The Manthan Award – Digital inclusion for development.

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Manthan Award is a first of its kind initiative in India to recognize the best practices in e-Content and Creativity. It (http://www.manthanaward.org) was launched on 10th October ’2004, by Digital Empowerment Foundation in partnership with World Summit Award, Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India, and various other stakeholders like civil society members, media and other similar organisations engaged in promoting digital content inclusiveness in the whole of South Asian nation states for development.

Since then it has come to define the very best in e-Content for development arena in India. Now, after four immensely successful years of holding it within India, the organisers have felt that it’s about time it is expanded a bit and its areas of operation now is all of SAARC countries namely India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan & Afghanistan.

So nominations are welcome from all of SAARC countries.

RECOGNIZING INNOVATIONS IN TELECOM AND MOBILE CONTENT & APPLICATIONS FOR MASSES.

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The mBillionthAward South Asia 2011 (http://mbillionth.in/) recognizes and felicitates Mobile & Telecom technology based initiatives & innovations.

The mBillionth Award is endorsed by Govt. of India’s Ministry of Communication & IT and many prominent associations and organizations in South Asia like IAMAI, MINT, NIXI, ICTA in Sri Lanka (host for the Jury), DNet from Bangladesh, Bytesforall and so on. We are seeking nominations from 8 South Asian countries for their innovations in making mobile reach the masses with meaningful content and services.

If you have one or more telecom or mobile-based products, solutions and implementations that are beneficial to the masses.

Inviting you to participate in this mission to celebrate innovations and help spread the word about this initiative and join us at http://www.facebook.com/mbillionth and http://twitter.com/mbillionth.

The categories for nomination are: m-Business & Commerce/Banking, m-Culture & Heritage, m-Governance, m-Education & Learning, m-Entertainment, m-Health, m- Environment, m-Inclusion, m-Infrastructure, m-News & Journalism and m-Travel & Tourism.

Apply online at http://mBillionth.in OR download and email us filled-up form to mbillionth@defindia.net.

Last date of submitting the nomination has been extended to May 25, 2011.

 

Contact:
Chitra Chauhan
for mBillionth Award South Asia Secretariat
House No. # 44, IIIrd Floor,
Kalu Sarai, near Narayana IIT Academy,
New Delhi – 110 016, India
Telefax: 91-11-26532 786/787

 

Innoz Technologies bags MIT International award for Telecommunication

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Trivandrum, April 4, 2011: Technopark based Innoz Technologies bagged prestigious MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) award for telecommunication at MIT’s Technology Review EmTech India Conclave in Banaglore. Innoz received the award for SMSGyan, a mobile based search engine that can work with different databases to give answers of up to 500 characters – from dictionaries, cricket, stock market and gadgets price lists. The product has been a hit, accessible to over 150 million customers in India.

Since 1999, the editors of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review have honoured the young innovators and their exciting inventions and research. This year MIT recognized the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. “Sixty per cent of India does not even know what Google is because computer penetration is so low. On the other hand, with 771 million subscribers, more than half of India owns a mobile. Growth opportunities for a service like SMSGyan are huge because now the information is just an SMS away,” MIT institute said.
With more than 150 million users, SMSGyan has become one of the fastest growing mobile services in India. Recently Airtel has joined hands with Innoz to launch AirtelGyan. “MIT recognition clearly gives us a strong belief that we can also build international companies from India. If a Silicon Valley exists with brains of twenty somethings creating some of the most exciting businesses and Fortune 500 Companies, so can we innovate and create successful brands and businesses. The success of Innoz demonstrates that the digital economy is the domain of younger people who quickly adopt new technologies. The dream of producing technology success stories such as Microsoft/Google/Facebook from India is never too far,” said Deepak Ravindran, CEO, Innoz Technologies. Deepak Ravindran is rated among the 18 hottest technology innovators from India for 2011 by MIT institute.