Mobile for Good Awards 2014

Vodafone Foundation

Mobile for Good Awards 2014

Vodafone Foundation

Concept & Editors: Osama Manzar & Madhu Singh Sirohi Design and Layout: Cathy Chen Text: Arjun SenResearch & Compilation: Avesta Choudhary & Chitra Chauhan Cover Photo: Chanderi

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8 Foreword 10 Statistics 16 Main Awards Finalist

14 Jury Process

Mobiles for Conservation through Crowd Sourced Wildlife Information CollectionKisan SamridhiFisher Friend ProgrammePWX Mobile ReportingAGRO-METKrishi Gyan Sagar and Krishi Vani – Powered by the Green SIM

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18 Agriculture and Environment

CAI Consumer ConnectVidya Helpline

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25 Education

Citizens Connect - SMC Mobile App 29

28 Governance

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MSakhi - Maternal and Child Health PackageContact Tracing & Active Case FindingArogya SakhiSuyojanaProject AshaSERVIS (EyeConnect Application) 104 Sarathi HelplinemSwasthya

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30 Health

Little SisterDigital Book LibraryMahila SishuGPower

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39 Women Empowerment & Inclusive Development

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Mobile Internal Control System (ICS) SolutionsBehtar Zindagi e-krishaksahyogi (e-KS)Apps for FarmerWWF Cyclothon

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44 Agriculture and Environment

Balaee KoshChinh Early Education Web Channelm-Classroom for Child Rights and Development

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50 Education

Citizen COPLets Shoot UpVoice RTI PlatformJumpinJumpout Thiruvananthapuram City Police APP (TCP App)

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54 Governance

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CommCare for CRS ReMind - Reducing Maternal and Newborn deathsMAYA Health InitiativeMobile Solutions for Information and Care of Children Suffering from CancerTelemedicine Mobile Solution

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Safety App - Use of Technology for Girls Safety66

65 Women Empowerment & Inclusive Development

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Madhu Singh Sirohi Head, Vodafone Foundation

India

Go Mobile to Empower and Include

Osama Manzar Founder & Director

Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)

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Foreword

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Nothing exemplifies the power of information and communication better than the mobile phone. From the corner room corporate chief executive to the re-source poor farmer in India’s rural hinterland, the mobile phone has emerged as a vital tool for empowerment in various ways. While internet penetration in India remains very low at just about 19% compared to nearly 80% in the developed world, mobile phone penetration is much high-er at around 40% with nearly 400 million unique subscribers. Of these, smart phone penetration is still only about 13% but the growth in number of smart phone subscribers was over 55% in 2013 and is projected to be 45% in 2014. Moreover, with more and more low-priced smart phone models being intro-duced each passing day, Internet penetration even in rural areas should go up smartly from the abysmal 7% now. Looking at all these numbers, it is clear that mobile phones are definitely poised to bring about a digital revolution even at the mass level. Ever since 2011 when we at Vodafone Foundation and Digital Empowerment Foundation launched the Mobile for Good awards, we have seen how mobile phones are empowering people in terms of increasing productivity and in-comes, better last mile delivery of all kinds of both government and commercial services, more efficient governance and expanding opportunities for employ-ment and education even for underserved minorities such as differently able people. Innovative mobile applications have also helped to overcome different types of digital exclusion to strengthen grassroots democracy, enhance protec-tion of environment and bio-diversity and enable better management of natural resources. This year is the fourth edition of the Mobile for Good awards which has been expanded to include a Special Category for new ideas and selection of five best practices in use of mobile phones instead of four in the past by adding a Women and Inclusive Development category in both the Main as well as the Special Cat-egory awards. The number of entries has also gone up from 77 to 122. Over these four years, we have been able to identify and accumulate a database of over 300 projects that are doing good in one way or another using mobile and telecommunication tools. We believe the awards will continue to encour-age NGOs and NFPs as well as for-profit organisations and individuals to push the limits of creativity in making use of mobiles for doing good and increased digital inclusions.

STATISTICS2014

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Punjab Uttaranchal

Haryana Delhi

Rajasthan Gujarat

Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh

Bihar Assam

Manipur

Tripura West Bengal

Chhattisgarh Orissa

Maharashtra Goa

Andhra Pradesh Karnataka

Tamil Nadu Kerala

Telangana

122 entries 39 finalists

LIST of STATES

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Uttar PradeshAssam

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JharkhandTripura

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Rajasthan

Chhattisgarh

Orissa

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Tamil NaduKerala

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GujaratMadhya Pradesh

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whICh STATE hAS ThE MoST fINALIST ENTrIES?

whICh STATE hAS ThE MoST hEALTh ENTrIES?

whICh STATE hAS ThE MoST SPECIAL AwArdS fINALISTS?

IN dELhI, oNE CATEgory IS MISSINg, whICh oNE IS IT?

whICh CATEgory hAS ThE MoST ENTrIES IN dELhI?

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Agriculture & Environment Education Governance Health Women Empowerment & Inclusive Development

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whICh STATE hAS ThE MoST fINALIST ENTrIES?

whICh STATE hAS ThE MoST hEALTh ENTrIES?

whICh STATE hAS ThE MoST SPECIAL AwArdS fINALISTS?

IN dELhI, oNE CATEgory IS MISSINg, whICh oNE IS IT? whICh CATEgory hAS ThE MoST ENTrIES IN dELhI?

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Jury Proceeding

1. Round 1- Group Evaluations

Expected Outcome: The group collectively shortlisted a maximum of 2- 3 nom-inations per category (based mainly on the rank list of technical score) for the next round.For this round, all jurors were divided into 3 to 4 groups, basis the number of shortlisted applications per area category. The groups were divided as per the area categories of education, agriculture & environment, health, governance, women empowerment & inclusive development.Over a stipulated time period, each group was required to study the shortlisted applicants for their assigned area category and to mark them on a score range of 1-10, 10 being the maximum.Each juror was provided with necessary supporting documentation for each shortlisted applicant on laptops/USBs to enable easy referencing.A facilitator from the M4G Team assisted each of the Juror Groups during the proceedings.For each group, the jurors nominated one spokesperson to present the top 2-3 nominations from their group for the next round.

GRAND JURY PROCESS On the day of the Grand Jury, the process will involve two rounds of delib-erations for both Main and Special Award categories. The suggested jury proceeding is illustrated as below :

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2. Round 2- Plenary to finalise Category Award Winners

Expected Outcome: One winner per area category was finalised. The plenary was based on the discussions and scoring done during round 1 of the group evaluations.Basis round 1 deliberations, the juror group spokesperson presented the top 2-3 nominations for each area category.The related presentation for each nomination, for both the Main and Special cate-gory awards, was displayed to begin the discussion process.All jury members participated in this round, shared their views and due ranking was done.The duly scored nominations were then totalled, voting on the top ranked nomi-nations was done to finalise one winner per area category, for both the Main and Special category awards .Discussion and voting of one winner per area category was done by the plenary. For the Main awards category - organisations affiliated to the government/ gov-ernment agencies/ will be provided with special recognition certificates and no funding will be provided to them.In the case where one area category lacks a worthy application, the jury had the freedom to finalise two winners in a different area category.

To identify % of applications received per categoryDesk review to identify eligible applications for each category as per assessment parametersEligible applicants to be scored as per assessment parameters for next level deliberations

Pre Screening Committee of VF, DEF, GT NextGen & Vodafone IndiaTo identify shortlisted final list of applicants of each awards category as per filtering criteria and scoring matrixCollated shortlisted applicants to go through next level

Grand Jury of external sector experts, start-ups, leading consultants & others to convene on 21 October 2014To finalize the category winners form the shortlisted applicants

Evaluations Framework

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Main Awards Finalists

MSakhi - Maternal and CHild Health Package - Lata Medical Research FoundationContact Tracing & Active Case Finding - Operation ASHAArogya Sakhi - Swayam Shikshan PrayogSuyojana - Swasti, Health Resource CentreProject Asha - Muktaa Charitable FoundationSERVIS (EyeConnect Application) - Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Medical Trust104 Sarathi Helpline - Health Management and Research Institute (HMRI)mSwasthya - Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) - Mohali

CAI Consumer Connect - Consumers Association of IndiaVidya Helpline - Nirmaan Vidya

