IBM launches India Developer Champions programme, aimed at creating platform to acknowledge developer work

Software and technology firm IBM, in co-operation with the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) and Nasscom, has announced ‘India Developer Champions’, 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.

“IBM wants to put a spotlight on the 23 million developers and data scientists in the world who work across industries and who, through their creativity and skill, are making a real difference to society,” said Bob Lord, IBM senior vice-president, Cognitive Applications and Developer Ecosystems.