| Ayushveda.com – Finest Health Portal |
Product Description
Ayushveda is a complete portal on Ayurveda covering various Health diseases and natural treatment methods. The platform offers Free Web page to doctors and an opportunity for them to offer free consultation to Indian people. This health portal provides a holistic platform for every one to avail free consultation from Indian ayurvedic doctors.
The project enables doctors to sign up and get a free web page. Target users have the liberty to ask any amount of questions online and the answers made by doctors can be seen. In prospective, the portal would be marketed and doctors would be paid for giving free consultation. Health care product manufacturers can advertise their quality health care products on the portal.
Citation
This initiative demonstrates how an online integrated alternative health care platform could be made available to all. The platform demonstrates in one stop on what, how of diseases with concurrent remedies for the same which is apart from the allopathic remedies. The product is a timely projection and promotion of alternative, home based disease remedies with less of side effects and major cost implications. The offer of free health advises from Ayurvedic doctors is an enormous social contribution for the cause of health for development and growth.
Producer
Sahil Mehta
Organisation
Ayusveda Informatics (India) Pvt Ltd
Location
Haryana
Telephone
0987800059
0172-5033200
Email
mehtasahil@gmail.com
Technology/Medium
Web/Internet
Language
English
| The Wellness Site – Health Portal |
Product Description
Aarogya.com is not an alternative to doctors but it complements doctors’ advice and provides various support services through the medium of three languages. Aarogya’s depth of 5000 pages covers a broad range of topics, from alternative medicine to latest allopathic and diagnostic practices. Its interactive database section has option for searchable information.
Aaroga believes in the value of the brick and click model. Its web presence has extended to the real world. Support groups meet in real life. Wheelchair users are able to enjoy Sambhaji Park thanks to the ramps it has built. Its Juvenile Diabetics meet was a great success. Aarogya has setup an online counseling and support center in association with Muktangan for addicts.
John Almeda, a doctor, used aarogya to upload the angiography reports of his patient, which he wanted a doctor in the US to preview and give his second opinion. Aarogya has also generated numerous queries for treatment, procedure, products and services.
Aarogya’s major features include an information section for Legalities and Informatics that covers Medical Ethics, Insurance, Telemedicine, Euthanasia, Investments and Medical jurisprudence. It has indigenous searchable drug database of over 10,000 generic and branded drugs for Drug Search.
Citation
Aarogya demonstrates that ICT could facilitate creation of a supermarket on the Internet for health needs. It has also used the medium to bond people and address community’s special needs. Marrying web presence with focused activities in real world has helped the portal to understand its users’ needs and then provide appropriate service for them. The choice of three language speaks of its sensitivity to touch its users’ hearts.
| << It has indigenous searchable drug database of over 10,000 generic and branded drugs for Drug Search. >> |
Producer
Tushar Sampat
Anita Jasani
Mukund Nadgowda
Anand Shinde
Pradip Mulay
Organisation
T-edge Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Location
Maharashtra
Telephone
020-66010618
020-66403311
0-9822040084
Email
tsampat@t-edge.com
URL
http://www.t-edge.com
www.aarogya.com
Technology/Medium
Web/Internet
Language
English
| From Dusk to Dawn |
Product Description
From Dusk to Dawn, the short documentary is an attempt to depict the real life stories of unfortunate victims of mental illness whose difficulty remains invisible to the society. A mentally ill person often appears perfectly normal and it becomes difficult for the society to understand where lies the problem, or the pain and agonies of delusion, hallucination and other symptoms. So they generally segregate themselves from the main stream of life.
The characters in the documentary have been played by the affected individuals and therefore it was really a tough job for them to enact their own difficulty that too in English, a foreign language for them. Of course the suicidal role was enacted by the guest artist, as suicide creates tremendous stress on their minds. The film shows that computer being a machine they feel safe to experiment with. It provides them ample opportunity to remain connected with the outside world and share their feelings with other members of self-help groups throughout the world. It also acts as a form of therapy and they can overcome their symptoms through the active use of computer. Last but not the least, computer gives them economic freedom.
