Dedicated Mentoring Program 2024 - Impact Report

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Since 2022, Code for GovTech (C4GT)’s Dedicated Mentoring Program (DMP) has empowered students and working professionals to contribute to critical open-source tech projects that have population-scale impact. Over three months, contributors work with Digital Public Good (DPG) and Tech for Good organizations, receiving 1:1 mentorship from industry experts from these organizations or from “Angel Mentors” who are volunteers from the C4GT community.

DMP offers a unique chance to dive into real-world projects, gain insights from ecosystem leaders, and grow through peer learning, making it a transformative journey for aspiring tech innovators.

C4GT

Miniaturising Bhashini's ASR model

Contributor - Aryan Sharma

Seamless Patient Details Lookup through Facial Recognition

Contributor - Thejas Raja Elandassery

Retraining and caching pipelines for improved bot retrieval

Contributor - Renuka B

AI-powered chat interface for iGOT Karmayogi

Contributor - Mansi Dwivedi

Reliable Public Transport Information Chatbot

Contributor - Kompal Layal

70

Products

10+

Domains

7

Countries

Organizations

2634 Proposals Received From

646

Colleges

132

Organizations

Proposals Received

19

States

94

College Students

9

Professionals

19

States

94

College Students

9

Working Professionals

Contributors

19

Angel Mentors

1400+

Hours of Monitoring

Mentors

80

Coding Projects

25k+

Hours of Coding

10

Design Projects

Production Ready Projects

Coding contributors picked out to become maintainers of their products

Maintainer Ready Contributors

0 +

India will depend on young talent as found in the C4GT program to build GovTech products to run the digital infrastructure in the country for a billion people.

Pramod VarmaChief Architect, Aadhar & IndiaStack

It was a great experience working with the C4GT team. This program not only helps students to know about contributing on production code, but also helps code-maintainers in increasing their commitment teaching newer contributors & creating a community from it.

Shree Vatsa NDMP 2024 Mentor, Dhiway

Our overall experience was fantastic, educative, productive and ensured everything we had hoped for. The impact we were able to create was not just an educational & technical impact but also the ecosystem impact & wider adoption impact.

Manu Sheel GuptaDMP 2024 Mentor, SEETA

Because of resource constrains, we are not able to explore some projects. Through C4GT we are able to build for more use cases through quality contributors.

Kavita KDMP 2024 Mentor, ConveGenius

I would strongly urge anyone who is interested in DMP to take part as it will not only sharpen your technical skills but also put you in contact with a community that will really help you in the long run.

Vandit TyagiDMP 2024 Contributor, Belongg

DMP gave me industrial level experience and helped me level-up my technical skills. I got a lot of recognition for my work from Mojaloop. However, the biggest takeaway for me is that I want to continue working in the social impact sector & continue helping others.

Shuchita PrakashDMP 2024 Contributor, Mojaloop

India will depend on young talent as found in the C4GT program to build GovTech products to run the digital infrastructure in the country for a billion people.

Because of resource constrains, we are not able to explore some projects. Through C4GT we are able to build for more use cases through quality contributors.