Indian AI startups showcase their innovations at WSIS 2024

Center for Telematics Development (C-DOT), Government of India’s first telecom R&D center, awarded UN WSIS 2024 “Champion” award for the project “Mobile-Enabled Disaster Resilience through Cell Broadcast Emergency Alerting”, recognized under AI, C-7, E-environemnt, in the category “Benefits in all aspects of life – E-environment “.

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 Forum 2024, a high-level event, organized by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Geneva, Switzerland, from 27^th May – 31^st May 2024 recognized the C-DOT Cellular Broadcast Emergency Alert Platform Project for its outstanding contribution to strengthening the implementation of WSIS outcomes and highlights C-DOT’s commitment to leveraging technology to make a societal impact..

C-DOT’s Cell Broadcast Mobile Emergency Alert Platform is an end-to-end solution for near real-time transmission of life-saving emergency information to mobile phones via cellular networks. This indigenous, cost-effective and automated system enabled geo-targeted multi-hazard alerts with multi-lingual support, thereby improving the overall effectiveness of disaster risk management activities. The initiative aligns with Early Warning for All (EW4All), International Telecommunications Union (ITU) – Common Alert Protocol (CAP), “Call to Action” and promotes SDG targets (Goals sustainable development) while strengthening efforts to build country capacity in disaster resilience. .

The AI ​​for Good Global Summit, organized jointly with WSIS, from 29^th as of May 31^st May 2024 in Geneva is the leading UN action-oriented platform promoting AI to advance health, climate, gender, inclusive prosperity, sustainable infrastructure and other global development priorities . At the event, C-DOT showcased cutting-edge telecommunications solutions, including CAP-based early warning system and cell broadcast technology for disaster management, as well as ASTR (solution based on AI and facial recognition for verification of telecommunications SIM subscribers) for detection of SIM cards used in cyberspace. Fraud.

Two AI startups – DeepVision Tech and Nayancom – from India, selected by C-DOT through a selection process, also showcased their innovative solutions alongside C-DOT. Nayancom is an AI-powered vision processing platform that collects and processes visual data from multiple sources to improve road safety and smart city surveillance. DeepVisionTech – Let’sTalkSign – an automatic sign language interpreter that works on any device, helps the deaf, hard of hearing and hard of hearing community get sign language education.

Dr Rajkumar Upadhyay, CEO, C-DOT, also delivered a talk at the AI ​​for Good event on “AI to the Rescue: Revolutionizing Cyber ​​Fraud Detection, Prevention and Reporting”. He highlighted C-DOT’s indigenously developed AI-based solution to detect fraudulent/unauthorized mobile connections obtained using fake or falsified documents. The solution uses next-generation AI/ML to generate proactive intelligence to reduce the threat of fake/tampered SIM cards and neutralize cybercrime syndicates. It also detects points of sale (PoS) making it easier to obtain fraudulent mobile connections. The platform allows sharing a list of unauthorized connections with multiple agencies to take necessary action.

CEO, C-DOT receiving Champion Certificate

Dignitaries visiting the C-DOT booth

C-DOT CEO delivers speech on “AI to the Rescue: Revolutionizing Cyberfraud Detection, Prevention and Reporting.”