
Public Data
Making government and institutional data more accessible, usable, and AI-ready for citizens and researchers.
Technology
Building innovative products that harness AI to empower institutions and enable data-driven decision making.
Journalism
Operating at the intersection of data, technology, and journalism to make public information meaningful.
Civic Impact
Creating tools and frameworks that strengthen democratic participation and government transparency.
Event Objectives
This roundtable series aims to bring together diverse stakeholders—policymakers, technologists, researchers, and civil society—to deliberate on critical questions around AI infrastructure and public data.
Through structured discussions across three cities, we will develop actionable recommendations on making public data AI-ready, creating shared compute and model infrastructure, and establishing trust frameworks for citizen-centered AI access.
The culminating event in New Delhi will synthesize insights from all roundtables and present recommendations to the IndiaAI Summit Secretariat for consideration in national AI policy.