Genpact NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours - Winners 2011

• Presently SLS is being implemented on 8 weekly TV programmes, one each in Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil
• Collectively, this gives regular reading practice to 150 million weak-readers, for 30 minutes a week. Longitudinal studies have found that SLS more than doubles the number of good readers in primary schools
• Among weak-reading youth and adults, regular exposure to SLS raised newspaper reading from 34% to 70%

2. ICT led Innovation as a Business Model

• The first phones enabled with the Panini Keypad are entering the markets. And thousands of users all over India are already using the Panini Keypad to write in Indian languages freely on their phones
• In the course of a year, millions of people of India are expected to be writing on their phones using the Panini Keypad

• Transparency and visibility: citizens, media, NGOs, officials, politicians can view and use data live on the internet
• Increase in accountability: Details of personnel & officials involved in implementation at each stage are being logged into the system increasing accountability
• Minimizing fraud: The system has effectively blocked leakages thereby reducing fraud. By making available Standard Schedule of Rates & productivity norms in the system, there is no possibility for excess estimations and sanction of funds
• Minimizing effort and administrative cost: cumbersome process of preparing estimates has been simplified duly saving several man months of unproductive time
• Accurate and faster wage payments: payment cycle has been reduced to less than 1 week. Payments to wage seekers are being made through Bank/Postal savings accounts through finger print authentication
• Change management: Changes in policies, work estimation standards, payment rates during the course of implementation based on ground realities can quickly be adapted
• Program Monitoring: Every work & rupee spent can be tracked. Reports required at all levels are readily available, reducing the effort of preparation of such reports and increasing accuracy of dat

• The voters now have extensive data pertaining to the background of candidates and parliamentarians from their constituencies available through various sources (website, mobile phone, toll free helpline). This data includes the crime, assets, liabllity and education related data to give a better perspective on a candidate
• Media get relevant information for numerous stories that help in formation of the big picture (eg. Percentage of Criminal Candidates fielded by different Political Parties in a state)
• It helps to run more effective campaigns related to informing voters and pressurizing political parties to clean up politics
• Political Parties get structured & insightful information is used by honest party workers to build pressure for chang

• Every kabadiwala involved in the project is expected to increase volume of recycling by 48 tons every year, and reduce operating costs. The project expects an increase of Rs 7500 in monthly net income
• Their children can go to better schools & their families will appreciate their positive & contributive role in society
• Households will behave responsibly while earning
• Positive environmental impact - 13.5 million kilos of waste will be diverted from landfills and recycled by Year 3 of operations

• Gaon Ki Awaaz enables villagers to learn what is happening in their, and surrounding, villages
• This includes information about welfare schemes about which they were unaware or had vague knowledge of
• They are better informed, and can take more educated decisions
• They can improve or/and enrich their lives