The Manthan Award 2007 & ICONECS
HIGHLIGHTS
The successful completion of Manthan Award 2007 and Second International Conference on e-Content & Sustainability is nothing but testimony of the fact that prospects and challenges in the domain of ‘e-Content for Development’ are for real. The two days of deliberations spread across livelihood, rural development, agriculture development, Education, community broadcasting, governance areas have brought to the fore the issues involved in these areas vis-a-vis ICT and content based development. The deliberations highlighted the fact that any talk of ICT enabled development will be a lop sided one without taking into consideration the core issues of content that is the driving force of any ICT enabled approach. If deliberations were scintillating ones, then the Manthan Award 2007 Evening Gala on September 22 were icing on the cake in projecting those grassroots ICT and e-Content innovators and practitioners whose years of hard work have brought in positive changes in the lives of so many people across communities.
The Manthan Award 2007
e-Content for Development in India
2007 Highlights
The Ratio
Nominations : Winners
100 : 11
Nominations Received
353
State-Wise Nominations
Andhra Pradesh: 32
Assam: 02
Bihar: 02
Chandigarh: 01
Chhattisgarh: 10
Delhi: 57
Goa: 01
Gujarat: 18
Haryana: 07
Himachal Pradesh: 07
Jammu Kashmir: 01
Jharkhand: 12
Karnataka: 23
Kerala: 18
Lakshadweep: 01
Madhya Pradesh: 10
Maharashtra: 68
Meghalaya: 03
Nagaland: 03
Orissa: 05
Pondicherry: 02
Punjab: 03
Rajasthan: 03
Tamil Nadu: 17
Uttar Pradesh: 14
Uttarakhand: 09
West Bengal: 14
Total : 343*
Platform wise Nominations
Broadband/Online: 053
Mobile Content: 006
Cross Media: 031
Offline: 044
TV/Interactive TV: 004
Radio: 009
Web / Internet: 149
Blog: 005
CD DVD: 026
Telephone: 003
Wireless WAP: 002
Mobile/PDA: 007
Mobile Van: 001
Satellite: 003
e-Mail: 007
Total : 350*
* Variation in number is
because of overlapping of
platform in many of the
nomination
Category Wise Nominations
e-Business: 13
e-Learning: 32
e-Culture: 16
e-Government: 88
e-Health: 28
e-Enterprise & Livelihood: 28
e-Entertainment: 12
e-Inclusion: 16
e-Education: 30
e-News: 13
e-Localisation: 23
e-Youth: 06
m-Content: 07
e-Environment: 13
Community Broadcasting: 13
Total : 338*
Winners @ States of India
Every state has different number of nominees. We received nominations from 27 states/UTs. Likewise there are different numbers of winners from each of the 17 states. Following are the winners as per their state.
Andhra Pradesh
Rajiv Internet Village-e-Commerce for Poor People
e-Sagu: An IT-based Agro-advisory System
Arbit Choudhury – The First (MBA) Comic Character
APREGS (AP Rural employment Guarantee Scheme)
www.friends2support.org
Booksline
Maharashtra
Website for Mumbai Police
The Wellness Site – Health Portal
Let’s know more about HIV..
SolidGyan
www.infochangeindia.org
Self-Employment Promotion through Local SMS Communities
Gujarat
Community Radio and Community Video
College to Career Program
Nagaland
Kuknalim.com – a Home for Nagas on the net
Haryana
Ayushveda.com – India’s Finest Health Portal
think.com
Delhi
HIV/AIDS Awareness Package-HAAP
The Great Escape
A Degree of Concern
Instant Money Order
National Portal of India
Raftaar- The first Integrated Hindi Search Engine
Jharkhand
Our rule in our country (Abua Disum Abua Raj& Let’s go to village (Chala Ho Gaon Mein
Orissa
Odisha News
Karnataka
SAHYADRI: Western Ghats Biodiversity: Environmental Information System
Braille literature (GITA)
India Education Digital Library – Multimedia Tools for Teaching, Learning and Training
Lipi Toolkit for Online Handwriting Recognition
Pondicherry
Open Source Simple Computer for Agriculture in Rural Areas (OSCAR)
Kerala
Kerala Education Grid
Puzha.com
Manorama Online
Punjab
Virsa Digitization
Lakshadweep
National Employment Service Portal
Tamil Nadu
DesiCrew Solutions, Rural Business Process Outsourcing
Madhya Pradesh
Jansamvad
Uttar Pradesh
Daisy Book Reader
West Bengal
From Dusk to dawn