India floats AI plan under which ‘The model travels to the data, rather than the data travelling to the model’
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is introducing the Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA) for AI Training to address concerns about foreign AI developers accessing Indian data without compensation or accountability. Under DEPA, hospitals, banks, and government agencies act as Training Data Providers, sharing anonymized and encrypted data through Data Exchange Platforms (DEPs). AI developers access these secure environments to train models while data remains encrypted and isolated. The framework aims to keep data under local control and ensure AI systems address India-specific needs while enforcing data usage rules through differential privacy technique
Key points
- DEPA brings AI model training to data centers instead of moving sensitive data offshore
- Training Data Providers (hospitals, banks, agencies) retain control and anonymize data sharing
- Secure Data Environments encrypt and isolate data even during model training
- Framework enforces differential privacy and usage rules set by data owners
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