We have seen amazing progress in AI's ability to solve new problems and confront old ones over the past few years. We set up the Google Research India lab in 2019 to support these efforts. Our focus is on AI research that can make a positive impact on society. This is also why we support nonprofit organizations through the Google AI Impact Challenge.Our goal is to work in partnership with Google.org, Googles University Relations program and Google.org. We want to help nonprofits and academics develop AI techniques that can improve the lives of people in underserved areas that have not yet seen AI advances. In 2020, we will be reporting on six of these projects. Today, we share 30 new projects that will be funded and supported by our AI for Social Good program.Googlers organized workshops that involved more than 150 people to discuss possible projects during the application process. After the workshops, teams of project managers made up of academics and NGOs submitted proposals that were reviewed by Google experts. It is possible to see a range of promising projects that span seventeen countries in Asia-Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa, including Australia, Nigeria, Uganda, Nigeria and Nigeria. These projects focus on agriculture, conservation, and public health.This includes agricultural research that will provide farmer collectives with market intelligence. It also uses data to improve crop planning and irrigation for smallholder farmers. We are supporting projects in public health that will allow targeted interventions in public health and help community health workers forecast the health risks in countries like Kenya, India, and Uganda. We also support research that helps to predict the demand for vital resources such as vaccines and health care, even in Nigeria. We also support conservation research that helps to understand the effects of poaching on elephants and gorillas. Other projects will reduce poaching and conservation conflict, such as the human-elephant conflict here in Kenya.Each project team will be provided with funding, technical assistance from Google, and access to computing resources. For their efforts in advancing socially-oriented research, Impact Scholars will be awarded to academics participating in the program.These types of projects have had a tremendous impact on our lives. Last year, Dr. Aparna Hedge (founder of ARMANN) was one of the beneficiaries. She received AI support from Google Research and IIT Madras to improve the maternal and child health outcomes. The team is developing a predictive model that will prevent expectant mothers from dropping out of telehealth outreach programs. The team has received a second Google.org grant, which will allow them to continue their progress. Dr. Dr. Hedge claims that the program has already shown encouraging results, and I am certain that this partnership will provide immense benefits in future.We are proud to congratulate all those who received this round of support. We look forward to supporting the AI for Social Good Community, which brings together experts from different backgrounds to advance AI for improving lives all over the globe.
