mBillionth Award Finalists 2012
Page 1 | 2
Bhasha Puvath
Bhasha 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 barrier and deliver the latest news to users in their own local language and also on their mobile phones. In general, most of its products and services are available on mobile phones. Read more >>
Bhasha 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 barrier and deliver the latest news to users in their own local language and also on their mobile phones. In general, most of its products and services are available on mobile phones. Read more >>
Website : www.bhasha.lk
SMS Enabled Social Group
SMS Enabled Social Group is a SMS based social networking platform specifically designed and developed for villagers to exchange information with one another at the cost of single standard SMS. This
unique innovative platform has been developed by IIT Madras’s Rural Technology and Business Incubator (RTBI). The initiative uses pre-existing mobile phones and devices for news sharing channel in rural regions of Tamil Nadu. The idea is to provide virtual platform to villagers to exchange day-to-day news in the village like job opportunities, weather updates, cricket scores, temple festivals, collector visits, panchayat announcements, power cuts, etc.This SMS enabled Social Group platform was an integral component of the NOW (Namma Ooru Website; an initiative to digitize village specific information and create a global identity for an Indian villages) project. The village news on the website could also be updated through SMS which means that ‘live’ village news is streamed directly from the villagers via a simple SMS. Read more >>
SMS Enabled Social Group is a SMS based social networking platform specifically designed and developed for villagers to exchange information with one another at the cost of single standard SMS. This
unique innovative platform has been developed by IIT Madras’s Rural Technology and Business Incubator (RTBI). The initiative uses pre-existing mobile phones and devices for news sharing channel in rural regions of Tamil Nadu. The idea is to provide virtual platform to villagers to exchange day-to-day news in the village like job opportunities, weather updates, cricket scores, temple festivals, collector visits, panchayat announcements, power cuts, etc.This SMS enabled Social Group platform was an integral component of the NOW (Namma Ooru Website; an initiative to digitize village specific information and create a global identity for an Indian villages) project. The village news on the website could also be updated through SMS which means that ‘live’ village news is streamed directly from the villagers via a simple SMS. Read more >>
Website : http://now.rtbi.in/nammaooru/
Shashca – Youth
‘Shashca – Youth Ka Newspaper’ was started by Ali Suleman, a local entrepreneur & founder of Shashca. It is Pakistan’s first e-newspaper written in slang language. The newspaper aims to spread ethical values, social, political and literary awareness in youth. The idea behind using slang language is to target youth in order to develop their interest in the socio-political issues of Pakistan and to revive the reading culture among them. Instead of using traditional, Naqshbandi script, the newspaper uses Roman script, which is user-friendly and often used in the social-networking world. Like English script of 26 alphabets, Shashca has formalized the Roman script for Urdu language for writing the newspaper. The e-newspaper covers wide range of topics such as sports, politics, weather and lifestyle. Read more >>
‘Shashca – Youth Ka Newspaper’ was started by Ali Suleman, a local entrepreneur & founder of Shashca. It is Pakistan’s first e-newspaper written in slang language. The newspaper aims to spread ethical values, social, political and literary awareness in youth. The idea behind using slang language is to target youth in order to develop their interest in the socio-political issues of Pakistan and to revive the reading culture among them. Instead of using traditional, Naqshbandi script, the newspaper uses Roman script, which is user-friendly and often used in the social-networking world. Like English script of 26 alphabets, Shashca has formalized the Roman script for Urdu language for writing the newspaper. The e-newspaper covers wide range of topics such as sports, politics, weather and lifestyle. Read more >>
Website : http://www.shashca.com
iris. – India
Iris is a voice-based answering engine developed by Dexetra that uses technologies like natural language processing, machine learning to understand natural language questions raised by users and find answers in real-time. The idea behind developing iris was to make it easier for users to get real-time actions and answers in more natural way, i.e., voice. The engine easily understands natural language and fetches answers and takes actions for queries accord to users’ post. Iris answers questions in any topic—philosophy, history, science to latest news, movies, stocks— in real-time. Moreover, users can automate a range of tasks using iris: dialling/texting a contact, tweeting, updating facebook status, internet search, YouTube search for videos, stock prices, playing music from your device, weather updates, movie reviews,song lyrics, and so on. Read more >>
Iris is a voice-based answering engine developed by Dexetra that uses technologies like natural language processing, machine learning to understand natural language questions raised by users and find answers in real-time. The idea behind developing iris was to make it easier for users to get real-time actions and answers in more natural way, i.e., voice. The engine easily understands natural language and fetches answers and takes actions for queries accord to users’ post. Iris answers questions in any topic—philosophy, history, science to latest news, movies, stocks— in real-time. Moreover, users can automate a range of tasks using iris: dialling/texting a contact, tweeting, updating facebook status, internet search, YouTube search for videos, stock prices, playing music from your device, weather updates, movie reviews,song lyrics, and so on. Read more >>
Website : http://irisbot.com
Mobile Radio
