Round Table on‘ICT @ Health for the masses’October 17, 2008 By Gaurang Sharma Health has always been a cause of primary concern in our country, especially in a scenario where large populations do not have access to proper health care facilities. The roundtable conference on ‘ICT @ Health for the Masses’ discussed issues pertaining to…
ICONECS Session on ‘E-Content in Health and Environment’ October 17, 2008 By S Mehdi Imam Zaidi The session on ‘E Content in Health and Environment’ was dedicated to the importance of ICT and digital content in health services delivery with affordable quality and accessible content and services, at the same time, overcoming time, geographical, economic…
ICONECS Session on ‘E-Content in News and M Content’ October 17, 2008 By Gaurang Sharma “By reasoning retail is being connected to e-tail. There is very beautiful concept named web 2 store. Reasoning aims to bridge the gap between the consumers and retailers by redefining the channels of their business, thus enabling them to take…
ICONECS Session on ‘E-Content in Localisation and Inclusion’ October 17, 2008 By Gaurang Sharma Technology cannot claim to have solved its purpose if it is unable to reach the local level and include as many in its fold as it can. Therefore, it has to break barriers which block its path of reaching out to…
World Summit Award ‘E Content Summit, India’ October 18, 2008 “Technology is nowadays outclassing the content and we are facing a widening content gap,” these words by Prof Peter Bruck, Chairman, World Summit Award (WSA), Austria, at the WSA e content summit, India, during Manthan Awards, brought to light a difficult situation that we are…
Workshop on ‘ICT @ Social Entrepreneurship’ October 18, 2008 By Gaurang Sharma A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. Since there is no dirth of social problems in India, the workshop on Social Entrepreneurship during the three day Manthan…
Workshop on ‘Community broadcasting for addressing grass root informational gaps’ October 18, 2008 By Gaurang Sharma The workshop session was chaired by Dr R. Sreedhar, Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), Commonwealth of Learning (CoL), New Delhi and Mr Alonso Aznar, Consultant, Communication and Information, UNESCO. The moderators for the session were Mr…
Special Appreciation Award for an Emerging State-2008 Special Appreciation Award for an Emerging State: Jharkhand agency for promotion of information technology Government of jharkhand Jharkhand is one of the newest states. Dominated by tribal communities surrounded by hills, ridges and plateaus, Jharkhand known for its poverty, under-development and political crisis amidst very high natural resource…
Jurors’ Distinction Award for Innovation-2008 IPSupermarket.com DESCRIPTION IPsupermarket.com provides a unique platform for Technology Companies and Individuals to trade various Software Intellectual Properties (IPs) . It is an IP trading portal which provides a platform for technology Companies to buy, sell or license various IPs; who are operating in Semi-conductor, Embedded application, IT, Telecom, Media,…
M-Content Winner – 2008 Cell Bazaar DESCRIPTION It is truly a cell bazaar at your service from Bangladesh. The service allows buyers and sellers to meet in a mobile marketplace. Sellers post items, buyers view them, and contact sellers. Nearly more than 20 million users can access this service to buy any agricultural product, such…
E-Science & Environment Winner – 2008 India Water Portal DESCRIPTION Water is a scarce commodity today and serious efforts are required towards its consumption. In such a scenario, The India Water Portal (www.indiawaterportal.org) , which is a rich online resource base and a virtual community on water, is a move towards creating one window knowledge…
E-News Winner – 2008 Pratibadh (Wall Newspaper) DESCRIPTION As a development newspaper targeting rural and low literate with their participation, this product is a very progressive effort. For this over 600 Rural Communicators cum Rural Reporters have been identified. They are building their capacity to be interface between ICT revolution and rural India. The development…