[UgaBYTES] Manthan Award South Asia 2009 - International Conference & Award Gala

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Dear Presenters and Participants, 

 

We are very closely approaching towards the much awaited Manthan Award
Conclave on December 18-19, when we all shall assemble together to
celebrate and participate in - the Manthan Award South Asia 2009,
complemented with International Conclave on "Digital Inclusion for
Development" and "IDRC India Social Science Research Award 2009" and ICT
Mela-Exhibition Connecting Masses.

 

The objective of this mailer is simply to guide you as to how to make
optimal use of your valuable presence during the two days gala event.
Let me emphasise here, the Manthan Event 2009 is for one and all
including the Manthan Awardees, Finalists, and the Nominees and their
products and services, and for those who would be visiting and attending
the event as their own. 

 

As already informed, the following is a list of events slated for the
two days programme. All you have to do is to make sure that you bring
all the publicity, distributable materials possible of your organisation
for sharing and exchange with fellow participants. As your organizers
and host provisions have been made to display ideas, products and
applications on paper or otherwise in accorded exhibition area, Notice
Boards, and Display zones.  Presenters and participants are hereby
encouraged to bring Posters, banners, leaflets, brochures etc for the
same. 

 

Equally I am delighted to inform you the diversity and richness of
presence during the event days. The Manthan 2009 platform to witness
representations from 25 Indian states, 8 countires from South Asia, at
least 50 NGOs, 100 Government projects and organisations, Telecom and IT
industry, 40 Sarpanches, 20 Weavers, Tribal communities from Rajasthan,
Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand, more than 30 Bureaucrats who are
implementing citizen centric governance projects and more than 70
exhibitors showcasing how ICT and digital media tools having relevance
in the lives of the common man.

 

Warmest regards

 

 

 

Osama Manzar

Chairman: The Manthan Award

Founder & Director: Digital Empowerment Foundation

 




400 Projects, 
1,000 Delegates & Champions, 
30 States, 8 Countries
ONE EVENT

BROAD OVERVIEW OF THE TWO DAYS EVENT

 

400 Projects, 1000 Delegates & Champions, 30 States, 8 Countries – ONE
EVENT

Inaugural Session with India’s best minds who would enlighten on the
role of Digital Content & Services and ICT Tools for Better Livelihood
and Development of the Nation. 

South Asia International Conclave on “Digital Inclusion for Development”
[1/2 Day Each parallel Sessions]: Where selected and short listed
Manthan Award nominees would make presentations of their innovations
across topics like Health; Environment; Business; Rural Development &
Enterprises, Culture & Entertainment, Mobile Content, Community Radio,
Education; Learning & Human Resource Development, Governance & Digital
Panchayat & Constituencies; and so on 

ICT Mela Connecting Masses: Where one could experience the content and
ICT bazaar with special focus on masses connecting devices, content,
technologies, initiatives including governments, corporate, NGOs,
international organisations, and even individuals. Of course ICT Mela
would be dominated by the nominees of the Manthan Award 2009, and the
previous year awardees showcasing their innovations and award winning
projects and ideas. 

Manthan Award Gala 2009 & Folk Musical Evening: Where one could
experience the pure rural folk music followed by Award Gala where around
46 awards would be conferred for the year 2009 by some of the most
eminent people of the country and world.

IDRC <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />India Social Science
Research Award 2009: This year, along with IDRC, DEF is organizing a
special award for recognizing the research initiatives in social
sciences on subjects like food security, rural innovation, climate
change, health systems and social inclusion. The ten best researches
would get their cash award on one of the evening during the Manthan
Award South Asia 2009 events.

UNESCO-IPDC Prize for Rural Communications: Announcement of DEF and
UNESCO India partnership for UNESCO-IPDC Prize for Rural Communications,
where DEF would nominate the best practices from the Manthan Award
nominations culling from categories like Community Broadcasting, e-News,
m-Content, e-Inclusion, and so on.

