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Launches the UMANG App
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His Excellency, Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe, Prime Minister
of Sri Lanka has been the guest of Honour
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The Prime Minister felicitated the winners of
the Global Cyber Challenge called Peace-a-thon
Shri Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister of
India inaugurated the Global Conference on Cyberspace 2017 in the Capital today
in the presence of His Excellency, Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe, Prime Minister of
Sri Lanka, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon’ble Minister for Electronics &
Information Technology and Law & Justice, Government of India, Shri Manoj
Sinha, Minister of State(IC), Department of Telecommunication, Government of
India, Shri KJ Alphons, Minister of State, Tourism, Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology, Government of India, Secretary General of International
Telecommunication Union, Mr. Houlin Zhao amongst other dignitaries.
The Prime Minister also launched the UMANG
App that aims to bring 162 government services on a single mobile app, with a
larger goal to make the government accessible on the mobile phone of our
citizens.
UMANG
at a glance:
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Uniform
User Friendly Interface across Government services
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162
services of 33 department/ applications and 4 States
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Single
mobile app to access 1200+ services of various government services from Centre,
State and utility services
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Supports
13 Indian languages and caters to on-demand scalability
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Will
soon support feature phones without internet connectivity through USSD
Themed
on Cyber4All: A Secure and Inclusive Cyberspace for Sustainable
Development, this is the fifth edition of GCCS wherein international
leaders, policymakers, industry experts, think tanks and cyber experts will
gather to deliberate on issues and challenges for optimally using cyber
space. The overall goals of GCCS 2017 are to promote the importance of
inclusiveness and human rights in global cyber policy, to defend the status quo
of an open, interoperable and unregimented cyberspace, to create political
commitment for capacity building initiatives to address the digital divide and
assist countries, and to develop security solutions in a balanced fashion that
duly acknowledge the importance of the private sector and technical community.
In his welcome address, Shri Ravi Shankar
Prasad, Hon’ble Minister for Electronics & Information Technology and Law
& Justice, said, “The fundamental philosophy of our government led
by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ (cooperation of
all for development of all). Digital India seeks to realise this goal of
inclusive development by using the tools of technology. The digital India
vision of our Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a new approach to
achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. It has
given a new paradigm of technology led development for sustainable development.
The spectrum of India’s digital development ranges from digital delivery of
services to rising digital economy powered by 1.3 billion people and reinforced
by demographic dividend where 65% of them are below the age of 35.”
“India’s quest for a safe and secure
cyber space flows from India’s commitment for an inclusive digital world
leading to inclusive and sustainable development. India is privileged to host
over 4000 distinguished delegates from 131 countries who have come together to
give a safe, secure and sustainable digital future to the humanity.” Added Shri Ravi
Shankar Prasad.
“Corruption and leakages in the
service delivery system that were the biggest roadblocks to inclusive growth
and sustainable development have been tackled effectively by using the trinity
of JanDhan Bank accounts-Aadhaar digital identity and Mobile phones or JAM
trinity. Direct Benefit Transfers of financial entitlements into the bank accounts
of the poor have benefited 515 million people and has curbed corruption and
leakages in the system. It has also led to savings of nearly $9 billion in last
three years of tax payers money that was earlier pocketed by fictitious
claimants and middlemen. I am confident that Global Conference on Cyber Space
2017 which is the largest congregation of experts from technology world,
researchers, academicians and policy makers would prove to be a milestone in
our quest for a safe, secure and inclusive cyber space.” Concluded Shri
Prasad.
The Prime Minister also
felicitated the winners of the Global Cyber Challenge called Peace-a-thon. The
winners were declared following a 36-hour challenge in the Grand
Finale of the Hackathon, wherein hundreds of teams from throughout India and
from countries like USA, Canada, France, Argentina, Australia and Algeria
turned up to showcase their talent and compete in the challenge.
The
category-wise details of the winners are mentioned below:
Global
Cyber Challenge “Most Innovative Idea towards Startup”
Team Name
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Name
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Competition
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Country
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Astra
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Mr. Ananda Krishna
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Peace-a-Thon
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France
|
Mr. Shikhil Sharma
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Winners
– Peace-a-thon (National)
Rank
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Team Name
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Name
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Competition
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Country
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WINNER
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CyGuard
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Mr. Sachin Parekh
|
Peace-a-Thon
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India
|
Mr. Rohit Bhaskar
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Mr. Tanay Shah
|
1st Runner Up
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Tech Wizards
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Ms. Vineeta Garg
|
Peace-a-Thon
|
India
|
Mr. Rohit Tuli
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2nd Runner Up
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DeepSafe
|
Mr. Dendi Sathya Veera Reddy
|
Peace-a-Thon
|
India
|
Mr. KVV Durga Prasad
|
Mr. R Barath
|
3rd Runner Up
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Aggies
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Mr. Bharadwaj Satchidanandan
|
Peace-a-Thon
|
USA
|
Consolation
|
Blue Monks
|
Mr. Sayak Dhar
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Mr. Saswata Das
|
Mr. Debanjit Sarkar
|
|
Peace-a-Thon
|
India
|
Global
Cyber Challenge – Capture the Flag (OT) – WINNERS
Rank
|
Name
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Competition
|
Team Name
|
Country
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WINNER
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Mr. Vijay Kumar
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CTF - OT
|
Bitvijays
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India
|
Mr. Tanoy Bose
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Mr. Vignesh Durairaj
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Runner Up
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Mr. Swapnil
|
CTF - OT
|
evesdropper
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India
|
Mr. Aarush Ahuja
|
Mr. Punit Maurya
|
Global
Cyber Challenge – Capture the Flag (IT) – WINNERS
Rank
|
Name
|
Competition
|
Team Name
|
Country
|
WINNER
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Mr. Palash Bansal
|
CTF - IT
|
D4rkc0de
|
India
|
Mr. Aneesh Dogra
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Runner Up
|
Mr. Sanat Sharma
|
CTF - IT
|
dcua
|
USA
|
Mr. Aaditya Purani
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Incepted in 2011 in London,
second GCCS was held in 2012 in Budapest with focus on
relationship between internet rights and internet security, which was attended
by 700 delegates from nearly 60 countries. The third edition of GCCS was held
in 2013 in Seoul with commitment to Open and Secure Cyberspace.
The fourth version GCCS 2015 was held on April 16-17, 2015 in The
Hague, Netherlands, which saw participation from 97 countries.
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