India, Oct. 31 -- The IT ministry (MeitY) has proposed a consent-based framework to facilitate data sharing for training AI models in India.

Called the Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA) for AI training, the framework aims to help startups, businesses and academic institutions access large-scale, India-specific datasets to develop AI models while protecting citizens' privacy and ensuring compliance with the DPDP Act.

The DEPA for AI training also proposes a techno-legal architecture to enable organisations to collaborate on AI model training without directly transferring underlying datasets.

With this, the ministry aims to foster access to datasets for researchers and businesses looking to train AI models. The guidelin...