Smart India Hackathon 2018 from March 30: Javadekar
NEW DELHI: The finale of the Smart India Hackathon 2018 (Software Edition) will be held on March 30 and 31 at 28 nodal centres across the country, announced HRD minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday.
Smart India Hackathon is the World’s largest Nation-Building Digital Initiative of the HRD ministry and was conceptualized to harness the creativity and energy of bright young students for the development of our nation, the minister said.
Javadekar was hopeful that the solutions given by the students will be helpful in overcoming the challenges faced by various ministries and departments. This year’s initiative has software as well as hardware edition.
The minister said that SIH 2018 had received participation from 27 central ministries/ departments and 17 state governments who have sent more than 900 problem statements. After scrutinizing these problem statements, 408 problems (340 for software and 68 for hardware) were finally selected for the Hackathon and have been put out on MyGov platform.
Smart India Hackathon is the World’s largest Nation-Building Digital Initiative of the HRD ministry and was conceptualized to harness the creativity and energy of bright young students for the development of our nation, the minister said.
Javadekar was hopeful that the solutions given by the students will be helpful in overcoming the challenges faced by various ministries and departments. This year’s initiative has software as well as hardware edition.
The minister said that SIH 2018 had received participation from 27 central ministries/ departments and 17 state governments who have sent more than 900 problem statements. After scrutinizing these problem statements, 408 problems (340 for software and 68 for hardware) were finally selected for the Hackathon and have been put out on MyGov platform.
Javadekar added that SIH - 2018 has received over 17400 teams with participation of around one lakh students of Engineering, Management and MCA. These entries were scrutinized and 1296 entries have been selected for the finals.
In the finals, around 8000 students will attempt to give solutions for the listed 340 software problems. There are prizes to be won for different categories at each centre similar to last year.
Moreover, HRD ministry is also engaging with DST to ensure that selected teams from SIH 2018 could be supported by Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) as startups and DST has responded positively towards these efforts.
Some of the interesting projects of SIH developed by the students include a special pendrive to prevent data theft (for ISRO), Airport crowd management system (for Air India), a platform for North-East artefacts, a gaming solution for health benefits (for Ministry of AYUSH) among others. At least 27 projects will get implemented and adopted by different departments by the end of April or mid May 2018.
In the finals, around 8000 students will attempt to give solutions for the listed 340 software problems. There are prizes to be won for different categories at each centre similar to last year.
Moreover, HRD ministry is also engaging with DST to ensure that selected teams from SIH 2018 could be supported by Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) as startups and DST has responded positively towards these efforts.
Some of the interesting projects of SIH developed by the students include a special pendrive to prevent data theft (for ISRO), Airport crowd management system (for Air India), a platform for North-East artefacts, a gaming solution for health benefits (for Ministry of AYUSH) among others. At least 27 projects will get implemented and adopted by different departments by the end of April or mid May 2018.
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