|
|
| What do you call a journey that has been going on for 9 years, changed countless lives and is still very new and inspiring? I don’t know whether there is any such word in dictionary, but we certainly have a live example in front of us: the Manthan Awards Annual Digital Festival. There were 9 eminent speakers touched different topics in the overall framework of ICT for Development. Mr. Osama Manzar, Chairman, Manthan Award South Asia & Asia Pacific started the inaugural session by greeting the audience & presenting the aim of Digital empowerment Foundation, working for various communities to bridge the digital divide. Read More |
|
|
|
| Manthan Award 2012 witnessed the 2nd Digital Literacy & Panchayat Summit,’ organized by DEF & Intel Corporation to focus on ‘Empowering Rural Panchayat through Digital literacy Programme’. The session witnessed participants’ from Panchayats across the nation and various other dignitaries. The primary objective of the session was to share the experience of people from village councilors, panchayat members, villages, corporate houses and government. Read More |
|
|
|
| In today’s world, transparent and efficient governance has become a must for growth and development of country. Also the development of requisite infrastructure is growing day by day. The session aimed at addressing these issues with the help of ICT tools and digitization. The session was chaired by Dr. Rajendra Kumar, Joint Secretary (e-Gov) – Department of Electronics & Information Technology (Govt. of India) & Moderator was Ms. Vineeta Dixit, Principal Consultant, NeGP-DIT. Read More |
|
|
|
| This session was dedicated to the discussion of Sustainable Digital approaches for education, learning, localization, Science & technology. The session aimed at discussing the use various digital media, ICT tools for promoting education and create policies where educational institution and government machinery should take advantage of ICT infrastructure, e-application, e-learning platforms. The session was chaired by Mr. Amitabh Singhal and co-chaired and moderated by Mr. Anuraj Gambhir. Read More |
|
|
|
| One of the first parallel sessions held at Manthan Awards was dedicated to discussing the best ICT practices in the field of News, Media and Community Broadcasting for Social Development. The session was chaired by Ms. Supriya Sahu, Joint Secretary – Ministry of Information Broadcasting (Govt. of India). The juror expert present was Mr. Debdas Sen, Executive Director – Consulting, PwC India & Mr. Asif Syed, Editor – Current Newspaper, was the special commentator. Read More |
|
|
|
| The session started with a quick overview of the WeOW programs, its methodology, aims and objectives. The program was initiated by GOOGLE earlier this year in January with the aim to create awareness among women entrepreneurs about the mediums to connect with their customers. The program aims at providing tools to the women entrepreneurs so that they can make their enterprises more effective with the given resources and efforts. Read More |
|
|
|
| Among 5 Parallel Summits, Wireless for communities & Open Spectrum Summit focusing on ‘Empowering Communities through Open Media Access’ was one of the major Summits organized by DEF & Ford Foundation on the occasion of Manthan Award South Asia & Asia Pacific 2012 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The session focused on arriving at better understanding of unlicensed band, free spectrum and its importance to serve last mile connectivity in India and other developing countries. Read More |
|
|
|
| The 2nd digital Minorities summit discussed the issues & problems that besets minorities in adopting ICTs to improve living and socio-economic conditions. The discussion was focused on scope, relevance and need to mainstream minorities especially Muslims in ICT for development efforts in India. This session was turned up on gap areas for ICT interventions to advance economic and social factors for minorities. Read More |
|
|
|
| One of the first parallel sessions held at Manthan Awards was dedicated to discussing the best ICT practices in the field of News, Media and Community Broadcasting for Social Development. The session was chaired by Ms. Supriya Sahu, Joint Secretary – Ministry of Information Broadcasting (Govt. of India). The juror expert present was Mr. Debdas Sen, Executive Director – Consulting, PwC India & Mr. Asif Syed, Editor – Current Newspaper, was the special commentator. Read More |
|
|
|
| The session was dedicated towards showcasing the best practices in terms of how local entertainment are reaching out through the digital content and medium and how ICT and content can facilitate promotion and sustenance of entertainment & inclusion with larger attention on local ecosystem. The session also tried to showcase best practices in areas facilitating empowerment of the differently abled population, women, tribal communities, minorities through digital content and media. Read More |
|
|
|
| The 2nd eNGO Summit, organized on the occasion of Manthan Award Digital Festival, witnessed the participation of more than 100 NGOs participation. The Summit focused on showcasing the best of NGOs from across Asia and highlighting how ICT has empowered them to be efficient, transparent and beneficial to their communities. Read More |
|
|
|
| This session hold the discussion of digital approaches for sustainable environment, agriculture & digital health solutions. The session aimed to find out the various best practices that have been undertaken by the organizations to support health care services and sustainable environment. The session was chaired and moderated by Mr. V K Madhavan, Former Director – Chirag. Read More |
|
|
|
| This session was Technology & Entrepreneurship: Success Strategies for start-ups. It was aimed at discussing best entrepreneurial start-up successes and deliberating on the entire ecosystem of start-ups could be perceived in the light of Social Impact and how better strategies could help in sustainability, the role of social and green investors, mentorship challenges related to management, scale and revenue output. Read More |
|
|
|
| On the occasion of Manthan Award 2012, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) organized the Round Table Discussion on Internet Governance, focusing on ‘Emerging Internet Governance; Issues & Challenges in South Asia’ along with Association for Progressive Communications (APC). This round-table was an effort to understand the scope of internet governance issues in the context of South Asian countries. Read More |
|
|
|
| This session was devoted to the discussion on Digital Solutions for Business, Enterprises, Financial Inclusion and Livelihoods. The session laid emphasis on how tools of ICT tools can be used to foster the growth of medium and small scale enterprises. Mr. Bikky Khosla, CEO – Trade India, chaired the session. The session was moderated by Mr. Ashish Sanyal, Former Senior Director – e-Gov, DeITY (Ministry of IT). Read More |
