6 women led startups won COVID-19 Shri Shakti Challenge organized by MyGov

CIOReviewIndia Team | Wednesday, 04 November 2020, 04:49 IST

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6 women led startups won COVID-19 Shri Shakti Challenge organized by MyGov

In collaboration with UN Women, Six women led startups have won COVID-19 Shri Shakti Challenge organized by MyGov. 

 

MyGov in collaboration with UN Women, launched the COVID-19 Shri Shakti Challenge with an objective to encourage and involve women led startups to come up with innovative solutions that can help in the fight against COVID19. While this move also is said to solve problems that impact a large number of women. 

While calling for applications from women led startups as well as startups who have solutions that address issues faced by a larger number of women, this was a unique challenge hosted on the Innovate platform of MyGov. 

And with Ideation stage and Proof of Concept (PoC) Stage, the Challenge was implemented in two stages where it had  received an overwhelming response with a total of 1265 entries, from across the nation. Out of hich, 25 startups were shortlisted for presentations to the Jury. The jury included Debjani Ghosh, President NASSCOM, Rohini Srivathsa, National Technology Officer (CTO) Microsoft India, Dr R Ramanan, MD Atal Innovation Mission, Nishtha Satyam, Dy Country representative, UN Women India and Abhishek Singh, and CEO MyGov. 

With respect to innovation, usability, relevance and impact of their idea on the society, thorough review was done and 11 finalists were chosen for the next stage where  11 selected startups were provided a prize money of INR 75000 each to further develop their ideas. 

Furthermore, mentorship sessions were organized to enable graduation of the ideas into Proof of Concepts that can be scaled up.

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