{"id":46656,"date":"2026-01-27T12:34:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wadhwanifoundation.org\/?post_type=press&#038;p=46656"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:06:03","slug":"budget-2026-must-fuel-ai-adoption-skilling-homegrown-platforms-say-indias-tech-leaders","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/wadhwanifoundation.org\/id\/press\/budget-2026-must-fuel-ai-adoption-skilling-homegrown-platforms-say-indias-tech-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Anggaran 2026 Harus Mendorong Adopsi AI, Keterampilan &amp; Platform Buatan Sendiri, Kata Pemimpin Teknologi India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Last-Mile Impact and Digital Public Infrastructure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Underscoring the need to translate AI investments into citizen-level outcomes, Prakash Kumar, CEO of the Wadhwani Centre for Government Digital Transformation, said India\u2019s AI success would ultimately be judged by its impact at the last mile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the government has made strong progress in building core AI infrastructure, Budget 2026 is an opportunity to invest in what turns infrastructure into outcomes stronger Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and deeper citizen engagement at the grassroots,\u201d Kumar said.<\/p>\n<p>He said government spending should prioritise interoperable systems, digital literacy and skilling, and the scaling of AI in Indian languages. Taking proven pilots into statewide and national rollouts through shared platforms, standard reference architectures, and sustained operational funding, not just one-time project grants, should be the focus, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what will move AI from isolated success stories to a dependable part of everyday governance, delivering consistent, measurable improvements in service delivery and improved policymaking,\u201d Kumar said.<\/p>\n<p>Sumber Online:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwdisrupt.com\/article\/budget-2026-must-fuel-ai-adoption-skilling-homegrown-platforms-say-india-s-tech-leaders-590022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BW Mengganggu<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last-Mile Impact and Digital Public Infrastructure Underscoring the need to translate AI investments into citizen-level outcomes, Prakash Kumar, CEO of the Wadhwani Centre for Government Digital Transformation, said India\u2019s AI success would ultimately be judged by its impact at the last mile. \u201cWhile the government has made strong progress in building core AI infrastructure, Budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15476,"template":"","tags":[],"press-category":[],"coauthors":[155],"class_list":["post-46656","press","type-press","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wadhwanifoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/46656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wadhwanifoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wadhwanifoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wadhwanifoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wadhwanifoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/46656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wadhwanifoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wadhwanifoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wadhwanifoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46656"},{"taxonomy":"press-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wadhwanifoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-category?post=46656"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wadhwanifoundation.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=46656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}