VIVID 2019

Why in news?

• “VIVID-Vision Insight and Voices as India goes Digital”- the District Informatics Officer (DIO) meet, is being organised by National Informatics Centre (NIC).
• The meet is held as an initiative to interact with the DIO’s and to share their experiences as well as contribution, as digital change-makers at the grass-root level in the States.
• VIVID started in 2017, as an annual event, with the objective to empower NIC officials in the field of technology.
• The National meet will cover a wide range of relevant topics in various technical sessions including Emerging Technologies (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Big Data Analytics), Cyber Threats & Counter Measures (Changing Digitisation Paradigm & its impact on Security), Enterprise Level Applications, and many other relevant topics.

Digidhan Mitra Chatbot

• Designed and developed by NIC, the AI based Digidhan Mitra enables a text & voice based conversation with the user, mining the Digidhan Portal, to give customized information in graphical, tabular and textual format.
• It provides bank wise transactions details as well as growth pattern of various modes of transactions like BHIM, IMPS, Cards etc. in tabular as well as graphical form.”

Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs (TIDE 2.0) Scheme

• The Scheme has been devised to promote the momentum into the tech entrepreneurship landscape.
• The Scheme provides financial and technical support to incubators engaged in supporting ICT startups using emerging technologies such as IoT, AI, Block-chain, Robotics etc. in seven pre-identified areas of societal relevance.

 Artificial Intelligence

• The Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence at NIC (CoE-AI@NIC) has been established with the motto of ‘Inclusive AI’ for responsive governance, to work towards improving Government service delivery to citizens.

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