NEW DELHI, March 5: The Government of India’s citizen engagement platform MyGov will host the contest to build an app for the PMO, in association with Google. The contest will be organised over the next three months in three plashes of ideation, wireframe development and app development. The best app will then be presented to the PMO. The team developing the winning app will get a chance to visit the headquarters of Google in the USA.
The contest is open for all citizens of India above the age 18 years, who are registered on MyGov (https://mygov.in). Participants can submit their entries on the contest page. Each phase will be assessed by an independent jury constituted by MyGov.
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister for Communications and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad said that views of the citizens collected through MyGov and other forums have been incorporated into the Railway and Union Budgets. The need to tackle benami properties and the idea for introduction of sovereign gold bond scheme, for example, have come through some suggestions from the people. He said this Government wants to take follow up action on ideas obtained through crowd sourcing and also wants to use social media for public good.
RS Sharma, Secretary, DeitY gave an overview of the Digital India program, the aim of which is to first digitally connect all citizens of the government and then digitally empower them in participative process of policy making and being continuously informed of various government initiatives and programs.
Gaurav Dwivedi, CEO MyGov, charted out the evolution of MyGov, since its launch on 26th July 2014 and laid out some key features of the newly-released MyGov Version 2.0.
Rajan Anandan, MD, Google India, MyGov’s partner in the contest, spoke of Google`s commitment to partner India`s digital drive at multiple levels.
