IBM wants to put spotlight on coders making real difference in the world

IBM, in cooperation with the ministry of electronics and IT and Nasscom, has introduced a unique multi-year programme that promotes open technology initiatives and highlights importance of India’s growing developer ecosystem. Announced at IBM India Developer Day, the company’s annual developer conference in Bengaluru, the ‘India Developer Champions’ programme recognises developer contributions to the open source community.

The programme will create a single, unified platform to acknowledge outstanding developer work in open source, the key driving force behind groundbreaking technologies that are impacting millions of lives every day in India and around the world. Developers are today’s engine of innovation in business and society and IBM expects thousands of nominations from individual developers, as well as those from enterprises and startups.