Launch of Digital Panchayat (DP) & e-NGO Program: DEF’s two of the most
mass impacting programs would be launched. For DP, 40 Panchayat of 100
pilot DPs from Maharashtra are coming, and for eNGO, out of 200 eNGOs,
50 would be coming from different parts of the country


            PROVISIONAL (Brief) Agenda

09:00 AM – 9:30 AM

 MASA 2009 REGISTRATION

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

WELCOME & POWER SESSION: 

 

‘DIGITAL INNOVATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT: TOWARDS INCLUSION & GROWTH’ 

The Inaugural Power Session of 3 hours would focus on high level
deliberation on how we can link the ICT, digital content, and technology
tools and devices for reaching meaningfully to the masses and creating
livelihoods and equal opportunities. The honorable participants would be
from ministry level from various line ministry and policy planners
including full cycle interactive participations from government, civil
society/NGOs, public representatives, international agencies and private
sectors.

 

Welcome, Introduction & Moderation by Osama Manzar, Chairman, The
Manthan Award & Founder & Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation

 

Chief Guest: Honorable Thiru A. Raja, Minister  for Comm. & Information
Technology, Govt. of India*

 

POWER PANEL

-   Mr. R. Chandrashekhar, Secretary, DIT, Gov of India

-   Mr. S.R. Rao, Additional Secretary, DIT, MoCIT, Gov of India

-   Mr Nazrul Islam Khan, Additional Secretary & PS to Prime Minister of
Bangladesh

-   Dr. Ganesh Natarajan, Chairman IT & ITES, Confederation of Indian
Industries

-   Padma Shri Prof. Anil Gupta, IIMA & Vice Chairman, National
Innovation Foundation

-   Padma Shri Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwala, IIT Madras, Lead – TeNeT Group

-   Mr. Wasantha Deshapriya – Director, ICTA, SriLanka 

-   Mr. R. Sukumar, Editor, MINT

-   Mr. Mohd. Haleem Khan, IAS, Director General, Council for
Advancement of People's Action & Rural Technology (CAPART) India

-   Mr. Urs Pennanen, India Head, Nokia Siemens Networks 

 

OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF DIGITAL PANCHAYAT & E-NGO PROGRAMS

- Lead by Mr. N Ravi Shanker, CEO – NIXI & Joint Secretary, Dept of
Information Technology, Ministry of Comm. & IT

 

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

(with Tea Break)   

INAUGURATION OF ICT MELA CONNECTING MASSES: SOUTH ASIA EXHIBTION ON
DIGITAL INNOVATIONS & PRACTICES 

During this one and a half hour there will be a formal inauguration of
the exhibition and open for all to experience and interact with hundreds
of projects and innovations which would be showcasing their best
practices vis-à-vis the Manthan Award’s selected and short listed
projects across various sectors like education, livelihood, rural
development, Panchayati Raj, environment, culture and heritage, business
and commerce, agriculture, and so on.

 

