What: Smart India Hackathon
When: 30-31 March, 2018
Where: Across India at 28 nodal centres
- As pe the Department of Telecommunication, Ministry of Communications ‘Smart India Hackathon 2018 – Software edition Grand Finale’ is scheduled to be held on Mar 30-31, 2018 simultaneously at 28 different nodal centers across India.
- Department of Telecommunication, Ministry of Communications is a ‘Premier Partner’ in this initiative.
What is Smart India Hackathon 2018?
- All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) under the aegis of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and in collaboration with i4c, MyGov, Persistent Systems, and Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini is organizing Smart India Hackathon 2018.
- With 27 union ministries and departments and 17 state governments having joined this grand initiative, SIH2018 is much bigger than its previous edition.
- It includes 2 sub-editions – Software edition, which is a 36-hr software product development competition and scheduled to be held on Mar 30 & 31, 2018. The Hardware edition, involving building of hardware solutions will be held later this year.
- During the software edition grand finale, teams of thousands of technology students will build innovative digital solutions for problems posed by different central govt. ministries/ departments.
- Smart India Hackathon 2018 would be the second massive scale hackathon initiative in India following Smart India Hackathon 2017.
- Winners will get cash prizes and a chance to be part of the NASSCOM’s 10,000 Startups program.
- Objective: Launched on Oct 16, 2017 in Pune, Smart India Hackathon 2018 harnesses creativity & expertise of students, builds funnel for ‘Startup India, Standup India’ campaign, crowdsources solutions for improving governance and quality of life, and provides opportunity to citizens to provide innovative solutions to India’s daunting problems.
