Dr. Jitendra Singh, the Union Minister for Science and Technology, launched the Geospatial Hackathon to encourage innovation and start-ups in India’s geospatial ecosystem. Speaking at the event in New Delhi, Dr. Singh stated that the hackathon’s goal was to encourage collaborations between the public and private geospatial sectors as well as to develop the nation’s environment for geospatial start-ups. According to Dr. S Chandrasekhar, secretary of the Ministry of Science and Technology, all contestants will have access to a variety of geospatial datasets related to the problem statements throughout the challenge in order to analyze the data and develop useful tools for data processing, solutions, and servicing.
