Manthan-AIF Award 2006 for Best e-Content & Creativity : www.manthanaward.com
Dear Colleagues,
I feel immensely pleased in making “Manthan-AIF Award 2006 for Best e-Content Practices” public.
Manthan-AIF Award 2006 (www.manthanaward.com) is now open for nominations.
As many of you are aware by now and after going through the details of 2005 Manthan Awardees at www.manthanaward.com, you must have come to know that many awardees have gone international, and received wide spread recognition through various platforms like the World Summit Award (WSA), World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and thereby affected a multiplier impact in the process. My sincere acknowledgement goes to the media fraternity in carrying forward the names of the Manthan Awardees and their diligent works across the length and breadth of the country and the world.
What is delightful about Manthan-AIF Award 2006 is less about technology and more about its usage for final delivery.
What matters is what you deliver, what you offer, how you impact, and what’s the take-away for the masses.
We have also few more categories for nomination and final selection in its existing categories as mentioned below.
It is important to stress here that when we launched Manthan-AIF for Best e-Content Practices in India, what we meant by e-Content is it includes everything from good content, to good services, delivery of important and crucial messages for the masses using information communication technology (ICT).
Adding a new dimension, the Manthan-AIF Award 2006 Gala would be organized in Dehradun on the eve of June 18th to be hosted by the Uttaranchal Government. This is unlike the past Manthan ceremonies that were held in the national capital, New Delhi.
In addition, there will be a full day deliberation on "e-Content & Sustainability" on June 18th involving the media, experts, and best practitioners of e-content vis-à-vis the Manthan-AIF Award 2006 winners.
Manthan is open for nominations for all who are into meaningful content creation for empowering the common man, either directly or indirectly. As such it encourages nominations across all media such as radio, TV, Internet, web, CD, DVD, information kiosks, mobile, mobile vans, telephone, wireless, WAP, FM, Satellite, community radio. One important criterion is that these mediums should be used to make effective final delivery of goods and services at the community level.
Following is the list of Manthan-AIF Award categories for nomination and selection with the added categories:
Main Categories
E-Learning
E-Business
E-Culture
E-Entertainment
E-Science
E-Inclusion & Livelihood
E-Localisation
E-Youth
E-Education
E-Health
E-Governance
E-News
Special Categories
Mobile-Content
eMerging State of India
The details of each of these categories are available at www.ManthanAward.com. The online nomination form is equally available in the same website. One can download the form and send his/her nomination through email attachment.
On behalf of Manthan, I wish you all the best in this endeavour and I hope one among you get selected for the manthan-AIF Award 2006 for your pioneering and meaningful venture.
Thanking you
Osama Manzar
Chairman
The Manthan-AIF Award 2006
osamam@gmail.com
manthanaward@gmail.com
defindia@gmail.com
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SUPPORTED BY:
American India Foundation (Principal Sponsor) ; Uttaranchal Government (Platinum Sponsor) ; Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited (Category Sponsor) ; eGovWorld.in (Category Sponsor) ; SRISTI (Co-sponsor); DEF (Organiser); World Summit Award (International Partner); Dataquest (ICT Media Partner); Brand Reporter & agencyfaqs! (Media Outreach Partner); TFTP & IRAM & IT VIdya (Outreach Partner; Inomy Media (Technology Partner); ICONGO (Encouraged by)
