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Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, Union Minister for Communications and Development of North Eastern Region inaugurated “AI for Good Lab Workshop: From Strategy to Impact,” organized jointly by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Ministry of Communications, and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) at the India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2026 in New Delhi.
The landmark event marked a major milestone in transitioning artificial intelligence from global strategy discussions to practical deployment, local solutions, and human-centric scale.
The workshop gathered key international dignitaries, including Dr. Bilel Jamoussi, Deputy Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, Amit Agrawal, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications along with distinguished researchers, innovators, industry leaders, and policy experts.
Addressing the gathering, Scindia stated, “The journey of the AI for Good Lab from Geneva to New Delhi mirrors the journey that artificial intelligence itself must make—from global conversations to local solutions, from technological possibility to human impact, and from strategy to scale. The distance between AI ambition and AI impact is bridged by skills, compute, data, institutions, and connectivity. Ultimately, the true measure of artificial intelligence will not be the size of its models or the sophistication of its algorithms, but the number of human lives it improves.”
The Union Minister reiterated India’s guiding philosophy of “Sarvajan Hitaya, Sarvajan Sukhaya” (for the welfare of all, for the happiness of all), noting that while nearly 2.2 billion people worldwide remain offline, technology must expand human opportunity rather than concentrate it, ensuring the digital divide does not morph into an AI divide.
