The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has organised its first networking event of Sangam-Digital Twin initiative on June 18 and June 19, 2024, at IIT Delhi. The event brought over 100 participants together, including representatives from leading companies to discuss innovative digital solutions across various sectors.
As per the DoT, the Sangam Networking event has brought out comprehensive blueprints for Digital Twin-enabled solutions, addressing challenges and leveraging diverse data sources. DoT stated that these outputs will guide the design and architecture of solutions, define roles for various parties, identify potential customers, outline funding structures, establish governance mechanisms, and create roadmaps for implementation.
In addition, the event featured breakout discussions on key verticals and use cases including multimodal transport planning, enhancing healthcare access and service, assessment of environmental quality, and disaster response system management.
Further, horizontal topics including privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), data provider and artificial intelligence (AI) governance framework, virtual world creation and interaction capabilities, and mathematical modelling and physics-based simulations were also covered.
Commenting on the event, Dr Neeraj Mittal, secretary (T), DoT, said, “Our goal is to develop viable projects, secure funding, and present them to the government to demonstrate the feasibility of creating an infrastructure planning tool for national level”.
Furthermore, Dr Mittal mentioned that these initiatives have set in motion a lot of collaboration amongst participants to be able to do good projects, create new ideas, new knowledge and new capabilities.
Moreover, participants have collaborated to develop innovative, holistic solutions addressing economic, social, and environmental factors. Emphasising cross-sectoral data driven infrastructure, the discussions explored integrating data from diverse sources while ensuring privacy preservation through advanced technologies. The event also highlighted the importance of AI-driven insights and collaborative environments in solving contemporary challenges.
The upcoming networking events are planned in IIT Bombay on 25-26 June 2024, PES University, Bangalore on 3-4 July 2024 and T-Hub, Hyderabad on 10-11 July 2024. DoT is looking forward for participation of all stakeholders in the upcoming events.
