E – Government, 2005

NISANI Description of the product/project: The NISANI card is a multi-purpose card which would replace the 10 types of card like blood group, religion, caste, date of birth, education, eye donor, driving, arms, employer, disability, gender, own home and of course citizenship electoral role, death, birth registration and so on. NISANI also cares for the…

E – Learning, 2005

C-GAP course self learning kit Description of the product/project C-GAP (Certificate in Good Agricultural Practices) is a course targeted towards farmers to educate them on good agricultural practices and quality systems. It is a self learning material CD in multimedia format including narration, video clippings, and photographs, animations in interactive and attractive format. The language…

E – Inclusion, 2005

aAQUA Description of the product/project aAQUA is a multilingual online question and answer forum. Almost All Questions Answered (aAQUA) provides online answers to questions asked over the internet. aAQUA caters to the needs of the farmer in many ways such as a) Providing a forum for a farmer (typically posted by a computer operator) to…

E – Health, 2005

Sisu Samrakshak Description of the product/project Sisu Samarakshak is all about information dissemination and services for women and children. The project components Include: Information pages (using audio, picture, video and touch-tone screen) for illiterate and semi-literate women that include contents related to care, nutrition, growth and development, immunization, illnesses, hygiene and various related services. Other…

E – Entertainment, 2005

World Cup Cricket Description of the product/project The project comprises of highly interactive games developed on Cricket. A set of 5 highly interactive edutainment (entertainment plus educational content) games developed on Cricket. The games are meant for children as well as adults. The games comprised of Adventure Cricket Games, eQuizzes, Live Shows and Mind Games…

E – Science, 2005

Electophoresis e-Lab Description of the product/project The project was to design and develop Lab Exercises of Electrophoresis e-Learning Course. The project comprised of analysis, design and development of the courseware. The main feature of the course is its detailed simulated scripted laboratory, taking students to the all procedures to perform electrophoresis without attending a real-time…

E – Culture,2005

Honey Bee Network Description of the product/project The Honey Bee Network is a huge database of grassroots innovation and technologies collected over a period of 15 years. It incorporates about ten thousand “green” grassroots innovations, including examples of traditional ecological and technological knowledge of farmers, artisans, pastoralists, fishermen and women, scouted from more than 4,000…

E – Business, 2005

Automatic Milk Collection System Description of the product/project The Automatic Milk Collection System provides several advantages over the traditional manual method which was time taking and due to that the milk got spoiled. The Automatic Milk Collection System speeds up the entire process, thereby reducing the spoilage of milk. Wait time for the farmers decreases…

Appreciations

CREDENTIALS & APPRECIATIONS Sachin Pilot, Member of Parliament A special invitee to Manthan 2005 was Mr. Sachin Pilot, one of the youngest parliamentarians in India. Sitting through the entire actual award ceremony, Mr. Pilot gave an overview of Manthan initiative in e-content practices in the county. Expressing his full appreciation for the inspirational and hard…

Award Report

The 2005 Manthan Award gala paid tribute to prominent organizations practicing e-Content and creativity in India New Delhi, July 23, 2005: Putting at rest all pre-event apprehensions and uncertainty, it turned out to be a momentous event finally when curtain was brought down to the Manthan Award 2005 gala at India International Centre, New Delhi…