Bengaluru: Karnataka's Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (ACSEL Technology Forum) on Wednesday launched Tathyakosh.in, a new digital public good designed to make India's fragmented public data ecosystem easier to discover, assess and use.
Finding public data in India often requires searching across multiple government portals, research institutions and repositories. Tathyakosh, created by ACSEL Technology Forum, addresses this challenge by bringing together more than 1.5 million datasets from 458 data sources onto a single searchable platform.
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"The challenge is knowing where the data is, whether it is relevant, whether it is reliable and whether it can be used. We wanted to make it easier for a researcher, developer, policymaker or startup to discover what already exists before spending time and resources looking for it elsewhere," said Ashok Kamath, Director, ACSEL Technology Forum.