Manthan Award is a first of its kind initiative in India to recognize the best practices in e-Content and Creativity. It was launched by Digital Empowerment Foundation in partnership with World Summit Award, Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India, and various other stakeholders like civil society members, media and other similar organisations engaged in promoting digital content inclusiveness in the whole of South Asian nation states for development.
Since then it has come to define the very best in e-Content for development arena in India. The increasing and fruitful use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) is being recognized and acknowledged world over. That ICT is a great tool for development and empowerment is being realized by its various stakeholders. Countries of the world are resorting to use of ICT to better their socio-cultural and economic landscapes in ways feasible and sustainable depending on their ground level situations.
Developed and under developed countries and societies are experiencing the increasing interventions of ICT in various domains of activities. The ICT components increasingly being used for development and empowerment purposes includes computer, Internet, Community Radio, audio-video, and other latest gadgets. Blogging is another new entrant in the ICT domain.
ICT has seen its vertical as well as horizontal growth in various domains of interventions be it education, health, livelihood, trade and commerce and governance. Both public and private projects and programs have been initiated at the behest of Governments, CSOs, Corporate bodies, individuals using ICT.
There are reports emanating from states in India like Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Uttaranchal, Delhi where ICT has been used in the most utilitarian and quality perspectives. Instances are reported of how individuals and local communities are being empowered and sustained using various ICT tools like Internet, PC, CR and other mediums.
We are proud to announce that Bhasha India has been awarded first place in the “E-Localization” with the second and third prizes awarded to Srilankan organisations.
BhashaIndia is a true community site as it goes beyond providing online content. Our panel of experts is actively involved in conducting workshops, quiz contests, student outreach programs. The BhashaIndia forum acts as a perfect platform to post queries discuss and debate issues. BhashaIndia’s panel of experts answer the queries related to Indian language computing that users post in the forum. One of BhashaIndia’s aims is to promote Indic language computing and developmental work done in this area. The Solutions Directory is a unique forum that allows small businesses and individuals to freely market their Indian language applications and fonts to their target audience.
BhashaIndia was awarded this for its work on Language computing for major Indian languages like Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil etc.
The main language computing work included the development of program named IME which would give the users a convenient way of entering text in Indian Languages using the English QWERTY keyboard. User can enter Lingual text in Office Applications, WordPad and Notepad on various Operating Systems. Tools have several common features like on-the-fly help, multiple keyboard layouts and toggling between Languages.