Mobiles for Conservation through Crowd Sourced Wildlife Information Collection - The Shola Trust Kisan Samridhi - Self Reliant Initiatives Through Joint Action Fisher Friend Programme - M S Swaminathan Research FoundationPWX Mobile Reporting - Peer Water ExchangeAGRO-MET - Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)Krishi Gyan Sagar and Krishi Vani – powered by the Green SIM - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Little Sister - Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action (SNEHA)Digital Book Library - SamarthanamMahila Sishu - National Informatics Centre (NIC)GPower - Child In Need Institute (CINI)

Citizens Connect - SMC Mobile App - Surat Municipal Corporation

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Special Awards Finalists

Mobile Internal Control System (ICS) Solutions - Aditi Organic Certifications Pvt. Ltd.Behtar Zindagi - Handygo Technologies Private Limitede-krishaksahyogi (e-KS) - Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP)Apps for Farmer - Jayalaxmi AgrotechWWF Cyclothon - World Wide Fund For Nature India

Balaee Kosh - Shailani Software Solutions LLPChinh Early Education Web Channel - Chinh Indiam-Classroom for Child Rights and Development - Manitham Charitable Trust

Citizen COP - Infocrats Web Solutions Pvt. Ltd.Lets Shoot Up - Mobiwhiz Technologies LLPVoice RTI Platform - The Informed Voter ProjectJumpinJumpout - Tech Services India Private Limited (SmartShehar)Thiruvananthapuram City Police APP (TCP App) - UST Global

CommCare for CRS ReMind - Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths - Dimagi Software Innovations Pvt. Ltd.MAYA Health Initiative - Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness (MAYA)Mobile Solutions for Information and Care of Children Suffering from Cancer - St. Jude India Childcare CentresTelemedicine Mobile Solution - BNH Telemedicine Centre

Safety App-Use of Technology for Girls Safety - Plan India

Special Awards Finalists HistoryFavourites

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AgrICuLTurE ANd ENvIroNMENT

The Shola Trust

Self Reliant Initiatives Through Joint Action (SRIJAN)

M S Swaminathan Research Foundation

Peer Water Exchange

Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)

ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics)

Main Awards Finalists

The Projects/Ideas under this category should be capable of improving the performance of key agricultural and environmental indicator(s) as well as facilitate innovations in these segments. One of the critical challenges of our era is to balance the competing lifestyle demands vis a vis conserving the scarce natural resources. The projects under this category are expected to imbibe the challenge of using mobile technology to help individuals, government & industries realise greener objectives:

Enabling Good Agriculture PracticesWater Conservation Pollution / AirMeasuring / Reducing Waste Biodiversity Energy Conservation

Wetland ConservationMeasuring / Reducing Carbon FootprintOther Agriculture/ Environment related projectsAny other in line with the above

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Mobile/Phone: 9882000000 Email: tarsh@thesholatrust.org URL: www.thesholatrust.org

Organization: The Shola TrustLocation: Gudalur, Tamil Nadu Contact Person: Tarsh Thekaekara

Mobiles for Conservation through Crowd Sourced Wildlife Information Collection

Established in 2008, The Shola Trust is a non-profit organisation, operated by young professionals. It works for nature conservation in Gudalur, near the Mudumalai Ti-ger Reserve in the Nilgiris region of South India. This project was conceived based on the observation that awareness of wild elephants’ presence eliminates human deaths from man-animal encounters and uses the power of mobile technology in a rural area with high penetration to resolve any communication challenges faced by poor members of the community.

The project called “Mobile-based monitoring and early warning system for ele-phants and wildlife information collection system” has two components. The first is the ‘crowd sourced elephant monitoring and early warning system’ wherein select-ed volunteers (starting with field staff of the local forest department) report on the nearby presence of wild elephants via a SMS into the central system. The system maintains a database of subscribers in villages that are prone to encounters with wild elephants. The incoming SMS alerts warn nearby subscribers about elephant presence. The second component of the project seeks to collect information from citizens on wildlife and biodiversity. Members of the local community can send im-ages and sound recordings over their mobile phones to a central database for fur-ther analysis and documentation by experts.

Saving lives via early warning of elephant presence

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Mobile/Phone: 9810333661 Email: vedarya.1958@gmail.com URL: http://srijanindia.org

Organization: Self Reliant Initiatives Through Joint Action (SRIJAN)Location: New Delhi Contact Person: Ved Mitra Arya

Kisan Samridhi

Set up in 1997, Self-Reliant Initiatives Through Joint Action (SRIJAN) works to em-power the rural poor in areas such as agriculture, horticulture, dairy, livelihoods, water resources management, etc. The project Soya Samriddhi project seeks to increase the profitability of small women farmers by use of mobile phones by community rep-resentatives to monitor, control and increase productivity, efficiency and profitability of soya crops. SRIJAN field representatives at the grassroots level use a mobile phone to register the women farmers in the programme and build a complete profile with primary details, land details, crop details, bank details, resource details etc. Secondly, they survey the exact area of the crop and suggest inputs based on exact area to op-timise input costs and increase productivity and quality. Each selected profile is then geo-tagged for traceability, making it locally and globally competitive.

Women farmers feed in the relevant data capturing inputs used in the farm and receive advice based on practices followed; thus enabling timely implementation of the pack-age of practices. The Soya Samriddhi service also captures issues with images and voice records and provides farmers with immediate advisory from the central SRIJAN team. In addition, the service predicts/forecasts of harvest and helps in the harvest collection/allocation of warehouses and provides price and weather information over a simple mobile phone. Since its implementation in January 2014, 700 women farmers have been benefited by the project implemented in 17 villages of Rajasthan.

A mobile- based soya crop monitoring system that enables women farmers increase profitability, productivity and efficiency

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Mobile/Phone: 9444391467` Email: anabel@mssrf.res.in URL: www.mssrf.org

Organization: M S Swaminathan Research FoundationLocation: Chennai Contact Person: Ms Nancy J Anabel

Fisher Friend Programme

Founded in 1988 by Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, M S Swaminathan Research Founda-tion (MSSRF) operates in five major programme areas — Coastal Systems Research, Biodiversity and Biotechnology, Ecotechnology and Food Security, Gender and Development, and Informatics. The MSSRF launched the Fisher Friend Programme (FFP) in 2007. FFP is a pioneering, mobile based, knowledge services intervention adopting a shore-to-shore approach, providing a decision-making support system to protect and empower small craft resource poor fishers. The Fisher Friend Mobile Application (FFMA) provides fishermen with a 24 hours helpline, text and audio SMS services, phone-in pro-grammes and skills development features.

FFP has been implemented in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Orissa, and Pondicherry. It provides ocean state forecast (OSF), potential fishing zones (PFZ), sustainable fisheries information, market prices, and government schemes. In addition, FFMA equipped with GPS, provides International Border alerts (IBL), tuna PFZ, danger zones, fishing routes, disaster alerts, news flash, and emergency contacts. Under the skills development feature, fishermen are equipped in new fishing technologies and fish quality management techniques. PFZ enhances fishing efficiency and productivity of fishermen by providing coordinates of shoal locations. IBL alerts fishermen about Sri Lankan waters, thus helping them stay out of territori-al conflicts. Phone-in programmes and audio video conferences facilitate discussions with experts. As per most recent calculations, FFP issues audio advisories to over 12,358 users on a daily basis.

Fisher Friend Programme, a unique mobile-based information system helping resource poor fishermen across five state

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Mobile/Phone: 9740322557 Email: rajesh@peerwater.org URL: http://in.peerwater.org

Organization: Peer Water ExchangeLocation: Bengaluru Contact Person: Rajesh Shah

PWX Mobile Reporting

Launched in 2006, Peer Water Exchange (PWX) is the programme arm of Blue Planet Run Foundation (now Blue Planet Network). It is now the water sector’s clearinghouse, the global marketplace to select, fund, manage, and track the impact of all water and sanitation projects collaboratively, efficiently, and ver-ifiably. In February 2011, PWX launched SMS reporting to receive field reports on water and sanitation projects.

This innovative service helps connect field personnel, working in remote areas without good internet coverage, to send in SMS notes, which are attached to the main project report. Furthermore, in January 2013, PWX launched an An-droid app that allowed rich reports (photos, audio, text, GPS, etc.) to be gener-ated from the field. In addition, the team added the PWX MetriX feature on the app, so that specific field data such as height of water, number of users, etc. could also be entered from the field. Field reports help managers and funders monitor, track and address all applicable issues on a real-time basis. These notes allow entire organisations to learn and share critical lessons since they replace bi-lateral communications with broadly visible storage and distribution channels. Since its implementation, over 10,000 people/users have benefited from the project being implemented in several villages across 8 states in India.

