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Bring AI content from many sources into one place and keep it current.
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IndiaAI national AI portal for MeitY
India's national AI portal for news, research and events. Designed, built and supported by Bluelupin.
indiaai.gov.in
Web Excellence Award 2023Website / Government category
Industry
Client
MeitY, Government of India
Role
Design, build and support
Built
2020
Stack
Nuxt.js and Laravel
Live site
The challenge
Who they are and what they needed
Bluelupin built IndiaAI (indiaai.gov.in), the national AI portal of India, for the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in 2020. Announced in the 2019 budget speech, the portal brings AI news, articles, research reports and events into one place for industry, government, researchers and the public.
We designed, built and supported the portal over several years, working with MeitY, its National e-Governance Division (NeGD) and the portal's editorial owners. Our work covered the information architecture, the public design, the editorial CMS, search and the delivery stack.
In January 2023 the portal won a Web Excellence Award in the Website / Government category at the 8th WE Awards competition. It is live at indiaai.gov.in.
Visit indiaai.gov.inRead the award announcement
MeitY needed one national destination for India's AI news, research and events. It had to stay fast under high traffic and nationwide use, and let editorial teams publish without waiting on developers.
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Fast content discovery
Let readers search across news, articles, research reports and events in one go.
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Built for nationwide use
Hold up under high traffic and nationwide use.
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Publishing without developers
Give the editorial owners a CMS to publish news, articles, reports and events themselves.
What we built
Platform capabilities in production
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AI news
News on AI from India and around the world, published by the editorial team through the CMS and served as server-rendered pages.
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Articles
Articles on AI with author, date and reading time, tagged by topic so readers can browse them or search for them.
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Research reports
Research reports and case studies in one repository, with search and filters, alongside the portal's knowledge assets.
How it fits together
From user touchpoints to core services
How the platform's layers connect, from the public experience through APIs and data to cloud delivery.
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Visitors
Researchers, policymakers, industry and the public reading and searching the portal.
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Nuxt.js front end
Server-side rendering, so every page arrives as full HTML for readers and search engines.
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Laravel API
Content and search services behind the front end.
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Editorial CMS
Laravel-based authoring and publishing for news, articles, reports and events.
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ElasticSearch
Search across news, articles, research reports and events.
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Redis
Caching for busy pages and API responses.
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MySQL
Storage for portal content and metadata.
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AWS S3, CloudFront and SendGrid
Media storage and delivery, plus email from the portal.
How we delivered
How the project was delivered
A multi-year engagement with MeitY. Cross-functional product, design and engineering squads worked on editorial publishing, search performance and reliable public access.
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Stakeholder alignment
Workshops with MeitY, NeGD and the editorial owners set the portal's scope, its content sections and how publishing would work.
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Information architecture
A taxonomy and navigation model for news, articles, research reports, case studies and events, with room for new initiatives.
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Public experience design
A mobile-first design for researchers, policymakers, industry and the public, made with accessibility and low-bandwidth performance in mind.
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Editorial CMS
Laravel-based authoring and publishing for articles, news, reports and events, used by the portal's editorial teams.
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Search and caching
ElasticSearch indexing across content types and Redis caching for busy pages and API responses, built for high traffic.
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Nuxt.js delivery
A Nuxt.js application with server-side rendering for search visibility and a fast first paint, with a page module for each portal section.
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Asset delivery and support
Assets stored on S3 and served through CloudFront. Bluelupin supported the portal over several years.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Bluelupin designed and built IndiaAI (indiaai.gov.in), the national AI portal of India, for MeitY in 2020, and supported it over several years. We worked with MeitY, its National e-Governance Division (NeGD) and the portal's editorial owners.
IndiaAI is India's national AI portal at indiaai.gov.in. Announced in the 2019 budget speech, it brings AI news, articles, research reports, case studies and events into one place for industry, government, researchers and the public.
Bluelupin built the portal for MeitY in 2020, then kept working on it with MeitY in the years that followed.
We built it with Nuxt.js and server-side rendering for the front end, Laravel for the API and editorial CMS, ElasticSearch for search, Redis for caching, MySQL for storage, AWS S3 and CloudFront for media, and SendGrid for email.
Yes. The portal won the Web Excellence Award 2023 in the Website / Government category at the 8th WE Awards competition, announced on 16 January 2023.
Yes. The IndiaAI work covered design, an editorial CMS, search across content types and support over several years, and the same approach fits a department, PSU or association portal. Book a consultation to talk through your plans.
Next step
Building a portal for a government department or association? Book a consultation.
Tell us who will publish on it, what readers need to find and when it has to go live.
Planning a portal for a government department, PSU or association? The IndiaAI building blocks carry over: an editorial CMS your team runs, search across content types, and server-rendered pages that search engines can read in full.
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