The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), in collaboration with MyGov has launched hackathon titled “Innovate with GoIStats”. It is centered around the theme “Data-Driven Insights for Viksit Bharat”.
About Hackathon
- Objective: To inspire India’s young and brightest minds – students and researchers to utilize official statistics generated by the National Statistics Office (NSO) for creating innovative data driven insights.
- Duration: It will take place on the MyGov platform, from 25th February 2025 to 31st March 2025.
- Eligible Participants: Students pursuing undergraduate, postgraduate or doing research can participate.
- Prize: Top 30 entries, selected by a panel of expert evaluators from the industry and academia will get prize money, with
- One first prize of Rs 2 Lakhs,
- Two second prizes of Rs 1 Lakh each
- Two third prizes of Rs 50,000 each
- 25 consolation prizes of Rs 20,000 each
- Feature: The hackathon will invite participants to explore and analyse official statistics from the reports, microdata and other datasets available on the website of the MoSPI, such as the
- Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS)
- Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (HCES)
- Annual Survey of Industries (ASI)
- Consumer Price Index (CPI)
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and more