INFOSYS Maker Awards-INR 1 crore Prize Money
The
overwhelming response to INFOSYS USA Maker Awards has motivated INFOSYS
Leadership Team to announce the same in India too.
Infosys
announced these annual awards on the sidelines of Make In India Mumbai program.
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Vandana Sikka,
Chairperson, Infosys Foundation USA, said: “Infy Makers is going global and
will help awaken a spirit of making in India and inspire the next generation of
inventors.”
“The
idea is to enable people to come up with ideas that are relevant to real world
problems, usage of technology innovatively and originality of these ideas,”
said Pravin
Rao, COO, Infosys, at the sidelines of Nasscom
annual summit.
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Highlights of the
Program:
·
Commitment
of INR 1crore every year
·
Celebrate
the Spirit of ‘Make in India’.
·
Enteries
open to adults i.e over 18 years
·
Voting
open to Indian residents
·
Commits
INR 1 Crore to Encourage the Spirit of Making in India
·
The
Annual cycle runs from 1st of every March
·
The first
edition starts from March 1st, 2016
·
Participants
to prepare a Video outlining their vision. This video has to be opened on the Infosys
Maker program website.
·
The registration
window opens on March 1st, 2016 and closes on April 15th,
2016.
·
A
panel of distinguished judges representing technology, academia and the
community will evaluate and select the winners whose submissions will be
evaluated on relevance to real world problems, innovative uses of technology,
originality of ideas and quality of presentations
·
The
ideas which have the potential to solve real world problems will have a good
chance of winning the awards. Please
note that the ideas should have the whole world as its canvas and not be
restricted to India.
Interested to
apply, then click here for more details.
On applying, let
the world know through your Twitter/FaceBook handle.
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resources:
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