WSA E-Content Summit, India – 2008

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: ICT @ Social Entrepreneurship-2008

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: Community Broadcasting-2008

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-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

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

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

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

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…