The grant will assist India’s main mental-health platform to speed up its efforts in creating native language-based AI mental health options
NEW DELHI, Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — IWill by ePsyClinic, India’s main mental-health platform, has acquired a brand new grant from Microsoft’s ‘AI for Accessibility’ program to speed up constructing its inclusive and efficient Hindi-based AI Mental Health conversational program for greater than 615 million Hindi-language users on this planet.
As per WHO, almost 1 billion folks reside with a mental health situation globally, but there may be an acute scarcity of evidenced, low-cost and native language primarily based mental health options. The grant awarded to IWill will assist the fast-growing agency in its meticulous efforts to scale back this widening hole in India and abroad – particularly for Hindi language users, provided that Hindi is the Third-most spoken language on this planet.
Speaking on this event, Shipra Dawar, Founder & CEO of IWill, mentioned, “We’re so excited and proud to receive the support from Microsoft. Since its inception, IWill as a company has worked to create solutions and offer programs that can benefit people dealing with emotional or mental health conditions across rural and urban areas, languages, economic and cultural differences both in India and overseas.”
“Hindi-AI based mental health CBT solutions that are empathic, effective and accessible is an area we started working on during the pandemic. And now Microsoft’s grant along with the access to AI’s expertise and technology will further help us advance our research in accelerating evidence and empathy of Hindi-based, tech-enabled mental health solutions while working closely with the interoperability of other solutions present within communities to enable patient recovery, well-being and growth. IWill, as a firm, will continue working towards bridging the gap with more language models and effective participatory solutions reduce the last mile gap for Bharat and for the world. As IWill, we are delighted to receive the grant,” Ms Dawar added.
About the Microsoft AI for Accessibility program
AI for Accessibility is a program geared toward harnessing the facility of AI to amplify human functionality for the multiple billion folks all over the world with disabilities. Advocating for folks with disabilities, the program is dedicated to influencing the way forward for expertise to guarantee world independence and inclusion.
About IWill by ePsyClinic
One of the nation’s main digital mental healthcare service suppliers, IWill has efficient clinician and counsellor pushed applications in addition to computerised and conversational CBT remedy applications. IWill has partnered with a number of State Governments & Public Health Departments (B2G), Global public health Institutions, massive firms (B2B), in addition to people immediately (D2C) to present efficient, top quality and reasonably priced mental health companies to folks on the consolation of their houses. The platform has helped a number of thousands and thousands of people via therapeutic content material, digital and on-line remedy and self assist instruments. IWill as a model is dedicated to offering mental healthcare to everybody who wants it and is strongly rooted in communities.
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