Context: YUVAi-Youth for Unnati and Vikas with AI’ is set to be prominently featured at the upcoming Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit.

About YUVAi

• It is a collaborative initiative of the National e-Governance Division – Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Intel India.
• It is designed to equip the youth with essential AI skills and commitment to enabling a future-ready workforce.

Features of the YUVAi Scheme 

• Launch year:  2020
• Aims:
  • Skills: Bridging skills gap, 
  • Digital literacy: build digital readiness among the next generation, and
  • Inclusivity: continue the momentum of the inclusive and collaborative AI Skilling program.

• ‘YUVAi’ will help foster a deeper understanding of AI, equip school students from classes 8th to 12th across the nation with AI skills, and empower them to become human-centric designers and users of AI. 

Objectives of the YUVAi Scheme

The objectives of YUVAi are to:

• Foster a deeper understanding of AI-tech and social skills
• Enable youth to develop AI-enabled solutions as a sign of achievement
• Empower youth to become human-centric designers and users of AI.

Various thematic areas:

Students will be encouraged to submit ideas (individually or in teams of 2) through a 120-second video explaining a proposed AI-enabled solution for any one of the eight core themes:

• Krishi – AI in Agriculture
• Aarogya – AI in Healthcare
• Shiksha – AI in Education
• Paryavaran – AI in environment & clean energy
• Parivahan – AI in transportation
• Grameen Vikas – AI for Rural Development
• AI for Smart Cities
• Vidhi aur Nyaay – AI in Law & Justice

 News Source PIB