Union HRD Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar has inaugurated the world’s largest digital national building initiative “Smart India Hackathon 2017” by handing over a torch to technology students. The students will be required to solve during the Hackathon that will take place in early 2017. The Hackathon will have nearly 500 problem statements in all which will be published on innovate.mygov.in.
- All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), University Grants Commission (UGC), i4c, MyGov, NASSCOM, Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhiniand Persistent Systems have joined hands to organize this ambitious ‘Smart India Hackathon 2017’ under the aegis of Ministry of Human Resource Development.
- The Smart India Hackathon 2017 will aim to find digital solutions to problems in the areas of power, education, health, water, finance, agriculture, energy, urban & rural development, aviation & shipping, transport, sanitation, sports, law & justice, skill development & entrepreneurship, defence, textiles, tourism, etc.
- The initiative will help institutionalize a model for harnessing the creativity and skills of youth for nation-building.
- Some of the problem statements made public today include developing a dynamic Health Map that can tap into online data sources to ensure rapid response to disease outbreaks .
- Such as H1N1, dengue and chikungunya through faster information flow between public health systems. The full list of problem statements is available online on Smart Hackathon 2017 website.
