Silicon Valley based venture capitalist, Asha Jadeja initiates to boost developer community in India. She organises a Google Glass hackathon at Maker Fest, a non-commercial event, free and open to the publi. The event will be held on January 4th and 6th at National Institute of Design at Ahmedabad in Gujarat.
Google's Glass will be introduced to programmers as a private initiative for the first time in India. Asha Jadeja will be launching an app development competition and hackathon for programmers to create solutions using Glassware, Google's open source operating system. She is expecting this competition to give a running start to Indian entrepreneurs as they launch apps on Glassware before Google's Glass is available to the public. The event is being inaugurated by India's pre eminent innovation entrepreneur and technology guru, Sam Pitroda, Chairman, National Innovation Council on Jan 5. Alongside Maker Fest, Asha Jadeja has donated a $140,000 Fablab from MIT to the maker community in Ahmedabad. The Fablab is a set of digital fabrication equipment and software to help makers transform their imagination into products.
The Fablab is housed at the CEPT University Ahmedabad and will be open to the public at select hours every day. MJFF the Motwani Jadeja Family Foundation is expecting to seed invest in social impact innovations as they emerge in next few years between the annual Maker Fest and the Fablab . MJF Angels, a venture capital fund of $8 million is set up by Asha Jadeja to seed invest in for-profit innovations that emerge from collaborations between her projects and various institutions of higher learning in India. - See more at: http://www.voicendata.com/voice-data/news/205302/silicon-valley-vc-launches-google-glass-hackathon-india#sthash.NOGsfUXl.dpuf