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| Manthan-AIF Award '05 |
Here is a quick run down on all the Manthan Award South Asia 2005 Winners:
E – Business
E – Culture
E - Science
E - Entertainment
E - Health
E - Inclusion
E - Learning
E - Government
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| e-Business |
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Automatic Milk Collection System
ToeHoldIndia.com
PlantersNet.com
e-Business contents are:
Support and optimization of business processes; creation of new business models in e-commerce and m-commerce, business to business, business to consumers, internet security and other areas; supporting Small and Medium Enterprises on the marketplace.
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| Automatic Milk Collection System |
| The simple technology used in this product has
enabled the timely collection of milk and thus, generated higher profits for the
producer, now paid well in time. A basic milk collection transaction done by
AKASHGANGA comprises:
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| ToeHold Website |
| This unique model of Grassroots Group Enterprise, The front end of TAC is a market-focused, customer-centric and profit-driven business enterprise while the back end is an innovative social enterprise striving for improvement in the quality of life of about 400 artisan families.
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| PlantersNet.com |
| The initiative is bringing about a paradigm transformation in the life of the Indian farmer and enhancing competitiveness of a business enterprise. It is changing the Indian farmer into a progressive knowledge-seeking netizen, enriching him with knowledge and in the age of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) elevating him to a new order of empowerment.
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| e-Culture |
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Honey Bee Network
NUDI
Marathiworld.com
e-Culture contents are:
Preserving and presenting cultural heritage in line with the challenges of the future; demonstrating valuable cultural assets clearly and informatively using state-of-the-art technology.
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| Honey Bee Network |
| The Honey Bee Network is a huge database of
grassroots innovation and technologies collected over a period of 15 years. It
incorporates about ten thousand "green" grassroots innovations, including
examples of traditional ecological and technological knowledge of farmers,
artisans, pastoralists, fishermen and women, scouted from more than 4,000
villages of India and several other countries. These innovations: herbal
pesticides, small machinery, veterinary medicines, soil and water conservation,
organic agriculture, vegetable dyes, fishing, food processing, new plant
varieties are developed by local people without any outside help. Honey Bee has
also developed a touch screen interface to allow access to innovations for those
without a strong working knowledge of computers.
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| NUDI - The Kannada Script Enabling Software |
| NUDI- the Kannada script enabling software in
computers is the first effort which works under Windows OS with 8-bit code
(ASCII) representation. Government of Karnataka is using NUDI in all its
computerization activities. Hence it has become easy for all its departments and
offices to implement Kannada in their activities without any hindrance. This is
significant in view of the need for free availability of Kannada script in
computers and most importantly portability of information in Kannada language
that originate from different offices of the government, public sector
undertakings, Private enterprises and General public throughout the state of
Karnataka; in fact, wherever they are. This project has been very successful in
Karnataka, with the government too adopting the applications rapidly.
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| Marathiworld.com |
| Marathiworld.com is the first to launch Dindharshika
-World’s first e-calendar with all that you need to know for festivities of
Maharashtra, Marathi culture and tradition.
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| e-Science |
Winners-
Electrophoresis e-Lab
e-Science contents are:
Fostering global collaboration in key areas of science, and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it; providing measures to promote and demonstrate scientific processes and make them accessible to citizens; scientific projects articulated through new media.
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| Electophoresis e-Lab |
| The main feature of the course is its detailed simulated scripted laboratory, taking students to the all procedures to perform electrophoresis without attending a real-time lab. Lot of animations and simulations has been developed to give the real-time experience of a lab. This could be an excellent step and could be replicated to all the experiments performed in schools, colleges, universities, labs which besides being cost-effective and accessible to everybody would also not expose students to risky chemicals.
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| e-Entertainment |
Winners-
World Cup Cricket
e-Entertainment contents are:
Supplying digitized entertainment products and services; entertaining the user in this world's variety of languages and its cultural diversity; supporting movement from one-way to two-way, from single to multiple players, interactive entertainment and the synergy between analog and digital platforms.
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| World Cup Cricket |
| The games are meant for children as well as adults. The games comprised of Adventure Cricket Games, eQuizzes, Live Shows and Mind Games on Cricket. The games can be played by logging onto the Internet and browsing through the WWW address. The game has been developed in Shockwave Flash with a back end database.
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| e-Health |
Winners-
Sisu Samrakshak
IndiaBloodDonors.com
Helpline on HIV/AIDS
e-Health contents are:
Developing the consumer-centred model of health care where stake holders collaborate, utilizing Information Communication Technology, including internet technologies to manage health issues as well as the health care system.
