Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the “Aatmanirbhar Bharat Application Innovation Challenge” on Saturday to make it easier for technology experts and the startup community to create world-class Made in India applications. The challenge is an effort by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Atal Innovation Mission. On Twitter, the Prime Minister said there is immense enthusiasm among the tech and start-up community to create world-class Made in India applications.
“Today there is immense enthusiasm among the tech and start-up community to create world-class Made in India applications. To facilitate their ideas and products, @GoI_MeitY and @AIMtoInnovate are launching the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Application Innovation Challenge,” he tweeted.
Today there is great enthusiasm among the newly created and technological community to create world-class Made in India applications. To facilitate your ideas and products. @GoI_MeitY and @AIMtoInnovate We are launching the Aatmanirbhar Bharat app innovation challenge. https://t.co/h0xqjEwPko
– Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 4, 2020
In another tweet, Prime Minister Modi urged the tech community to participate.
“This challenge is for you if you have such a functional product or if you feel like you have the vision and experience to create such products. I urge all my friends in the tech community to get involved. Sharing my thoughts in my @LinkedIn post.” He tweeted attaching the LinkedIn post.
In his LinkedIn post, PM Modi wrote: “Today, we are seeing great interest and enthusiasm among the ecosystem of start-ups and technology to innovate, develop and promote local applications. Today, when the entire nation is working to create an Aatmanirbhar Bharat, it is a good opportunity to guide your efforts, boost your hard work and advise your talent to develop applications that can satisfy our market and compete with the world. ”
He wrote that this challenge would unfold on two tracks: promoting existing applications and developing new applications.
Track-01 will work in mission mode to identify good quality leaderboard applications and will be completed in about a month. The Track-02 initiative will work to help create new champions in India by providing support in ideation, incubation, prototyping, and deployment along with market access, “he wrote in the post.
The result of this challenge will be to give better visibility and clarity to existing applications to achieve their goals and create technology products to find solutions to technology puzzles with the help of mentoring, technical support and guidance throughout the life cycle. wrote
Prime Minister Modi in his publication said that there is a huge scope among these sectors for new applications that solve specific problems for India and the world.
“Can we think about making traditional Indian games more popular through apps? Can we develop apps with smart, targeted access to the right age group to learn, play, etc.? Can we develop gaming apps for people in rehab or get advice to help them? on their journey? There are many questions and technology alone can provide answers in a creative way, “said PM Modi.
Recently, the government has banned 59 China-linked mobile apps, including TikTok, UC Browser, Helo, YouCam Makeup, and Mi Community, in light of available information that they engage in activities that are “detrimental to sovereignty, integrity and defense “of the country.
Almost all of the applications banned on Monday have some preferential interest in China, and most have Chinese parent companies.
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