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ASMS-based field reporting application to monitor water and sanitation projects across 8 states in India

Mobile/Phone: 9422226419 Email: shashikant.mehetre@wotr.org.in URL: www.wotr.org

Organization: Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)Location: Pune, Maharashtra Contact Person: Ajay Shelke

AGRO-MET

Founded in 1993, Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) is a non-profit currently operating in 7 Indian states – Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Odisha. To reduce risks and improve agricultural productivity despite harsh or unreliable local climatic variations, WOTR launched a knowledge-embedded service to farmers that provides crop and locale-specific agro-advisory via SMS on weather forecasts and the particular crop growth stage.

The pilot project implemented in Maharashtra has two components – Agro-Met and Agro-Mate. Agro-Met uses mobile technology for three processes of capturing data, monitoring and maintenance and dissemination of agricultural information. WOTR has installed 69 Automated Weather Stations (AWS) directly linked to the WOTR’s servers. The AWS send real time data to WOTR’s servers through SMS or GPRS pack-ets. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) receives this data and provides 3‐day weather forecasts for the specific project areas on a daily basis. Farmers receive these short-term and long-term forecasts in local language through SMS for timely implementation of agricultural practices. Agro-Mate is an IT‐enabled, query–driv-en automated content management system that generates specific crop advi-sories that are tailored to local weather and soil conditions. After due consolidation, Agro-Mate then sends relevant and critical information by SMS.

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A mobile enabled agro-advisory service that is reducing farming risks and improving agricultural productivity.

Contact Person: Dileepkumar Guntuku Mobile/Phone: 09949608791 Email: G.Dileepkumar@cgiar.org URL: www.icrisat.org

Organization: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)Location: Patancheru, Telangana, India

Krishi Gyan Sagar and Krishi Vani - powered by the Green SIM

Established in 1972, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is a non-profit organisation engaged in agricultural research. To meet the challenge of providing the right information at the right time to resource-poor small farmers and thereby significantly raise their productivity, make them more shock-resilient and enable them to seize opportunities to raise their incomes, ICRISAT initiated in 2013 a project called Krishi Gyan Sagar and Krishi Vani powered by Airtel’s Green SIM.

Krishi Gyan Sagar (pull-based ICT enabled knowledge base) application supports both tablet/smart phone as well as web. The application consists of various mod-ules for executing several information and input delivery services to farmers. This includes soil health modules, a crop knowledge base, improved farm management videos, farmer-field-crop record database, officers’ and experts’ database, buy and sell virtual transaction platforms and other features. In addition, the web-based application helps users generate quick reports and access market intelligence and decision-support systems for improving their productivity and profitability. Krishi Vani (push-based ICT enabled knowledge base) is a mobile mediated agro-adviso-ry platform that delivers 35 free voice messages in regional languages every week per farmer in 16 categories such as weather, market, crop information, government schemes, nutrition, health etc. Since its inception in 2013, the project has benefited around 40,000 smallholder farmers so far.

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Krishi Gyan Sagar and Krishi Vani, a mobile-based information delivery system giving resource-poor farmers timely information

EduCATIoN

Consumer Association of India

Nirmaan Vidya

Main Awards Finalists

The Projects/Ideas under this category should be capable of demonstrating impacts on the community through application of Mobile Platform/Technol-ogy based innovations in Education sector. This category aims to acknowl-edge the work/concept which has the potential to contribute to the skills of an individual/group and to build a nation’s human capital. This category aims to encompass all noteworthy work done under the following segments within Education domain:

Primary education to higher eudcationKnowledge dissemination/ awareness

Skill development Vocational trainingCapacity building programs Any other in line with the above

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Mobile/Phone: 9840025566 Email: kk0310@gmail.com URL: http://caiindia.org

Organization: Consumers Association of India Location: Chennai, operational pan-India Contact Person: Mr.K.Krishnakumar

Helping consumers register complaints anywhere and anytime via an innovative mobile app- Consumer Connect

CAI Consumer Connect

Established in 2001, Consumers Association of India is a voluntary consumer organisa-tion based in Chennai with members all over India. Its objectives are to spread aware-ness among citizen consumers, educate consumers about their responsibilities and rights and emerge as a strong all India body representing consumers and ensuring that their voices are heard at the right platforms. It also provides voluntary service and support to consumers on various issues that affect their rights.

In 2012, CAI launched CAI Consumer Connect, the first ever-mobile application that empowers consumers to register a complaint from anywhere, anytime. Most impor-tantly, it solves the challenge many consumers face to learn the process of registering consumer complaints. The mobile app is downloadable free of cost from CAI’s web-site or the Google Play Store. Once downloaded, consumers can register a compliant easily from their phones, immediately capture images of defective products and send the complaint to CAI with the simple click of a button. CAI acknowledges receipt of the complaint. The application is integrated with CAI’s ICT-enabled Complaint Man-agement System. The application is also being developed in vernacular languages to make it easily accessible to rural consumers as well. Since its launch in 2012, over 1500 consumers have benefited from the project.

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Mobile/Phone: 9052858856 Email: chandra.puch@nfrmaan.org URL: www.nirmaan.org

Organization: Nirmaan Vidya Location: Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Telengana Contact Person: P. Chandra Sekhar

A toll-free Vidya Help Line empowering rural students advance their academic and career journeys

Vidya Helpline

Established in 2007, Nirman Organisation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to helping rural and underprivileged people primarily in the two major areas of educa-tion and livelihoods. Apart from many other projects, Nirman launched its toll-free Vidya Help Line (VHL) project in 2010 to help student callers get authentic and reliable answers to queries related to career guidance, admissions counselling, ex-amination results, scholarships, education loans, training institutes etc.

When a student calls the given number, the Nirman Vidya Call Centre picks up the call and records it in its database, whilst a career expert provides the necessary guid-ance. VHL also has a Voice/SMS based system that disseminates relevant informa-tion such as important notifications on scholarships, fellowships, etc. to students below Class 12, their parents and school dropouts in the vernacular language of Telugu. With this solution, a large number of students, especially the visually im-paired, are informed about the opportunities within a short duration and the infor-mation reaches them directly. Since its launch in 2010, more than 53,000 students and drop outs have called VHL for various queries on career guidance and career information. VHL has also sent out over 200,000 voice and text messages.

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govErNANCE

Surat Municipal Corporation

The Projects/Ideas under this category should be capable of demonstrating impact on the community by bringing positive change in the basic gover-nance – administrative mechanisms in India. Application of such Mobile Platform Technology based best practices which contribute to accountabil-ity and transparency in the public service delivery systems along with facil-itating service delivery mechanisms are covered under this category. The project/idea should be capable of showcasing the role of mobile technology in improving governance and development impact.

Sustenance of community devel-opment programmes (in health, education, etc)Sanitation programmesLivelihood enhancementPublic distribution system

Eradicating poverty, hunger and malnutrition Promotion of cultural or historic artefactsRural employmentAny other in line with the above

Main Award Finalists

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Mobile/Phone: 9724345000 Email: commissioner@suratmunicipal.org URL: www.suratmunicipal.gov.in

Organization: Surat Municipal CorporationLocation: Surat, Gujarat Contact Person: Milind Torawane IAS

Citizen Connect SMS mobile app that empowers citizens with access to information and grievance redressal of local government services

Citizens Connect - SMC Mobile App

Surat Municipal Corporation became the first municipal corporation in India to in-troduce a mobile application for citizens when it launched the Citizens Connect SMC Mobile App in 2013. The mobile app that is downloadable free of cost on the corporation’s website or Google Play Store offers a whole range of informative, in-teractive and transactional services to citizens.

In informative services, the app allows citizens to access information on registra-tion details of shops and establishments, elected and administrative wings, active tender information, recruitment advertisements and rainfall information. In inter-active services the app covers complaint registration, sharing of feedback, a “Where can I?” facility which uses GPS technology to help find the nearest redressal facility, downloading of forms pertaining to various services, various citizen facilities and emergency toolkit. The transactional services empowers citizens to check and pay outstanding or advance property tax, check and pay profession tax (EC), check and pay water meter bills, check and obtain birth certificates and check and obtain death certificates. The app has become popular within a short space of time with more than 52,387 downloads from India and in 15 other countries. In addition, the app has received over 18 million service requests and over 7400 complaints.

