Govt to sponsor and support made-in-India video conferencing tool

New Delhi: With an idea to develop a Video Conferencing Solution in India which is at par with the global products which are curently very popular, the government has announced an Innovation Challenge under the Digital India Initiative. Initiated by the Ministry of Electronics and IT, the Innovation Challenge is open for participation from industry, start-ups and individual experts.

With the country under a lockdown, both government and corporates have been relying on organisations video conferencing tools mostly by foreign companies to run their business. The idea is to build a made-in-India tool which is as good as foreign apps and has the highest standards of data security and privacy built in.