Context: Recently, Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Communications and Law & Justice launched a National Program for the youth, “Responsible AI for Youth”.  
About “Responsible AI for Youth”

• The aim of this Program is to give the young students of our country a platform and empower them with appropriate new age tech mind-set, relevant AI skill-sets and access to required AI tool-sets to make them digitally ready for the future.  
• The Program has been created and launched by the National e-Governance Division, Ministry of Electronics & IT in collaboration with Intel India, with support from Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L), Ministry of Human Resource Development.  
• DoSE&L will help reach-out to State Education Departments to nominate teachers as per eligibility criteria. 
• “Responsible AI for Youth” will empower the youth to become AI ready and help reduce the skill gap, while enabling youth to create meaningful social impact solutions.  
• The Program is designed to reach out to students from Government schools pan India and provide them with an opportunity to become part of the skilled workforce in an inclusive manner. 

Additional Facts

• The National Programme is open to students of classes 8 - 12 from Central and State government-run schools (including KVS, NVS, JNV) from across the country - all 28 States and 8 Union Territories and aims to bring about a change in the thought process and create a bridge for the digital divide.  
• The Program will be implemented in a phase-wise manner and in its first phase, each of the State Education Department will nominate 10 teachers as per the eligibility criteria. Teachers may also self nominate themselves by fulfilling the eligibility criteria.  
• These teachers will be provided orientation sessions aimed to help them understand the premise and identify 25-50 potential students for the Program.  
• The identified students will attend online training sessions on AI and understand how to identify social impact ideas/projects that may be created using AI and submit their ideas through a 60 seconds video explaining a proposed AI enabled solution. 
• From the submitted ideas in the form of videos, top 100 ideas will be shortlisted and these students will be invited to attend residential boot camps or online sessions (subject to COVID-19 situation); to take them through a deep dive AI journey. 
• Post the boot-camps/ online sessions, these students will be asked to create real time projects and submit their final project in a video format on the website. 
• Adequate handholding will be provided by Intel certified AI coaches and mentors throughout to ensure that ideas mature as prototypes. 
• The experts will shortlist top 50 project ideas and students will be invited to showcase their projects either face to face or in an online format. 
• Further, top 20 innovative projects will be selected by an independent committee of experts and provided opportunities to showcase at relevant platform.