Telecentre Awards 2008

Location: New Delhi, India
Created By: vignesh on 13-May-2008 12:17 AM

Dear Telecentre Practitioners,

eINDIA2008 is a mega event that will showcase diverse initiatives in collective governance, education, healthcare, community management, and other participatory development programmes. The event is an attempt to assess the role of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in developmental programmes and to recognise the great practitioners who use ICTs for expediting sustainable development. The event will incorporate seven thematic tracks spread across more than 60 sessions and will involve more than 300 discussants including panelists and session chairs. The seven thematic tracks viz. e-Agriculture, e-Governance, Digital Learning, e-Health, Indian Telecentre Forum, m-Serve and Municipal IT, are based on education, government services, agriculture, healthcare services, mobile phone services, telecentre, etc and the subsequent application of ICTs in the said areas.

In order to make the event more effective and all encompassing, Centre for Science Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) plans to confer eINDIA 2008 Awards to distinguish professionals and institutions working primarily on the aforesaid domains. The eINDIA Award programme is held annually alongside the eINDIA conference proceedings. The award is open for all national and international Government organisations, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), and enterprise who have transformed social development opportunities into a sustainable social enterprise through innovative use of ICTs.

For each track/domain, we have announced three categories of awards, which are:

Apart from the general category of awards we have some special categories for performers who manifest overwhelming achievements indifferent domains with individual capacity and efforts. These special category awards underscores outstanding and remarkable achievements in different fields viz. e-Agriculture, e-Governance, Education, e-Health, Telecentre, m-Serve, Municipal IT. The special category awards in each track are as follows:

e-Agriculture: Best ICT enabled farming Award of the year

e-Governance: Best ICT enabled Government Department of the year

Digital Learning:

* Best ICT enabled School of the year
* Best ICT enabled University of the year

e-Health: Best ICT enabled Hospital of the year

Telecentre: Best innovations at the grassroots telecentres

m-SERVE: Best innovative Mobile service provider of the year

MunicipalIT: Best ICT enabled Municipal of the year

We are inviting willful nominations from individual participants, Government organisations, Non-Governmental Organisation (NGOs), private institutions and enterprise who have transformed social development opportunities into a sustainable social enterprise through innovative use of ICTs.

Awards Criteria for the Best Innovations at the Grassroots Telecentre

The award is to open for all telecentre communities, Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), Self Help Groups (SHGs) and community based groups who use Information, Communications and Technologies (ICTs) in providing various services, including education, e-Governance, health services and other services through telecentre programme.

The evaluation criteria is based on quality of vision of the projects, services, past work and implementations of technologies for the empowerment of livelihoods, and so on. Besides, soundness of technology being used, the scalability and sustainability issues and finally the impact it has made on the citizen’s life are also some of the criteria for evaluation. The selection process is based on following criteria:

The following criteria will be taken into account in the selection of grassroots telecentre:

Web Site: http://www.eindia.net.in/2008/Awards/index.asp

Contact Name: Ritu Srivastava

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