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Standards, open platforms and public services 3 companies
These nonprofits build standards, open platforms and digital services that anyone may use.
US PharmacopeiaUS Pharmacopeia, with its team in Hyderabad, is the nonprofit that sets the quality standards for medicines in America and many other countries, which the generic medicines India makes for America must meet. It earns by selling its standards and the samples laboratories test medicines against, and runs a laboratory and technology centre in Hyderabad.HyderabadHiring now
Platform CommonsPlatform Commons, with its team in Bengaluru, is another nonprofit that builds open platforms.
Digital GreenDigital Green, with engineers in Bengaluru, runs an AI chatbot that advises farmers in their own languages.See alsoAgribusiness and farm advisory platformsThe tech, explainedPharmacopoeia
How it all worksNonprofit softwareCharities, associations and community centres, run on software.
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The public good built on AI.
India's digital public goods were built by nonprofits and government together. The next ones are being built on AI models, like the chatbots that advise farmers in local languages. Nonprofits are among the first to put AI in front of people who have never used a computer.
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