Atal Innovation Mission & MyGov launch ‘Innovate India Platform’

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New Delhi : R Ramanan, Mission Director, Atal Innovation Mission, and Arvind Gupta, CEO, MyGov, on July 26, 2018, launched the “#Innovate India Platform”, a collaboration between the Atal Innovation Mission and MyGov, a citizen centric platform of the Government of India. It will serve as the common point for all the innovation happening across the nation.

Launching the platform, Mission Director, Atal Innovation Mission, Ramanan, said that the #InnovateIndia MyGov-AIM portal creates the much-needed innovations platform for registering both grassroots and deep-tech innovators at a national level. Those searching for a critical innovation can leverage the portal advantageously for the benefit of the economy as well as national social needs.

Some of the features of this platform are: The platform is open to all Indian citizens, the users can view, comment, share, and rate the innovations sourced on the #InnovateIndia platform, view the leader board which is calculated based on the votes on each innovation, citizens can share their/organizations/someone else’s innovation on the platform by login to the MyGov website.

“India has been a very innovation-oriented society, but our challenge has been a structured approach to innovation, capturing them and building an ecosystem to take them global. The current government initiative to capture and support innovation from ground, is aimed at creating a structured ecosystem to encourage, enhance and develop India’s innovative character,” said  Arvind Gupta, CEO, MyGov, according to a PIB release.

With the launch of the platform Indians will be able to upload and rate their/organizations innovation on the platform.The citizens can access the platform on https://innovate.mygov.in/innovateindia/.