India, Feb. 18 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is joining hands with the IIT Gandhinagar Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (IIEC) to launch 'Hack the Future', a 36-hour hackathon designed to ignite solutions driven by Data Science and emerging technologies for real-world challenges faced in the realm of Official Statistics.

Set to take place from March 21-23, 2025, at IIT Gandhinagar, the hackathon calls on students, developers, and researchers from across India to dive into public datasets and apply cutting-edge data science techniques to solve problems faced by practitioner.

Applications are to be submitted online from February 7 to 28, 2...