Develop An Video Conferencing App And Win 1 Crore By Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Government of India

     COVID 19 has spread all over the world in this situation all companies and institute using video conferencing app to communicate with their colleges, employees and students. In this quarantine phase ZOOM application which is an video conferencing app has become one of the most popular app. In this app many companies do their meetings also teachers are conducting their classes.

     Recently, Zoom app got hacked and according to the report over 5,00,000 user data sold on dark web. due to this incident  Google told their employees to avoid use of zoom application for their meetings because this app is insecure, also the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Government of India told not to use this application as these application has security glitches also these application is not an Indian app so we will not take any risk.

     Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Government of India has launch an innovation challenge to develop video conferencing app under Make in India initiative. This competition is for registered startup companies and winners will get INR 1 crore and additional popularity of their application on google play store. This competition consist of three stages:

Stage 1: Ideation

     Teams has to submit their innovative ideas or solution and 10 team will be selected from this stage. To build a prototype each team will receive funding of Rs 5,00,000.

Stage 2: Prototype

     Teams has to build their prototype of their solution and they have to present their prototype in front of jury and they will shortlist top 3 teams for stage 3. Each shortlisted team for stage 3 will receive funding of Rs 20,00,000 to build solution.

Stage 3: Solution Building

     This will be final stage where all the team which are shortlisted in stage 2 will present their solution. The winner will get fixed amount of  INR 1 crore along with certificate from the honorable Minister of Electronics and IT deploying the solution for use by Government of India and State Government for a year and also they will receive funding of INR 10 lakhs per year for operation and maintenance.

     For winning this competition Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Government of India have given their requirement that what feature that app should poses. The application must have these features:

1. It should support all video resolutions and audio quality, should work in low and high network scenarios.

2. Should be low on usage of power/ processor.

3. Should not have any external hardware dependency.

4. Should work on any device.

5. Should have chat option during conference, even the multi people conference.

6. Should have sign-in and non-sign-in options to join a conference.

7. Can be browser and/or app based interface.

8. Should have encrypted network communication.

9. Should have audio/ video recording feature.

10. Should have screen/file sharing capabilities.

11. Should allow audio to close captioning during chat (multilingual).

12. Should have capabilities to host multiple concurrent conferences having multiple participants in each conference.

Participation link: https://www.mygov.in/task/innovation-challenge-development-video-conferencing-solution/

Deadline for submitting ideas is: 30th April 2020.

     The participation is free of cost for this competition. Just you have to register and submit your idea before the deadline. This is the best opportunity for startups to grow. Do participate and win this competition so that India has not to depend on any third party application.