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Lata Medical Research Foundation

Operation ASHA

Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP)

Swasti Health Resource Centre

Muktaa Charitable Foundation

Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Medical Trust

Health Management and Research Institute (HMRI)

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Mohali

Main Award Finalists

The Projects/Ideas under this category should be capable of demonstrat-ing impact on the community through application of mobile platform/ technology based best practices in the health care sector. Pervasiveness of mobile technology fuels creation of innovative new ways to deliver health information and services. Therefore, this category aims to acknowledge the projects/ideas which possess the potential to build innovative mobile platforms to enable the interoperability of all health-related information and databases. This category aims to encompass all noteworthy work done under the following segments within healthcare domain:

Health and SanitationMaternity & Child Care Old AgeWomen Health

Hospital Other Well-being ProjectsAny other in line with the above

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Mobile/Phone: 9823154463 Email: dr_apatel@yahoo.com URL: www.latamedicalresearchfoundation.org

Organization: Lata Medical Research FoundationLocation: Nagpur, Maharashtra Contact Person: Dr. Archana Patel

Mobile application M-SAKHI augmenting the community health workers’ efforts to improve maternal-child health and nutrition

MSakhi - Maternal and CHild Health Package

Set up in August 1999, the Lata Medical Research Foundation is a non-profit or-ganisation which has contributed significantly to research in the diverse areas of child health, thalassemia, sickle cell anaemia, tuberculosis, HIV, cardiology, oncol-ogy, bioinformatics, etc. In 2013, LMRF launched an innovative M-health package M-SAKHI (Mobile Solutions Aiding Knowledge for Health Improvement) to help community health workers deliver health information and services for improving maternal-child health and nutrition.

The project is a mobile-based application meant for data collection by ASHA workers. The app provides visit reminders for improving visit compliance of ASHAs and plays counselling audio files in Marathi for birth spacing, diet, early iron and folic acid supplementation, immunisation and appropriate Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices. The counselling messages help ASHA workers un-derstand the danger signs related to pre-natal and post-natal pregnancy and aid in timely reporting to the health facility, thus improving overall health seeking behaviour in the community. ASHA workers use the app to collect data from ben-eficiaries and send it to a server, which maintains the data, aides in virtual moni-toring of the field workers, and helps develop, customise and create monitoring reports. So far, 10 mobile users, 80 pregnant and lactating women, and their chil-dren have been covered.

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Mobile/Phone: 9310398004 Email: shelly.batra@opasha.org URL: www.opasha.org

Organization: Operation ASHALocation: Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh; Dharavi slums, Mumbai & Cambodia Contact Person: Dr Shelly Batra

OpASHA’s TB Contact Tracing and Active Case Finding software increases detection rates and diagnosis of potential patients

Contact Tracing & Active Case Finding

Founded in 2006, Operation ASHA (OpASHA) provides tuberculosis treatment and education services in 2,053 slums and villages in 9 Indian states and 2 prov-inces in Cambodia. As part of its larger project of identification and treatment of TB patients, OpASHA launched in 2013 a mobile application of its Contact Tracing and Active Case Finding software.

OpASHA’s software seeks to identify and diagnose persons who may have been exposed to an infected pulmonary positive TB patient. The software works in two modes – Contact Tracing and Active Case Finding. In both modes, a TB sus-pect goes through a set of questions, if answer to any of the questions is yes, the health worker enters contact details of the TB suspect. After the suspect details are saved, the system keeps track of the suspect through each stage of diagnosis. The diagnosis is termed as ‘Completed’ if the diagnostic results are in-dicative of TB. If diagnostic results are negative, the suspect is ‘Archived ‘into the system. The application can be used on any Android device. Since the launch of the application, over 7,000 people have been screened in Gwalior, Dharavi and in multiple districts of Cambodia.

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Mobile/Phone: 7755923246 Email: sspindia1@gmail.com URL: www.sspindia.org

Organization: Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP)Location: Maharashtra Contact Person: Ms. Prema Gopalan

Arogya Sakhi, a mobile application helping rural women entrepreneurs delivering preventive health care at rural doorsteps

Arogya Sakhi

Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) began with rehabilitation and reconstruction work following the Latur earthquake in 1993. In 2013, it initiated the mobile-enabled Ar-ogya Sakhi project that aims to deliver preventive health care solutions at the door-step of rural households through rural women health entrepreneurs, called Arogya Sakhis - using mobile health diagnostics and modern mobile technology.

Sakhis equipped with tablets and mobile health devices such as blood pressure ma-chines, glucometers, etc., travel to doorsteps of village women and conduct a series of tests (preventive) through mobile health devices. They capture the data with the help of a tablet and upload the results on a cloud server. A physician, hundreds of kilometres away, currently in Pune, accesses and views the data and provides her expert comments and generates a medical report. Arogya Sakhis then deliver the reports, provide verbal clarifications as directed and communicate details of the care and precautions to the patients at their doorsteps. Those detected with anom-alies in any of the tests are alerted and those identified with high risks are referred to SSP’s existing local network of hospitals and doctors. Thus far, the project has bene-fited over 1800 women in Solapur, Washim, Osmanabad and Ahmednagar districts.

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Mobile/Phone: 9845624994 Email: shama@swasti.org URL: www.swasti.org

Organization: Swasti, Health Resource CentreLocation: Bengaluru Contact Person: Shama Karkal

Suyojana

Swasti is a health resource centre established in 2002 with a focus on achieving public health outcomes for those who are socially excluded. It delivers end-to-end solutions as well as short and long-term support and facilitation, combining research and practice. In 2013, it launched a mobile application that provides decision support to Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs) in providing maternal and neonatal care.

The application focuses on antenatal, post-natal and neo-natal care. Starting with a onetime registration of the client, the application allows the ANMs to feed in antenatal history, danger signs, examination results and investigation de-tails of the client. The application also prompts the ANMs to provide necessary counselling at different stages of pregnancy. With respect to post-natal care, the application allows the ANMs to feed in details of pregnancy outcome, danger signs, history, examination and counselling. The application provides decision support in the form of timely referral notices and identification of complications at an early stage. The application also allows ANMs to plan field visits and fix subsequent appointments with clients. It also generates reports summarizing the work done by the ANM in a month. The application runs on Android phones and is available in English and Kannada.

An application that enhances efforts of Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs) through digitisation of data and decision support mechanisms

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Mobile/Phone: 9845624994 (+91) (020)-26381234 Email: madhu.oswal@mcf.org.in URL: www.mcf.org.in

Organization: Muktaa Charitable FoundationLocation: Mumbai Contact Person: Dr. Madhu Oswal

Project Asha

Established in 2010, Pune-based Muktaa Charitable Foundation (MCF) is en-gaged in providing health services to underserved people. In 2011, it launched Project AASHA that is a free mobile-based service providing anonymous infor-mation and counselling service for HIV infected people registered with govern-ment HIV treatment centres.

The service provides HIV infected patients free information and counselling related to disease management by offering drug options and communicating the importance of HIV status disclosure. It also provides counselling related to marital issues, conception and contraception options, nutrition, mental health issues, financial issues, etc. Project AASHA identifies barriers to HIV medicines adherence, gives motivational tips to improve adherence, and sends daily SMS reminders for taking HIV medicine, doctor’s appointment for drug refill and lab-oratory testing at regular intervals. It also bridges the gap by providing referral services for financial, legal issues, marriage counselling centres and income generation centres. To be accessible to the poor people, there is a free call back service. Finally, the service also carries out online mentoring of outreach work-ers catering to HIV patients in the community and tracks patients who are “lost to follow up”. The service has already reached over 15,750 needy HIV infect-ed people all over the states of Bihar and Maharashtra, especially in difficult to reach rural districts.

Project AASHA, a free mobile-based help line for HIV patients registered with government HIV treatment centres

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Mobile/Phone: 9965511181 Email: oojasanghvi@sankaraeye.com URL: www.sankaraeye.com

Organization: Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Medical Trust Location: Coimbatore Contact Person: Dr. Pooja Sanghvi

SERVIS (EyeConnect Application)

Established in 1977, the Sankara Eye Care Institution today has 13 eye hospitals across 6 states of India and provides eye care to the poor. In 2013, it launched Eye-Connect, a customised Android-based mobile application, to automate communi-ty eye care. The project addresses multiple challenges faced in outreach programs in remote areas such as lack of network connectivity and electricity, field workers’ accountability, apathy of rural poor, dropout issues and data accuracy.

