NITI Aayog has partnered with Intel and Amazon Web Services to launch a new experience studio that will focus on agriculture, health care, and smart infrastructure.

The experiential studio at NITI Aayog's Frontier Technologies Cloud Innovation Center will help to demonstrate the public sector application potential of technologies including machine learning, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, blockchain, augmented reality and virtual reality, and robots.

The studio, which opened its doors and will serve as a showcase for government, education, health-care, and non-profit start-ups.

The studio will serve as a showcase for start-ups in the government, education, health care, and non-profit sectors.

In collaboration with the Atal Incubation Centres and the Atal Innovation Mission, the NITI Aayog, a policy think tank for the Union government, would encourage start-ups to actively participate in the studio.

MapMyIndia (geospatial solutions) and Raphe mPhibr (UAVs), as well as worldwide giants like Dassault Systemes, are presenting their solutions at the studio.

“The Covid-19 pandemic has proved that effective collaboration and experimentation matter greatly when finding new solutions to confront scale problems in the country,” says NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant.

“It is critical to embrace a culture of open innovation and working backwards from issue statements as the NITI Aayog Frontier Technologies CIC finds social challenges to address”.

The studio, according to Rahul Sharma, Amazon Internet Services President (Public Sector), AWS India and South Asia, "would be a hub for creation, experimenting, and testing new ideas to solve concerns supplied from the community."

“Cloud innovation is important to unleash the promise of future technologies to deliver scalable impact across sectors”, says Prakash Mallya, speaking on behalf of Intel India.

The studio will use a hybrid working paradigm to allow virtual and physical workstations to work together seamlessly.