Online Hackathon on Data-driven Innovation for Citizen Grievance Redressal by DARPG [Cash Prizes Rs. 3 L]: Register by Feb 16

Applications are invited for the Online Hackathon on Data-driven Innovation for Citizen Grievance Redressal by the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions.

DARPG welcomes you to participate in the Online Hackathon on Data-driven Innovation for Citizen Grievance Redressal organised by the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG) of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions.

DARPG invites the participants to address challenges related to citizen grievance redressal using data-driven solutions. The hackathon shall make available anonymised, curated and structured datasets of grievance reports submitted by citizens for the participating teams to analyse, study and utilise to develop various kinds of innovative solutions to be adapted and implemented by DARPG as per its requirements

The participating teams may address one or multiple Problem Statements defined by the organiser and submit innovative products and services as specified for each Problem Statement. These products and services may involve automation of speech-to-text transcription in various Indian languages, development of AI/ML models for various purposes such as chatbots or topic clustering, mechanisms for grievance classification and monitoring, as well as UI/UX additions and enhancements for existing software systems implemented by DARPG.

Participation open for challenge:

The top 3 most innovative solutions will be awarded the following prizes:

Each participating team may have up to 5 members, all of whom must be at least 18 years old. The participants may be students or researchers, or associated with Indian startups and companies.

Registered participants will be provided access to anonymised citizen grievance datasets to prototype their solutions for the selected Problem Statement. The most innovative and promising prototypes will be publicly recognised and will be considered for further development and implementation by the DARPG to improve the experience and performance of the Citizen Grievance Redressal systems of the Government of India.

This Contest is open for the following:

There are five problem statements for the Hackathon. Link to the datasets will be available after registration on the challenge page. The problem statements are as follows:

The last date for the application is Feb 16, 2024.

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