EXHIBITORS WOULD BE FROM VARIOUS STATE LEVEL OF NIC, MAHARASHTRA GOVT,
TECHNOLOGY FOR THE PEOPLE, UN SOLUTION EXCHANGE, CEMCA, BAREFOOT
COLLEGE, NATIONAL INNOVATION FOUNDATION, READ INDIA, TCS, BIHAR GOVT.,
GUJARAT KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY, GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY,
IGOVERNMENT, MINT, IT VIDYA, D.NET BANGLADESH, ICTA SRI LANKA, EDURITE,
NIOS, IGNOU, GOVT. OF ORISSA, GOVT. OF RAJASTHAN, GOVT. OF NCT DELHI,
VIDEO VOLUNTEERS, AFGHANISTAN PAVILION, MEDIA LAB ASIA, GOVT. OF KERALA,
VIIT, INDIAN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (ICAR), IIT
BOMBAY, NORTH EAST DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, COMPUTER JAGAT, TACTICAL
TECHNOLOGY COLLECTIVE INDIA, ANTENNA FOUNDATION NEPAL, RADIO SAGARMATHA,
TRAKASH.COM, TOPNEWS.IN, DECCAN DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY, GOVT. OF ANDHRA
PRADESH, SRI LANKA PAVILION, AFGHANISTAN PAVILION, PAKISTAN PAVILION,
NEPAL PAVILION, BANGLADESH PAVILION, MADHYA PRADESH PAVILION, RAJASTHAN
PAVILION, UTTAR PRADESH PAVILION, BIHAR PAVILION, JHARKHAND PAVILION,
ORISSA PAVILION, GRASSROUTES, RAJIV AAROGYASRI, DAISY FORUM OF INDIA,
EGMM, CHATTISGARHI KDE, WORDNET, POCKET TRAVEL ASSISTANT, GRINS,
CUSTODIAL HEALTHCARE THROUGH SATELLITE, MONITORING OF VEHICLE MOVEMENT
USING GIS/GPS, UPSCPORTAL.COM <http://upscportal.com/> , DEEPAK
FOUNDATION, SAVETHEHILLS, GNFC, NIXI PAVILION, MEDIA LAB ASIA PAVILION,
ORACLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION, KHETI, CORESYS, GOOD GOVERNANCE, EDURITE,
IT VIDYA, CEMCA, IGOVERNMENT.IN <http://igovernment.in/> , EMPOWERING
INDIA, IAMAI, SANGHAM RADIO, SMSONE, DIT,CHANDERI

1:00 PM – 2: 00 PM  

Lunch Break & Networking




 

 

2: 00 PM – 5:30 PM

DAY ONE : PARALLEL WORKING SESSION 1

 

GOVERNANCE, PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY & DIGITAL CONSTITUENCY


The session would be covering importance of affordable, quality and
accessible content and services for enhanced and streamlined governance
until the last mile. Content regulation, medium of content services
delivery and putting in place the right kind of ICT infrastructure will
be other areas of focus. Special focus on how various constituencies
like, rural administrative constituencies, Assembly and Parliamentary
constituencies could be e-enabled to link with the citizens at large. 

 

Chairperson: Mr. SR Rao, Additional Secretary, DIT, MoC&IT

Co-Chair & Moderator: Mr. Anurag Jain, IT Secretary, Madhya Pradesh

 

PRESENTATIONS 

There will be presentations of 10-15 selected best practices from the
nomination of the Manthan Award 2009 under e-Gov category. The
presenters are requested to make the presentations  quick, precise and
impactful in terms of:

-      What the project is about?

-      What impact it has created?

-      The vision for the future 

-      Scope to work with others to make it scalable and replicable 

 

Please note that the projects that would be making presentation are
those which are shortlisted and the winners have already been selected
from among these shortlisted cum finalists. In order to make best
nominated projects more visible, demonstrable and relevant, ,  the
organizers and the jury committee have decided to encourage
presentations  from all the shortlisted projects.  Selected shortlisted
projects for presentations have been already communicated for their
presence and participation. 

 

INTERACTIVE SESSION
Followed by the presentations of the best practices from across the
country and region, there will be a deliberation of ONE HOUR on the
subject to come out with a framework for the government to take forward
the recommendations. The idea is that after having gone through the best
practiced initiatives, involve the presenters as the best minds who
could also make a contribution as what kind of framework and
recommendations could be made in the areas of governance with exclusive
focus with citizen linked constituencies at all level vis-à-vis
Panchayat, Assembly and Parliamentary. 

 

Session Discussion & Q&A




 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM 

DAY ONE : Parallel Working Session II

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALTERNATIVE NEWS & COMMUNITY BROADCASTING


This session would have a consolidated focus on all aspects of issues
around localization so that India’s  oral society could have
multi-lingual option of accessing and exercising their participation in
accordance; The focus of this session is on role, impact and importance
of content services in alternative news, localization, and community
broadcasting to facilitate better, enhanced and outreached news and
other vital information in meeting basic needs of the common man using
ICT applications.



