Manthan 2007- India's Best e-content for Development
Nominations are now open to Manthan Award 2007 for India’s Best e-Content for Development.
Nominationsare invited from individual participants, organizations, individuals seconding nominations for grassroots practitioners who are doing pioneering work in developing, creating and dissemination digital content, be it online or offline, for grassroots empowerment and development in daily walks of life.
Last Date is for registration is 10th August so hurry up.
To get further details about categories for nominations click here
Date : 21-22 September 2007
Venue : India Islamic Cultural Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi
(Entry from Gate No: 5, Besides India International Centre Annex
DRAFT AGENDA
DAY ONE (FRIDAY September 21, 2007) 09.00 AM – 18.30 PM
08.30 AM – 09.30 AM: REGISTRATION; TEA & SOCIAL NETWORKING
| POWER SESSION | 09.30 AM – 11.00 AM |
The Power Session is planned to bring the most important innovators, strategists, planners and executors from all kind of sectors like government, policy, civil society/NGOs, public representatives and funding organizations
- Screening of Video/Film on Manthan Award
- Welcome by Mr. Osama Manzar, Founder & Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation
- Inaugural Speech by Mr. Sam Pitroda, Chairman, Knowledge Commission
- Keynote address by Mr. M Nambiar, Additional Secretary, DIT, MoC&IT
- Vision Speech by Mr. J. Sathyanarayana, CEO, NISG
- Strategy Speech by Waterman Mr. Rajinder Singh, Tarun Bharat Sangh, Magasaysay Awardee
- Guest Speech by Mr. Joe Madiath, Executive Director, Gram Vikas; Skoll Awardee
- Public Speech by Mr. Sachin Pilot, Member of Parliament
- Accessibility Speech by Mr. HD Saxena, Director, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
- E-Content Roadmap by Shankar Venkateswaran, CEO, American India Foundation
11.00 AM – 11.30 AM: TEA & NETWORKING BREAK
SESSION 1
11.30 AM – 13.30 PM
E-Content for Governance; Business & Citizen Services
Enabling Grassroots Governance and Business through Content & Service Delivery
Track on e-Governance would try to focus on how ICT and its gamut of technologies and media tools could be enabled for effective and integrated governance service delivery to facilitate a citizen and people friendly governance structure
Inauguration of Local Area Portal [Conceived as per MLA/MP Constituencies]
- Mr. Sachin Pilot, Member of Parliament [DAUSA], Loksabha
- Dr. PP Koya, Member of Parliament [Lakshadweep], Loksabha
- Mr. Rajesh Lilothia, Member of Legislative Assembly, Delhi
SESSION CHAIR: SANJAY JAJU, IAS, VC & MD, INFRASTRUCTURE CORPORATION OF AP
SESSION MODERATOR: PIYUSH GUPTA, GM, NISG
Presentations by the select best of Manthan Award Nominees:
- Dr. Rakesh Gupta, National Informatics Centre
- Ms. Chaya Brian Carvalho, BC Web Wise Pvt Ltd
- National Portal of India Team, National Informatics Centre
- Shri. B V Selvaraj, Administration of the UT of Lakshadweep
- Dr. M Padma, Dept of Rural Development, Government of Andhra Pradesh
- Mr. Praveen Pakash, DC, Ranga Reddy, Andhra Pradesh
- Ms. Madhuri Sharma, National Informatics Centre
Moderated discussion on role of e-Content in Governance and Rural Enterprise vis-à-vis Common Service Centers and develop key recommendation for Vision Plan for e-Content
13.30 PM – 14.30 PM: LUNCH & POWER NETWORKING
SESSION 2
PART 1
14.30 PM – 16.30 PM
Educational & Learning
Empowerment through ICT, Policy, Content & Localisation
Across the two sessions in the entire afternoon, the Special Track on ICT & Education would try to focus on how ICT and its gamut of technologies and media tools could be able to empower the rural India, its children, women, and girls with education, and linked economic empowerment
SESSION CHAIR: MR. SC KHUNTIA, JT. SECY, MHRD
SESSION MODERATOR: MS. ASHISH GARG, GESCI
3-5 Minutes presentation by the Best of Manthan Award Nominees:
- Ms. Bhagyashri Dengle, PLAN India
- Prof. K. R. Srivathsan, Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management
- Shri Raj Kumar, Dept of Science & Technology, Gov. of Gujarat
- Mr. Victor Paul, Education Development Center (EDC)
- Mr. Vinish Kathuria, Online SolidGyan Pvt. Ltd.
- Mr. Ajay Kapur, Think.com, Oracle Foundation
- Ms Supriya Bhalerao, Booksline, SRAS Foundation
- Mr. Peeyush Bajpai & Raftaar Team, raftaar.com, Indicus Netlabs
- Mr. Sriganesh Madhvanath, Localisation Toolkit, HP Labs India
- Mr. Suviraj Padiyath, eKA Internet Technologies
- Mr. Gautam D Goradia, YOKNOWLEDGE.COM, Hayagriva
- Ms. Meenakshi Raveen, Bhagwat Geeta in Braille, Rotary Bangalore
- Mr. Nishant Sharma, Daisy Book Readers for Blinds, Kritikal Solutions
16.30 PM – 17.00 PM: TEA BREAK & NETWORKING FOR EMPOWERMENT
SESSION 2
PART 2
17.00 PM – 18.30 PM
Experts Consultation & Moderated discussion on role of e-Content, ICT in Education Policy and Localisation to empower the entire education sector of the country and develop key recommendation for Vision Plan for e-Content
- Ms. Shubhra Singh, Commissioner – DPEP, Rajasthan Gov.
- Mr. Pratap Kishore Mohanty, Deputy Educational Advisor, MHRD
- Mr. Manas Chakrabarti, AIF
- Mr. Akash Sethi, QUEST, USAID
- Ms. Kamla Menon, Principal, Mirambika; Advisor – NCERT
- Mr. Keshav Kumar, IPS, Chharanagar Community, Ahmedabad
- Dr. Sreedhar, Commonwealth Of Learning
- Dr. GV Ramaraju, Media Lab Asia
- Mr. HNS Rao, Navodaya Schools
- Ms. Huma Masood, UNESCO
- Prof. B. Phalachandra, Head of Dept of Education, Regional Institute of Education, NCERT
- Mr. Anvar Sadath, ED, IT@School Project, Kerala
- Mr. Neeraj Agarwal, NIIT
- Ms. Sunita Joshi, Director, JILIT, Jaypee Group
- Ms. Kusam Warikoo, Director, The Banyan Tree School
CLOSE FOR THE DAY 1
18.30 PM – Onward: Free time
DAY TWO (SATURDAY September 22, 2007) 09.00 AM – 18.30 PM
09.00 AM – 09.30 AM: REGISTRATION; TEA & SOCIAL NETWORKING
| SESSION 3 | 09.30 AM – 11.30 AM |
E-Content in Agriculture, Livelihood Enterprise & Community Broadcasting
This Track would try to focus on how ICT and its gamut of technologies and media tools like community broadcasting could be able to empower the rural India by bolstering the farming sector and rural enterprises in India.
SESSION CHAIR: MR. SANJEEV CHOPRA, PRINCIPAL SECY, HORTICULTURE & FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY, WEST BENGAL
SESSION MODERATOR: MR. NAIMUR RAHMAN, DIRECTOR, ONEWORLD SOUTH ASIA
5 minutes Presentation by the Best of Manthan Award Nominees:
- Dr P Krishna Reddy, International Institute for Information Technology, Hyderabad & Mr. G V Ramaraju, Media Lab Asia
- Ms. Saloni Malhotra, DesiCrew Solutions
- Mr. Fréderic BORNE, French Institute of Pondicherry
- Ms. Sunanda K.S, Alternative for India Development, Ranchi
- Mr. Stalin K., DRISHTI Media, Arts and Human Rights
- Mr. Sheo Shekhar Shukla, DC, Ujjain, MP & Mr. Hira Lal Trivedi, DC, Sagar, MP
Moderated discussion on role of e-Content in agriculture, livelihood, and rural business, and the content on oral medium could be the most powerful tool at the bottom of the pyramid to empower the entire rural sector of the country and develop key recommendation for Vision Plan for e-Content
- Shri Y. C. Nanda, Member, National Commission on Farmers
- Shri S. M. Jharwal, Principal Adviser, Department of Agriculture & Cooperation, GoI
- Mr. Raghuveer P, IFS, Forest Development Agency, Hyderabad
- Mr. Santosh Babu, District Collector, Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu
- Ms. Reema Nanavaty, SEWA
- Mr. DC Mishra, NIC, Delhi
- Ms. Rufina Fernandes, Nasscom Foundation
- Ms. Shantanu Sengupta, Microfinance Expert
- Mr. Sunil Khairnar, CEO, AgriWatch
- Mr. Sajan Venniyoor, UNESCO/UNDP
- Mr. Yogesh Kochhar, Head – Corporate Sustainability, Tata IndiCom
- Mr. Rajen Varada, Founder & Director, Technology for the People
- Mr. UCK Thangal, President, District Panchayat, Lakshadweep
11.30 AM – 12.00 PM: TEA & NETWORKING BREAK This track would look into some of the best that is happening across the country in terms of how local culture, heritage and entertainment is reaching out through the digital content and medium
SESSION 4
12.00 PM – 13.30 PM
E-Content in Culture, Entertainment & News
SESSION CHAIR: MR. ASHIS SANYAL, DIRECTOR – PMUEG, DIT
SESSION MODERATOR: MR. SHYAM MALHOTRA, EDITOR IN CHIEF, CYBER MEDIA
Presentation by the Best of Manthan Award Nominees:
- Mr. Jeremy Taylor & Yan Murry, Kuknalim.com, Nagaland
- Mr. Davinder Pal Singh, Nanakshahi, Punjab
- Mr. Hilmi Quraishi, ZMQ Software Systems
- Mr. Shubham Choudhury & Hemant Kr Jain
- Dr Hutokshi, Centre for Communication & Development Studies
- Ms. Mariam Mammen Mathew, Malayala Manorama Co Ltd
- Mr. Jatindra Dash, Odisha.com, Orissa
Moderated discussion on role of e-Content in culture, entertainment and localized news, especially in local languages and develop key recommendation for Vision Plan for e-Content
13.30 PM – 14.30 PM: LUNCH & POWER NETWORKING
SESSION 5
14.30 PM – 16.30 PM
E-Content in Health & Environment
This track would look into some of the best that is happening across the country in terms of how ICT tools are being used to provide solutions for health issues and to spread the environmental concerns
SESSION CHAIR: MR. SUNIL KAPOOR, DIRECTOR, FORTIS HEALTHCARE
SESSION MODERATOR: MR. PRADEEP SAHA, MANAGING EDITOR, DOWN TO EARTH
Presentation by the Best of Manthan Award Nominees:
- Mr. Sahil Mehta, Ayushveda Informatics (India) Pvt Ltd
- Mr. Tushar Sampat, T-edge Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
- Ms. Ishita Sanyal, Turning Point
- Sk. K. Shareef & Ramesh Susarla, Friends To Support Organisation
- Ms. Prameela Kalive, Zensar Technologies
- Mr. Laxman Singh & Team, Barefoot College
- Mr. Syed Fayaz, RGB Production
- Dr. T.V. Ramachandra, Environmental Information System, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science
- Neerjaal Team from Barefoot College & DEF
- Mr. Ayyappa M. Masagi, Director, Water Literacy Foundation
Moderated discussion on role of e-Content in health and environment, especially the need of telemedicine, and e-waste and develop key recommendation for Vision Plan for e-Content
16.30 PM – 17.00 PM: TEA BREAK & PREPARATION FOR AWARD GALA
AWARD GALA SESSION
17.00 PM – 20.00 PM
The Manthan Award Gala 2007
Felicitation Ceremony of Fellows of Manthan Award [e-Content Pathbreakers]
Proceedings
- Intro to Manthan Award and How it is Empowering Bottom-up National Growth
- Word of Wisdom by:
- Mr. Wajahat Habibullah, Chief Information Commissioner, CIC, GoI
- Prof. Anil Gupta, IIMA, Vice Chairman, National Innovation Foundation
- Prof VN Rajsekharan Pillai, Vice Chancellor, IGNOU
- Mr. Rajiv Karwal, MSME Expert, CEO & Founder, Milagrow
- Mr. Latif Ladid, President, IPv6 Forum
- Mr. BK Gairola, Director General, National Informatics Center
- Prof K Kannan, Vice Chancellor, University of Nagaland
- Mr. Pradeep Gupta, Incubator; Managing Director, Cyber Media
- Award & Felicitation with Quick Bites by the Awardees
- Closing Remarks by Mr. SN Goswami, Managing Director, Media Lab Asia
You can register yourself at http://manthanaward.org/ICONICS/index.asp#Registration for participating in the e-content conference and award gala.
Contact Person : Osama Manzar
Chairman: The Manthan Award [http://www.manthanaward.org]
Email: osamam@gmail.com; manthanaward@gmail.com
TeleFax: + 91-11-26532787/6; Mobile: + 91-9810042862
