Four Years of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution India

The Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution India, launched in October 2018, operates as a multistakeholder hub to facilitate the ethical deployment of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies. Using a three-pillared approach—community engagement, insight generation, and the design and scaling of pilots—the Centre focuses on technology governance and sectoral transformation. Key initiatives include AI for Agriculture Innovation (AI4AI), FIRST Health (specifically FIRST Cancer Care), Drones for Social Impact (Medicine from the Sky), the India Hub for Urban Transformation (IUT), and Education 4.0. The Centre emphasizes public-private partnerships (PPPs) to address systemic challenges in healthcare, agriculture, urban governance, and education, while developing frameworks for data policy and digital assets to unlock economic potential.

• The Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution India employs a three-pillared operational strategy: establishing a multistakeholder community for dialogue, producing insight reports and frameworks for strategic intelligence, and designing and scaling targeted solutions through partner ecosystems.
• The AI for Agriculture Innovation (AI4AI) initiative aims to support 130 million smallholder and women farmers. It has implemented the 'Saagu Baagu' project in Telangana, which has on-boarded over 7,000 farmers as of November 2022, with a goal of reaching 100,000.
• The 'Medicine from the Sky' project has conducted over 300 vaccine delivery trials using drones in remote regions of Telangana, making India the first country in Asia to deliver vaccines via drones beyond the visual range.
• The India Hub for Urban Transformation (IUT), in collaboration with the Smart Cities Mission, has developed an AI Playbook for Cities and an AI Use Case Compendium to help 100 smart cities deploy AI solutions for urban issues such as public safety, mobility, and waste management.
• The Education 4.0 India initiative, partnered with UNICEF and YuWaah, focuses on four priority themes: foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN), teachers’ professional development, school-to-work transition, and connecting the unconnected.
• The Centre's data policy initiative seeks to unlock a potential $500 billion for the Indian economy by improving access to high-value datasets. This includes the development of an Agriculture Data Exchange (ADEx) and the support of a personal data consent framework in Karnataka.

APA

World Economic Forum (2023). Four Years of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution India. https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Four_Years_of_the_Centre_for_the_Fourth_Industrial_Revolution_India_2023.pdf

Chicago

World Economic Forum. Four Years of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution India. 2023. https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Four_Years_of_the_Centre_for_the_Fourth_Industrial_Revolution_India_2023.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforum2023four, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{Four Years of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution India}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2023}, month = jan, url = {https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Four_Years_of_the_Centre_for_the_Fourth_Industrial_Revolution_India_2023.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }