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| Manthan Award South Asia 2008 : Nomination Date Extended |
 The last date for filing in nominations for the Manthan Award South Asia 2008 has now been extended till August 15. It has been done bowing to popular demand and to facilitate our new member countries i.e. all SAARC Countries including India file in their nominations in a more relaxed atmosphere. Keep the nominations coming.
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| DEF Participates in e-INDIA 2008 |
Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) participated recently in eINDIA 2008 as an exhibitor to showcase its various works to the  eINDIA visitors. The event was from 29th July to 31st July '08. DEF displayed all its initiatives in trying to bridge the digital divide in India with much gusto to the visitors counted in all more than 250 over the entire exhibition period.
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| E-mpowering people through rich content |
 DEF's Founder & Director, Osama Manzar in this interview with www.AOL.in explains the whole rationale of Manthan Award initiative and his setting up of Digital Empowerment Foundation as a means for bridging the digital divide in the region, which is a rich enabler for others in the world but poor themselves as far as digital development is concerned. Read on for
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| Old story, new media: reporters grapple with the web |
| Journalists have always looked for novel ways of engaging with readers. The internet provide new opportunities for success – and failure. "Our addiction to TV didn't come about because people decided they didn't want to read anymore" its a small extract from a fascinating ICT analytical piece carried by TimesOnline (4 Aug '08)
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| Digital media space hots up as Murdoch injects Rs424 crore |
| The digital media space in the country is nicely hotting up and it received a major boost when Rupert Murdoch, chairman & CEO of News Corp injected a sum of $100mn or Rs424 crore recently. Read the full story as carried by mint (Aug 5 '08)
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| YES Fund's firstseed to Youth Entrepreneurs |
 Five young ICT entrepreneurs won the first YES Fund ICT Business Plan Competition 2008, at a Seminar on “Accelerating Youth Employment through New-age Entrepreneurship” held in New Delhi on 21 July, 2008. For full Press Release read on
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| Who'll be first to offer disabled people a job? |
| With the recent news that those private sector
companies that employ disabled people will be provided incentive in the form of
whole PF and other benefits given by the GoI, another similar development has
taken place in the UK. The London Times (23/07/2008) carries an interesting
article titled - Who'll first to offer disabled people a job? Read
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| Are we ready for Media 2.0? |
| Atul Soni, (media director with RK Swamy BBDO), thinks digital media convergence is necessary and bats for more emphasis on radio and tv as opposed to internet and mobile. Read this article appearing in Livemint.com (21 July '08)
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| Manthan Awardee wins another accolade |
| Manthan Awardee (2007) & human rights activist, K Stalin, of Drishti Media & Arts has won another accolade this time in Zanzibar, Tanzania as his film, "India Untouched - Stories of a People Apart " was adjudged the second best film among the 60 best of the screenings
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| BBC enters Community Radio - Should We Worry? |
BBC World ties up with Chandigarh-based FM radio
 What seems like great news to read has much deeper implications if we look at it more minutely. The community radio initiative is meant to be involving community members in programme creation very actively
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| Launch of Manthan Award for South Asia |
 The Manthan Award 2008 for South Asian Countries : to recognize the best e-content for development is launched now. The Manthan Award, after its four years of interventions in India, has now decided to cover South Asian Countries, namely, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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| Manthan Awardee in tie up with Educomp |
| Designmate has entered into a strategic tie up with the Educomp to market one of its products Eureka.in which got the Manthan Award in 2006 and was also a winner at the World Summit Award in 2007, reports The Hindu
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| Digital natives vs digital immigrants : A case study |
| “He's a digital native; you're a digital immigrant. Your brains are never going to be on the same circuit system.” This geeky conclusion to a British mother by an expert sums up the fact that how Google generation thinks differently from their parents. A fascinating case study in contrast appearing in TimesOnline (June 9 '08). Read on
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| What keeps serial entrepreneurs with big ideas ticking? |
| "Can you possibly say that Bill Gates only started MicroSoft? The launching and executing of various ideas, products, versions are all like starting new ventures," says Raman Roy, Founder, Quattro BPO Solutions in The Economic Times (July 7 '08 edition)
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| DEF launches ''Towards Digital Panchayat'' |
 Maharashtra Leads the way -
February 16, 2008 may go in the history of "bottom up digital inclusion revolution" as Digital Empowerment Foundation starts its concept of "Local Area Portal" through spearheading Digital Panchayat project from Maharashtra, where 50 Panchayats
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| DEF helps develop tribal woman portal |
 In a one of its kind ventures to study through survey, assess, and come up with solutions the hitherto neglected tribal population of the country, Digital Empower Foundation (DEF) has helped Department of Information Technology (DIT), GoI and its wing Media Lab Asia (MLA) come up with a website (www.tribalwomanindia.org)
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| A Panel Discussion during the Techshare India 2008 |
 Role of technology enabled digital content for People with
Disabilities: A Panel Discussion during the Techshare India 2008. It is a proven fact that the Information Communication
Technology (ICT tools) has great potential to empower the communities including
the differently challenged ones.
