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Earn Money with Alexa Developer Rewards in India

Indian Developers Now Get Paid for Eligible Skills that Customers Love Most

Alexa Skills Kit Expands to Include Hindi in India

Developers can now start building skills for Hindi speaking customers in India. Learn more‘

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  1. Who is eligible for the payout?
    Only Indian developers (i.e. developers who registered their country of residence as India at the time of developer account setup) are eligible for this offer payout. Make sure your country/region is correctly set to India in the profile section of the Alexa Developer Portal. 

  2. What Alexa skills are eligible?
    We will select skills to be rewarded from among the top performing custom skills based on customer engagement, that are correctly categorized in any of eight eligible skill categories:
    • Education & Reference
    • Food & Drink
    • Games, Trivia & Accessories
    • Health & Fitness
    • Kids
    • Lifestyle
    • Music & Audio
    • Productivity
       
  3. What If I am an Indian developer and publish my skill in non-IN store (e.g. US, UK, Germany)?
    You will be rewarded based on the customer engagement metrics for your skills only live in the India Alexa Skills Store.

  4. How will I know if my Alexa skill has earned money?
    If your Alexa skill qualifies, you will receive an email from the Alexa team by the middle of the following month.

  5. How much will I get paid?
    Payment is based on the skill’s customer engagement. If your skill qualifies, the email you receive from the Alexa team will include detail about payment for your skill live in the India store.

  6. Will I continue to get paid every month?
    We evaluate customer engagement on a monthly basis. As customers discover and share new skills, the top engaging skills will change, allowing new developers to earn money.

  7. I have skills in the US, UK, Japan, and Germany. Am I eligible to receive payments for each geography? 
    No. If you have eligible skills published in the US, UK, Japan, and Germany and they are among the top engaging skills, you will not receive payment for them as part of this limited-edition payout offer.

  8. How will I get paid?
    Indian developers receiving email from the Amazon team will need to register at a third-party portal to setup their payment information.

  9. When will I get paid?
    If your payment information is up-to-date on the third-party portal, you will be paid no later than the last day of the month in which you were notified that your skill has earned rewards. You will need to ensure that your payment and tax information is up-to-date on the third-party portal.

  10. What happens if I do not provide my payment information?
    If you do not provide payment and tax information within 30 working days from when you were notified by email that your skill has earned rewards, you will forfeit the reward.

  11. How do you measure customer engagement?
    We consider a variety of factors to measure customer engagement such as minutes of usage, new customers, recurring customers, sessions, and more.

  12. How can I monitor my skill’s engagement?
    Developers can sign into the Amazon Developer Portal to view skill engagement data. The Alexa Skills Kit section lists your skills, whether completed or in-progress. Click the Metrics link for each skill to see data about: unique customers, sessions, utterances, and intents. You may view data for a select time interval (e.g., within the last 30 days, within a custom range) or aggregation period (e.g., hourly, weekly). You can also monitor customer reviews of your skill in the India Alexa Skills Store.

  13. Can I make money through in-skill purchasing and Alexa Developer Rewards for the same skill?
    At this time, yes, you can. Please note, that in-skill purchasing is currently only available in the US.

  14. I work for Amazon, can I earn Developer Rewards?
    No, at this time Amazon employees are not eligible to earn Developer Rewards.

  15. What is the duration of this program?
    Alexa Developer Rewards in India is a limited-time program and Amazon reserves the right, at any time, to discontinue the program, to add/alter/modify/change or vary all and/or any of the program terms and conditions or to replace, wholly or in part, this program by another program.

Robots in Kerala dispensing sanitisers, advices people how to prevent Read more .

An unique step taken in Kerala to curb the pandemic disease COVID-19 the world dealing with now. A video posted by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor shows robots dispensing sanitisers in a building in Kerala. These robots were also seen giving advise to people on how to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor also tweeted about this unique initiative.

Corona virus outbreak: Confirmed Cases increased to 114

The number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in India has gone up to 114, according to the health ministry. Covid-19, which has globally infected over 1.5 lakh people, is likely to cause more shutdowns across the country as more states rush to stop the virus from spreading. While 13 people who were infected by the virus have recovered in India, the global situation still paints a grim picture. The death toll due to new coronavirus has shot up sharply in Italy, which has now become the country worst affected by the virus outbreak after China. Iran, too, faces heightened risk as total death toll in the country has crossed 700 while there are close to 14,000 confirmed cases. Besides taking precautions to prevent the spread of the virus domestically, India is also actively rescuing its nationals stuck in the high-affected zone.

All ASI-protected monuments, central museums across India to be shut till March 31

All ASI-protected monuments and central museums across the country will be shut till March 31 in view of the threat of coronavirus, Union Culture Minister Prahlad Patal said on Monday.
An order regarding the same will be issued soon, he said.
“All ASI monuments and central museums will be shut till March 31 in view of the spread of coronavirus. We are taking this very seriously,” the minister said. (PTI)

PM Modi tweet on covid19:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged people to share their innovative ideas and technology-driven solutions to contain Covid-19 spread with the government

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