ONDC Grand Hackathon in India

Deadline: 6-Jan-22

The Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), an initiative of Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) under the Ministry of Commerce and Industries has launched the applications for the ONDC Grand Hackathon which is being established as a first-of-its-kind initiative globally to pave the way for reimagining digital commerce in India and establishing it as a global pioneer.

ONDC is being setup to promote interoperability and to create an open, inclusive, and competitive digital commerce marketplace. They are targeting to achieve this by digitalizing over one million businesses of all size, location, digital quotient and amplifying geographic and socio-economic coverage of digital commerce to 90 million buyers across 35,000 pin code by 2027. ONDC will go beyond the current digital commerce model and will allow the buyer and seller to do business irrespective of the platforms they use to be digitally visible.

Objectives

ONDC is being set up with the following objectives:

• Promote interoperability through an open network based on open protocols and open source specifications
• Be an enabler with minimalistic public digital infrastructure
• Be scale efficient and build for population-scale adoption
• Make digital commerce small-business friendly
• Pave the way to unlock innovation for reimagining digital commerce (From platforms to protocols!)

Themes

• eCommerce
• Logistics
• Retail
• Analytics
• AR VR (Augmented + Virtual Reality)
• Computer Vision
• Telecommunication & Networking
• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital Commerce
• Enterprise Software
• Internet of Things
• IT Services
• Social Network
• Indic Language Startups
• Transportation & Storage

Incentives

• Fiscal Incentives: Total award money and grants up to INR 50 Lakhs for the Hackathon
• Non-Fiscal Incentives
  • Opportunity to join ONDC as an early adopter
  • Handholding and mentorship support by the ONDC team

Eligibility Criteria

ONDC Grand Hackathon will include 2 sets of challenges:

• Innovation Hackathon
  • Challenge for innovative solutions to power digital commerce in an open network encompassing:
    • Development of reusable software components for expedited technological readiness and accelerated joining of network participants such as software for digitizing catalogues, inventory management for smaller Kirana shops & vendors etc.
    • Development of reusable software components for enhanced buyer & seller experience such as software to enable offerings in Indic languages, software for best market price determination for an item for small sellers etc.
    • Open contributions to the Beckn Protocol
    • Open for individuals as well as organizations including startups (ideation, validation, early traction, scaling stage startups)
• Integration Hackathon
  • Challenge to accelerate development of applications that are compatible with ONDC and integrate these applications with the applications of other such participants to enable eCommerce transactions on ONDC network.
  • Open for organizations only, including startups (ideation, validation, early traction, scaling stage startups).

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