Microsoft kicks off Windows AppFest in Pune

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

 

Microsoft(NASDAQ:MSFT), in collaboration with the Government of Maharashtra, has started Windows AppFest to build apps for social good. The initiative will encourage app developers to create solutions that address social and civic issues. These apps will help civil authorities, seeking alternative methods of interactions with citizens. The top three apps will be selected for presentation at a conference hosted by the Asian Development Bank.

“App marketplaces are now proving to be viable platforms to host e-governance and socially relevant apps. Such apps can provide citizen-centric services in a secure manner, while ensuring increased transparency, reliability and efficiency in services. Cloud computing also enables e-governance solutions to be much more scalable and accessible. Microsoft, with its various initiatives including the Windows AppFest for social good in Pune, provides a good platform for app builders to ideate and create solutions to address social and civic issues,” said Rajesh Aggarwal, Secretary – IT, Government of Maharashtra.

Sanket Akerkar, Managing Director, Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd, said, “As the world gravitates towards a plethora of new devices and form-factors, two things are going to be the key – apps and the cloud to power those apps. The collective capability of the developer population in India is going to play a key role in fuelling this movement across the world. 

With this Windows AppFest, Microsoft is focussing on encouraging app developers to build apps for social good on the Windows platform.”The Windows AppFest represents how a new generation......See More