Smart India Hackathon is a non-stop digital product development competition, where problems are posed to technology students for innovative solutions. It: i) Harnesses creativity & expertise of students ii) Sparks institute-level hackathons iii) Builds funnel for ‘Startup India’ campaign iv) Crowd-source solutions for improving governance and quality of life v) Provides opportunity to citizens to provide innovative solutions to India’s daunting problems Smart India Hackathon 2018: All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), MHRD, Inter Institutional Inclusive Innovation Center (i4c), and Persistent Systems Ltd. present the 2nd edition of this initiative - Smart India Hackathon 2018. Till date, 27 Union Ministries & Departments and 17 State Governments have joined this grand initiative, making it much bigger than the previous edition. Smart India Hackathon 2018 is being organized and will have 2 sub-editions – Software as well as Hardware: • Software Edition will be 36 hour software product development competition, similar in concept to Smart India Hackathon 2017 • The new Hardware Edition will be a hackathon where teams will be work for 5 straight days and build their hardware solutions. This competition would be limited to only 5 nodal centers with 20-25 teams each. For more info, visit: • www.innovate.mygov.in/sih2018 (needs registration by user to view detailed info) • www.i4c.co.in Like & Follow us on our Social Media Channels: • www.twitter.com/i4C.India • www.twitter.com/SIH2018 • www.facebook.com/i4C.India/