AICTE to organise KAVACH-2023 hackathon to address challenges in cybersecurity domain

In the Finale, participants will unveil their concepts, substantiating their technical viability and real-world application

With over 100 teams from higher educational institutions poised to engage in presenting their ideas and solutions in the cybersecurity domain, the stage is set for KAVACH 2023, a national hackathon organised jointly by the Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell, AICTE, Bureau of Police Research and Development, and the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (Ministry of Home Affairs) to kick-start its journey. The initiative aims to unearth innovative ideas and technological solutions to address the challenges confronting law enforcement agencies and ordinary citizens in the realm of cybersecurity. 

The hackathon will be launched across five strategic nodal centres: Bhopal's IES College of Technology, Bangalore's AMC Engineering College, Bhubaneswar's Centurion University of Technology and Management, New Panvel's Pillai College of Engineering, and Greater Noida's GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management.

The event will have an eclectic array of 20 problem statements, calling upon the students to compete for the top ranks by submitting their visionary solutions. Among the problem statements are a new-age women's safety app, an obscenity blocker solution, an advanced fake news detection system, a phishing detection solution, cutting-edge ANPR and FRS solutions, a dark web crawler, a spam alert system, a malware analysis tool, a CCTV analytics solution, a RAM dump collection tool, a citizen safety app for safeguarding against cybercrimes, an indigenous crypto currency investigation tool, to mention a few. 

In the finale, participants will unveil their concepts, substantiating their technical viability and real-world application. 

Balaji Srivastava, DG, BPR&D said, "Participants in this Hackathon are embarking on a journey of creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving. It is their chance to innovate, collaborate and impact digital security for a safer tomorrow."

AICTE chairman Prof TG Sitharam, while underscoring the significance of this event, said, "KAVACH-2023 challenges India's innovative minds to envision ideas and frameworks in the domain of cybersecurity, leveraging artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, automation, big data, and cloud computing."

Vice-chairman of AICTE Abhay Jere further explained, "This unique opportunity welcomes higher institutional students and startups from India to present their innovative ideas and concepts for various problem statements."

Source: Education Times dated 8th August 2023

URL: https://www.educationtimes.com/article/newsroom/99733346/aicte-to-organise-kavach-2023-hackathon-to-address-challenges-in-cybersecurity-domain

EU, India to step up cooperation in research and innovation

India and the European Union will step up cooperation in research and innovation, according to a statement.

On areas for future cooperation, health research and bio-economy will remain high on the agenda, it said.

Jean-Eric Paquet, Director-General of Research and Innovation, European Commission, co-chaired the 12th EU-India Joint Steering Committee meeting on science and technology along with Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary of DST, here according to an official statement.

India and the EU will step up cooperation in research and innovation, Paquet said here.

To build upon the robust cooperation of the past 20 years, the EU and India intend to renew the India-EU Science and Technology Agreement for another five years, the statement said.

It was also agreed to explore new areas of cooperation to fill the knowledge gap on climate change, on renewable energy in line with Mission Innovation aiming at reducing CO2 through concentrated efforts on energy.

On artificial intelligence, importance of ethical standards was stressed, the statement said.

The EU and India acknowledged their excellent cooperation which was recently boosted by the launch of seven India-EU projects on purification of water and waste water treatment, two on vaccines and one on polar sciences, it said.

Source: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/science/eu-india-to-step-up-cooperation-in-research-and-innovation/article26447711.ece (Accessed on 7 March, 2019)

Mark Stories Created by Children on StoryWeaver

Mark Stories Created by Children on StoryWeaver

Did you know that it's now possible to mark your child's story as 'Created by Children' on StoryWeaver? And, you can add additional details like name, age, and so on. It was important for StoryWeaver to have this feature mainly for two reasons: to give due credit to young creators, and for our user community to be able to identify stories created by children.

Here's how you can mark stories created by children. It's easy-peasy.

• After you create a story, hit the 'Publish' button and a form appears.
• At the near-end of the form is a field to add details of the child. In cases where a story has been created by a group of children, it is possible to add details of more than one child.
• Additionally, there is an open field in which you can add any other details which you feel may be relevant. For instance, if the story was created as part of a campaign, a class project, etc.

 

Once you publish the story, these details filled by you will appear on the last page of the book (as shown below). The thumbnail of the story will also be labelled as 'Created by Children'. Stories created by children can be easily found if searched under 'Created by Children' via the Publisher filter.

 If the child's story has already been published on StoryWeaver and you now want to mark it as a child's story - don't worry, it's not too late. All you've got to do is:

• Go to your 'Profile' page.
• Look under 'My Published Stories'.
• Click on the story, press the 'Edit' button and re-publish it. While re-publishing it, the steps are the same as mentioned above in the previous section.

Here is an example of a child-created story.

If you have more questions, write to us at help@storyweaver.org.in and we'll be happy to guide you through this process.

To read, translate and create stories for children in any language of your choice, log on to https://storyweaver.org.in.

Source: Pratham Books - Mark Stories created by children on StoryWeaver