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| Sisu Samrakshak |
| The program aims at harnessing Information and
Communication Technology to accelerate achievement of goals in women’s health,
children’s growth and development in the early years through enhanced community
monitoring mechanisms and bridge the digital divide. The goals of the project
are well twined with the Millennium Development Goals.
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| IndianBloodDonors.com |
| Indianblooddonors has donors registered from over 330
cities including more than 25,000 donors. The website gets 25-30 request for
blood everyday.
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| Helpline on HIV/AIDS |
| Electronic Helpline create awareness on HIV/AIDS as
the rate of spread of HIV/AIDS in India is reaching to an alarming level. The
added advantage is that it helps in optimizing costs to a great extent. Helpline
Description HSDRC is using the concept of Interactive Voice Response System
(IVRS) for this Electronic Helpline on HIV/AIDS.
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| e-Inclusion |
Winners-
aAQUA: Almost All Questions Answered
VAACHAK
Dissemination of animal health knowledge
Save the Girl Child
Disability India Network
e-Inclusion contents are:
All measures supporting IT integration of least developed states of India into the Information Society. Reducing the "digital divide" and content gap between technology- empowered and technology-excluded communities and groups - such as rural areas and women. Bridging society through multimedia.
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| aAQUA - Almost All Questions Answered |
| Experts use aAQUA to assist farmers in seed
selection, new techniques, animal husbandry, and pest and disease management.
Kiosk operators photograph crop and animal diseases, and are sometimes assisted
by our full-time local person in administering the solutions. Information on
where to buy medicines, techniques, taking soil samples etc. are also answered
by experts. The search engine too is ahead in serving the agriculture community
in terms of understanding the query, not just key words.
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| VAACHAK - Text to Speech Software for Indian Languages |
| Vaachak enables computers to read out text in
Indian languages and English in clear, easily understandable and Natural
(Indian) accented voice (particularly for English - as opposed to British or
American accents for other Text-to-Speech software).
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| Dissemination of animal health knowledge |
| As one of the important strategies for reducing information poverty, information kiosk was designed as a tool to enhance the farmers' information system through appropriately designed content and methods of extension programmes that meet the expressed needs and objective circumstances of the resource poor.
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| Save the Girl Child |
| This is both an online and off-line initiative
that successfully makes use of the e-mail, Internet, and other
information-sharing strategies to actively promote legal measures banning (and
penal action taken against those who conduct) selective sex tests, which can
result in the decision to abort female foetuses.
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| Disability India Network |
| This initiative for the dissemination of information related to disability issues specific to India was started in 1999. It has grown to become one of the largest and most well known websites on disability. 400 artisan families.
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| e-Learning |
Winners-
C-GAP course self learning
kit
Learning Objects
Chukki Chinna
BookBox
Adventus Learning
Management System
e-Learning contents are:
Serving the needs
of the learners to acquire knowledge and skills for a complex and globalizing
world; transforming schools, universities and other educational institutions
through interactive, personalized and distributed learning resources; creating
active e-learning communities and target models and solutions for corporate
training, supporting first steps in multimedia.
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| C-GAP course self learning kit |
| It is a self learning material CD in multimedia
format including narration, video clippings, and photographs, animations in
interactive and attractive format. The language of instruction is Marathi and
can be used by any learner who is primary school educated.
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| Learning Objects |
| The Knowledge Utility ensures that the teacher uses
the content through the means of technology and participates in the enhancement
of the process by adding his/her own experience to share it with a community.
The experience has been that teachers find it extremely easy to access these
objects.
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| Chukki Chinna |
| The evaluation of the impact of the programmes is
being done in the 340 project schools in Karnataka very intensively. An
important feature of these Chukki Chinna IRI programmes is that they are geared
towards addressing not only the learning gains among the students but are also
very potent tools for teacher training, as the technique is highly activity
based, and facilitates active learning during and after the broadcast of the
programmes.
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| BookBox |
| BookBox was born with the vision of integrating
“books” into the lives of children through the media already in their lives and
in their languages.
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| Adventus Learning Management System |
| Education is introduced as a very interactive and
versatile means which can make normal education more productive and relevant for
both trainer and trainee. Indian education methodology is primarily text
oriented but initiations like the above can be critical for students who don’t
have qualified teachers to learn from.
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| e-Government |
Winners-
NISANI
Trivandrum City Police Portal
DACNET
SWAGAT
e-Vikas
e-COPS
e-Government contents are:
Empowering citizens and serving public services clients; fostering quality and efficiency of information exchange and communication services in governmental and public administrative processes; strengthening participation of citizens in information society decision making.
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