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MANTHAN AWARDS 2012

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Manthan Awards, 2014. Photo: Sneha Srivastava/Mint

Digital innovators honoured at Manthan

8 min read . 08 Dec 2014

The multi-wallet solution for NSDC was launched by TransServ’s chief operating officer Aditya Gupta and his team. Photo: S. Kumar/Mint

A multi-wallet solution to aid NSDC’s mission

3 min read . 01 Dec 2014

In 2009, Girish Ramdas and Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan (left), who were based in Chennai at the time, decided to develop a software which will make it easy to access and read magazines on a tablet or smart phone—with just a tap.

Providing access to magazines with just a tap

3 min read . 24 Nov 2014

Preethi Herman of Change.org says the organization’s mission is to have a world where ‘no one is powerless’. Photo: Sneha Srivastava/Mint

Helping file petitions in a few clicks

5 min read . 16 Nov 2014

Incidentally, from January 2015 onward, NPIs, NGOs, civil society organizations and the entire fraternity of non-profits would be able to get a new domain extension called .NGO (dotNGO). Photo: Mint

Digital opportunity can overcome credibility challenge of NGOs

3 min read . 10 Nov 2014

Mahila Shishu allows one-time registration for all departments concerned with the welfare of women and children from anywhere in the world through an Internet connection. Photo: Hindustan Times

Integrating women and child welfare

5 min read . 10 Nov 2014

Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Bloomberg

Zuckerberg, Facebook, Internet.org and Indian villages

3 min read . 03 Nov 2014

Abhijit Bhattacharya, documentation officer at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC). Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint

Challenge of digitizing old books and documents

4 min read . 03 Nov 2014

The OCR technology developed by Ramakrishnan and his team has been used to convert more than 500 Tamil books into Braille books. It can also convert books in Kannada. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

Enabling the blind to access printed content

4 min read . 29 Oct 2014

MyCityKanpur is a Facebook-based complaint redress system, where citizens of Kanpur may post complaints regarding various municipal issues to bring them to the district administration’s attention. Photo: Bloomberg

Governance through citizen participation @ social media

3 min read . 20 Oct 2014

The biggest challenge is that Indian students are not sensitized about scholarships, says Buddy4study.com founder and director Ashutosh Burnwal. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

Creating an online repository of scholarships

4 min read . 20 Oct 2014

MSD India’s Ananthakrishnan says AMS is an initiative that has made a large impact in countering infectious diseases. Photo: S. Kumar/Mint

An app to aid fight against microbial resistance

4 min read . 13 Oct 2014

Suresh A. Shan, head, business information technology solution, at Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services Sector. Photo: S. Kumar/Mint

A training framework to improve customer service

3 min read . 06 Oct 2014

Shefali Dash of the NIC. CCBS also helps disburse funds from various govt schemes directly to beneficiaries’ accounts. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Cooperative banks emerge from technological dark ages

4 min read . 29 Sep 2014

Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Put panchayat accounts online

3 min read . 01 Dec 2013

Barsha Chabaria, station head, Salaam Namaste, says education and training has helped the kids get well-paying jobs. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

A helping hand for child labourers

4 min read . 03 Dec 2013

Given that information is a right in the modern age, remote communities need access. To provide Internet access to every rural household, we need rural ISPs. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

Let NGOs provide rural Net services

3 min read . 25 Nov 2013

Pradeep Sinha, senior director, high performance computing and research and development, says C-DAC aims to address the lack of high performance computing facilities in India. Photo: Yogesh Joshi/Mint

A development vehicle to aid the supercomputing ecosystem

3 min read . 25 Nov 2013

The gravest problem in our education system is that more than 40% of the teachers either do not go to the school or do not take classes. Photo: AP

Political exigency and technology efficiency may not go together

3 min read . 18 Nov 2013

Nishit Kumar, head of communication and strategy at Childline India Foundation, says when a child calls 1098, a human operator addresses all queries. Photo: Sameer Joshi/Mint

A 24-hour helpline for children in need

4 min read . 18 Nov 2013