APP DEVElOPMENT CHAllENGE
Esri India Technologies ltd, India has launched the third edition of its annual GIS contest mApp Your Way App Development Challenge 3.0. An application (mobile or web) development challenge, it is open to all the students associated with the institutions that are users of Geospatial or ArcGIS technology.
The challenge has three phases: Phase 1: Idea submission and selection Phase 2: App development and screening Phase 3: National level presentation and final judgement
The challenge offers an exclusive opportunity for institutes and students to implement new ideas via meaningful GIS enabled applications that are focused on larger benefit to society and have a business and citizen impact. The best three teams with innovative and impactful applications will be rewarded with national level recognition in addition to winning fascinating prizes.
ENTREPRENEURS THROUGH MENTORSHIP
In a bid to boost skill based employment via entrepreneurship, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) signed an MoU with Bhartiya Yuva Shakti Trust (BYST). It will help nurture the under-privileged residing in the rural hinterlands, and assist them to become entrepreneurs through effective mentorship. The collaboration seeks to provide mentor development services to the officials suggested by the ministry for promoting and setting up micro and rural businesses.
“Training, Research and Consultancy will be the key parameters to boost this endeavor. Mentor training will be provided at skill development centers, IITs, polytechnics, universities and other places for supporting entrepreneurship, self-employment and creating more jobs,” said Dr KP Krishnan, Secretary Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Both the parties will promote and develop the mentioning ecosystem through training, research and consultancy with the objective of empowering underserved entrepreneurs and help them set up micro and rural business; Develop the mentor training ecosystem in skill development centres, ITIs, polytechnics, universities and other alliances (related to Ministry of SDE) for supporting entrepreneurship, self-employment and creating further jobs; This MoU is signed for one year after which it can be further extended with mutual consent; Both the parties would make efforts to determine the final proposal with workplan within eight weeks of signing the MoU.
MAGE SIGNS MOU WITH DEAKIN UNIVERSITY
Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE) and Deakin University, Australia have announced a strategic alliance to start education and training programs and establish Data Science and Cyber Security Centre of Excellence. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Professor Jane den Hollander AO, Vice-Chancellor and President of Deakin University and A P Ramabhadran, Senior Vice President, Manipal Global Education Services.
This marks the coming together of two dominant professional education providers to formulate and derive solutions to valuable corporate and societal problems and construct new machine learning technologies to interrogate relevant data.
The scope of this engagement involves solving sector specific big data problems, developing new knowledge and practices in new complex problems and bringing methodological consistency that are particularly relevant to the Indian context.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr H Vinod Bhat, Vice Chancellor Manipal University said: “Manipal University and Deakin have always enjoyed strong collaborative relationship. With the signing of the MoU, the relationship with Deakin deepens by ushering in an era of professional education partnership along with the strong university relationship.”