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The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has unveiled the selected participants for Stage I of the ‘Sangam: Digital Twin with AI-Driven Insights Initiative’.

About Sangam: Digital Twin Initiative

• Launched in February 2024, it aligns with the past decade’s technological advancements in communication, computation, and sensing, in line with the vision for 2047.
• Department of Telecommunications (DoT) will begin this with a campaign to engage potential participants, including industry experts, academia, and other relevant stakeholders to spread awareness and interest wide.
• It is a Two-stage Initiative: It will be distributed in two stages, and conducted in one of India’s major cities.
  1. First Stage: An exploratory phase focusing on clarifying horizons and creative exploration to unleash potential.
  2. Second Stage: A practical demonstration of specific use cases, generating a future blueprint for collaboration and scaling successful strategies in future infrastructure projects.
• Objectives:
  1. To demonstrate practical implementation of innovative infrastructure planning solutions.
  2. To develop a Model Framework for facilitating faster and more effective collaboration.
  3. To provide a future blueprint for scaling and replicating successful strategies in future infrastructure projects.

Features: It represents a collaborative leap towards reshaping infrastructure planning and design.

• It integrates 5G, IoT, AI, AR/VR, AI native 6G, Digital Twin, and next-gen computational technologies, fostering collaboration among public entities, infrastructure planners, tech giants, startups, and academia.
• Sangam brings all stakeholders together, aiming to translate innovative ideas into tangible solutions, bridging the gap between conceptualization and realization, and paving the way for groundbreaking infrastructure advancements.

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