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Google partnership to transform Agriculture, Education & more

14-02-2025 12:19:36 AM

This collaboration with Google strengthens our vision for an AI-enabled Telangana. By integrating cutting-edge AI technologies, we aim to revolutionize key sectors, ensuring better governance, economic progress, and enhanced public services. 

Revanth Reddy, Chief Minister

metro india news  I hyderabad

Google today announced a strategic collaboration with the Government of Telangana to harness the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across the state. The MoU exchange took place in the presence of CM Revanth Reddy and IT Minister Sridhar Babu, Government of Telangana, and Google Representatives

Congratulating Google on the occasion, CM stated, “This collaboration with Google strengthens our vision for an AI-enabled Telangana. By integrating cutting-edge AI technologies, we aim to revolutionize key sectors, ensuring better governance, economic progress, and enhanced public services. This partnership marks a significant step in our digital journey.”

This collaboration, formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), aims drive the development and implementation of AI solutions, focusing on key sectors—agriculture, mobility, education, sustainability, and governance—while fostering innovation, bridging the digital divide, and equipping the workforce with future-ready skills.

Under this MoU, Google will partner with the Telangana government to develop AI-powered agricultural solutions to empower farmers and improve mobility via transit data integration and road information sharing.

The partnership will also focus on AI skilling and upskilling programs, supporting digital learning ecosystems through Google for Education, and launching an Open Agriculture Network to connect farmers with essential resources. Furthermore, the collaboration aims to enhance open data access through Google's Data Commons platform, accelerate solar adoption using Google's Solar API and foster the startup ecosystem through accelerator programs.

Preeti Lobana, Country Manager, Google India, said, “This collaboration with Telangana reinforces Google's commitment to India's digital future. We're excited to combine our AI expertise with the state's vision to cultivate an AI-ready workforce, foster startup innovation, and address key areas like agriculture, education, and sustainability. AI is uniquely poised to unleash huge value in these key economic areas, and we're excited to collaborate with Telangana to translate these possibilities.