International Innovation Corps

We are excited to share that the University of Chicago Trust and IndiaAI recently signed an MoU marking a new chapter in our collaboration to advance the IndiaAI Mission. Since 2020, the University of Chicago Trust, through the International Innovation Corps, has been supporting various agencies under the Ministry of Electronics and IT towards developing India's Tech for Good Ecosystem. We look forward to deepening our engagement and driving meaningful impact for India’s AI priorities. We extend our heartfelt thanks to Additional Secretary and CEO of IndiaAI, Mr. Abhishek Singh, Scientist G and COO of IndiaAI, Ms. Kavita Bhatia, and Scientist Mr. Sushil Kumar Jangid for their unwavering support and guidance to our IIC fellows. Anup Malani | Dr. Leni Chaudhuri | Surbhi Arul | Khushal Wadhawan | Tanvi Thomas | Anurag Deb | Santhosh K | Tanya Saxena #AdecadeofIIC #internationalinnovationcorps #indiaAImission

Shri Dr Basant Garg IAS, Additional CEO of NHA, has been a supporter and mentor to our fellows during his tenure at NHA. Hear from him on IIC's strategic support in design and implementation of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission and driving the digitization efforts to improve healthcare service delivery in India. As part of this mandate, IIC Fellows have contributed to multiple initiatives such as government program adoption, development of the United Health Interface, enabled private sector adoption of ABDM and identifying use cases for developing innovative solutions among others. Dr Basant Garg IAS | Surbhi Arul | Himanshu Burad | Rhea Singh | Dr. Leni Chaudhuri #AdecadeofIIC #digitalhealth #internationalinnovationcorps

Marking the 10th year of IIC, we had the pleasure of hosting the IIC community at The University of Chicago Centre. The event was attended by both new and longstanding partners from across the government and social impact ecosystem. Their support has been invaluable in building IIC's diverse portfolio spanning digital health, emerging technologies and climate. With 250 alumni in critical leadership roles across development organizations globally, IIC is set to grow it's policy and social influence footprint across emerging sectors in its second decade. Thanking our partners and supporters Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation Omidyar Network India India Health Action Trust Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States (CEGIS) Water For People Michael & Susan Dell Foundation Tata Trusts Tata Centre for Development at UChicago USAID SEWA Bharat Centre for Internet and Society Digital Futures Lab #AdecadeofIIC #internationalinnovationcorps Anup Malani | Surbhi Arul | Shriya Sethi | Luis Miranda | aditi mody | Dr. Leni Chaudhuri Suhel Bidani Anaita S. Dr. Anshul Chaudhary Arjun Venkatraman Talleen Kumar Indu Bhushan Karthik Muralidharan Sanchita Mitra Shinjini Singh Bishwadeep Ghose Daphne Vallado Mirai Chatterjee Vinita Sethi Amegh Gopinath Payal Chawla Isha Suri Balasubramaniam Gauthaman Sudhendu J. Sinha Deepali Khanna Prachi Jain Windlass

Hear from Suhel Bidani (Digital Lead, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), on BMGF's long standing collaboration with IIC's on digital health, emerging technology and AI. IIC, with support from BMGF, has worked extensively on Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, Capacity Building for digital health, IndiaAI Mission, Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) and the Digital Working Group at G20 Summit 2023 #AdecadeofIIC #digitalhealth #artificialintelligence #internationalinnovationcorps Himanshu Burad | Yukti Sharma | Vivek Eluri | Rhea Singh | Khushal Wadhawan | Surbhi Arul | Umesh Jadhav

Hear from Renana Jhabvala (President, SEWA Bharat), on SEWA Bharat's collaboration with IIC. Through this, the IIC team facilitated a ₹30 lakh fund for capacity building and provided essential support to strengthen SEWA Bharat's monitoring, evaluation and fundraising systems. Renana Jhabvala | Sanchita Mitra | Surbhi Arul | Anup Malani | Shriya Sethi | Sanjana Mohanty | Nitya Nangalia | Nikunj Agarwal #internationalinnovationcorps #AdecadeofIIC #gender #livelihoods

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗼 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 Government reforms play a critical role in creating impactful work. The International Innovation Corps team in collaboration with Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States (CEGIS), has partnered with the Government of Karnataka and the Government of Tamil Nadu to drive effective governance. Surbhi Arul | Umesh Jadhav | Shraddha Shrivastava | Brintha Chandrasekaran | Bharathrrajan Pa | Mohith Gowda | Dr Parvatha Varthani #AdecadeofIIC #governance #publichealth #publicsectorinnovation #internationalinnovationcorps

Hear from Anna Roy , Senior Advisor, NITI Aayog, as she shares her experience of collaborating with IIC to democratize digital access as part of the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence Initiative to deliver Natural Language Processing systems in priority sectors such as agriculture, healthcare and education. IIC Fellows helped lay the foundation for increased access to content in regional languages and NLP tools through policy recommendations and rigorous stakeholder engagement. Anup Malani | Surbhi Arul | Kunal Pal | aditi mody | Dr. Leni Chaudhuri #internationalinnovationcorps #digitalindia #AdecadeofIIC #artificialintelligence

Starting its life as a premier global fellowship 10 years ago, IIC has successfully: - Engaged with 60 partners spanning public, private and non profit sectors - Delivered 70 strategic projects across climate, DPI, gender, emerging technologies and governance reforms - Effected impact at scale in 12 Indian states Think IIC | Think Scale #internationalinnovationcorps #India #climateaction #digitalIndia #governance Anup Malani | Shriya Sethi | aditi mody | Dr. Leni Chaudhuri | Surbhi Arul | Kunal Pal 

IIC marks its 10th anniversary!  Over the past decade, we have partnered with visionary leaders and dedicated changemakers to drive innovative solutions that tackle some of the most wicked development challenges faced by India.  A huge shoutout to the IIC family of alumni, partners and well wishers whose investment has been critical in pushing IIC to reach new heights. Anup Malani | Shriya Sethi | aditi mody | Dr. Leni Chaudhuri | Surbhi Arul | Kunal Pal

We are thrilled to share that our IIC team worked closely with the National eGovernance Division (NeGD), Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) for the recent Global IndiaAI Summit, held on July 3-4, 2024 in New Delhi. The Summit was a landmark event focused on catalyzing discourse around the 7 pillars of the recently approved IndiaAI Mission. As the Lead Chair of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) in 2023-24, the Summit also hosted the Mid-year Meetings and Convened Global South countries to collectively discuss their challenges and opportunities. Under India's leadership, GPAI countries were able to chart the partnership's future vision and launch the new integrated partnership with the OECD. Our current team (Ishani Agnihotri, Tanya Saxena, Santhosh K, Swati Sradhanjali Project Lead Tanvi Thomas and Engagement Manager Khushal Wadhawan), and our older fellows ( Deepika Raman Naman Hingorani Krisstina Rao Sam Neufeld Robin Zachariah Tharakan) have played a pivotal role in this journey. We are elated and proud of their contributions and look forward to continuing our support to MeitY's initiatives to implement the IndiaAI Mission and support India's work within the new integrated partnership. We are thankful to Additional Secretary Abhishek Singh and Group Coordinator @Kavita bhatia from the Ministry for this opportunity. Suhel Bidani Charu Chadha Deepali Khanna Arjun Venkatraman #IndiaAISummit #GPAI #AI #IICFellows #MeitY #Innovations