Chairperson: Ms. Iskra Panevska, Communication & Information Advisor for
South Asia, UNESCO

Moderator: Mr. Rajen Varada, Resource Person, UN Solution Exchange,
UNESCO

 

PRESENTATIONS

There will be presentations of 10-15 selected best practices from the
nomination of the Manthan Award 2009 under this category. The presenters
are requested to make the presentations  quick, precise and impactful in
terms of:

-      What the project is about?

-      What impact it has created?

-      The vision for the future 

-      Scope to work with others to make it scalable and replicable 

 

Please note that the projects that would be making presentation are
those which are shortlisted and the winners have already been selected
from among these shortlisted cum finalists. In order to make best
nominated projects more visible, demonstrable and relevant, the
organizers and the jury committee have decided to encourage
presentations  from all the shortlisted projects.  Selected shortlisted
projects for presentations have been already communicated for their
presence and participation.

 

INTERACTIVE SESSION
Followed by the presentations of the best practices from across the
country and region, there will be a deliberation of ONE HOUR on the
subject to come out with a framework for the government to take forward
the recommendations. The idea is that after having gone through the best
practiced initiatives, involve the presenters as the best minds who
could also make a contribution as what kind of framework and
recommendations could be made in the areas of new digital media, social
networking, community radio and how these media could be an empowerment
tool to deliver right content and services delivery including RTI.

 

Session Discussion & Q&A




 

2: 00 – 5:30 PM 

DAY ONE : Parallel Working Session III

 

 

ACCESSIBLE DIGITAL SOLUTIONS IN HEALTH, SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION

This track will delve on the importance of ICT and digital content in
health and environmental services delivery with affordable quality and
accessible content and services overcoming time, geographical, economic
and social limitations. The focus will be on how ICT and content can
facilitate promotion and sustenance of environment with larger attention
on local ecosystem. Besides, what initiatives we have where science
could be reached to the scientific temper level through the use of
digital media. 



Chairperson: Dr Praful Kumar, CEO, Apollo Hospital, Ahmedabad
Moderator: Mr SN Goswami, Managing Director, Media Lab Asia

 

PRESENTATIONS 

 

There will be presentations of 10-15 selected best practices from the
nomination of the Manthan Award 2009 under this category. The presenters
are requested to make the presentations  quick, precise and impactful in
terms of:

-      What the project is about?

-      What impact it has created?

-      The vision for the future 

-      Scope to work with others to make it scalable and replicable 

 

Please note that the projects that would be making presentation are
those which are shortlisted and the winners have already been selected
from among these shortlisted cum finalists. In order to make best
nominated projects more visible, demonstrable and relevant, ,  the
organizers and the jury committee have decided to encourage
presentations  from all the shortlisted projects.  Selected shortlisted
projects for presentations have been already communicated for their
presence and participation. 

 

Session Discussion & Q&A

 




 

 

 

DAY 2 : December 19, 2009                                       [10:00
AM – 7:00 PM]

9:30 AM – 1: 00 PM 

DAY TWO : Parallel Working Session I

 

PEOPLES’S EMPOWERMENT & MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES: UNITING COMMUNITIES THROUGH
3 G NETWORKS
Since Mobile is the faster penetrating device across the country and
region, after having reached almost 500 million, it is imperative that
we discuss the larger implication of this device, since it is oral,
multimedia, and has reach in rural areas also. This session will
showcase some of the best mobile based applications and initiatives
where the device has proved to be highly effective in serving the
masses. The session will also delve in discussing policy issues as how
various government and business services could be reached to the masses
through mobile devices in local languages and in oral medium.

 


Chairperson: Mr Manoj Kohli, CEO, Bharti Airtel*
Moderators: Dr Subho Ray, President, Internet & Mobile Association of
India & Mr Sandeep Bhargava, Head Corporate Affairs, Nokia Siemens
Networks




PRESENTATIONS

 

There will be presentations of 10-15 selected best practices from the
nomination of the Manthan Award 2009 under this category. The presenters
are requested to make the presentations  quick, precise and impactful in
terms of:

-      What the project is about?

-      What impact it has created?