Under this project, field workers use mobile phones to survey and screen house-holds for detection of individuals in need of eye care, and refer them for advanced evaluation to camps conducted in their area by the hospital using a smart Decision Support System. The application also promotes awareness of eye ailments, eye do-nation and availability of eye care services by showing audio-video educative tools to rural households. Furthermore, the application screens individuals and refers them to base hospitals for surgical interventions, guides identified individuals to forthcoming nearby camps through a geo tagging feature and uses captured infor-mation to plan future eye care service delivery activities. A pilot project launched across four villages over a period of three months has benefited 705 people.

EyeConnect, a customised mobile application to overcome eyecare challenges in remote areas

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Mobile/Phone: 8011349104 Email: partha_c@hmriglobal.org URL: www.piramalswasthya.com/

Organization: Health Management and Research Institute (HMRI)Location: Guwahati, Assam Contact Person: Partha P Chakraborty

104 Sarathi Helpline

Founded in 2007, HMRI is a non-profit organisation working in the health care sector. In 2010, it launched a 24x7 Health Information Helpline called 104 Sarathi which enables citizens from any part of Assam to call in and avail free services.

The first point of contact for each caller is the Health Advisory Officer (HAO) who registers the caller by capturing basic demographic details such as name, age, etc. and generates a unique identification number that the caller can use later to skip the registration process. The HAO triages each call into Emergency and Non-Emergency call. Emergency calls are immediately routed to a medical offi-cer who diagnoses and provides basic first-aid services before transferring the call to 108 emergency services. For non-emergency calls, the HAO provides health advice by diagnosing callers using a state-of-the-art, validated, and standardised portfolio of protocols embedded in a Clinical Assessment Decision System Soft-ware (CADSys). With this software, HAOs are able to provide standardised and qualified medical advice to the caller and thereby allowing doctors to focus only on cases requiring special intervention. Callers can also get directory information and register complaints. Since its launch, 104 Sarathi has provided services to nearly 2.4 million people across Assam.

104 Sarathi, a health information and advisory helpline for people in Assam’s remote areas

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Mobile/Phone: 9463998448 Email: saurav@cdac.in URL: www.cdac.in

Organization: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), MohaliLocation: Mohali, Punjab Contact Person: Saurav Gupta

mSwasthya

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Mohali launched in March 2013 mSwasthya, a first-of-its-kind healthcare app store that provides more than 20 mobile apps on health, wellness and fitness encouraging people to take up a healthy lifestyle. For example, the ‘Diabetes-Monitor’ app allows diabetics to maintain a record of their glucose values and see a trend chart to monitor their health. The ‘Consult a doctor’ application allows the users to directly consult a doctor from their mobile devices. The ‘Hospital-Search’ app is suited for travelers who are not aware of their vicinity as during a medical emer-gency, they can use this app to find out the list of nearby hospitals/ clinics and see their contact details, distance from their present location and user ratings.

mSwasthya also provides an in-app calling facility and navigation to the select-ed hospital/clinic. The Child Immunisation Alert System (CIAS) sends immuni-sation alerts as per government recommendations over SMS, emails, and push notifications. Some of the other apps are Calorie Counter, Activity Tracker, BMI Calculator, Blood Pressure Monitor, Walking, Cycling, Stress Calculator, etc. All the apps can be downloaded to smart phones free of cost. So far there have been over 10,000 downloads.

mSwasthya, a first-of-its-kind healthcare app store with more than 20 mobile apps for health care and fitness

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woMEN EMPowErMENT & INCLuSIvE dEvELoPMENT

SNEHA (Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action)

Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled

National Informatics Centre

Child in Need Institute

Main Awards Finalists

The objective for including this category is to further promote the idea of a developed society by uprooting discrimination related to gender and by im-bibing idea of inclusion to lead positive impact on growth and development by providing equal opportunities to all. This segment covers projects/ideas that should be capable of showcasing responsible use of mobile technology and encouraging leveraging of mobile platforms for the benefit of society as enlisted below:

Promoting Gender EqualityWomen Empowerment Rural DevelopmentTribal Area Development

Creating Opportunities for Differ-ently Abled Any other in line with the above

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Mobile/Phone: 2224042627 919820380897 Email: nayreen@snehamumbai.org URL: www.snehamumbai.org

Organization: SNEHA (Society for Nu-trition Education and Health Action)Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra Contact Person: Nayreen Daruwalla

Little Sisters project helping tackle the social issue of domestic violence with mobile phone technology

Little Sister

Since 2001, the Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action (SNEHA) has been working in Dharavi, Mumbai to reduce maternal mortality, new-born mortality, malnutrition and domestic violence. In April 2014, SNEHA launched the Little Sisters project which uses smart phones for a crowd sourced notification, tracking and response coordination system for domes-tic violence cases.

SNEHA has developed and customised three different mobile technology solutions. The first is a smart phone survey using Open Data Kit to increase reporting and map domestic violence incidents. The second is EyeWatch, an emergency alert system that is integrated with its response coordina-tion system of field staff and it helps with live tracking, mapping, raising emergency response and video audio recording. Third, a toll free number has been set up that is given to the clients coming to the counselling cen-tre. Whenever survivors face another incident of violence, they can send a missed call to raise an alert for immediate intervention. It is also possible for SNEHA to send an inconspicuous SMS periodically to these clients to prevent any form of repeat violence on them. SNEHA has also developed a Little Sister Club of 10 youths in the community to intervene in domestic violence issues. So far, 255 survivors have benefited.

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Digital Book Library

Established in 1977, the Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled has been work-ing for inclusive development of people with disabilities (PWDs), especially the visually impaired. In 2007, the trust launched a mobile-based Digital Book Li-brary project for students in the age group of 15-35 years.

Using applications such as JAWS (Jobs Access With Speech) and DAISY (Digital Access Information System) the project seeks to convert printed books into audio format so that students can access them on their mobile phones. The Samarthanam Digital Studio was set up with the support of Tech Mahindra & Philips in 2008. Through DAISY, printed texts are converted into voice/spoken format in MP3 files. Students or other beneficiaries can listen to the file us-ing an MP3 player on their mobile. Under the guidelines of DAISY Forum India (DFI), the books are recorded and edited to ensure optimum quality. In addi-tion, books are also scanned and edited so that visually challenged people can access the content in audio mode using screen-reading software. The aim is to ensure that the entire set of academic material prescribed by the concerned University is recorded and made available to visually challenged students. The project is benefiting over 800 students every year.

Mobile/Phone: 9449864781 Email: mahantesh@samarthanam.org URL: www.samarthanam.org

Organization: Samarthanam Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka Contact Person: Mahantesh G.K

Samaratham Digital Book Library enabling the visually impaired access books using mobile phones.

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Mobile/Phone: 9652222812 Email: sekhar@nic.in URL: http://www.ap.nic.in/

Organization: National Informatics CentreLocation: Andhra Pradesh & Telangana Contact Person: K. Rajshekher

Mahila Shishu

Under the MAA- Mahila-Shishu project launched in 2013, the National Informatics Centre has developed one single mobile phone application that integrates all wom-en and child related applications as a one-stop solution. The portal has been devel-oped as an integration of three departments, namely Rural Development, Women and Child Development and Health.

The application enables information to be captured by field workers working in any of the three roles of Village Organisation (VO) or Auxiliary Nurse & Midwives (ANM) or Anganwadi Workers (AWW) through one-time registration for a single beneficiary avoiding registration at three places. The entire application has been developed us-ing open source technologies. The application allows online submission from any-where in the world. It captures data regarding pregnant mother registration, ANC services, PNC services, delivery services, immunisation services, supplementary nutrition services, take home ration, folic acid and iron tablet distribution, referral services, pre-school education, counselling services, health check-ups and early intervention, growth monitoring, tracking infant mortality rate, maternal mortality ratio, girl child insurance services, tracking and monitoring of high risk cases, etc. So far, the project has benefited 5.1 million pregnant women, 4.2 million children, 20,339 auxiliary nurse and midwives and 73,249 ASHA workers in the states of Andhra Pradesh & Telangana.

MAA- Mahila Shishu, an integrated solution of all women and child welfare related applications

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Mobile/Phone: 9874239559 Email: indrani@cinindia.org URL: www.cini-india.org

Organization: Child in Need InstituteLocation: West Bengal Contact Person: Indrani Bhattacharya

GPower

Founded in 1974, Child in Need Institute (CINI) works for integrated development and empowerment of poor people, especially women and children and runs oper-ations in West Bengal, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. CINI has launched GPower that is a Digital ICT system that leverages the power of social media, mobile technology, analytics and cloud technologies for tracking the vulnerabilities of adolescent girls on issues such as early marriage, school drop-outs, trafficking, child labour, etc. on a real time basis. It further simplifies their access to services offered by government flagship programmes.

