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New Delhi : As a part of the Fintech Open Month, NITI Aayog in association with PhonePe, will be hosting the first-ever open-to-all Hackathon event for ideating and coming up with the most creative solutions for the FinTech space. The Hackathon will provide an opportunity to innovators, digital creators, and developers from all over India to think, ideate, and code
Participants at the hackathon need to use any open-data APIs like PhonePe Pulse along with frameworks such as Account Aggregator as a foundation to power the following use cases:
- Alternate risk models for Lending, Insurance or Investments with focus on financial Inclusion
- Innovative Products that use the power data signals for various demographics and Geos for broader adoption of financial services
- Improved Visualisation and Derived intelligence based on the Digital payments data
- The final app that participants come up with must incorporate one of the above.
The participating teams can have one 1 (solo) to 5 participants. They can use data sources like PhonePe Pulse, the Open Government Data Platform and RBI reports on payments to build on their submission. In addition, they can access any other open data platforms that they are aware of along with the Setu AA Sandbox or the Setu Payments Sandbox to develop their hacks.
By the end of the event, the participants will be required to present a working prototype of their hack to the judges, post which each hack will be judged based on certain parameters. While the judges consider the hacks, they might ask for additional information on the prototypes, according to a PIB release.
The winning teams will get exciting prizes:
The top 5 hacks will be awarded a prize money in the following denominations:
1st place : Rs 1,50,000 for the team – 1 prize
2nd place : Rs 1,00,000 for the team – 2 prizes
3rd place : Rs 75,000 for the team – 2 prizes
Judges may decide to award fewer or more prizes depending on the hacks submitted.
The last date to register for the event is 11:59 pm, February 23, 2022, and the deadline to submit the final entries is 12:00 noon, February 25, 2022. There will be a Live AMA on February 21, 2022, at 4:00 pm to answer any questions the participants may have about the Hackathon. The winners of the Hackathon will be announced on February 28, 2022.
To register and get more details visit: https://cic.niti.gov.in/fintech-open-month-hackathon.html