Four organisations, including the fan favourite, received a Rs 3 crore Global Impact Award and support from Google to help make their vision a reality.
The four winning projects are using technology to tackle
the world's toughest problems. Thousands of non-profits entered the
Google Impact Challenge, and the awardees were chosen by our panel of
judges and a public vote. Inspired by the passion and the projects of
each of the finalists, Google decided to award each additional
non-profit in the top ten with Rs 1.5 crore in seed funding.
In accordance with this, GSC @ IIT Kharagpur was one out of two GSCs in India to win the Google Impact Challenge - Get Out the Vote Challenge, mainly due to the experience of our GSA Ms. Samidha Paroha. The projects involved as final awardees were:
- To provide an integrated water and sanitation system to support health villages.
- To improve the network of motorbike science labs to educate rural kids.
- To formulate a video hub to scale agricultural training.
- To design apps to connect citizens with the government.
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