-      The vision for the future 

-      Scope to work with others to make it scalable and replicable 

 

Please note that the projects that would be making presentation are
those which are shortlisted and the winners have already been selected
from among these shortlisted cum finalists. In order to make best
nominated projects more visible, demonstrable and relevant,  the
organizers and the jury committee have decided to encourage
presentations  from all the shortlisted projects.  Selected shortlisted
projects for presentations have been already communicated for their
presence and participation. 

 

Session Discussions & Q&A




 

9:30 AM – 1: 00 PM 

DAY TWO : Parallel Working Session II

 

SUSTAINABLE DIGITAL APPROACH FOR EDUCATION, LEARNING & HUMAN RESOURCE
DEVELOPMENT

The biggest challenge for the nations like India is to meaningfully
provide education to masses, make them skilled for employment to engage
them fruitfully, and use various digital media, ICT tools, and create
policies where each and every educational institution and government
machinery should take advantage of ICT infrastructure, e-application,
e-learning platforms, and growing penetration of mobile, internet, and
other digital media platforms, like radio and TV. This session will
showcase best practices on the subject and come out with some
recommendations for the Ministry of HRD.


Chairperson: Mr. Subhash C. Khuntia, Joint Secretary, Department of
School Education and Literacy, MHRD
Co-Chair & Moderator: Mr N Ravi Shanker, IAS, Joint Secretary, DIT,
MoC&IT



PRESENTATIONS

 

There will be presentations of 10-15 selected best practices from the
nomination of the Manthan Award 2009 under this category. The presenters
are requested to make the presentations  quick, precise and impactful in
terms of:

-      What the project is about?

-      What impact it has created?

-      The vision for the future 

-      Scope to work with others to make it scalable and replicable 

 

Please note that the projects that would be making presentation are
those which are shortlisted and the winners have already been selected
from among these shortlisted cum finalists. In order to make best
nominated projects more visible, demonstrable and relevant,  the
organizers and the jury committee have decided to encourage
presentations  from all the shortlisted projects.  Selected shortlisted
projects for presentations have been already communicated for their
presence and participation. 

 

INTERACTIVE SESSION
Followed by the presentations of the best practices from across the
country and region, there will be a deliberation of ONE HOUR on the
subject to come out with a framework for the government to take forward
the recommendations. The idea is that after having gone through the best
practiced initiatives, involve the presenters as the best minds who
could also make a contribution as what kind of framework and
recommendations could be made in the areas of e-learning, ICT enabled
education and presentations on employment portals addressing
unemployment, and how these media could be an empowerment tool to
empower and educate youth with ICT application and its services.  



Session Discussion & Q&A

 




 

9:30 AM – 1:00 PM 

DAY TWO: Parallel Session III

 

E-COMMERCE & BUSINESS & ECONOMIC INCLUSION

This track will delve on the importance of affordable, quality and
accessible content and services for enhanced business process until the
last mile putting the right kind of ICT infrastructure. Showcasing the
best practices, who are already doing great linking work with the masses
with brilliant business logic and entrepreneurial adventure – in other
words, this session will into, e-commerce, e-business, and
entrepreneurship where the final beneficiary is the people and masses,
yet there should be no compromise on business concept. 



Chairperson: Dr. Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Director, India Development
Foundation
Moderator: Mr. Abhishek Singh, Director, DIT, MoC&IT

PRESENTATIONS

There will be presentations of 10-15 selected best practices from the
nomination of the Manthan Award 2009 under this category. The presenters
are requested to make the presentations  quick, precise and impactful in
terms of:

-      What the project is about?

-      What impact it has created?

-      The vision for the future 

-      Scope to work with others to make it scalable and replicable 

 

Please note that the projects that would be making presentation are
those which are shortlisted and the winners have already been selected
from among these shortlisted cum finalists. In order to make best
nominated projects more visible, demonstrable and relevant,  the
organizers and the jury committee have decided to encourage
presentations  from all the shortlisted projects.  Selected shortlisted
projects for presentations have been already communicated for their
presence and participation. 

