Dr Jitendra launches national ‘Hackathon’, underlines Indian StartUp economy

By admin On Jan 15, 2023

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NEW DELHI: Launching the first of its kind national “Geospatial Hackathon” here on Saturday, Union Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh underlined Indian StartUp economy and said, StartUps in new emerging technologies are key to India’s future economy.
Dr Jitendra said, the Hackathon will promote Innovation and StartUps in India’s Geospatial ecosystem. He invited the nation’s youth to participate and contribute towards the building of the nation’s geospatial economy.
The Minister said, half of our population is under 40 years of age and are very aspirational and that is evident that the Indian StartUp economy crossed a major milestone as it added the 100th Indian StartUp to the unicorn club in 2022. Dr Singh said, in line with the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is on the cusp of Geospatial Revolution and a healthy synergy among Government, Industry and Scientific Community will tremendously boost up economic output and would help India becoming a 10 Trillion Dollar Economy by 2030.
Dr Jitendra said, the aim of this hackathon is to promote partnerships not only among the public and private geospatial sectors but also to strengthen our country’s geospatial Start-Up ecosystem. He added that for achieving the Sustainable development goals 2030, there is an urgency for our country to have reliable geospatial information for effective policy development, programming, and project operation. Survey of India is proposing a Geospatial Data Processing, Solution development, and Servicing Challenge inviting solutions for select problem statement from these used cases and to foster the adoption of modern geospatial technologies such as cloud, open APIs, Drone based mapping, Sharing and integration of a wide range of data. “Geospatial Hackathon” will end on 10th March, 2023 and there will be Two Sets of Challenges- Research Challenge and StartUp Challenge to find out 4 winners for the Best Solutions to the Geospatial Select Problem Statements.