Prime Minister’s Made in
India Mobile app challenge received a record number of 6940 entries across the
8 categories.
According to the Government, 3939
applications have come from individuals and 3001 from organizations and
companies.
Individual applicants have
offer 1757 ready to use applications while the remaining 2182 are under
development. In the organization, category 1742 Apps are ready to use while the
remaining 1259 are under development.
The Category-wise breakup of
the Apps submitted include
1142 under Business
901 under Health &
Wellness
1062 under E-Learning
1155 under Social Networking
326 under Games
662 under Office & Work
from Home
237 under News
320 under Entertainment.
Around 1135 Apps have been submitted under the others category.
While Around 271 of these
Apps have more than 100,000 downloads with 89 of the Apps having million-plus
downloads. The applicants are from all over the country including remote and
small towns.
The government claimed that the AatmaNirbhar Bharat App ecosystem has the potential to unlock value for the Indian tech startups and help them get a pie of the multi-trillion-dollar App Economy. Just the top 3 companies with maximum downloads of Apps, this year have a total market cap of almost 2 trillion $s and are growing very fast.
On Saturday India offered help to promote best Indian apps and launched ‘App Innovation
Challenge’ for IT companies which are making mobile app to improve ‘office
productivity and Work from Home, ‘Social Networking’, E-Learning,
Entertainment, Health and Wellness app, News app and apps related to Business.
BACKGROUND
MeitY in partnership with Atal Innovation Mission – Niti Aayog launches Digital India AatmaNirbhar Bharat Innovate Challenge to identify the best Indian Apps that are already being used by citizens and have the potential to scale and become world-class Apps in their respective categories. This Innovation Challenge with various cash awards and incentives of featuring Apps on Leader Boards seeks to create an ecosystem where Indian entrepreneurs and Startups are incentivised to ideate, incubate, build, nurture and sustain Tech solutions that can serve not only citizens within India but also the world.
The Mantra is to Make in India for India and the World.
The AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge is being launched in the following 8 broad categories:
- Office Productivity & Work from Home
- Social Networking
- E-Learning
- Entertainment
- Health & Wellness
- Business including Agritech and Fintech
- News
- Games
There may be several subcategories within each category.
LIST OF SUB CATEGORIES AND PROBLEM TESTS (INDICATIVE AND NOT LIMITED TO)
- A mobile application harnessing the most accurate facial and/or body mapping technology to allow for a true-to-life virtual try out of products like spectacles, clothes, etc.
- Mobile application for real-time speech-to-speech translation and camera translation of multiple languages.
- An automated web-based application that handles the business-to-business lead generation and cold emailing and is completely manageable from a mobile device itself.
- Application to use mobile devices as image scanners with features like on the fly image correction, image editing, text recognition, etc.
- Application to provide cloud storage integration, cross-platform file transfer via FTP or LAN, and a root browser on a mobile device
- Robust indigenous anti-virus software for mobile devices.
- Application to optimize mobile device's performance by cleaning junk/cache files, optimizing device memory and optimizing battery usage.
- A mobile-based live streaming platform for hosting webinars, lectures, etc.
- A mobile-based messaging and video calling application
- A mobile-based microblogging application
- A mobile-based news application that uses cutting-edge technology to recommend the most relevant and interesting news individually to each use.
- A mobile application offering satellite imagery and street maps, as well as functions such as a route planner for travelling by foot, car, or with public transportation.
- A mobile-based online gaming platform which also functions as a social hub for gamers
- A mobile-based photo-editing application with all standard image editing features
Vijay Thakur, Special Representative, The statesman
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