The ‘AI for Social Good’ program is aimed at bringing together nonprofits, academics and Google researchers to collaborate on projects that tackle social, humanitarian and environmental challenges. Working in partnership with Google.org and Google’s University Relations program, Google Research India lab initiated this NGO and academic led collaborative model with 6 projects in 2020, and the program was expanded to 30 projects in July 2021 with a focus on Public Health, Agriculture and Conservation.