Mobile Radio, an entertainment-based initiative of Spice Digital Limited, allows citizens to access music anywhere, anytime. And in their regional languages. The service is accessible in 17 different languages and has a vast library of 250,000 songs, available in 23 different languages. Besides listening to full length songs, the user is given an easy navigation tool to skip a song, move to the next or previous songs on the press of pre-defined keys. The service also has a big social connect to it through options such as song dedication, updating songs on the facebook wall, creation of personalized playlist of one’s favorite music collection and sharing playlists with friends.Each user is given a unique and easy to remember playlist ID for sharing with all. If the user likes the service, they can gift the service among their friends. Read more >>
Mobile Radio, an entertainment-based initiative of Spice Digital Limited, allows citizens to access music anywhere, anytime. And in their regional languages. The service is accessible in 17 different languages and has a vast library of 250,000 songs, available in 23 different languages. Besides listening to full length songs, the user is given an easy navigation tool to skip a song, move to the next or previous songs on the press of pre-defined keys. The service also has a big social connect to it through options such as song dedication, updating songs on the facebook wall, creation of personalized playlist of one’s favorite music collection and sharing playlists with friends.Each user is given a unique and easy to remember playlist ID for sharing with all. If the user likes the service, they can gift the service among their friends. Read more >>
Website : http://www.spicedigital.in
Cricnews
Cricnews, an initiative of UniverSL Software Solutions (PVT) LTD,is am SMS-based mobile-web application through which subscribers can check the live scores of a cricket match through RSS feed. Live on Etisalat network, Cricnews is a subscriber-based application where s/he is charged via the operator. Cricnews service is available on smartphonesand non-smartphones. The application offers three main features:the subscriber can receive news updates related with cricket; scores of a cricket match can be received in important moments; and, the subscriber can check the live score by sending a text message. Read more >>
Cricnews, an initiative of UniverSL Software Solutions (PVT) LTD,is am SMS-based mobile-web application through which subscribers can check the live scores of a cricket match through RSS feed. Live on Etisalat network, Cricnews is a subscriber-based application where s/he is charged via the operator. Cricnews service is available on smartphonesand non-smartphones. The application offers three main features:the subscriber can receive news updates related with cricket; scores of a cricket match can be received in important moments; and, the subscriber can check the live score by sending a text message. Read more >>
Website : http://universlsoftware.com
Dynamic Intelligent Blood Donor Network
Dynamic Intelligent Blood Donor Network is an initiative of the Indian Society for Blood Transfusion and Immunohematology with a vision to provide safe blood to patients. The service helps blood banks in handling medico-social problems through low-cost but hi-tech ICT applications and tools. Through this service, blood banks are linked to central database of blood donors. The database is updated through mobile phone using SMS technology to update web-enabled database. The aim of this service is to help needy patients, who are looking for blood donors by providing them required blood group as quickly as possible. This low-cost system is based on the mechanism of receiving and sending bulk SMS. The system is designed on the basis of: matching and screening of donors, match blood groups and donors with permanent disqualification criteria are completely eliminated. Read more >>
Dynamic Intelligent Blood Donor Network is an initiative of the Indian Society for Blood Transfusion and Immunohematology with a vision to provide safe blood to patients. The service helps blood banks in handling medico-social problems through low-cost but hi-tech ICT applications and tools. Through this service, blood banks are linked to central database of blood donors. The database is updated through mobile phone using SMS technology to update web-enabled database. The aim of this service is to help needy patients, who are looking for blood donors by providing them required blood group as quickly as possible. This low-cost system is based on the mechanism of receiving and sending bulk SMS. The system is designed on the basis of: matching and screening of donors, match blood groups and donors with permanent disqualification criteria are completely eliminated. Read more >>
Website : http://www.isbti.org
Ponds Let
The Let’s Pink is a Corporate Social Responsibility of Ponds, for women and their spouses. The initiative, called ‘Newspaper Call the Doctor’ is a media campaign to bring awareness on causes, symptoms
and treatment of breast cancer in India. Activation comes to you: Newspaper Call the Doctor transforms a newspaper into an On-ground Activation tool. Developed by TELiBrahma, Newspaper Call the Doctor leverages the advantages of a newspaper by enhancing distribution, its reach and connects with masses. THe product provides a greater activation value to brands and consumers. Read more >>
The Let’s Pink is a Corporate Social Responsibility of Ponds, for women and their spouses. The initiative, called ‘Newspaper Call the Doctor’ is a media campaign to bring awareness on causes, symptoms
and treatment of breast cancer in India. Activation comes to you: Newspaper Call the Doctor transforms a newspaper into an On-ground Activation tool. Developed by TELiBrahma, Newspaper Call the Doctor leverages the advantages of a newspaper by enhancing distribution, its reach and connects with masses. THe product provides a greater activation value to brands and consumers. Read more >>
Website : http://telibrahma.com/
Idea Brahma – Tower Management (Green Telecom)
