New Delhi: In this age of Data Revolution, West Bengal shows the way with its unique Data Anonymiser Hackathon Finale. First of its kind in the country, HITK won the first prize in this hackathon followed by IIT Jodhpur and IIT Madras representatives as second and third winners.
The grand finale was held recently in Kolkata which was attended by Babul Supriyo Minister in Charge, Information Technology & Electronics Department, Government of West Bengal as the ‘Chief Guest.’ Talking about the importance of data & cyber security, he said, “Cyber security needs constant upgradation as the hackers are also adopting measures to bypass the security shield for breach of data. So I suggest to the IT ministry for having a mentor panel to tackle the issue more effectively.”
The Department of IT & Electronics, Government of West Bengal, has launched the hackathon in December 2022 for development of a data anonymizer tool which will ensure that the public transactional data is fully anonymised before sharing for development of public services.
Ideated, conceptualized, and framed by the Department of IT&E, the hackathon happened with support from data innovation firm Sapio Analytics. On the final round 6 finalist teams have been evaluated by Jury members: Padmashree Prof. Bimal Kumar Roy former Director of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Abhik Mukherjee, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) Shibpur, Dr. Goutam Paul, Associate Professor and the Head of Cryptology and Security Research Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and Prof .Chandan Mazumdar, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Jadavpur University.
One of the main architect of this initiative, Sanjay Das Additional Secretary, IT & Electronics, West Bengal and MD, WEBEL said that “ The winners of the hackathon shall be provided an opportunity to do a pilot project with the Government of West Bengal, deploying the solution with real live transactional data, through the Department of IT&E. The pilot is expected to deliver for the first time an artificially intelligent layer of anonymization for data used by government departments, thus ensuring privacy with trust which will make state of West Bengal the first state in India to usher in a data revolution.”
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