GPower not only supports collection of ground-level data, but also manages data through a cloud-based system and makes it available to the girls and the stakehold-ers for effective convergence efforts. Community Facilitators (CF) collect the data on Android tablets equipped with a local decision support system application. This solution has features that enable error-free data collection, vulnerability analysis, and alert and reminder generation. The CFs register each beneficiary and maintain records on her status such as her health, her progress in school, the various schemes she is beneficiary of and her entitlements. Since 2013, the project has benefited 1018 adolescent girls from 10 villages of Midnapore district in West Bengal.

GPower - Empowering adolescent Girls for suc-cessful transition from childhood to adulthood by enabling access to government entitlements

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AgrICuLTurE ANd ENvIroNMENT

The Projects/Ideas under this category should be capable of improving the performance of key agricultural and environmental indicator(s) as well as facilitate innovations in these segments. One of the critical challenges of our era is to balance the competing lifestyle demands vis a vis conserving the scarce natural resources.

Subcategories can be seen on page 18

SPECIAL AwArd fINALISTS

World Wide Fund for Nature India

Handygo Technologies Private Limited

Aditi Organic Certifications Private Limited

Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP)

Jayalaxmi Agrotech

MobILE-bASEd TrACE-AbILITy SuPPorT TooL for orgANIC fArMINg

Aditi Organic Certifications Private Limited has launched a Mobile Internal Control System Solution to serve as a strategic traceability support tool for organisations involved in organic farming. The solution provides access to useful and relevant information to users and key personnel in real time. The platform leverages existing wireless data networks to allow companies to capture transactional information at the source even in remote locations with minimal or no telecommunications infrastructure. Mobile technologies are deployed to capture field level transactions with the farmers and to monitor the movement of produce within the value chain to improve the overall efficiency, visibility, transparency and accountability.

Mobile Internal Control System (ICS) Solutions: Enabling Integrity, Empowering Farmers and Enhancing their Competitiveness

Organization: Aditi Organic Certifications Private Limited Location: Bengaluru Contact Person: Narayana Upadhyaya Mobile/Phone: 9986024080 Email: aditiorganic@gmail.com URL: www.aditicert.net

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bEhTAr ZINdAgI, AN Af-fordAbLE MobILE-bASEd INforMATIoN ANd AdvISory SErvICE for fArMErS

Handygo Technologies launched the Behtar Zindagi (Better Life) mobile service in 2009. An IVR accessible package provides farmers information and advice on relevant topics such as agriculture crops, fisheries, livestock, mandi rates, weath-er forecasts/alerts, self-employment and government schemes, rural health, and financial literacy. Subscribers get information and alerts in their regional languages either as IVR dialogue/voice or by SMS. The service is easily navigable and is handset independent. It is available at Rs 1 per day across all mobile operators and across all states. About 6 million people are currently using the service.

Behtar Zindagi

Organization: Handygo Technologies Private Limited Location: New Delhi Contact Person: avanya Sharma Mobile/Phone: 9555955100 Email: lavanya.sharma@handygo.com URL: www.handygo.com

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hELPINg fArMErS EArN MorE wITh TIMELy INforMATIoN

The Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP) has launched a mobile applet e-KrishakSahyogi (e-KS) that provides relevant and useful information in areas such as proven cropping techniques, weather forecast and related agro-advisory, mar-ket prices etc. to farmers in a timely manner. The information is provided in audio and video formats with the objective of minimising a farmer’s probable losses and enhancing the efficiency of his processes and practices. The information and video clips can be accessed by any low-end handheld device. Since its launch in April, 2013, the project has benefited 5046 farmers from 97 villages of five blocks of Jaipur district in Rajasthan.

Organization: Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP) Location: New Delhi Contact Person: Gaurav VatsMobile/Phone: 9311309535 Email: gaurav@isapindia.org URL: www.e-krishaksahyogi.org

e-Krishaksahyogi (e-KS)

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APP To ProvIdE CroP-SPECIfIC INfor-MATIoN To fArMErS

Jayalaxmi Agrotech launched a mobile application in 2014 to provide illiterate farmers with end-to-end crop-specific information and agronomic practices in regional languages through audio visuals. The app also provides high-end solutions like analytics and decision support system and can work without internet once it is transferred to the farmer’s Android smart phone. The for-profit social enterprise has already disseminated 6000 mobile applications for 10 different crops in 5 districts of north Karnataka. The first 5000 downloads were sponsored by NABARD and now farmers are buying the app as there is demand for it.

Organization: Jayalaxmi Agrotech Location: Hagaribommanahalli Contact Person: Anand Babu Mobile/Phone: 7259508666 Email: anand@jayalaxmiagrotech.com URL: www.jayalaxmiagrotech.com

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CyCLo- A uNIquE APP hELP-INg CyCLISTS MEASurE ThEIr CoNTrIbuTIoN TowArdS ENvIroNMENT ProTECTIoN

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) India has launched Cyclo, a fitness based app with the aim to promote environment conservation. It is an OS and device inde-pendent application that can support any web-enabled mobile type. Cyclo enables nature enthusiasts to donate cycling miles for the planet by encouraging their peers to follow suit. This can be done through a host of features like public/private groups management, tracking events and activities, creation of routes on maps with way-points and utility points, a real-time GPS tracker, an activity monitor, activity statistics etc. Based on the premise that a five percent increase in cycle trips across the world would cumulatively save 100 million tonnes of CO2 emissions annually, the applica-tion seeks to promote bicycle riding and environmental awareness.

Organization: World Wide Fund for Nature India Location: New Delhi Contact Person: Himanshu PandeyMobile/Phone: 9810844048 Email: hpandey@wwfindia.net URL: www.wwfindia.org

WWF Cyclothon

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SPECIAL AwArd fINALISTS

Shailani Software Solutions LLP

Chinh India

Manitham Charitable Trust

EduCATIoNThe Projects/Ideas under this category should be capable of demonstrating impacts on the community through application of Mobile Platform/Technol-ogy based innovations in Education sector. This category aims to acknowl-edge the work/concept which has the potential to contribute to the skills of an individual/group and to build a nation’s human capital. Subcategories can be seen on page 25

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bALAEEKoSh, A MArAThILANguAgE MobILE ENAbLEd gENErAL KNowLEdgE ENCyCLoPEdIA

In 2014, Shailani Software Solutions launched a mobile version of its award-win-ning BalaeeKosh general knowledge digital encyclopedia in Marathi. The app offers offline over 12000 pages of information on various general knowlege subjects supported by over 7000 images and maps. It also has unlimited practice sets based on over 15000 GK questions and a facility to upgrade the content. The application can be purchased at a nominal cost of Rs 199/- from Shailani’s shopping portal or its Pune office. The desktop and Internet versions have already reached over 70000 households and over 1000 schools. The mobile version has reached over 1000 users so far.

Organization: Shalani Software Solutions LLP Location: Pune Contact Person: Lalkar Chhadawelkar Mobile/Phone: 8237082800 Email: lalkar@shailani.com URL: www.shailani.com

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EArLy EduCATIoN wEb ChANNEL fEATurINg fILMS for ChILdrEN, MAdE by ChILdrEN oN MobILE PhoNE

Chinh Early Education Web Channel is a unique mobile application through which films for children and those made by children are made available to children on their mobile phones. The Four Birds and One Million Stories Project aims to understand the lives of children and young people in different age groups by empowering them to think critically, think creatively, communicate effectively and empathise with oth-ers. The project enables children to work out storyboards, choose and create their own visuals and make their own films that are made available on the channel. So far, the application has benefited more than 500,000 children.

Organization: Chinh India Location: New Delhi Contact Person: Meenakshi Vinay RaiMobile/Phone: 9811089321 Email: raientertainment@yahoo.com URL: www.chinh.in

Chinh Early Education Web Channel

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MCLASSrooM ProjECT rAISINg AwArENESS AbouT EduCATIoN IN rurAL CoMMuNITIES

Manitham Charitable Trust launched in 2014 an m-Classroom project that focuses on building awareness on quality education and ensuring protection of child rights. The m-Classroom model is based on a conference-call equivalent, with multiple communities connected to the same line, and a central resource person from Manitham providing information on critical issues and responding to the commu-nities’ queries. This helps maintain qualitative information flow on key areas. The m-Classroom phone calls can be recorded and stored in every community, and can be accessed multiple times. This enables Manitham’s mentors provide on-ground assistance to help the community make good use of the information. So far, 375 students in rural Tamil Nadu have benefited.

