By A Correspondent
British Council, the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations, has announced the development of Dara – India’s first chatbot for creative professionals making them a part of a global creative community. The digital assistant will help aspiring/emerging Indian creative professionals discover potential international collaborators for their ongoing projects. It will provide them access to greater resources, more networking opportunities and potentially a wider global audience for their work.
Said Jonathan Kennedy, Director Arts – India, British Council: “Emerging Indian creative entrepreneurship is making its mark on the global stage and we hope that the innovation of the DARA platform will help Indian creative professionals take their work to the next level through access to the UK creative community and global networks. DARA’s innovation in India comes at a time when the British Council is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web through a global campaign called Anyone//Anywhere: the web at 30. We believe digital arts projects and platforms like DARA will facilitate greater creative collaboration between Indian and UK artists as well all aim to connect, create and collaborate.”
Dara is currently being hosted on its website – https://dara.network as well as available through a dedicated Facebook page – www.facebook.com/dara.network.