 

 

INTERACTIVE SESSION
Followed by the presentations of the best practices from across the
country and region, there will be a deliberation of ONE HOUR on the
subject to come out with a framework for the government to take forward
the recommendations. The idea is that after having gone through the best
practiced initiatives, involve the presenters as the best minds who
could also make a contribution as what kind of framework and
recommendations could be made in the areas of  livelihood, small and
medium enterprises, e-commerce and how the ICT usage could enhance the
productivity of individual as well as enterprise.

 

Session Discussion & Q&A

 

1:00 PM – 2: 00 PM  

Lunch Break & Networking

 




 

2: 00 PM – 3:00 PM 

DAY TWO : Post Lunch : Parallel Session I

 

SOCIAL INCLUSION, LOCALISATION & NEW MEDIA & DIGITAL TOOLS

This track would look into some of the best practices in inclusion in
areas facilitating empowerment of the differently able population,
women, tribal communities, minorities through digital content and
medium. The focus would be on tools, mediums, content services delivery
for information and knowledge empowerment. The focus will be on ICT and
digital approach towards localization. 

 

Chairperson: Dr Arun Mehta, Radiophony & Manthan Awardee 

Moderator: Mr. VK Madhavan, Executive Director, Chirag

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

There will be presentations of 10-15 selected best practices from the
nomination of the Manthan Award 2009 under this category. The presenters
are requested to make the presentations  quick, precise and impactful in
terms of:

-      What the project is about?

-      What impact it has created?

-      The vision for the future 

-      Scope to work with others to make it scalable and replicable 

 

Please note that the projects that would be making presentation are
those which are shortlisted and the winners have already been selected
from among these shortlisted cum finalists. In order to make best
nominated projects more visible, demonstrable and relevant,  the
organizers and the jury committee have decided to encourage
presentations  from all the shortlisted projects.  Selected shortlisted
projects for presentations have been already communicated for their
presence and participation. 

 

 

INTERACTIVE SESSION



Followed by the presentations of the best practices from across the
country and region, there will be a deliberation of ONE HOUR on the
subject to come out with a framework for the government to take forward
the recommendations. The idea is that after having gone through the best
practiced initiatives, involve the presenters as the best minds who
could also make a contribution as what kind of framework and
recommendations could be made in the areas of  digitization of culture &
Entertainment, and digital inclusion to making local culture globalised.

 

Session Discussion & Q&A

 

 

 

 

 




 

2: 00 PM – 3:00 PM 

DAY TWO: Post Lunch: Parallel Session II

 

 

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES & PRESERVATION OF CULTURE & HERITAGE 

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. This would provide
an opportunity to deliberate how we can globalize the national treasure
of culture, heritage, tourism and local entertainment.  


Chairperson: Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, CIS, Bangalore

Moderator: Sidin Vadukut, Managing Editor, LiveMint.com

 

PRESENTATIONS 

 

There will be presentations of 10-15 selected best practices from the
nomination of the Manthan Award 2009 under this category. The presenters
are requested to make the presentations  quick, precise and impactful in
terms of:

-      What the project is about?

-      What impact it has created?

-      The vision for the future 

-      Scope to work with others to make it scalable and replicable 

 

Please note that the projects that would be making presentation are
those which are shortlisted and the winners have already been selected
from among these shortlisted cum finalists. In order to make best
nominated projects more visible, demonstrable and relevant, the
organizers and the jury committee have decided to encourage
presentations  from all the shortlisted projects.  Selected shortlisted
projects for presentations have been already communicated for their
presence and participation. 

 

 

INTERACTIVE SESSION


Followed by the presentations of the best practices from across the
country and region, there will be a deliberation of ONE HOUR on the
subject to come out with a framework for the government to take forward
the recommendations. The idea is that after having gone through the best
practiced initiatives, involve the presenters as the best minds who
could also make a contribution as what kind of framework and
recommendations could be made in the areas of  digitization of culture &
Entertainment, and digital inclusion to making local culture globalised.

