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Manthan Award winners 2012 Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 eGovernance Service Delivery Gateway (NSDG)E-governance means to deliver online services to citizens, businesses and governments and requires increasing interactions amongst departments and with external agencies at various levels in government. The National e-Governance Service Delivery Gateway (NSDG) is an attempt to reduce such point to point connections between departments and provide a standardized interfacing,messaging and routing switch...

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Manthan Award winners 2012 Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 IVRS Aadharit Dainik Anushravan PradaliThe ICT based social audit monitoring of the DMS has resultedin a reduction in the number of schools where meals were earlier not served-from about 36% in Nov’10 to 6.4% in Aug’12. Lack of accurate and timely information has always plagued the MIS of large scalegovernment operations.The Cloud Telephony and IVRS based Daily Monitoring Systemhas been devised by the Mid Day Meal Authority, Uttar...

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Manthan Award winners 2012 Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 enajori.comEnajori.com is the first online monthly bilingual magazine from Assam, launched inMarch, 2010, which has asserted itself to one of the most popular websites of the regionwith monthly average hits of 1.5 lakh readers. The aim of the project is to showcaseAssam’s rich and diverse culture represented through its various ethnicities as well asdiversity in language and religion. The online portal delivers a full database of...

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Manthan Award winners 2012 Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Soil based plant nutrient management information system for KeralaThe Soil Based Plant Nutrient Management Information system is an ICT enabled farmer centric soil nutrient management and advisory system for Kerala. It is a multi institutional farmer centric project initiated by the Department of Agriculture, Govt. of Kerala. The soil information system has been conceptualized, designed, developed and implemented by the Indian Institute of...

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Manthan Award winners 2011 Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 RANGDE.ORGRangDe.Org is a Internet platform that raises social capital from individuals and deploys it as loan capital to low income households. The motivation for starting Rang De was the belief that the peer to peer lending model could be leveraged to lower the cost of microcredit and and consequently to reach out to under-served communities. RangDe.Org went live on January 26th 2008. Rang de would do this through a network of committed...

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Manthan Award winners 2011 Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 BRAC MPOWER MHEALTHThis mobile-based mHealth model for Maternal, Neo-natal and Child Health (MNCH) aims to improve maternal, newborn and child health issues with enhanced efficiency and effectiveness. The components of this model are: a. Patient Management and Care system which is a mobile- based platform used by Community Health Workers (CHWs), to collect household and patient data through a step-by-step decision tree (in Bangla language),...

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Manthan Award winners 2011 Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 AKSHARITThe Aksharit project is an Indian language word game having different modules for different age groups. Three games have been launched so far by covering all the age groups. A crossword building game for adults called Aksharit on mobiles, a quick word search game (for all ages above 12 yrs) called Aksharit Word Matki for social media and online platforms, and Mystery Land of Aksharit for children (below 12 yrs) as an...

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Manthan Award winners 2011 Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 InfoladyThe “Infolady” is an initiative, started by Activity for Reformation of Basic Needs – ARBAN, to connect rural people to the livelihood information and knowledge system at their door steps. The programme facilitates the creation of knowledge networks in Purobodhao Upazilla and offers new technology-based self-employment opportunity for the educated rural women. In the process empowerment takes place for both the Infolady...

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mBillionth Award Finalists 2012 Page 1 | 2 UrjaMitraUrjaMitra, launched by Kanpur Electricity Supply Corporation (KESCo), is the first initiative of its kind in India in the power sector based on IVR or interactive voice response. This mobile-based initiative provides free information about power-restoring, cuts, breakdown and shutdown to consumers on their landline or mobile phones. The service is an effort to disburse free information about power breakdowns. Using IVR and SMS- based...

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mBillionth Award Finalists 2012 Page 1 | 2 Bhasha PuvathBhasha Puvath, developed by Bhasha Lanka, is an all-in-one native language news app available in the Sinhala and Tamil languages. Bhasha Puvath includes the latest news from 30 different news sources in Sri Lanka, including most of the news broadcasting channels & newspapers. The Hindi version of the channel, Bhasha Samachar, includes 4 Hindi channels in India. The idea behind developing Bhasha Lanka is to eliminate the language...

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