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Intel's Innovate for Digital India Challenge 2.0 to accelerate country’s digitization

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Intel India today has announced the Intel & DST Innovate for Digital India Challenge 2.0.

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This year’s Challenge aims to inspire grassroots innovation and harness local talent, by inviting makers across India to build solutions to accelerate India’s digitization and commercially develop their prototypes on Intel® Architecture.

The Challenge will roll-out in five phases, with the grand finale taking place in April 2017. Shortlisted teams will be eligible to receive a INR 3,00,000 grant each, to create minimum-viable products (MVPs) based on Intel® Architecture (iA) in an accelerator program at the T-Hub incubator in Hyderabad. The winning team will walk away with INR 20,000,00 to further their project development.

Presented in collaboration with MyGov, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITY), and T-Hub Foundation, the Challenge encourages the creation of easy to use, and scalable solutions to address the challenges of the country through automation and technology.

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Debjani Ghosh, Managing Director, and Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Intel South Asia , said, “With this announcement today, we continue to create a community of makers who build solutions to enable the scalability of technology adoption in India, and increase the impact of technology on citizens’ lives. Through strong public private collaboration, wherein MeITY, MyGov, T-Hub, and Intel India are working together to turn ideas to solutions, disruptive yet sustainable technology innovations are now a reality.’’

Gaurav Dwivedi, CEO, MyGov , “Last year, there were six ideas under the Challenge that completed the mind-to-market journey, and are already making their solutions available in the Indian healthcare and agriculture sectors. We are proud to support the Challenge this year, by connecting the government with entrepreneurs and innovators on our platform.”

Intel India is also working to establish tinkering laboratories for mini makers in ten schools across the country, through its recent collaboration with think tank NITI Aayog.

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