Name of the contest: | The Great Mind Challenge 2013, ( TGMC13 ) www.ibmTGMC.com
Contest Theme: | Mobility Made Possible
Eligibility: | UG/PG engineering students of AICTE approved colleges
Period of Contest: | 15Oct to 31Dec (Last date for registration closure - 15th Dec)
Technology: | Mobility
Enablement: | Self-learning with videos, RedBooks, WhitePapers, Articles &
| Webinars
Mentorship: | Mobility experts from IBM Labs and the software industry
Objective of the | To develop a mobile application
contest:
Free Resources: | IBM Worklight & Open Source tools for Mobile application development
Businesses the world over are transforming themselves in a bid to achieving
customer intimacy by hitting all the levers that technology offers today.
Global surveys point to the fact that more than 80% of IT-investment for
the 2-year period ending Dec-2014, will be in the “big 4” of technologies,
namely Mobility, Analytics, Cloud and Social. But in contrast, the
preparedness levels of organizations to deploy the same is just about 10%
across the big 4 and no more than 25% in any one of them, viewed in
isolation. While this is a big challenge to the industry it is a huge
opportunity for the academia.
IBM Academic Initiative is launching a series of contests to help students
take advantage of this opportunity. The Great Mind Challenge 2013 is based
exclusively on the 1st of the Big4, namely, Mobility. The contest offers
students of any AICTE approved engineering college, the chance to learn
about Mobility from a repository of self-learning assets and provides them
with the software tools free of cost to work on and build mobile
applications under the able mentorship of experts from IBM Software Labs
and the software industry at large.
The pot-of-gold at the end of this rainbow, is a 100 internships being
offered across the software industry country-wide.
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