Award Winners, 2008 WINNERS SPECIAL MENTIONS Community Broadcasting : 03 Click here for details Dambadeniya Community Radio, Sri Lanka Equal Access, Nepal Kalanjiam Samuga Vanoli Community Radio, India None e-Business & Enterprise : 02 Click here for details ngPay, India Safal National Exchange of India Limited, India None e-Culture & Entertainment :03 Click here for…
One of the brightest Manthan Award South Asia winners of 2008 is Bangladesh’s Cell Bazaar initiative. The award brought this CellBazaar in the media limelight on a far bigger stage. Its Founder Kamal Quadir has written an article in the leading publication mint (Dec 19 ’08) where he has mentioned…
MATHAN AWARDS IN INDIA & SOUTH ASIA ICT & Digital Content for Development Salzburg/New Delhi, October 8, 2008: With the backdrop of identifying the best practioners of the south asian region, the Digital Empowerment Foundation and the World Summit Award are organising together with the Center for e-Governance, the South Asia Conclave on ICT &…
Each year on the occasion of Manthan Award, Digital Empowerment Foundation brings out a book detailing each of that year’s awardees and a citation note on those winners. The book also has some articles by the editor and other prominent persons mainly on digital content scenario in the country and the region. This way it tries to…
Jury Comments The following are instant comments from the jury members after the completion of the jury process that they thought have struck their ideas and thoughts over the entire two days exercise. The Manthan Award team is extremely grateful to the distinguished Jury members to have spent two days valuable time and energy in…
Workshop: Community Broadcasting At this workshop, Mr Alonso from UNESCO explained the meaning of community radio and also its importance in the society. He described community radio as a type of radio service that caters to the interests of a certain area, broadcasting material that is popular to a local audience but is overlooked by…
ICONECS session on ‘E-Content for Learning & Education’ October 16, 2008 By Mehdi Imam S Zaidi “Reaching the Unreached” This session was dedicated to addressing a major challenge before the nation which concerned its growth, ie, the processes of e Learning and e-education. The session was chaired by Mr Tom Burns from Intel and Prof.…
ICONECS Session on ‘e-Content in Governance and Business’ October 16, 2008 By Gaurang Sharma Governance and business go hand in hand and are the two most important driving forces for any country. Therefore, it is inevitable that the ICONECS session on ‘e-Content in Governance and Business’ saw eminent personalities and experts from these fields making presentations…
Round Table on ‘Information Communication Technology for Drinking Water and Sanitation’ October 16, 2008 By Devvrat Kapoor Water, water, everywhere, not any drop to drink! When Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote these famous lines in his “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” over two centuries ago, he would not have, in his wildest dreams, have dreamt…
Round Table on ‘Inclusive Governance through Digital Panchayats and Constituencies’ October 17, 2008 By Vikas Das In a country where most of the population resides in villages, one cannot ignore the fact that empowering the villagers would lead to a developed India. Digital panchayats could be viable platforms to that end. Therefore, the roundtable on…
ICONECS Session on ‘e-Content in Culture and Entertainment’ October 17, 2008 By Vikas Das How technology can give a stimulus to efforts in the area of culture and entertainment came as a wonderful eye-opener during the ICONECS session on E-Content in Culture and Entertainment during Manthan Award South Asia Conclave 2008. Various presentations from countries…
Round Table on “Content, Connectivity & Accessibility in Education” October 17, 2008 By Devvrat Kapoor NIOS Chairperson Professor M C Pant set the tone for discussion as he put forward his point of view that the country is facing the challenge of less number of educational institutions in addition to the issue of creditability and…