NIC TAG group organised State Mobile App and WebApp UI/UX Contests in July 2021. The awards for these contests were presented by the Director-General, NIC Dr. Neeta Verma on 12th October 2021.
State Mobile App Contest Awards Recognize and award the exceptional existing mobile applications at NIC State Center level. • Gold Award: Amma eServices of Land Records, Tamil Nadu • Silver Award: Drug Free Himachal, Himachal Pradesh • Bronze Award: Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS), Delhi
Online API Contest During the Launch Ceremony on 12.12.2021, DG(NIC) launched the On-Line API Contest. The objective of the “Online API Contest” is to bring in awareness about APIs best practices in its design, development & implementation and to recognize the projects who have designed, developed and implemented APIs following the best practices.
The contest is open for all the NIC project teams. This contest is still on going where TAG has received APIs for 94 projects for the evaluation.
WebApp UI/UX Contest Objective of WebApp UI/UX Contest: To recognize and award the best designed web applications developed for central Ministries/ Organisations, evaluated on the following two aspects:
- User Interface Design
- User Experience
Target Audience: NIC Headquarter Evaluation Stages:
- Stage -I Evaluation – All the web applications shall be evaluated by respective HoGs. The best Web Apps (max. 2) from each Group shall be forwarded by HoG for evaluation at next level.
- Stage -II Evaluation – A Committee consisting of selected HOGs, SIOs, UxDT Div, TAG members and industry representative shall evaluate the web apps after Stage-I evaluation. Top 3 Web Apps shall be selected for awards.
Duration of the Contest: 26.07.2021 to 05.10.2021
Awards Recognize and award the best-designed web applications at NIC Headquarter level. • Gold Award: S3WaaS (Secure Scalable and Sugamya Website as a Service), Web Technology Division • Silver Award: National Food Security Portal, Food and Public Distribution Division • Bronze Award: eSampada, Urban Development and CPWD Informatics Division • Bronze Award: Sarathi, eTransport MMP Informatics Division
Ceremony of Felicitating the top achievers of Pan India Product Proliferation of key Products of NIC The NIC PM & PMS (Parliamentary Matters & Programme Management Systems Division), organized an Award Felicitation Ceremony on 1st October 2021 to felicitate top three teams for “Pan India Product Proliferation of Key NIC Products”. Dr. Neeta Verma, DG, NIC presided over the function and spoke to the NIC officers across the country witnessed over Video Conferencing and Webcast. She appreciated the milestones achieved by the officers and also acknowledged the great efforts put in by the respective state and district teams in the successful implementation of the NIC products across the nation.
Head of Group of each Key Product shared his/ her experiences about the conceptualization and proliferation of the product. DG, NIC in her speech to the nation-wide audience who witnessed the event over videoconferencing and webcast, encouraged the various teams to work on the revamping of their products as per the changing dynamics of the industry and focus on areas such as Microservices, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, Security, Data Protection, Emerging Technologies, Containers and Kubernetes.