The Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), are hosting a logo design contest for their innovative platform, AMBUD (Adoption of MeghRaj by User Departments).

AMBUD (Adoption of MeghRaj by User Departments) is a revolutionary platform for streamlining the workflow of Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) empanelment within the "GI Cloud" initiative (also known as MeghRaj). To utilize and harness the benefits of cloud computing, the Government of India embarked on an ambitious initiative – “GI Cloud,” which has been coined as ‘MeghRaj’. The focus of this initiative is to accelerate the delivery of e-services in the country while optimizing ICT spending by the government. MeitY has embarked upon several initiatives to proliferate cloud adoption across the various departments and agencies and streamline the processes involved.

STPI and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), are inviting applications through MyGov, from Indian citizens to design a logo for AMBUD platform to encourage public participation, leverage creative talent, and ensure a diverse range of design choices.

Participation Guidelines:

1. Participants should upload the logo in JPEG, JPG, or PNG format only. The logo should be designed on a digital platform.
2. The winner of the competition shall be required to submit the design in an editable and open file format.
3. Participants should ensure that the original designs are submitted.
4. Each entry should submit a detailed logic and explanation of rational and creative thoughts (not more than 100 words) on the designed logo in a soft copy. The logo should be designed in a coloured format. The size of the logo may vary from 5 cm by 5 cm to 30cm*30cm in either portrait or landscape mode.
5. The logo should be usable on the website, social media, such as Twitter/Facebook, press releases, and on printables such as stationery, signage, labels, etc., magazines, commercials, holdings, standees, brochures, leaflets, pamphlets, souvenirs, and other publicity and marketing material for the promotion of AMBUD Portal.
6. The logo image should be in high resolution with a minimum of 300 DPI.
7. The logo should look clean (not pixilated or bit-mapped) when viewed on-screen at 100%.
8. Entries should not be submitted in compressed or self-extracting formats.
9. The logo design should not be imprinted or watermarked.

Evaluation Criteria:
1. All the entries received would be assessed for awards by a screening committee for an initial evaluation. After such screening, all approved entries would be assessed by a Selection Committee for the final evaluation.
2. The entries will be judged and selected based on the following criteria:
a. Alignment to Name and overall theme of AMBUD Portal
b. Creativity
c. Originality
d. Simplicity
e. Inspirational element
3. If there are more than the required number of winners in any category, further selection shall be done with the help of Draw.
4. The decision of the Selection Committee would be final and binding on all the contestants. No clarifications would be issued to any participants or to any decision of the Selection Committee.

Rewards:
a. Cash Prize for the winner: Rs. 50,000/-
b. Cash Prize for two runner-ups: Rs. 20,000/-

For Terms & Conditions, Click Here (PDF 153KB)