Smart India Hackathon - Training on Overview of Web Services

What is Smart India Hackathon? We hope to bridge the digital divide in our country and further promote digital literacy in order to make development a comprehensive mass movement and put governance within everyone’s reach in India. In order to work towards this vision, AICTE under aegis of MHRD and in collaboration with i4C, Persistent Systems Ltd., UGC, NASSCOM, Rambhau Prabhodini Mhalgi, SumaSoft Pvt. Ltd, Deloitte, ACM India, NIC, and MyGov propose the Smart India Hackathon 2017, a unique digital product development competition to identify new and disruptive digital technology innovations for solving the challenges faced by our country. This initiative, we aim to institutionalize a model for harnessing the creativity and technical expertise of 3.0 + million students for direct benefit of our nation. Besides this, several union ministries have agreed to be partners in this initiative. Launched on Nov 9, 2016 at the hands of Shri Prakash Javadekar, Hon’ble Minister for HRD in New Delhi. ‘Smart India Hackathon 2017’ harnesses creativity & expertise of students, build funnel for ‘Startup India, Standup India’ campaign, crowdsources solutions for improving governance and quality of life, and provide opportunity to citizens to provide innovative solutions to India’s daunting problems. The 36-hour Grand Finale is scheduled to be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2017 at 25 nodal centers simultaneously. Winners stand to get cash prizes and a chance to be part of the NASSCOM’s 10,000 Startups program. Massive Online Training Sessions Coding nonstop for 36 hours to create innovations for building a Digital India is not a piece of cake! It needs a lot of planning, grit, consistency, time management, team work, and yes, KNOWLEDGE! We, therefore, felt a need to take a step ahead and get the best of the best ‘Subject matter experts’ to train the participants to code the very best at the Grand Finale. We conducted a survey, where participating teams were invited to vote for training programs they needed the most. We received a fantastic response from all over India and teams unanimously chose the training sessions. Name of Training: Overview of Web services Date and Time: Tuesday, 14th March, 2017, 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Web services are a standardized mechanism to deliver business services over the world wide web via its most commonly used protocols. They help software systems implemented on different technology platforms to communicate, integrate and exchange data between themselves. This session gives you an overview of writing web services in two of the most commonly seen styles; REST and SOAP. To know more about Smart India Hackathon, click here.