What is Smart India Hackathon?
We hope to bridge the digital divide in our country and further promote digital literacy in order to make development a comprehensive mass movement and put governance within everyone’s reach in India. In order to work towards this vision, AICTE under aegis of MHRD and in collaboration with i4C, Persistent Systems Ltd., UGC, NASSCOM, Rambhau Prabhodini Mhalgi, SumaSoft Pvt. Ltd, Deloitte, ACM India, NIC, and MyGov propose the Smart India Hackathon 2017, a unique digital product development competition to identify new and disruptive digital technology innovations for solving the challenges faced by our country. This initiative, we aim to institutionalize a model for harnessing the creativity and technical expertise of 3.0 + million students for direct benefit of our nation. Besides this, several union ministries have agreed to be partners in this initiative.
Launched on Nov 9, 2016 at the hands of Shri Prakash Javadekar, Hon’ble Minister for HRD in New Delhi. ‘Smart India Hackathon 2017’ harnesses creativity & expertise of students, build funnel for ‘Startup India, Standup India’ campaign, crowdsources solutions for improving governance and quality of life, and provide opportunity to citizens to provide innovative solutions to India’s daunting problems.
The 36-hour Grand Finale is scheduled to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at 25 nodal centers simultaneously. Winners stand to get cash prizes and a chance to be part of the NASSCOM’s 10,000 Startups program.
Massive Online Training Sessions
Coding nonstop for 36 hours to create innovations for building a Digital India is not a piece of cake! It needs a lot of planning, grit, consistency, time management, team work, and yes, KNOWLEDGE!
We, therefore, felt a need to take a step ahead and get the best of the best ‘Subject matter experts’ to train the participants to code the very best at the Grand Finale. We conducted a survey, where participating teams were invited to vote for training programs they needed the most. We received a fantastic response from all over India and teams unanimously chose the training sessions.
Name of Training: Design Thinking
Date and Time: Tuesday, 28th Feb, 2017, 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm
Design Thinking is a human-centered approach to problem solving. It leverages the tools and techniques used by designers for innovative solutions or new product design. It helps in understanding the challenges faced by consumers of product or solution, often termed as end-users. As part of this program we will focus on developing mind-set for design thinking, tools such as empathetic observations, journey map, brainstorming, prototyping, story-telling, etc. This will enable students to understand and explore ‘experience design’.
To know more about Smart India Hackathon, click here.
Good Morning, First of all we would like to thank you for this great opportunity which helps to built a bridge to reach our goal. Once again we are thanking you