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Govt goes Silicon Valley way to crowdsource solutions

Techies and tech students will try to find answers to water woes, women's safety at Hackathon 2017

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Engineering students at the Smart India Hackathon 2017 — an initiative promoted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, All India Council for Technical Education and Airports Authority of India at Bamrauli Airport in Allahabad on Saturday

Alnoor PeermohamedKaran Choudhury Bengaluru | Delhi
The government is drawing lessons from Silicon Valley majors, such as Google and Facebook, to find solutions to problems such as water woes in Rajasthan, drainage in Mumbai during heavy rain, and the safety of women.

Silicon Valley companies often provide open-ended ideas to engineers outside their ecosystem to find solutions to some of their biggest problems. At the Smart India Hackathon 2017, about 10,000 of the brightest techies and tech students are putting their heads together at multiple centres across the country over Saturday and Sunday to fix what they see as broken. 

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