NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours 2010 award - Multi-stakeholder Category

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NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours (NSIH) 2010

The power of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has been discussed widely by media, academics and practitioners alike. In the last two decades, it has changed the world as we know it. While gaps exist, ICT provides new age tools that can speed up sustainable development and enhance the overall quality of life.

Recognising the role of ICT in sustainable development, NASSCOM Foundation (NF) instituted the NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours (NSIH) in 2009 with the objective of nurturing and showcasing innovation in the use of information technology that brings about positive and sustainable social change.
In creating the platform for Social Innovation Honours, NF aims to identify projects where innovation could be in the form of both a process and a result. In looking at the process, NF aims to understand systems based on transfer and sharing of knowledge across the public, private, and non-profit sectors. For NF, a social innovation can be not only a product, a process, or a technology, but also a principle, an idea, a piece of legislation, a social movement, an intervention, or some combination of the above. NF endeavours to recognise organisations that foster these social innovations. We hope this Honour inspires creativity and imagination to bring positive social transformations for ICT in development.

The NSIH 2010 showcased innovations under the following categories –
 

* ICT led Innovation by Non - Profits

* ICT led Business Innovation for Development

* ICT led Innovation through Corporate Social Responsibility

* ICT led Innovation in e-Governance

* Multi Stakeholder Partnership

* Environment related project

IN MULTI STAKEHOLDER PARTNERSHIP

a. Ekgaon Technologies Pvt. Ltd.( www.ekgaon.com). The project MERComs is a partnership between WOSCA, Concern World Wide India and Government Welfare Departments.  MERComs is a mobile phone-based monitoring system for tracking delivery of social welfare programme entitlements to rural poor.

NASSCOM Foundation would want to thank Genpact - the presenting sponsor, MphasiS - the platinum sponsor, CNBC - the media partner, and Ernst & Young - the process validators and the jury for supporting the NSIH 2010. This has enabled us to foster innovation and help bring the immense power that ICT can bring to development for the benefit of our country and the world at large.