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| Brief Profile Of Digital Empowerment Foundation |
| Set up in 2002 Digital Empowerment Foundation is into Information Communication Technology (ICT) enabled empowerment and development activities at the grassroots level. For this purpose, DEF has outlined its mission and vision in a realistic manner. It has tied up with like minded orginsations and partners to carry forward its objectives.
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| Content Creation and Sharing in the Digital Age: Men up |
Though both men and women equally engage in
creative activities at almost the same rate and have an equal know how of
computers, when it comes to sharing creativity online, men have an upper hand,
says a new study appearing on 24th June '08 in The Economic Times, Delhi Edition.
The Northwestern
University study is titled "The Participation Divide: Content Creation and
Sharing in the Digital Age".
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| E-gov is all about changing mindsets - TCS Chief |
S Ramadorai, CEO and MD, Tata Consultancy Services
in this interview published on Indiatimes.com (30 June '08) talks about e-Government scenario
in India and the challenges associated with it.
Excerpt : "The government has to switch from a mindset of
procurement where technology is seen as an input to one where it is focused on
outcomes and services".
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| DEF launches 'Gyan Vatika' |
 Digital Empowerment Foundation in association with Intel Foundation has launched a Community Information Resource Centre (CIRC) christened 'Gyan Vatika' (Knowledge Garden) in GinjoThakurGaon, Burmu Block, Ranchi, Jharkhand.
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| Website in focus - www.kidsrgreen.org |
 Environmental website in news for kids. This website has made the
final rounds of the prestigious Stockholm Challenge Award 2008 edition under its
Environment category.
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| Community Radio Workshop Conducted by DEF |
 DEF organised a workshop in association with SWRC, Media Lab Asia & SEWA entitled "Community Radio in the hands of Communities: Operations and Collaborations" and it was held during 2-4 February 2008 at Barefoot College, Tilonia, Ajmer
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| DEF unveils Neer Jaal (Water Web) |
 DEF unveils India's First Holistic Water Resource Management System - Neer Jaal. Neer Jaal is an Information Communication Technology enabled water resource management system for grassroots communities.
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| Digital Empowerment Foundation Media Coverages |
| Digital Empowerment Foundation, its founder & director, Osama Manzar and Manthan Award, all the three get featured in world media from time to time. A compendium of all the links for you
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| No ordinary Jury |
 "The Manthan jury is no ordinary jury, and the jurors are not adjudicating rights from wrongs. Rather they are creatively engaged in a very interesting dialogue. As one who is not trained to be a technocrat or an IT professional, it was a very enriching experience for me to see
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| Manthan Awardee starts SMS based Blood Donation service |
 www.indianblooddonors.com, a Manthan Awardee in the e-Health category from 2005 edition has adopted to the changing times and started a SMS based blood donation service.
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| Manthan Awardee develops active web GIS |
 K. Srivathsan of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala (IIITM-K), a 2007 Manthan Awardee, has developed Kerala's first active web GIS in public domain.
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| Manthan Awardees among Stockholm Challenge finalists |
| As many as 4 Manthan Awardees figure among the list
of finalists in the Stockholm Challenge Awards 2008 edition. The Manthan
Awardees to make the final cut include
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| Manthan Awardee among Asia's Best Young Entrepreneurs |
 One of the Awardees of Manthan Award 2007, Ms. Saloni Malhotra, the young entrepreneur from DesiCrew Solutions, who is its founder & CEO, has been voted the second best entrepreneur in the age group 30 or under in the Asia-Pacific region by the prestigious Businessweek.com.
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| Manthan Awardee meets Nobel Laureate |
 A Manthan Awardee presents award winning concept to Mohammad Yunus. In his meeting with Dr. Yunus, Ravi Ghate explained his Manthan Award winning idea and its unique social service that it offers through short messaging servicing (SMS). Dr. Yunus liked the concept of “SMS for masses”
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| Destined destination : India through a foreigner’s eyes |
 I joined Aiesec in March of 2005. I seemed to be the right choice for Mr. Osama Manzar – creator of the Digital Empowerment Foundation. This is how my Indian adventure began. I left Poland on the 29th June 2005 and came back home after six months on the 3rd of January of the following year.
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| DEF NEWSLETTERS : 'Towards Digital Panchayat' |
| Maharashtra has taken the lead in "bottom up digital inclusion revolution" as DEF has initiated the concept of 'Local Area Portal' through spearheading Digital Panchayat.
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| DEF NEWSLETTERS : Community Radio Workshop at Tilonia |
| A 3 day Community Radio workshop was held at Barefoot College, Tilonia on 2-4 Feb '08 by Digital Empowerment Foundation.
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