Bhubaneswar: Odisha Government has signed an MoU with the University of Chicago Trust, India, to set up a Data, Policy, and Innovation Centre (DPIC) that will enable rigorous, evidence-based governance while using new advances in econometrics, data science, and machine learning.
The scope of this programmatic partnership will involve researchers from the University of Chicago to provide data analysis and evaluation assistance to the Odisha Government’s schemes and policies to benefit the state districts and blocks.
The MoU was signed in the presence of E & IT Minister Tusharkanti Behera, OCAC Odisha CEO Manoj Kumar Pattnaik, STPI Director Manas Panda, Executive Director of University of Chicago Center in India Dr. Leni Chaudhuri and senior officials at OCAC office in Bhubaneswar.