Tracks in run:
- Track 1- Promotion of existing Apps: works in mission mode for identifying quality apps for leaderboard and completed in a month.
It is launched under 8 broad categories:
Office Productivity & Work from Home, Social Networking, E-Learning, Entertainment, health and wellness, Business including Agritech and Fin tech, News and Games.
- Track 2- Development of new apps: initiative works to create new champions in India by providing support in ideation, incubation, prototyping and roll out along with market access.
Key Points:-
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- The app innovation challenge launched to identify the best Indian Apps that are already being used by citizens and having potential to scale and become world class.
- The innovation challenge is available on: innovate.mygov.in/app, from 4th July 2020. The late date for entries is 18th July 2020.
- The applicants need to apply online to submit their proposals by registering and logging on to the MyGov portal – www.mygov.in.
- The Government will adopt suitable apps, guide them to maturity and list on Government e-Marketplace (GeM).
- The key evaluation parameters include ease of use, Robustness, Security and Scalability.
Reason behind launching the Challenge:
The challenge was launched because India has banned the 59 Chinese app recently & through this challenge the govt. is trying to create a local app ecosystem and replace the banned Chinese apps in respective segments.
About Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (Meity):
Union Minister – Ravi Shankar Prasad (Constituency – Patna Sahib(Bihar))
Minister of State (E&IT) – Shri Sanjay Dhotre