“By honouring social innovations, NSIH is bringing them to the attention of the corporate sector and the government. It a vitally important first step in a nascent innovation ecosystem that far too often waits for affirmations from outside to tell us that there is something interesting in our backyard. Such honours can act as catalysts to shorten the path from idea to pilot to scale.”
Brij Kothari, PlanetRead
“NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours has provided us with a phenomenal platform through which we have been able to define, develop and showcase our social offerings. We, EnviroMitra, have greatly benefited from the reach and influence which NASSCOM Foundation has provided through it's vast network. The award serves as recognition for our ideas, has vindicated the efforts we have put in, has brought to us credibility, and has provided us with the impetus to achieve our targets.”
Pavan Murali , S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research
“We are proud winners of the NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours of 2011. It brings us great fulfilment that the word social has been associated with what we are trying to do. And we like innovation, of course. This award from the very well-known brand of NASSCOM Foundation has given us greater legitimacy than others. We also particularly liked the high quality of people that were put together for this jury, the highly supportive people who assisted us through the process and the media coverage.”
Abhijit Bhattacharjee, Luna Ergonomics Pvt Ltd
Thanks to NASSCOM for recognising the work we have done on IT interventions in the implementation of MGNREGS and drawing the benefits out of it. I hope the award makes other Govt departments also know about the ICT use in MGNREGS and they also may thrive for use of IT in their programs which ultimately makes all the Govt programs very transparent and efficient in terms of reach and purposefulness.
Akunuri Murali, Commissionerate of Rural Development, Government of Andhra Pradesh
“For SMSONE, as a Start-up, NSIH proved to be a stepping stone into the world of ICT for Development. With NSIH endorsement on your visiting card or profile, no one, whether Indian or Global, suspects your innovation’s trustworthiness, reliability or social relevance. NSIH means the last word in the country. From ‘a mere start-up in Pune’ to ‘Forbes - Hot 5 Start-ups in India’ All thanks to NSIH!”
Ravi Ghate, Social Entrepreneur & Director, SMSONE, Pune
“The detailed evaluation done by NASSCOM Foundation while selecting us for the Social Innovation Honors 2010 helped us relook at our work more objectively and made us realize that the systems and processes followed by us to leverage information technology in education for sustainable social development could become industry’s best practice and help in furthering developmental work in this sector”
Soumya Kanti, President, Educomp Solutions Limited
"The NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours 2010 gave us industry recognition nationally as well as internationally. Impact of our work in social development is widely known and acknowledged. However, recognition by an industry association helped us get more acknowledgement as a serious player within the information technology world as well. We entered into an African partnership after the local partner in the country came to know about us through the award information."
Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya, Chief Executive Officer, ekgaon technologies
"By recognizing this very innovative project in the field of Public Grievance Redressal, NASSCOM Foundation has strengthened our commitment for bringing-in Good-Governance (with Efficiency, Transparency & Accountability as Base) for the Common man. It has given us a very strong public appearance and much required recognition for making the system better and to reach out to more and more people. Jhansi Jan Suvidha Kendra (JJSK) which was started as a small local initiative of Jhansi district on 10th June 2009 is now being replicated in all 71 Districts of Uttar Pradesh by the State Government. All thanks to NASSCOM Foundation.”
Raj Shekhar, DM, Jhansi
”Winning Nasscom Social Innovation Honours 2010 from NASSCOM Foundation, a premier IT trade body, has increased visibility for Mkrishi. This has lent greater credence to TCS’s innovative concept that hopes to effect social change through a mobile advisory platform.”
K. Ananth Krishnan, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
"The Nasscom Social innovation Honours is a very important award for Steria. NSIH has considerably enhanced our image with, most importantly with our clients and helped reinforce our basic and vital business tenet of being a socially responsible corporate citizen. Internally too it has had a very positive impact, inspiring more and more of our younger colleagues to join the CSR volunteer force."
Gayathri Mohan, Vice President - CSR India, Steria |
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