 

Session Discussion & Q&A

 

 




 

2:00 PM – 5: 00 PM 

DAY TWO : Post Lunch : Parallel Session III

 

IDRC INDIA SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH PANEL DISCUSSION  & 



IDRC INDIA SOCIAL SCIENCE R


ESEARCH AWARD GALA 2009 



THE PANEL DISCUSSION WILL HAVE DEDICATED DELIBERATIONS ON KEY AREAS OF
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH IN INDIA BASED ON SELECTED PAPER PRESENATIONS OF
IDRC INDIA SSRA 2009. THE SESSION WILL HAVE PARTICIPATION FROM THE
RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC FRATERNITY AND OTHER DELEGATES FROM DIVERSE AREAS
AS FOOD SECURITY, RURAL INNOVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, HEALTH SYSTEMS AND
SOCIAL INCLUSION. THIS SESSION WOULD HAVE POSTER SHOWCASING AND EXCHANGE
OF RESEARCH IDEAS. THE PANEL DISCUSSION WILL CULMINATE IN THE AWARD
FELICATION OF THE WINNERS. 



Chairperson: Prof.Peter R. deSouza
<http://www.iias.org/adm_directors_profile.html> , Director, Indian
Institute of Advanced Studies*

Moderator:  Dr.  Shail Mayaram, Acting Director, Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies*
Co-Panelists: IDRC SSRA 2009 Jurors

-         Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, CIS

-         Prof. Subhashis Gangopadhyay, Director, IDF

-         Prof. Vivek Adhish, NIHFW

-         Prof. Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU

-         Dr. Jamshed Siddiqui, Country Director, NCU

-         Dr. Rajeswari S. Raina, NISTADS

-         Mr. Phet Sayo, IDRC

 


Event Highlights

 

10 RESEARCH WINNING PAPER PRESENTATIONS


POSTER DISPLAY


DISCUSSION & INTERACTIVE SESSION WITH IDRC IISRA 

GRAND JURY MEMBERS AND THE 25 FINALISTS


IDRC INDIA SSRA 2009 AWARD FELICITATION

 

 




 



DAY TWO: 


The Manthan Award South Asia 



Evening Gala 09

 


05.00 PM TO 08.00 PM

 

 

CHIEF GUEST MANTHAN AWARD GALA: 

Honourable Minister of State, Mr. Sachin Pilot, Ministry of
Communication & Information Technology

 

GUESTS OF HONOUR:

-   Mr. R. Chandrashekhar, Secretary, DIT, Ministry of Comm. & IT, Gov
of India

-   Ms. Iskra Panevska, Communication & Information Advisor for South
Asia, UNESCO

-   Mr. SR Rao, Additional Secretary, DIT, MoC&IT

-   Mr. Subhash C Khuntia, Joint Secretary, Department of School
Education and Literacy, MHRD, Gov. of India

-   Mr. N Ravi Shanker, CEO – NIXI, Joint Secretary, DIT, Ministry of
Comm. & IT, Gov of India

-   Mr. Wasantha Deshapriya – Director, ICTA, Sri Lanka 

-   Mr. R. Sukumar, Editor, MINT

-   Mr. Nazrul Islam Khan, Additional Secretary & PS to Prime Minister
of Bangladesh

-   Mr. Urs Pennanen, India Head, Nokia Siemens Networks

-   Mr. Mohd. Haleem Khan, IAS, Director General, Council for
Advancement of People's Action & Rural Technology (CAPART) 

-   Dr. Stephen J. McGurk, Ph.D., Regional Director, International
Development Research Centre, Regional Office for South Asia and China,
New Delhi

-   Dr. Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Managing Trustee & Research Director,
India Development Foundation

 

Presence of Members of Task Force to suggest measures to stimulate the
growth of IT, ITES and Electronics Hardware Manufacturing Industry in
the Country

 

Presence of Grand Jury of Manthan Award South Asia 2009

 

Presence of Grand Jury of IDRC India Social Science Research Award 2009

 

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