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A college student with a low-cost solution pertaining to garbage, flooding, or street lights, or a group of youngsters coming up with a device/software to help the city corporation optimize operations can now approach the city innovation officer.
A college student with a low-cost solution pertaining to garbage, flooding, or street lights, or a group of youngsters coming up with a device/software to help the city corporation optimize operations can now approach the city innovation officer.
Azhagu Pandian Raja M P, the 31-year-old Smart Cities Mission Fellow who developed the Madras Waste Exchange and the Greater Chennai Corporation corona monitoring mobile app, will be the civic body’s innovation officer, a first of its kind in the country.
“The innovation hub will ensure researchers, college students and even journalists and thinkers can be brought in to brainstorm on solutions. We are planning to even conduct hackathons,” he said.
Since the hub would liase with different wings of the corporation, solutions would be incorporated into the governance process.
The innovation hub will have space even for small companies to work on IT-enabled solutions. “This can also become an entrepreneurship development cell,” Azhagu said. The medium-term plan is to ensure it becomes a solid think tank for Tamil Nadu itself, he added.
Azhagu said the Madras Waste Exchange, developed as a pilot project, was now part of the corporation’s governance process and been picked up nationally as well. “The hub will be a space to develop 100s of such ideas,” he said.
A senior corporation official said this was part of the plan to bring in better ‘process innovation’ as the current systems were outdated. “A data officer has also been appointed, who will meaningfully available data in the command and control centre.”
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