Discuss the salient features of India Developer Champions programme, and its significance to the Indian software industry. (200 Words)
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IAS Parliament 5 years
KEY POINTS
Salient features
· Software and technology firm IBM, in co-operation with the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) and Nasscom, has announced ‘India Developer Champions’.
· It is a multi-year programme which recognises developer contributions to the open source community.
· The programme will create a single, unified platform to acknowledge developer work in open source (It refers to a software in which original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified).
Significance of the programme
· The multi-year programme would promote open technology initiatives and highlight the importance of India's growing developer ecosystem.
· It would help shine a light on the significant contributions coming from open source developers in India, gives fillip to Digital India Programme.
· It would enhance the skill sets of Indians demanded by the software industry in the World.
The programme helps in identifying the best programmers from India and recognizes open source talent in India.
Raj 5 years
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IAS Parliament 5 years
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