19/09/2022 - S & T

KEY POINTS

·        India having witnessed a great leap in digital revolution, emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be explored to reduce corruption at various layers and departments of government.

·        While top-down approach is based on the view that institutions are shaped by the existing laws, bottom approach views institutions as emerging though customs, beliefs, traditions etc.

·        AI and blockchain technology can be used to combat corruption in the health sector. Pharma companies sometimes bribe doctors to get their medicine prescribed.

·        This can be reduced through employment of AI and blockchain to facilitate information availability to patients on effectiveness of medicines.

·        This requires digitisation of revenue records available with state governments coupled with simultaneous implementation of AI tools.

·        Linking of revenue records across India may also facilitate detection of frauds as also ownership of benami property/transaction across States.

·        Application of AI across banks and financial institutions for fraud detection, suspicious transactions and financial crimes is key.

·        However, the challenges in this regard include getting the factual information from various sources and uniform maintenance of database structure across various states.

·        For application of AI, quality of data sets, coupled with skill to explain the datasets is imperative, which requires training for those involved in collecting and interpreting of data. 

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