mBillionth Award South Asia

The mBillionth Award South Asia is presented each year since 2010[1] for socially valuable innovations in mobile communications in South Asia. The scheme is run by the Digital Empowerment Foundation,[2] an Indian NGO seeking to improve access to and usage of digital communications.[3][4]

Aims

The stated mission of the mBillionth Awards is "to recognise and honor excellence in mobile communications across South Asia... recognising and felicitating mobile innovations, applications and content services delivery."[5] Founded in 2010, the awards are directed towards those innovations in mobile communications that make for widespread adoption of the technology, promising empowerment and social gain.[6] The scheme seeks further to facilitate networking among inventors and developers in this field.[7]

Eligibility

The award is open to governments, individuals, private sector companies, academic institutions, and NGOs in any of the eight SAARC countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Entry is by self-nomination.

Selection process

Nominations for the award are pre-filtered and the final selection is carried out by a Grand Jury. In 2016 the number of nominations received was 348;[8] of these 60 were considered by the Grand Jury of 15 members, who selected 25 winners and 6 Special Mentions.

Categories

In the first year of the awards, 2010, the categories were:[6]

Winners

Some of the winners of the mBillionth award have been as follows.

Year Category Project Country
2012 Inclusion Halaat-O-Meter - sharing real-time information during an emergency[9] Pakistan
2013 Governance Mobile Seva - communication between citizens and the Government of India[10] India
Health MoSQuIT - monitoring malaria outbreaks[11] India
2014 Agriculture and ecology Farmer Query System[12] Bangladesh
Fisher Friend Mobile Application[5] India
Business and commerce SWOSTI mobile credit card[13] Bangladesh
Culture and heritage Pashto multi-purpose dictionary[14] Pakistan
Governance Labor Permit via SMS[15] Nepal
Health Rural Health Management Information System[16] India
Inclusion BhashaHelakuru[17] Sri Lanka
Jobseekers[18][19] India
Travel and tourism RailYatri Mobile App[20] India
2015 Culture and heritage Mobitel mGuide virtual tourist guide[21] Sri Lanka
Education and learning Shikkhok.com mobile learning platform[22] Bangladesh
Smartur 3D visualisation software[23] India
Health mSakhi app for frontline health workers[24] India
Media and entertainment FlipBeats music app[25] Sri Lanka
Travel and tourism Place SMS travel companion app[26]
2016 Agriculture and ecology Breathe - collecting and transmitting air pollution data[27] India
Early Stage iShippo marketing for handicrafts[28] India
DNMS _ Nutrition monitoring system[29] Sri Lanka
Inclusion and empowerment Sign Language Interpreter[8] Sri Lanka
Learning and education RISE app educational interface[30] India
TeachApp support for teachers (juror's special mention)[7][31] Nepal

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "KSRTC's mobile service gets award", The Hindu, 28 July 2010
  2. ↑ "mBillionth Award 2012: An Ecosystem for Mobilepreneurs". Telecom Talk. 20 April 2012.
  3. ↑ "Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)". Eldis. Institute of Development Studies. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  4. ↑ "Pickme Wins Mbillionth Award 2016." The Daily Mirror (Colombo, Sri Lanka). HT Media Ltd. 10 August 2016. Retrieved January 31, 2017 from HighBeam Research
  5. 1 2 "MSSRF app for fishermen wins award", Times of India, 21 July 2014
  6. 1 2 "Rewarding the best mobile innovations." Mint. 26 July 2010. Retrieved January 31, 2017 from HighBeam Research
  7. 1 2 "TeachApp awarded for educating the smart way". British Council, Nepal. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  8. 1 2 "The mBillionth Award South Asia 2016". Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  9. ↑ "Grappettite’s Halaat-O-Meter Wins mBillionth Award". Pakistan Advertisers' Society. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  10. ↑ "mBillionth Award - Rewarding innovations in mobile technology". C-DAC - Centre for Development of Advanced Computing. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  11. ↑ "MoSQuIT bags mBillionth South Asia Award 2013". Primeur Weekly Magazine. 22 July 2013.
  12. ↑ "Mridul Chowdhury, CEO of mPower Social Enterprises Ltd, receiving 'mBillionth award 2014' in mAgriculture Category for 'Farmer Query System', a mobile-based agro advisory service developed, in India recently.", The New Nation (Bangladesh), 9 August 2014
  13. ↑ "Swosti Mobile Credit Card wins South Asia award", The Financial Express (Bangladesh), 7 August 2014
  14. ↑ "Pakistani Entrepreneur Wins mBillionth Award in India" Archived 2014-08-05 at the Wayback Machine., SpiderPK, 22 July 2014
  15. ↑ "Nepal brings home the mBillionth award 2014", Sparrow SMS, 23 July 2014
  16. ↑ "Rural Health Management Information System (RHMIS) got mBillionth Award South Asia 2014", Media Lab Asia, 22 July 2014
  17. ↑ "Bhasha bags Award at mBillionth", ReadMe (Sri Lanka), 22 July 2014
  18. ↑ "Jobseekers", British Council (India), retrieved 22 August 2014
  19. ↑ "Jobseekers app wins south asia mbillionth award!", NewsLetter-online, August 2014
  20. ↑ "RailYatri Emerges as a Winner Again; Bags mBillionth Award", The TechPanda, 24 July 2014
  21. ↑ "Mobitel mGuide wins prestigious accolade at mBillionth Awards South Asia". Daily FT. 13 August 2015.
  22. ↑ Shonesy, Katherine (2 September 2015). "UAB professor recognized for online education". UAB News. University of Alabama at Birmingham.
  23. ↑ "Smartur 3D wins mBillionth South Asia 2015". The Hans India. 29 July 2015.
  24. ↑ "mSakhi Wins at the 2015 mBillionth South Asia Awards". IntraHealth International. 13 September 2016.
  25. ↑ "FlipBeats by hSenid Outsourcing wins top honours at mBillionth Awards 2015". Daily FT. 6 August 2015.
  26. ↑ "Place SMS Wins Travel Category at mBillionth Awards South Asia". ProPakistani. 27 July 2015.
  27. ↑ "Using Gadgets and Data to Fight Pollution." Mint. 10 August 2016. Retrieved January 31, 2017 from HighBeam Research
  28. ↑ "iShippo.com bags mbillionth Award South Asia 2016". IIFL. India Infoline Ltd. 27 July 2016.
  29. ↑ "DNMS Wins the mBillionth Award". HISSL. Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  30. ↑ "Kashmir based RISE Institute wins mBillionth Award South Asia-2016". Two Circles. 29 July 2016.
  31. ↑ "TeachApp wins mBillionth Award". My Republica. 4 August 2016.
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