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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EFFORTS ON COVID-19
BY
MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (MEITY)
Innovation challenge for Development of a Video Conferencing
Solution
COVID-19 has thrown unprecedented challenges for the world and industries alike.While we continue to fight these challenges as a nation, amidst business disruptions and remote working scenarios, it is important for all including governments, industry and individuals to contribute with all its might to overcome the present and emerge stronger as humanity.The Government is working towards ensuring that we overcome this challenge and come out stronger as a country and thereby also support the humanity at large to prevail.
Government of India is taking all necessary steps to ensure that we are prepared well to face the challenge and overcome threats posed by this pandemic. In the light of these developments, the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology announces an Innovation Challenge for Development of aVideo Conferencing Solution under the Digital India Initiative.The Innovation Challenge is open for participation from industry, start-ups and individual experts. The end product will be an Indian software product at par with international quality and should work in low and high network scenarios.The initiative is an attempt to promote Indian software products as envisaged under the National Policy on Software Products.
In an attempt to provide initial market the winning team with the best-judged solution will get a contract to deploy their solution for use by Government of India and State Government entities for a period of 4 years and will also be given Rs 1 crore in the first year and an additional Rs 10 lakhs per year for 3 years after the first year towards operations and maintenance of
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