CogX 2020: Festival of AI & Emerging Technology | 01 Jul 2020

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Recently MyGov Corona Helpdesk Chatbot has bagged two awards under categories (1) “Best Innovation for Covid-19 – Society” and (2) “People’s Choice Covid-19 Overall Winner” at the recently held CogX 2020.

Key Points

  • CogX is a prestigious Global Leadership Summit and Festival of Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technology held annually in London with over 15,000 participants in attendance from the highest levels of business, government, industry, and research.
    • The CogX Awards are given out to the best-of-the-best in AI and emerging technologies across the world.
  • MyGov Corona Helpdesk demonstrated the true Public, Private Partnership (PPP), wherein, citizen centric services were provided by MyGov, while the state-of-the-art technological solution including infrastructure were designed, developed, and deployed by a private partner- JioHaptik Technologies Limited.
  • This Chatbox has been developed by MyGov, JioHaptik Technologies Limited and WhatsApp.
  • MyGov (launched in 2014) is the world’s largest citizen engagement platform, which facilitates two-way communication between the Government and Citizen and facilitates participatory governance in India.

Source: PIB