City Innovation Exchange (CiX) Launched to Implement Open Innovation in the Urban Ecosystem

The Covai Post website reported that the  City Innovation Exchange (CiX), a digital platform to enable startups as the flag bearers of driving transformation of India’s urban ecosystem to achieve the envisioned goals of the National Urban Digital Mission was recently launched. CiX was launched  in the presence of over 500 CEOs/Commissioners from across Indian cities and several hundred startups, innovators and entrepreneurs.   CiX was launched with the city profiles of over 100 smart cities, the detailed descriptions of over 150 innovation challenges sourced from city administrators, the innovator profiles of 400+ innovators and detailed solution briefs of around 215 solutions, displaying the platform’s capabilities even while being under development. This initiative is one of the ongoing efforts of the Government of India to make cities more self-reliant & enable them to meet the needs of and provide services to their citizens. Designed on the principles of Open Innovation it aims to bring the Users (city administrators, government, citizens, etc.) and the innovators (startups, MSMEs, Academicians, etc.) to foster innovations and adoption of technologically advanced solutions to address the pressing challenges and needs of the cities.

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