Organization: Manitham Charitable Trust Location: Manamadurai Contact Person: B.S.VanarajanMobile/Phone: 944300000 Email: trust.manitham@gmail.com URL: www.manitham.org.in

m-Classroom for Child Rights & Development

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govErNANCE

SPECIAL AwArd fINALISTS

Infocrats Web Solutions Private Limited

The Informed Voter Project

Mobiwhiz Technologies LLP

Tech Services India Private Limited (SmartShehar) UST Global

The Projects/Ideas under this category should be capable of demonstrating impact on the community by bringing positive change in the basic gover-nance – administrative mechanisms in India. Application of such mobile platform technology based best practices which contribute to accountabil-ity and transparency in the public service delivery systems along with facil-itating service delivery mechanisms are covered under this category. The project/idea should be capable of showcasing the role of mobile technology in improving governance and development impact. Subcategories can be seen on page 28

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CITIZENS CoPS uSE MobILE APPLICATIoN To hELP PoLICINg

Infocrats has launched a mobile phone application that allows citizens to help in policing and maintaining general law and order in the state of Madhya Pradesh. The application - Citizen Cop has features such as Report an Incident, Help Me (SOS) for Emergency Help), e-LaxmanRekha, Search Towed Vehicle and Vehicle Owner Search and Auto-Taxi Fare Calculator. Citizens can download the app free and feed four mo-bile numbers of friends and family for sending SOS messages as SMS, in case of du-ress. The SMS also goes to local police stations. The service launched in five cities of Madhya Pradesh and has since connected 46,000 people with the initiative. The police now want the service implemented in all districts of the state.

Organization : Infocrats Web Solutions Private LimitedLocation: Indore, M.P. Contact Person: Rakesh Jain Mobile/Phone: 9826076770 Email: rakesh@infocratsweb.com URL: www.citizencop.org

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uSINg LETS ShooT uP, A MobILE APP To MoNITor ProgrESS of PubLIC ProjECTS

MobiWhiz have developed an Android mobile application - Lets Shoot Up - that func-tions as a citizen journalism tool. The application enables the user to send consol-idated reports with audio/video/photos from the field to a designated server. The application automatically records the time and location of sending the report. The application can now be customised by traffic police to record and report traffic vio-lations, and monitor progress on various public projects. Relevant civil servants and ministers can remotely track the work of various public department projects and their progress from within the application. More information is available on the website.

Organization : MobiWhiz Technologies LLP Location: Cuddalore Contact Person: S.BaraniKumar Mobile/Phone: 9841640865 Email: baranikumar.s@mobiwhiz.in URL: www.mobiwhiz.in

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MuMbAIvoTES.CoM - uSE your MobILE, TALK To your ELECTEd rEPrESENTATIvE

The Informed Voter Project organisation has launched a mobile-based Voice RTI plat-form - mumbaivotes.com - that aims to provide an ordinary citizen of the country with a simple and effective mechanism to directly reach and engage with their elected representatives. The application allows any individual to call a number, select a local representative to leave a question for, and then record the question. Once a response is recorded, the user receives an SMS/call back from the system and will be able to listen to the answer. A user will also be able to listen to Voice RTIs left by other users.

Organization : The Informed Voter Project Location: Mumbai Contact Person: Hatim BaheranwalaMobile/Phone: 9769042575 Email: hbaheranwala@mumbaivotes.com URL: www.mumbaivotes.com

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juMPINjuMPouT, A uNIquE wAy To uSE MobILES To ShArE vEhICLES ANd rEduCE TrAffIC jAMS

Tech Services India has developed a mobile application called JumpinJumpout that allows cars, autos, taxis and private buses to offer rides and commuters to avail the rides for sharing vehicles going to the same destination. It offers the cost saving and convenience of car-pooling without any of the inflexibilities. The app allows vehicle drivers/owners to indicate a trip from destination A to destination B. Other commuters get to know the information on a real time basis and can share the trip creating a win-win situation for all. The aim of the app is to bring down the number of vehicles on the roads even as more people get an opportunity to use a vehicle.

Organization : Tech Services India Private Limited (SmartShehar) Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra Contact Person: Chetan TemkarMobile/Phone: 9892452492 Email: ctemkar@jumpinjumpout.com URL: www.Jump.in.Jump.out.com

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ThIruvANANThAPurAM CITy PoLICE APP hELPINg LEArN TrAffIC ruLES ANd rEPorT vIoLATIoNS

UST Global has developed a mobile application for the Thiruvananthapuram City Po-lice (TCP App) that helps people to become aware of the traffic rules and penalties in their area. The TCP App also enables people to report any violation of laws that they encounter with videos and photos. It assists people and connects them with emer-gency service providers like police control room, ambulance, hospitals and fire ser-vice stations in and around Thiruvananthapuram city, Kerala, India. It also provides directions to the nearest police station from the user’s current location. More features will be added soon. Over 1600 people are using the app since it was launched in 2014.

Organization : UST Global Location: Trivandrum Contact Person: Thomas John Mobile/Phone: 9995485472 Email: Thomas.kurukootjohn@ust-global.com URL: www.ust-global.com

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Dimagi Software Innovations Private Limited

St. Jude India Childcare Centres

Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness (MAYA)

BNH Telemedicine Centre

The Projects/Ideas under this category should be capable of demon-strating impact on the community through application of mobile platform/ technology based best practices in the health care sector. Pervasiveness of mobile technology fuels creation of innovative new ways to deliver health information and services. Therefore, this category aims to acknowledge the projects/ideas which possess the potential to build innovative mobile platforms to enable the interoper-ability of all health-related information and databases.

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CoMMCArE for CrS rEMINd – rEduCINg MATErNAL ANd NEwborN dEAThS

Dimagi has developed a mobile-based job-aid tool for ASHAS working for the Re-ducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths (ReMiND) programme being implemented by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Vatsalya in Kaushambi district of Uttar Pradesh. The programme goal is to improve the frequency and quality of home visits to pregnant women and newborn children. ASHAs use the tool during home visits to record data, provide multimedia-enhanced counselling messages, and guide counselling ses-sions’ structure and content. In addition, the application helps supervisors to monitor the performance of the ASHAs in the region. So far, over 1.39 million pregnant wom-en and children have been benefited.

Organization: Dimagi Software Innovations Private LimitedLocation: New Delhi Contact Person: Devika Sarin Mobile/Phone: 9818506960 Email: dsarin@dimagi.com URL: www.dimagi.com

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ThE MAyA hEALTh INITIATIvE To EMPowEr rurAL hEALTh ENTrEPrENEurS dELIvEr CArE uSINg MobILES

MAYA has trained 100 health entrepreneurs called Health Navigators who are using a mobile-based solution to track family health status records and check for illnesses like diabetes, malnourishment, hypertension, etc. The Health Navigators are also cre-ating awareness and educating people on preventive healthcare, predictive diagnos-tics and required referrals; providing access to medical records for consultations. The application uses the Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths (ReMiND) programme to access back-end information repository and get access to easy payment and trans-action options for services rendered, location specific geo-tagging for effective identi-fication and management of health issues and easy access to medical health services like ambulance, pharmacy, labs, etc. So far, the service has benefited 30000 families in Karnataka.

Organization: Movement for Alter-natives and Youth Awareness (MAYA) Location: Bengalore Contact Person: Alex RodriguesMobile/Phone: 9538357591 Email: dr.vasu@mayaindia.org URL: www.mayaindia.org

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MobILE SoLuTIoNS for INforMATIoN ANd CArE of ChILdrEN SuffErINg froM CANCEr

St. Jude India Child Care Centre plans to develop a smartphone-based mobile ap-plication that will provide information on cancer care for children. Ignorance about childhood cancers, lack of treatment options, support systems and poverty result in needless loss of lives of young patients throughout the country. Lack of information in remote parts of India as well as poor medical infrastructure prevents parents from seeking treatment for their children with only 20% diagnosed seeking care when 80% cases are curable. The proposed application will enable parents and health workers to access information via videos or e-books, SMS for FAQs and a missed call facility for those seeking more information.

