Launch Event & Panel Discussion | Practice Playbook for RAI

India’s 3.1M+ social impact organisations are already informing how AI can be used for education, health, and public service delivery, often in high-stakes, low-resource environments.

But as AI adoption rises, so do the risks.

Gender and digital divides
Biased or hallucinated outputs
Lack of context-specific safeguards

As AI adoption in India expands across key social sectors, policy discussions on its governance have gained momentum. Most recently, a multistakeholder body under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology(MeitY) recommended a “whole-of-government” approach to AI governance aimed at mitigating AI harms and promoting Responsible AI.

While RAI frameworks are helpful as overarching guidelines, translating these principles into practical, context-specific actions remains a significant challenge for most organisations. They can often be context-agnostic and, hence, unable to respond to needs and challenges unique to the resource-constrained environments where social impact organisations operate.

To fill this gap, we have developed the ‘Practice Playbook on Responsible AI’ launched virtually on April 25.

At this event, we introduced the public to the Playbook. Research Associate and Project Co-ordinator, Sasha John presented the Playbook, taking audiences through the rationale and ways to use it.

Click here to access the presentation

We also had a panel discussion moderated by Sr. Research Manager, Aarushi Gupta with experts from the industry:

Eunsong Kim, Chief of Sector for Social & Human Sciences, UNESCO
Alpan Raval, Chief Scientist, AI/ML, Wadhwani AI
Dr Namita Singh, Director of User Experience, Digital Green
Hanna Minaye, Associate Manager, Research, mDoc
Vinod Rajasekaran, Head Fractional CxO Program, Project Tech4Dev

Watch the event livestream here.