WSA & DEF Conducts Major e-Content Road Show in India August 5, 2006, New Delhi: DEF along with WSA held a grand e-Content Road Show, in New Delhi, India. organized as “International Conference on e-Content and Sustainability” by WSA’s India partner Digital Empowerment Foundation, the event gathered more than 350 high profile e-content practitioners including many…
The Manthan-AIF Award 2006 Jury Chairman Of Jury (day 1) Prof. Ashok Jhunjunwala Professor, IIT Madras, Chennai Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwala is from IIT Madras, and very well known for his innovative ideas in the areas of telecom revolution. He is also an incubator of many successful ideas. He helped in founding n-Logue, the company which…
Manthan-AIF Award 2006 Grand Jury Process Date: 1-2 July, 2006 Venue: Digital Empowerment Foundation, Sarvapriya Vihar, New Delhi-16 The Manthan Award 2006 jury is over. Around 250 nominations were screened, winners chosen and results are kept in secret wrap until August 5, 2006 when the Award giving ceremony shall take place in New Delhi. Jury…
The Manthan-AIF Award Gala 2006 The Guest of Honour Dr. R A Mashelkar, Director General, CSIR The Guest of Honour Mr. Wajahat Habibullah, Chief Information Commissioner The Guest of Honour Mr. Pradeep Gupta, MD, CyberMedia Ltd The Guest of Honour Mr. Avdhash Kaushal, “Man of the Year”, The Week-’03 The Guest of Honour Mr. Sachin…
International Conference on e-Content & Sustainability Inaugural Ceremony Welcome Address: Mr. Osama Manzar, Chairman, Manthan Award Inaugural Ceremony Inaugural Speech: Dr. Bibek Debroy, Secretary General, PHDCCI Inaugural Ceremony Keynote address: Dr. Maxine Olson, UN Res. Coordinator. & UNDP Res. Rep. Inaugural Ceremony Strategy Speech: Mr. R. Chandrashekhar, Additional Secretary, EGPMU, DIT Inaugural Ceremony Contemporary…
Uttaranchal Product Description After intense and grueling considerations on certain specified ICT benchmarks, Digital Empowerment Foundation decided that the newly born State of Uttaranchal has surpassed so many other States in introducing ‘Technology for Development’ for empowerment and development. Based on the prime considerations like impact of ICT reach, budget allocation for ICT projects, number…
FM Community Radio 90.4 Product Description Community radio is a broadcasting platform established to provide communication support for the social, economic and cultural development of community within geographical location and owned and operated by the community on a non-profit basis. Krishi vahani named “Vasundhara vahani 90.4 MHz”, a community radio service catering exclusively to farmers…
Freedom HIV/AIDS Product Description Freedom HIV/AIDS is a social initiative program of ZMQ Software Systems. ZMQ used an innovative IEC methodology to educate people on HIV/AIDS using mobile phone games. Citation Mobile devices are the most prevalent tools in the hands of a common man all over the world and are the devices of the…
Mouthshut.com Product Description MouthShut is India’s largest and most comprehensive Person to Person (P2P) Consumer Information Exchange. It has emerged as an online community where India’s most sophisticated, vocal and influential consumers gather to exchange ideas that impact the purchasing decisions of millions everyday. Citation For a long time, manufacturers of goods and providers of…
IndFauna, Electronic Catalogue of Known Indian Fauna Product Description IndFauna is an online baseline data platform of all Indian faunal resources at a single click of a mouse. Using multi-lingual engine this data can be accessed in six Indian languages viz. Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telgu, and Punjabi thus ensuring dissemination of knowledge in languages that…
Kannada Logo Product Description ‘The Kannada version of LOGO is being used to teach programming logic to kids. The local version of LOGO is intended to spread computer education in villages and help students develop the thinking and analysing powers in Kannada while making provisions of applying the keywords in Kannada. It is a programming…
Merinews Product Description ‘The product is India’s first participatory media platform, wherein citizen journalists contribute news, interviews, pictures, news analysis, etc. Currently, merinews offers a diverse set of categories for citizen journalists from different fields to contribute news, features, interviews, pictures, news analysis, book and film reviews, etc. Citation The Internet communities have developed encyclopedia,…