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| Manthan Award South Asia 2008 : Nomination Date Extended |
 The last date for filing
in nominations for the Manthan Award South Asia 2008 has now been
extended till August 15. It has been done bowing to popular demand and to
facilitate our new member countries i.e. all SAARC Countries including
India file in their nominations in a more relaxed atmosphere. Keep
the nominations coming.
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| Nominations Open for Manthan Award South Asia 2008 |
| Nominations open for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan,
India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Please Note : Last Date for Nominations has been
extended now to - August 15, 2008
The Manthan Award Recognising Best e-Content for
Development is now Manthan Award South Asia. Nominations are open for 2008
edition from e-Content innovators, practitioners and creators across South Asian
Countries who wants to nominate their products and innovations for this
prestigious recognition. Nominations are invited in 15 categories:
e-business; e-learning; e-culture; e-government; e-health;
e-enterprise and livelihood; e-entertainment; e-education; e-environment;
e-inclusion; e-localization; e-news; e-youth; m-content; community
broadcasting.
To file nominations please visit www.manthanaward.org or
http://www.manthanaward.org/NomProduct.asp
The Manthan Award is an initiative of Digital
Empowerment Foundation with strategic support from Department of Information
Technology, Government of India, & World Summit Award, Austria.
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| Model Filled Up Nomination Form .pdf from Manthan Award 2007 |
| This is a filled up Nomination Form from Manthan Award 2007. This form was filled up by Ms Saloni Malhotra of DesiCrew Solutions which, of course, went on to win the Manthan Award in the 'e-Enterprise & Livelihood' category. So we thought to help those of you out who might face some difficulty in filling up the nomination form for this year's event in a .pdf format. Keep nominating. Click here to download the filled up the successful Manthan Nomination Form from 2007.
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| Manthan Award South Asia 2008 Brochure |
| Click here to download Manthan Award South Asia 2008 Brochure
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| Manthan Award 2008 goes South Asia |
 The Manthan Award 2008 for South Asian Countries : to recognize the best e-content for development is launched now. The Manthan Award, after its four years of interventions in India, has now decided to cover South Asian Countries, namely, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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| Manthan Award 2007 - Opening Address by Sam Pitroda |
“… today the real challenge is to make education entertaining and entertainment educational”
 Addressing virtually from Chicago to e-content Pathbreakers at Manthan Awards in Delhi. Distinguished guests, ladies & gentlemen! Greetings from Chicago!! It is a special privilege to be invited to give a keynote speech at this Manthan Award ceremony complementing International Conference on e-Content and Sustainability.
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| The Manthan Award 2007 & ICONECS - Highlights |
 The successful completion of Manthan Award 2007 and Second International Conference on e-Content & Sustainability is nothing but testimony of the fact that prospects and challenges in the domain of 'e-Content for Development' are for real.
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| Foreword by Prof. Anil Gupta |
e-Content Spirit is high but we have some tasks to
do!
 King of Gondal, Gujarat, had made the education of girl child
compulsory way back in 1890s. He fined parents of those who did not send
children to school, an anna a month. Where do we find such stories on the
Internet?
Next time, I would like to see how many people have used content
provided by third parties in improving their own efficiency. That is instead of
working in isolation, how we generate collaboration among content providers so
that transaction costs of people in any region go down.
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| Foreword by Prof. Bibek Debroy |
The flavour of e-content in India
 “There is no e-governance agenda that is distinct from the improved e-governance agenda. Information technology (IT) is merely a tool and it is a pretty powerful tool. Deprivation can be understood as resulting from asymmetric access to information, whatever be the form that such information takes”
Governance is thus about delivery, about administrative processes and procedures. And in this, the interface between the citizen and the government is usually not at the Union or State level, but at the local body level.
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| Introduction by Osama Manzar |
Bridging the Content Gap Showcasing India's Best
 “A little glimpse at the 2007 edition of the Manthan Award and the picture is an interesting revelation of quality and usable content. The selection of 39 best products across 15 categories is a tell-a-tale story of how ICT enabled content can be created, used and outreached for desirable impact and outcome”
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| No Ordinary Jury - by Sanjeev Chopra |
 The Manthan jury is no ordinary jury, and the jurors are not
adjudicating rights from wrongs. Rather they are creatively engaged in a very
interesting dialogue – to decide which the best is, and on the definition of the
best. For here the best has to be intellectually stimulating and frontier edge,
socially relevant, replicable and a trendsetter in each of the categories under
consideration. As one who is not trained to be a technocrat or an IT
professional, it was a very enriching experience for me to see professionals
engage in a debate, and deliberate upon the technology and innovative
features.
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