Communication Minister Kharel inaugurates National AI Centre

Kathmandu, Nov 10: The government has established a National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Centre to ease the works of public and private sector through digital medium.     

The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology has established the National AI Centre.     

Inaugurating the Centre, Minister for Communications Jagadish Kharel said the National AI Centre that was initiated from a small room has made a quantum leap in Nepal's AI sector.     

The establishment of the Ai Centre has imparted a message for Nepal to move on the path of 'Digital Nepal and 'AI and Digital Transformation', the minister noted.     

He added, "This is just a beginning of the AI Centre. We will regularly keep on pushing the initiative. AI policy is already in place. AI Council has also been formed. From today onward, AI Centre will convene its business".     

He expressed his confidence that AI would be connected to good governance and corruption control, employment generation and innovation promotion – which he said were the agenda of the Gen Z Uprising.     

Kharel also noted that the IT Centre would also take policy initiative to ensure service delivery of public and private sector effective and efficient through digital medium.     

In addition, the use of AI would be useful for addressing human resource crisis in any agency and testing reliability and integrity of the information in the digital era.     

Chief of the Ministry's Division of Information Technology, joint-secretary Adesh Khadka said the AI Centre was established with the implementation of the AI Policy, 2082.     

The Centre would provide policy facilitation for the private sector interested to deliver service through AI and encourage production of AI related programme.(RSS)