ICT for Development
Awards

Social Innovation Honours Award
(From Aruna Ramanathan, NASSCOM Foundation, New Delhi)

NASSCOM Foundation (NF) is pioneering the Social Innovation Honours award to recognize excellence and encourage innovation in social development initiatives. The annual Honours aim to showcase projects that demonstrate best practices through exemplary use of ICT in areas of social transformation. This honour is a celebration of innovations that bring about social change and development through the application of cutting-edge technology.

NF endeavors to create and curate spaces that foster these social innovations. We hope this honour inspires creativity and imagination to bring positive social transformations for ICT development.
 
For more information please log on to www.nasscomfoundation.org   or call Gouri on 022-2823 4844
* Applications open from 21 Sept to 20 Oct 2008

 

Manthan Awards, October 16-18 2008, New Delhi
(From Osama Manzar, Digital Empowerment Foundation, New Delhi)

Session are planned to bring the most important innovators, strategists, planners and executors from all kind of sectors like government, policy, civil society/NGOs, public representatives and funding organizations. Session topics include e-Content in Health & Environment, e-Content in Culture, Entertainment & News, e-Content in Agriculture, Livelihood Enterprise & Community Broadcasting, Educational & Learning and e-Content for Governance; Business & Citizen Services.
 
For more information contact Ms. Ravi Kanta / Mr. Md. Niyaz
Tel: 011-26532786 / 26532787 / 46024552 / 46080646
Telefax: 011-26532787
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