AI for All
India's Open Data & AI-Readiness Challenge
Identify innovative, open-source solutions that make India's datasets and digital resources ready for responsible AI use, bridging data, tools, and inclusion.
Challenge Themes
Data Readiness & Standardisation
Tools for automated cleaning, metadata extraction, schema harmonisation, and interoperability of public datasets to make them AI-ready and reusable across domains.
Indic Language Enablement
Models and tools for multilingual text, speech, and image extraction, transliteration, synthetic data creation and translation that expand access to AI in India's diverse linguistic ecosystem.
Trust, Safety & Provenance
Frameworks to ensure authenticity, transparency, and explainability in AI, including dataset verification, bias auditing, provenance tracking, and responsible AI documentation.
AI for Social Impact
Low-code or no-code workflows leveraging open data to build solutions for health, environment, education, or MSME growth, demonstrating AI's societal value.
Public Data Extraction & Structuring
Automated pipelines for extracting, cleaning, and classifying information (tables, charts, text) from PDFs, reports, and archives to make government and institutional data AI-ready.
Hackathon Phases
Call for Entries
Register and submit proposals. Top-10 entries shortlisted.
Mentorship Phase
Shortlisted teams assigned mentors. Check-ins and feedback on technical feasibility and social impact.
Finale (Online)
Final submissions close. Jury evaluation. Top 3 teams shortlisted for Delhi.
Showcase at Delhi
Finalists present at dedicated event. Winners announced and prizes awarded.
Judging Criteria
Innovation & Relevance
25%Originality and alignment with democratizing AI resources
Impact & Scalability
25%Potential to benefit large user segments (public, academia, startups)
Usability & Openness
20%Ease of adoption, open licensing, and documentation quality
Technical Execution & Presentation
30%Quality of code, clarity of prototype, and presentation coherence
Prizes & Recognition
All solutions will be released under open-source licenses and linked to AIKosh, ensuring public reusability and visibility.
Certificates for all shortlisted entries
Eligibility
We welcome participants from diverse backgrounds—students, AI startups, researchers, and civic-tech innovators. What matters most is your passion for using AI to solve real-world problems and make public data more accessible.
Jury
Details about jury members will be announced soon.
Ready to Build for Public Good?
Registration is open. Join India's civic-tech innovators in building AI solutions that make public data accessible for all.
Participate in the Hackathon