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Upholding the cause of the latent talent, Digital Empowerment
Foundation, India in partnership with the World Summit Award, has taken an
initiative to recognize the innovations in ICT through the Manthan Awards. The Manthan Award has been
established to guide India through the best e-Contents from the country, which
stands out due to their excellence in carrying messages and creating knowledge
networks among local communities and the society at large. The e-Content
practitioners are selected for their exemplary role in empowering communities
and groups through their ICT interventions.
Fifteen categories of awards are being announced every year in
the field of innovations in e-learning, e-health, e-Governance, e-livelihood,
e-business on effective strategies towards content creation and facilitation
through appropriate technology tools and infrastructure. There are thirty-nine
winners for 2007, spread across fifteen categories. The winners were chosen
amongst 353 nominations from across 27 states and union territories.
e-Books: Innovations like the Daisy Book Reader could
catch the attention of publishing houses. The objective of this product is to
build a low- cost CDROM-based e-book reader targeting visually challenged
people.
Gaming Disease: Innovations have also taken place through
online games. The gamers are informed about issues related to HIV and AIDS,
which prove to be an interesting and informative way. A wrong answer will
promptly hold you and give you vital clues. The best thing about the game is
that all
the myths about a disease are dispelled and the audience is enlightened through
the game.
Another could be an interactive website,
www.friends2support.org, which aims to provide contact information of voluntary
blood donors round the clock.
Earn through SMS: An undergraduate uses SMS and mobiles, and
generates employment. A local SMS community is created by him and the members of
the community are served with practically everything to them like a health camp,
water or electricity non-supply, any new shop opening, traffic congestion and
much more. By charging a few paise per SMS delivered for this service, he earns
about Rs 5,000-6,000 per month in a novel way and more importantly gives himself
self-employment.
Investigative Tool: Lipi Toolkit (LipiTk), an online
handwriting recognizing tool, can be described as an open source toolkit for
online handwriting recognition supported on Windows as well as Linux, created
and maintained by HP Labs India. The toolkit contains generic algorithms for the
recognition of isolated handwritten shapes such as pen gestures and handwritten
characters, captured using a stylus or electronic pen or finger.
Bhaskar Hazarika
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