- The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Prakash Javadekar launched the third edition of World’s Biggest Open Innovation Model – Smart India Hackathon 2019 on August 29, 2018 in New Delhi .
- MHRD, AICTE, Persistent Systems and i4c have joined hands to make a hat trick with their highly popular and innovative Smart India Hackathon initiative (SIH).
Objectives
- SIH-2019 is a nationwide initiative to provide students a platform to solve some of pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem solving.
Features
- In this new edition of SIH-2019 over 1 Lakh+ students from around 3000 institutions will have the opportunity to work on challenges faced within the Public Sector Organizations and the Union Ministries. And for the 1st time, it will also include problem statements from industry as well as NGOs.
- While students would get a chance to create world class solutions for some of the top organizations in the world, it would also be a chance for organizations to meet the brightest young minds and brand themselves from hiring perspective.
- The students from IISc, IITs, NITs and AICTE/UGC approved institutions will also compete to creatively solve problems and offer technical solutions.
- Like its prequel, Smart India Hackathon- 2019 would also have 2 sub-editions – Software edition (a 36-hour software product development competition) and Hardware edition (a 5 days long hardware product development competition).
- Public/ Private sector organizations and NGOs may join SIH2019 to get innovative solutions to their problems in cost effective ways.
Benefits
- Some more benefits to join SIH are as follows:
- Opportunity to brand your organization nationally
- Recognition and visibility for your organization across all technical institutions in India
- Young techies from all over the country offer out-of-the-box solutions to your problems
- Be part of World’s biggest Open Innovation Movement
- Opportunity to work with some of the best talent in the country
- Technology Students across India compete to creatively solve problems and offer technical solutions
- Harness expertise of lakhs of students from IISc, IITs, NITs and AICTE/UGC approved institutions
Earlier editions
- As per the Union Mininisty, the earlier two editions of this initiative were a roaring success. Some major key points of Smart India Hackathon 2017 and Smart India Hackathon 2018 are mentioned below.
- Smart India Hackathon 2017: Saw problem statements coming from 29 union ministries of India. Out of the top ideas from this edition, 20 projects were mentored and creatively developed. They are now ready for handover to the concerned ministries and deployment.
- Smart India Hackathon 2018: It involved 27 union ministries and 17 state governments and for the first time introduced a special Hardware edition.
- The ministries are now in the process of shortlisting some of the best ideas from the 200+ winning teams (under both software and hardware editions) and the process of mentoring and developing full-fledged solutions will soon be kick started. Here is a brief snapshot of Smart India Hackathon 2018.
