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1. Registration Guidelines
• Registration is mandatory to participate in the National Medical Geospatial Hackathon 2025 (Edition 01).
• ‘Individual’or /and ‘team’ participation is allowed.
• Please make sure that that the details entered by you are correct before submitting the form. The organizing team can not be responsible for any typo errors made by the participants while filling out the form.
 
2. Who can participate?
• The National Medical GIS Hackathon 2025 (Edition 01- One Health) is open ‘ONLY FOR INDIAN NATIONALS’.
• Students, Scholars, and Faculty who are currently pursuing their studies/ working in UGC/AICTE/ AIU/ Union or State Government approved Universities/ Colleges/ Institutions/ Organisations are eligible to apply. The participating team(s) can be a mix of any field of study in Healthcare or Science or Engineering with adequate knowledge of creating maps/ GIS, Remote Sensing, Environment, Geography, Geology, Policy, Statistics, Policy, Medicine, Management, Urban Planning, Rural Development or any related domain.
• Graduates holding a degree in any of the related domains (as mentioned above) are eligible to participate.
• Professionals working in the GIS industry are also eligible to participate.
• Indian students pursuing their education abroad are allowed to participate as well. In this case, they shall be eligible only for the award of ‘e-certificate’.
 
3. The IIT Bombay FOSSEE GIS mandates:
• Indian Citizens Only
• Use only Free/ Libre Open Source Software and Open Source Hardware
• Align with any SDG (UNDP). Use indigenous Indian technologies like NavIC (ISRO), etc wherever possible.
• The study area should be India-specific (mandatory).
• Work on real-life data sets (mandatory).
• Adhere to the (Indian) National Geospatial Policy 2022 (mandatory).
• Use Indian Satellite data (recommended).
• Use shape files only from the Survey of India portal (mandatory).
• Problem statements to be Inclined towards Gati Shakti (recommended).
• The participant(s) must be a bonafide student/ faculty/ staff of the institution recognized by UGC/ AICTE/ AIU or a body recognized by the Indian/ State Government.
 
4. The IIT Bombay FOSSEE GIS project activities include but are not limited to…
• Creating awareness about various GIS-based Open Source software/ hardware tools in Educational Institutions, Research and Innovation councils/ forums across India through thematic workshops, faculty development programs, panel discussions, support in the inclusion of Skill based GIS-centric course(s) in the curriculum (Academic Council/ Board of Studies) as per NEP 2020; partnerships; advisory, etc in the foundational level.
• Conducting national level (general and domain-specific competitions)… (a). IIT Bombay FOSSEE GIS Mapathon (Edition I (2020); Edition II (2022); Edition 3 (2023))- considered to be the world’s biggest open-source-based geospatial mapping challenge; (b). GIS-based IoT Hackathon; (c). Maritime Geospatial Hackathon; (d). Geospatial Agriculture Hackathon, etc.
• Conducting the (a). IIT Bombay FOSSEE GIS Summer Fellowship and Internship; (b). FOSSEE-GIS Semester Long Internship.
• The DST-Chanakya-FOSSEE National Geospatial Fellowship.
• National-level GIS Case Studies (General and Domain Specific).
• Internship-based GIS product development (i.e.) GIS on Cloud; GIS in Birding; GIS in History, GIS in Wildlife, etc.
• Open Source GIS Day & National Geospatial Awards (September 15, 2023).
• IUMAP™ certification program on GIS & RS.
•  Annual FOSSEE-GIS Institutional partner subscription program (with exclusive members-only benefits).
• Pan-India Academia-Industry connect. 
• Job Fair for FOSSEE-GIS alumni and annual FOSSEE-GIS Institutional partners.
• GIS Summer/ Winter School.
• National level Annual FOSSEE-GIS awards (for FOSSEE-GIS alumni and annual FOSSEE-GIS Institutional and industry partners).
• and more…
 

Note: All the participants of the “IIT Bombay-FOSSEE- are expected to mandatorily adhere to the mandates of the IIT Bombay FOSSEE GIS team. The decision made by the IIT Bombay FOSSEE GIS team shall be final and non-appealable under all circumstances.