CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. Digitizing a country is not an easy task. However, the Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, wants to make this real for his country to bridge the digital divide in the country and drive growth. Smart India Hackathon 2018 is a unique initiative in its second year. It's goal is to ignite the creativity of student talent and build digital technology innovations for solving real challenges faced by the country.
Cisco DevNet is partnering with the Inter Institutional Inclusive Innovation Center (i4C), and Persistent Systems to sponsor this hackathon. DevNet will offer students learning resources and expert help around Cisco's industry proven platforms that can be leveraged to solve a real challenge. Cisco Spark, Meraki, and IoT platforms provide functionality like bots, location scanning data, connected city information that could be applied for a specific need.
Smart India Hackathon participants can go here to learn about these Platforms and APIs. They can also qualify to win DevNet Expert Help if using a Cisco API for their solution, or qualify to win a unique Cisco DevNet Smart India Hackathon T-shirt.
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) reports that only 33% of the 2million plus students graduating every year get placement. We want to make it easy for students to differentiate themselves by having key industry expertise and help digitize their country with the new skills they've gained.Get started now!
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