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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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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