In association with Institute of Informatics & Communication (IIC), University of Delhi (http://www.iic.ac.in/web/), a unique event-"In Pursuit of an Idea" has been organized, to encourage creative collaboration on Open e-Governance Data for innovation. Students from University of Delhi and professionals from the diverse fields will develop apps, visualizations, info-graphics and data-sanitation based on the ‘New Ideas’ given by the citizens at large. The event was launched on 24th May 2013. Senior officials from DGFT (http://dgft.gov.in), NIC and the University apart from civil society, developer community and academia participated in the ceremony. The event is spread over to 60 days and will be executed in two phases. Phase one of the project would be for idea generation and phase two would be to build solutions around the shortlisted ideas. The students along with experienced mentors from across the world in developer communities will be working on various sectors including but not limited to Trade, Energy, Agriculture, Drinking Water & Sanitation, Education & Skill Development, Health & Family Welfare and an Open category relevant to the emerging needs of the country. The final outcome would be in the form of visualizations, mobile apps, web apps etc. These final products could be showcased on the data portal (http://data.gov.in/community/idea-collaboration). All materials, code and data generated will be placed public domain under creative commons (http://creativecommons.org/) license so that it may be reused, remixed and further enhanced. During development phase of the project, young minds will be challenged and ignited with an innovative framework to collaborate with different stakeholders of the society to work on pressing needs of the country so that they would come out with innovative solutions for public good. It is expected that this endeavour will forge a collaborative environment between e-Governance, students and citizens at large to address real world problems with Open Data innovations. Interested users can come forward and contribute to the idea corpus through the event home page http://data.gov.in/community/idea-collaboration. They can even share their valuable feedback on the event page on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/55876691747990.