Citation
The hurdles to provide adequate services to persons suffering from mental illness are ignorance, lack of awareness, stigma, lack of adequate preventive measures and above all lack of up to date knowledge and information. Digital content for development and ICT can do a commendable work in this field which till date has remained most neglected in India. Among the general public, there continues to be an attitude of fear, disgust and a desire to avoid patients suffering from mental disease.
| << The hurdles to provide adequate services to persons suffering from mental illness are ignorance, lack of awareness, stigma, lack of adequate preventive measures and above all lack of up to date knowledge and information. >> |
Producer
Ishita Sanyal
Organisation
Turning Point
Location
West Bengal
Telephone
033 – 24071753
09830069106
Email
ishitasanyal@hotmail.com
Technology/Medium
Web/Internet/Email + CD/DVD
Language
English
| Let’s know more about HIV… |
Product Description
Gaming is an interesting form of raising awareness about the dreaded HIV/AIDS. The gamers are informed about the various aspects of the disease in an interesting and informative way. It raises the level of awareness in adolescents and augments knowledge in the youth about HIV/AIDS and its prevention. The focus is to spread this awareness in colleges and schools in Pune. This gaming session can provide primary information about HIV/AIDS to the students in schools, junior colleges and in addition can also educate anybody who knows very little about this issue.
The game describes HIV/AIDS mode of transmission, clears myths about the transmission and talks about the stigma attached to it. The structure of the game is such that if a student answers a question wrongly, then he/she cannot move ahead in the game; furthermore the student is also enlightened with the right answers when he/she clicks on the wrong option. If he/she gives the right answer, he/she can move ahead to the next level in the game. In the game, there is also a place called ‘Info House’ wherein he/she gets the basic information about this issue. Even serious thoughts are laced with humour that would etch in your mind. It has taken a funny way to a serious answer on a vital question of today’s generation-How to ensure safety from HIV/AIDS? Most definitely right information is vitally important and the game provides it.
Citation
HIV/AIDS is the scourge of our times and many vulnerable sections of our society are at best ill-informed about the disease. Gaming has caught on a big way among the new generation and this medium has been thought of as an information platform to deliver the right message across the group who are at their most risky age to contact this disease. Prevention campaigns couldn’t be better.
Producer
Prameela Kalive
Organisation
Zensar Technologies
Location
Maharashtra
Telephone
020 – 66057856
09922434624
Email
p.kalive@zensar.com
URL
www.zensar.com
Technology/Medium
CD/DVD
Language
Marathi/English/Hindi
| www.friends2support.org |
Product Description
An interactive website, www.friends2support.org aims to provide contact information of voluntary blood donors to the needy round the clock and thereby break monopoly of a few influential people and brokers over the information comprising lists of blood donors for making money. Mega blood donation camps might inculcate the spirit of blood donation, but a large number of blood packets get wasted due to lack of proper and efficient blood storage facility. This website aims at reducing wastage of precious blood and providing safe blood at the right time and at the right place in tune with its slogan “Search for blood ends at www.friends2support.org.” Registration of blood donors by providing their personal contact details like phone numbers, address and e-mail address is totally voluntary. Any person can opt out of the list at any time or make unavailable for health or personal reasons.
Donors in each group can be searched State/Union Territory wise and under each State. The list is further divided into Revenue Districts, under each revenue district it lists Assembly constituency wise. In Metro cities like New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, the lists are available according to major area wise to reduce the burden of going through a large number of names in a city.
An all-India telephone helpline has also been set up to disseminate information on blood donors where Internet facility is not available. The helpline being run from Guntur in Andhra Pradesh is Toll-Free from anywhere in the State, but charged at Regular Tariff from outside Andhra Pradesh. Counselors man the helpline from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Citation
ICT has immense potential to play the role of an interventionist as well as a catalyst, as this initiative revolving around a life saving service demonstrates efficiently as well as effectively. As it brings transparency and connects people residing in distant geographic locations, ICT driven applications break the monopolist’s game plan and thereby improve supply side in a demand driven situation sadly created by lack of information.
Producer
Sk k. Shareef
Ramesh Susarla
Organisation
Friends To Support
Location
Andhra Pradesh
Telephone
0863 – 2240803
09440389002
Email
info@friends2support.org
Technology/Medium
Web/Internet
Language
English