Apurva.ai: Empowering Change Leaders to Drive Collective Impact and Solve Complex Societal Problems at Scale
CXOToday has engaged in an exclusive interview with Mr Anand Rajan, Mission Leader at Apurva.ai
1) What was the inspiration behind the creation of Apurva.ai, and how does it align with your mission and core values?
Apurva.ai was born out of the realisation that collective wisdom is a tremendous resource waiting to be unlocked. In today’s interconnected world, information and expertise are spread across individuals, communities, and organisations, often remaining fragmented and inaccessible. This constraint restricts the ability to see the bigger picture, thereby limiting our capacity to create sustainable and meaningful impact.
By tapping into the collective wisdom of networks, organisations have the opportunity to create impact at scale. The founders of Apurva.ai recognized that exponential technologies like Generative AI have immense potential to amplify the collective wisdom of a network. Generative AI’s capacity to process vast amounts of data, identify patterns, and generate insights makes them an important technology infrastructure for solving large and complex systems problems.
At the heart of Apurva.ai lies the conviction that inclusion, trust, and emergence are vital values that drive effective change. Inclusion ensures that diverse perspectives, voices, and expertise are considered, leading to a comprehensive understanding of complex challenges. Building trust creates an environment that fosters collaboration and encourages individuals and organisations to openly contribute their knowledge. The acknowledgement of emergence recognizes that collective wisdom is serendipitous and emerges through the interactions and collaborations of diverse stakeholders.
By embracing these values, Apurva.ai strives to democratise knowledge and empower individuals and communities. Apurva.ai aspires to drive positive change, promote inclusion, and contribute to the development of more equitable and sustainable societies.
2) How can Change Leaders effectively leverage the collective wisdom of their network to address complex societal problems with speed and scale?
Change Leaders face the challenge of addressing complex societal problems that often appear as intricate knots, involving multiple stakeholders, perspectives, and causes. To navigate these challenges, various Systems Change frameworks have emerged, emphasising the importance of understanding the system as a holistic, interconnected web of entities working towards a common goal.
Implementing these frameworks requires collaboration, embracing complexity, and leveraging the knowledge within one’s network. Change Leaders need a platform that enables them to harness the wisdom and insights of their network to create actionable solutions.
Apurva.ai serves as that platform, empowering Change Leaders to utilise the wisdom and insights of their network. By facilitating collaboration and leveraging generative technologies, Apurva.ai enables Change Leaders to transform the collective knowledge into insights and wisdom, thereby driving positive change in complex societal problems.
3) what is Apurva.ai’s roadmap or what are future plans for Apurva.ai
Apurva.ai has a comprehensive roadmap for continuous growth and advancement. The organisation’s key areas of focus include:
Global South: Apurva.ai aims to become a platform that caters to the specific challenges and needs of countries in the Global South. By being available in several global languages, supporting voice and text based interactions and in offline and online mode, Apurva.ai seeks to address critical global needs.
Sectoral Focus: Apurva.ai prioritises sectors particularly in areas of Healthcare, Agriculture, Climate, Livelihood, Education. By concentrating efforts in these sectors, Apurva.ai strives to create positive sectoral impact and drive meaningful change.
Do-it-Yourself (DIY): Apurva.ai aims to provide self-service capabilities, enabling both small and large organisations to leverage the platform and create their own solutions. This DIY approach empowers organisations to take full advantage of Apurva.ai’s capabilities and tailor them to their specific needs.
Inclusion: Apurva.ai endeavours to ensure accessibility for users across various platforms, such as WhatsApp and Telegram. Additionally, Apurva.ai plans to enable IVR (Interactive Voice Response) interactions in local languages through feature phones, thereby including communities that are often marginalised or excluded.
4) What message would you like to send to change leaders and organisations who are considering using Apurva.ai to solve complex problems and create impact at scale?
While individual organisations can gain significant benefits from utilising Apurva, their true value scales exponentially when they are able to integrate their knowledge with that of other organisations in the ecosystem.
Addressing large and complex problems necessitates an ecosystem approach. Apurva improves access to knowledge and enhances the quality of interactions thereby resulting in increased efficiency and insights. By combining diverse knowledge from different parts of the network, Apurva fosters the network’s creation of wisdom. By promoting collaboration and inclusivity, Apurva aims to establish a resilient network capable of collectively solving problems and driving positive change.
5) How does Apurva.ai utilise artificial intelligence to support Change Leaders in making informed decisions and driving collective impact?
Apurva.ai leverages AI to empower Change Leaders in making informed decisions and fostering collective impact. Through the integration of Generative AI and other advanced techniques, Apurva.ai enables Change Leaders to harness the collective wisdom within their networks. By utilising AI-powered crawlers and parsers, employing LLMs for neural search and text generation, as well as incorporating ASR and TTS, Apurva processes diverse data formats, including text, audio, and video, transforming them into actionable insights.
Apurva promotes collaboration among a wide range of stakeholders, including civil society, non-profit organisations, governments, and communities. It enables a network of knowledge that provides access to diverse viewpoints that are combined to generate insights and wisdom.
In summary, Apurva.ai leverages AI to empower Change Leaders. By tapping into the collective wisdom of their network, Change Leaders gain access to insights, and can navigate complex challenges, leading to transformative change and positive societal impact.
6) Where is Apurva being used today?
Apurva.ai is being utilised in various domains including Healthcare, Agriculture, Climate, Livelihood, Policy, Education.
In the healthcare sector, Apurva enhances the quality of interactions among medical practitioners. Apurva actively engages in these interactions by providing real-time insights, ideas, reflective questions, and suggestions. Furthermore, the knowledge accumulated from these interactions is consolidated with previous exchanges, creating a digital brain that is accessible to users in their preferred language.
In Agriculture, farmers lead the way in innovation. They work hard to minimise costs and maximise returns, always looking at new and innovative approaches. However, the valuable innovations of one farmer are often out of reach for other farmers. But what if all farmers could share and learn from each other’s innovations, regardless of language or location? The outcome would be a significant boost in efficiency, as innovative practices are shared and adopted widely. Now, picture the combination of these innovations with the expertise of agricultural researchers, the decisions of policymakers, and the insights from farmer producer organisations. The result? A collective wisdom emerges within the agriculture ecosystem. This is precisely what Apurva aims to facilitate.
In agriculture, farmers play a pivotal role in driving innovation. They tirelessly strive to minimise costs and maximise returns, constantly exploring new and innovative approaches. However, the valuable innovations of one farmer often remain inaccessible to others. But what if all farmers could share and learn from each other’s innovations, regardless of language or location? The result would be a significant increase in efficiency, as innovative practices are widely shared and adopted. Now, envision combining these innovations with the expertise of agricultural researchers, the decisions of policymakers, and the insights from farmer producer organisations. The outcome? A collective wisdom that emerges within the agricultural ecosystem. This is precisely the aim of Apurva – to facilitate the exchange and utilisation of collective wisdom in agriculture.
Overall, Apurva.ai enables governments, civil society and market actors to amplify the collective wisdom of their networks and thereby solve large complex problems with greater speed and efficiency.