Organization: St. Jude India Childcare Centres Location: Mumbai Contact Person: MS.Usha Banerji Mobile/Phone: 9821368283 Email: ushabanerji@stjudechild.org URL: www.stjudechild.org

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Now gET TELEMEdICINE SErvICES ovEr MobILE PhoNES

BNH Telemedicine is developing a smart phone based telemedicine application to overcome the challenges of high cost of setting up conventional nodal centres as well as the problems of mobility, accessibility and availability of primary health care with a special focus on rural and urban slum dwellers. The application will have three modules. These will include connecting remote clinics to specialists, hospitals to hos-pitals and patients to doctors. Once this app is developed, it will enable direct patient to specialist connectivity. As of now, the application is being developed for Blackberry 10 OS platform and further technical enhancements will ensure compatibility with other popular OS like Andriod, iPhone & Windows.

Organization: BNH Telemedicine Centre Location: Mumbai Contact Person: Dr. Pavan Kumar Mobile/Phone: 9699000000 Email: drpavan@bnhtmcentre.com URL: www.bnhtmcentre.com

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woMEN EMPowErMENT ANd INCLuSIvE dEvELoPMENT

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Plan India

The objective for including this category is to further promote the idea of a developed society by uprooting discrimination related to gender and by imbibing idea of inclusion to lead positive impact on growth and development by providing equal opportunities to all. This segment covers projects/ideas that should be capable of showcasing responsible use of mobile technology and encouraging leveraging of mobile platforms for the benefit of society as enlisted below.

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SAfETy APP - uSE of TEChNoLogy for gIrLS SAfETy IN CITIES

Plan International is developing a mobile-based application called SafeCity to en-hance the safety of girl children and women in cities. The app proposes to include features such as mapping of shortest, safest routes from a woman’s location to her home, providing information to understand safe routes, safe modes of transport and walkways. Secondly, the app will provide public transport options, auto/taxi safety comparisons, etc. Thirdly, the ‘track & share’ will enable emergency access tracking by family and friend. Other key features will include display of frequently travelled routes, easy location of friends & family members nearby, a multi-function reporting of incidents/issues with pictures, amongst others.

Organization: Plan India Location: New Delhi Contact Person: Alpana SahaMobile/Phone: 9873456034 Email: alpana.saha@planindia.org URL: www.planindia.org

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Rajiv Makhni - Managing Editor Technology of NDTV This is the second year I’ve been on the Jury for these very unique awards. And in both the years Ive gone through a myriad set of emotions while going through the process. India is unique in its Mobile phone footprint and impact. On one side it has dramatically changed peoples lives and has had an impact at almost every level. On the other side, the unfulfilled po-tential and promise are so huge that it is truly frustrating. Thus, anything that give ion to the mobile technology related work in the country cannot be praised enough.

Yet, as I sit there during the judging process, I am amazed at the amazing stories of great creativity, ingenuity and real grassroots level hard work being done by individuals and organizations. But I also sit there and won-der what we may be missing. There maybe more amazing work that we are unaware of. Hence, amplifying the current award winners may well get a whole new set of people inspired to come up with even better imple-mentation in the future in areas that are still untouched. Thus the most important thing we could do is to amplify these awards so that a greater majority of people can be aware of the good work and also replicate and enhance the ideas and innovations. This is what I hope for the next few years in the life of these awards.

Prasanto K Roy - Advisor of Cybermedia The M4G jury process allowed some great insight into the sheer span, breadth and depth of ‘mobile for good’ projects in India. We got to see functioning apps and systems that were making an impact across diverse areas, and not just ideas. The peer exchange among a diverse jury was very useful both for the process, and for our own learning from each other.The process could be further strengthened by putting down, in a consis-tent format, a summary along with key questions and answers about the project. This would allow the jury to quickly get a grasp on the project, and then spend most of the time on discussing and evaluating it.

Sara Chamberlain - Head - ICT of BBC Media Action The jury process for the Vodafone mobile for good awards was immensely stimulating. It was a pleasure to interact with thought leaders from so many different sectors.aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per.

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Sandeep Karanwal - Director of GSMA India Mobile as a tool of Empowerment Two technologies have transformed the lives of billions of people over the past two decades — mobile com-munications and the internet. Initially, these technologies developed in parallel, but now they are on a fully converged path.

The benefits of this evolution are endless, but there are many challenges, such as: - securing sufficient spectrum and maintaining a high quality of service as demand for mobile data explodes;- providing voice and broadband access to remote areas;- and assuring a stable, sustainable business for mobile network operators as the sector evolves.

The biggest beneficiary of these technologies has been the children and the youth of this world who all of a sudden find a full gamut of things available to them in their palms. You can imagine the pool of knowledge they can have access to and learn, play, entertain and socialise with that.The mobile is also a tool of empowerment for those who are economi-cally from the lower strata of the society. We should aim to put a mobile device in everybody’s hand and to make this a reality we need to increase the affordability of devices, services and put the right policy framework in place. The socio economic impact of such an endeavour will be huge and will be a win –win situation for the subscriber, policy maker and the service provider.

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Rita Soni - CEO of NASSCOMM Foundation NASSCOM Foundation, in a line, stands for #tech4good. So the invite to the jury of Mobile for Good Mobile phones are being looked at as the ideal vehicles for empowerment with a capacity to transform the lives of the underserved.

Bundled with simple to use apps, they can enable financial inclusion for the 0.5 billion people who have access to a phone but not a bank. They can provide farmers with information on market prices and weather reports, and help mothers with important information to keep themselves and their children healthy.

As an organization whose main objective is to promote #tech4good, we at NASSCOM Foundation are very excited to see these new and innovative apps and hope to help them scale and grow through the mobile for good platform or our own program – NASSCOM Social Innovation Forum.

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Mohammad Chowdhury - TMT Partner of PriceWater House CoopersM4G this year was especially rich in a few emerging categories, extending the boundaries of how mobile is being used to connect people to services which they may not be able to otherwise access or afford. A great experi-ence to be associated with this... Inspiring!

Rajesh Bansal - Director of UIDAI It was very delightful to be a part of the jury. The impact which 900 million mobile devices can have on the lives of 1.2 billion lives in India is indeed an opportunity which came out during our deliberations in the jury. I would like to thank the Foundation and DEF for giving me the opportunity to be part of the jury.

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Akila Krishnakumar - Chief Executive of Social Venture Partners The Mobile for Good awards - The name says it all. Recognising organisa-tions who are applying technology and thought to serious long standing problems. While, it was very encouraging to see the long list of worthy contenders, the jury was faced with tough choices.

The judging process was highly engaging, educative and most of all very fair. The fellow jurors brought great insight, passion and energy to the discussions. While congratulations are due to the winners, it does not diminish the work done by organisations that did not make the awardee list. Please convey our support and encouragement to all who took the time and effort to apply.

Mahesh Venkateswaran - Principal Innovation of National Skills Development Corporation The M4G Awards this year opened our eyes to high quality entries, each one a winner on its own merit. Fellow jury members with diverse back-grounds helped really identify the ones that were of highest quality given the selection criteria provided to us. The fact that the awardees would be provided financial and continuous hand holding support certainly helps in taking these initiatives to the next level. Overall, I was delighted to be part of the M4G awards, congratulations to the winners and to Vodafone Foundation for putting together a strong process in place to solicit the best nominations from the development sector. The jury venue, Sanskriti Foundation, was certainly a bonus given its serene and green surrounding.

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Parul Soni - Executive Director & Leader of Ernst & Young India This concept of the M4G awards is extremely pertinent as technology is playing a vital role in people’s lives. To award organizations which are in the business of creating social applications for helping the larger com-munity; this award will go a long way in in transforming the society as it empowers successful organization to scale up. In our session, there were a lot of discussions on the potential benefits of these applications and how the award will act as a catalyst to motivate more organizations to work towards developing such applications. I wish M4G awards and the team at Vodafone Foundation great success in their endeavours

Manoj Dawane - Vice President of Ericsson IndiaHaving spent one whole day with the jury and organisers of Vodafone Mobile for Good Awards, I was quite enthused with the energy level that goes into making such a movement happen. Not just identifying the innovative aspect of an idea using technology, but the whole ecosystem around it, it’s understanding and then the orchestration of all elements to bring out the best and most impactful ... the feeling of ‘Purpose’ could not be missed...my heartfelt thanks and kudos to Vodafone for having made this possible, with repeatability over the years.

Ericsson is a firm believer in the transformative power of mobile technol-ogy coupled with broadband and cloud. This combination facilitates the enablement of digital applications that act as tools for enabling financial inclusion, health, education and mobile governance. We are happy to be partnering Vodafone in this mission.

Once again, I would like to take this opportunity to applaud the Mobile for Good Awards 2014, organized by the Vodafone Foundation for this com-mendable effort to recognize and support best practices by NGOs/ NPOs that use mobile technology for good.

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