Green Telecom is a go-green initiative of Idea Brahma Consulting Pvt. Ltd. It manages data of towers using a mobile device. The idea behind initiating this project is to bring authenticity in telecom tower management. It is a paperless approach to manage towers, using a mobile device. This ‘innovation’ solution ensures the visit of technician and accuracy of the data from a tower. To develop the system, technologies like cloud technology, mobility and hardware-interface have been used. The system has direct interface from PIU (Power Interface Unit) of the tower that is connected through GPS, and also has Geo stamping support in device. To support a local language, the system has education with AV and local language support system. Read more >>
Green Telecom is a go-green initiative of Idea Brahma Consulting Pvt. Ltd. It manages data of towers using a mobile device. The idea behind initiating this project is to bring authenticity in telecom tower management. It is a paperless approach to manage towers, using a mobile device. This ‘innovation’ solution ensures the visit of technician and accuracy of the data from a tower. To develop the system, technologies like cloud technology, mobility and hardware-interface have been used. The system has direct interface from PIU (Power Interface Unit) of the tower that is connected through GPS, and also has Geo stamping support in device. To support a local language, the system has education with AV and local language support system. Read more >>
Website : http://www.ideabrahma.com
Andhra pradesh smart card project
AP Smart Card project is a pioneering financial-inclusion initiative of Andhra Pradeshvgovernment. It helps disburse pensions and NREGS (National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) wages to the beneficiaries at the village level. The pilot stage of the project started in 6 mandals of Warangal district. By now, the project covers all districts of the state through its Banking Correspondent Model. For this initiative, the state government has tied up with banks and state postal department. Presently, the state government is serving 30,000 rural branches of banks to serve over 8 lakh villages. Based on the data given by the government, the beneficiaries have been enrolled by the paying agency by capturing fingerprint biometrics and job card details. Read more >>
AP Smart Card project is a pioneering financial-inclusion initiative of Andhra Pradeshvgovernment. It helps disburse pensions and NREGS (National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) wages to the beneficiaries at the village level. The pilot stage of the project started in 6 mandals of Warangal district. By now, the project covers all districts of the state through its Banking Correspondent Model. For this initiative, the state government has tied up with banks and state postal department. Presently, the state government is serving 30,000 rural branches of banks to serve over 8 lakh villages. Based on the data given by the government, the beneficiaries have been enrolled by the paying agency by capturing fingerprint biometrics and job card details. Read more >>
Website : http://nrega.ap.gov.in
Impulse Case Info Centre
Impulse Case Info Centre is an effort of the Impulse NGO Network to fight against human-trafficking issues. This Microsoft Wordbased programme has ready formats, so that the information is easy to insert. It provides accurate and updated information for all the stakeholders involved in combating human trafficking. The Case Manager of this centre keeps the records of all the information available in documentation templates, creating a case file for a specific case. Immediate action is taken per case requirement. Impulse’s Case Manager is responsible for collecting all the available information concerning the cases in all the Northeastern states, or rescue at the destination. Thus, it creates an information hub for all stakeholders fighting against human trafficking. Read more >>
Impulse Case Info Centre is an effort of the Impulse NGO Network to fight against human-trafficking issues. This Microsoft Wordbased programme has ready formats, so that the information is easy to insert. It provides accurate and updated information for all the stakeholders involved in combating human trafficking. The Case Manager of this centre keeps the records of all the information available in documentation templates, creating a case file for a specific case. Immediate action is taken per case requirement. Impulse’s Case Manager is responsible for collecting all the available information concerning the cases in all the Northeastern states, or rescue at the destination. Thus, it creates an information hub for all stakeholders fighting against human trafficking. Read more >>
Website : http://www.impulseasia.org/
Value Added Product Development using mobile technology
Indian Grameen is a financial-inclusion initiative of Indian Grameen Services (IGS)and Sub-K I Transaction Limited (Sub-K) that aims to make day-to-day transaction accessible, affordable and trust-filled to facilitate inclusive growth of the unreachable and create a more prosperous society. Indian Grameen provides services like micro-pensions, micro-insurance, NREGA and other government payments, Money Transfer, Micro-Credit, Utility Payments and Prepaid Mobile Top-up through a Business Correspondent. The services to be offered are with Subscription to Package of Practices (POP), which serves as a one-stop portal for all crop-related information and weatherrelated information. It provides a diagnosis of crop problems and solutions.Through this package, agriculture-based consultation services are provided within radius of 30 km. Read more >>
Indian Grameen is a financial-inclusion initiative of Indian Grameen Services (IGS)and Sub-K I Transaction Limited (Sub-K) that aims to make day-to-day transaction accessible, affordable and trust-filled to facilitate inclusive growth of the unreachable and create a more prosperous society. Indian Grameen provides services like micro-pensions, micro-insurance, NREGA and other government payments, Money Transfer, Micro-Credit, Utility Payments and Prepaid Mobile Top-up through a Business Correspondent. The services to be offered are with Subscription to Package of Practices (POP), which serves as a one-stop portal for all crop-related information and weatherrelated information. It provides a diagnosis of crop problems and solutions.Through this package, agriculture-based consultation services are provided within radius of 30 km. Read more >>
Website : http://igsIndia.org.in
mBillionth Award Finalists 2012
Page 1 | 2
