MyGov, Intel & DST unveil the Top 50 entries for Innovate for Digital India Challenge
With over 1900 promising entries received, the first phase of MyGov, Intel & DST “Innovate for Digital India’ Challenge concluded with some great and innovative solutions coming in from all across India. Most of the entries received were of very high quality and a testimony to India’s inherent innovative and entrepreneurial capabilities and the abilities of the citizens to think creatively in addressing a problem.
In line with the government’s vision of creating a Digital India that harnesses the capabilities of technology to empower every Indian citizen, the challenge will act as a fillip to the young, innovative and creative minds to bring the best of technology to solve the everyday problems. With this vision, technology can be efficiently leveraged to drive universal access to education, healthcare and services, which is the key to inclusive growth and development. For Digital India to be a reality, technology usage needs to be pervasive and technology has to start solving key local problems.
The unique thing about the Innovate for Digital India Challenge is how true it stays to its premise of being a ‘Public Private Partnership’. Every involved entity be it DST, Intel, MyGov or CIIE has their tasks clearly cut out and yet everyone marched to the same tune with the ultimate goal of creating solutions that address local development problems.
The most heartening part of this challenge was that the only criteria it had for applicants was that they had to be Indian citizens over the age of 18, which is pretty similar to the premise of being MyGov users.
IIM Ahmadabad’s CIIE and its panel of jurors combed through the 1913 fully completed applications to narrow down the top 50 teams that will be given a chance to present their ideas at IIM Ahemedabad on 22nd July 2015. These will then be shortlisted to the top 20 who will enter the accelerator phase where they will be mentored extensively to get their ideas from ‘mind to market’. Over a span of more than 7 months the participants will be mentored by industry stalwarts and Intel experts and trained in technical know-how, will be provided access to product kits and infrastructure and multiple commercialization opportunities. It’s a rare end-to-end platform that not only identifies and acknowledges innovation and ingenuity but also gives an opportunity to the applicants to be trained, funded and networked by experienced mentors.
We are very excited and proud to present the Top 50 entries. We wish those who get shortlisted the very best of luck for the next phases and a thank you to everyone who applied and participated in the challenge. Thank you for becoming an active contributor to the Digital India vision after all as the saying goes “Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You’ve taken one step today, now I challenge you to take another.”
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Education tech |
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Id Details |
First Name |
Last Name |
Product or Service Idea |
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| 24 | Buddha | Burman | Solar powered digital education in remote locations | |
| 792 | Ramalingeswara Rao | KV | Multipurpose natural language processing tool | |
| 2070 | Ravi | Dhanuka | Low cost solar powered tablets for educational purposes | |
| 2943 | Aditi | Sarkar | A 3D holographic SDK to promote education | |
| 6846 | Mohamad | Firaq | Braille electronic display system | |
| 7827 | SHARAD | BANSAL | 5D methodology for education | |
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eGovernance |
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Id Details |
First Name |
Last Name |
Product or Service Idea |
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| 105 | Ashish | Rana | Geolocation based public information systems, government announcement portal | |
| 132 | Kushal | Shah | Gamified citizen engagement platform that aggregates and monetizes a problem-solution platform | |
| 840 | Palamadai | Ganapathy | Efficient scheme rollout and implementation system for governmental services | |
| 2202 | Ankur | Agarwal | A citizen-government grievance portal that uses voice solutions | |
| 3120 | Sanjay | Dixit | Custom ERP for backend of government services | |
| 3471 | Sachin | Anchan | Radio bandwidth usage for government information transfer | |
| 6012 | Pratwiraj | Palekar | Automatic KYC processing and validation | |
| 7155 | Sunil | Prabhakaran | Aggregation of essential public services | |
| 9645 | Ajay | Meher | Citizen Information System, Citizen Visit Management, Service Guarantee Mechanism | |
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Healthcare Tech |
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Id Details |
First Name |
Last Name |
Product or Service Idea |
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| 624 | Srinivasan | Ramasamy | Low cost wearable healthcare device that connects user to healthworkers | |
| 3315 | Nishant | Kumar | A basic coloscope device for cervical cancer screening | |
| 5274 | Shiva Subhashini | Pakalapati | Smart device to detect pathogens | |
| 6324 | Gunjan | Gupta | Text to speech, facial recognition and image conversion to sound for aiding the visually impaired | |
| 6828 | Mridula | Kapil | Diabetes monitoring system | |
| 7242 | SaiRam | Mannar | Multipurpose healthcare device | |
| 7539 | JITENDRA | BHARDWAJ | Portable remote health monitoring system useful for telemedicine | |
| 7710 | Rintu | Patnaik | Communicable diseases information repository | |
| 8100 | Mudasar | Basha | Gesture to voice wearable glove for the mute | |
| 8268 | Suryakant | Toraskar | IoT wearable for elderly safety and security | |
| 8346 | VINEESH | VS | IoT based patient-monitoring, ward management system. | |
| 8559 | Gaurav | Mittal | Audio based service/app for the visually impaired with navigation guide | |
| 8589 | Sanket | Ghorpade | Communication app for people with ALS | |
| 8889 | SIVASANKAR | G | Non-invasive Glucometer | |
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Financial Technology |
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Id Details |
First Name |
Last Name |
Product or Service Idea |
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| 5466 | Swapnil | Agarwal | Development-based fintech aggregation | |
| 7485 | Kalyan | Tanksale | Multiligual app to record and processes details of periodic financial transactions of individuals | |
| 8652 | Ravi | Sethia | Aadhaar based solution which allows easy access to credit for shopping and online transactions | |
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Agri Tech |
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Id Details |
First Name |
Last Name |
Product or Service Idea |
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| 2835 | ANAND | BABU | ICT solution bringing “Mobility, Analytics and Cloud” to farmers | |
| 5169 | Arun | Saini | Soil, crop, weather assessment using sensors and drones | |
| 8019 | Mayuresh | Hooli | Green House Management as a Service | |
| 8112 | Deepak | Singh | Connecting farmers to the latest technical-advances and other service providers | |
| 8253 | Sunandan | Madan | A customisable web embedded Management Information System tailored for farm produce organisations. | |
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Others |
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Id Details |
First Name |
Last Name |
Product or Service Idea |
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| 1683 | Anbu | Selvaraju | A rearranged keypad for easier vernacular typing that is entirely different from the norm of western/latin layout | |
| 2184 | Vijayaragavan | Viswanathan | Agritech IOT solution that uses underground plus overground sensor networks | |
| 2247 | Mohit | Bahl | Universal emergency services system with wearable to alert in case of emergency | |
| 2625 | Amiya | Samantaray | Robotics for manufacturing and pollution control | |
| 2961 | Vikas | Srivastava | Wearable safety device in form of a body armour | |
| 3873 | BHOLANATH | PAL | Digital identity, employment and micro ATM ideas | |
| 4539 | Abhishek | Nandy | IoT device for accident prevention/analyse driver behaviour | |
| 4896 | Nirmala | Kunwar | Retrofittable smart switch | |
| 5835 | Mausamkumar | Patel | Text-to-speech of articles into indian languages | |
| 6297 | Sajid | Shariff | End-to-end platform for individuals, corporate and other organisations to impact the underserved sectors | |
| 7215 | RAJLAKSHMI | BORTHAKUR | Wearable device for epileptic people to track, monitor, alert | |
| 7899 | Prasanna | KS | Live tracking and info-portal for public transport | |
| 9813 | Shubhankar | Gusain | Safety device that uses gps chip and radio transmitter | |
