Data and AI, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)

Embedded at the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) in India, IIC aims to catalyse the ‘AI for Good’ ecosystem in India. Through targeted policy and programmatic interventions, IIC aims to democratize resources essential for AI innovation and ensure equitable benefits of this technology for all citizens. Towards this, IIC also supports enhancing the quality, accessibility, and responsible use of datasets for catalyzing the Tech for Good ecosystem in India.

Global Partnership on AI, MeitY

The IIC team is working with the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) as knowledge partners for the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI). The team is currently supporting India to execute its responsibilities and vision as the Council Chair of GPAI. IIC works closely with key GPAI stakeholders, domestic and global AI experts, multilateral organizations, etc. to advance India’s vision for responsible AI development that prioritizes the needs and perspectives of the Global South and aims to foster an equitable AI ecosystem globally.

Unified Health Interface, NHA

The IIC team works with the National Health Authority (NHA), on the build and adoption of the Unified Health Interface, a foundational layer of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) Stack. UHI serves as a network of open protocols, and is designed to foster interoperability in health services, with a primary focus on enhancing  discoverability and delivery of health services. The IIC team collaborates closely with senior officials at NHA, playing a crucial role in the strategic planning and rollout of the Unified Health Interface, which includes four core functions – project managing the development of UHI, building the functional design for UHI and its applications, organizing activities for market adoption and lending support in framing the market guidelines and policy that will govern services on UHI.

Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (Adoption), NHA

IIC team is supporting National Health Authority (NHA) to accelerate the adoption of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission. The team works with various government agencies, both at Central and State level, government programmes, and market players to identify pathways to enable adoption and scale up of interventions. The team supports as a knowledge partner to the NHA leadership, and helps identify gaps and opportunities to advocate for digital health in India.

Uttar Pradesh Digital Health Strategy -UPTSU

IIC has partnered with the Uttar Pradesh Technical Support Unit (UPTSU) to provide strategic support to build and integrate digital health infrastructure of Uttar Pradesh, in line with the ABDM efforts. With the aim to equip and transform the functioning of the health system in Uttar Pradesh, IIC is working with the UPTSU to build institutional and organizational digital capacity of the state to adopt and use digital health platforms.

Karnataka Public Health Governance - CEGIS

The IIC team in collaboration with Centre for Effective Governance in Indian States (CEGIS) is supporting the National Health Mission, Karnataka, to enhance data-driven decision-making, optimise budget allocation, and improve the effectiveness of the healthcare workforce. The broad scope of work includes enhancing the data quality of administrative datasets, reviewing budget allocation methodologies, assessing the development of a public health cadre, optimizing ground staff, and exploring the digitization potential of their work.

Karnataka Digital Health - Government of Karnataka

The IIC team in Karnataka is helping the Department of Health and Family Welfare (DoHFW), GoK, in designing and implementing several Digital Health initiatives. With the use of Digital Infrastructure, we aim to improve healthcare service delivery, streamline processes and reduce out-of-pocket expenditure by making public offerings the first choice for primary care, low-cost diagnostics and trauma care. IIC is working on enabling the administration to make better decisions in real-time, effective long-term plans and bring about lasting digital governance through technology and policy interventions.

Chandigarh ABDM Microsite, UT Chandigarh

In collaboration with the National Health Mission (NHM) in Chandigarh, IIC is spearheading an initiative to develop a microsite aimed at showcasing private sector saturation across the Union Territory. The primary objective is to expedite the integration of small to medium-sized private healthcare facilities onto the digital health (Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission) ecosystem.

Recognizing that the full potential of digital health transformation can only be realized through inclusive integration of all healthcare service providers, both public and private, these microsites serve as platforms for demonstrating the benefits of digitization in healthcare while facilitating cross-learning among stakeholders.

Ward Environment Plan, Delhi

IIC team in collaboration with EPIC India, is working with Government of Delhi, to conceptualise a Ward Environment Plan (WEP), meant to identify and address localised environmental issues through citizen engagement. The Ward Environment Framework would be a replicable framework to build sustainable living areas and mitigate localized causes of pollution.

The team is currently designing and testing the framework against various parameters embedded in WEP to mitigate local sources of pollution in the Siddharth Nagar and Daryaganj wards in Delhi. IIC works closely with local stakeholders in the community and governance to building ecosystems of change along with focus on building their capacities around issues related to climate change.

Human Resource Management System – CEGIS

IIC team in collaboration with CEGIS, supports the Department of Human Resource Management, Govt. of Tamil Nadu, for the implementation of IFHRMS.  The project intends to increase the effectiveness of managing government employees while also raising the calibre of services provided to them. The PMU supports the Department with the Employee Data Standardization initiative to fortify the database for Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics in Human Resources (HR), to enhance data-driven decision-making for financial (budget, expense, debt, etc.) and HR-related decisions. The team is also supporting in designing a learning management portal for the department.

The project is focused on system strengthening by identifying the channels of engagement within government, gaps and critical points of engagement.

Comprehensive Knowledge Management - CEGIS

The IIC team is leading CEGIS’ effort to build a comprehensive knowledge management strategy. The non-profit sector is at an inflection point, where organisations are adopting process efficiency systems such as knowledge management - thus building knowledge as an asset. The team works with various enabling functions to strengthen the management of tacit and explicit knowledge.

The thesis of the project is the ‘application of a structured process to help information and knowledge flow to the right people at the right time so they can act more efficiently and effectively to find, understand, create, share, & apply knowledge to create value’.

The team wishes to extract models of knowledge management to replicate and deploy the same for all actors in the space