Feb 09, 2010 1736 hrs IST
NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours 2010
NASSCOM Foundation today announced the winners of its second annual Nasscom Social Innovation Honours 2010. The Honours were given to deserving projects that strive to bring about social change and development through technology at the NASSCOM India Leadership Summit 2010. The Honours were judged by an eminent jury of Narayana Murthy (Founder-Chairman, Infosys Technologies Limited), T. N. Ninan (Chairman and Editorial Director, Business Standard Ltd.), Rama Bijapurkar (Independent Market Strategy Consultant), Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao (Chairman, NASSCOM Foundation) and Saurabh Srivastava (Trustee, NASSCOM Foundation).
In Multi Stakeholder Partnership
Ekgaon Technologies Pvt. Ltd. won the Honour for Monitoring Entitlements for Rural Communities (MERComs) which is a mobile phone-based monitoring system for tracking delivery of social welfare programme entitlements to rural poor. MERComs' service framework provides a way to efficiently aggregate monthly update of data in real-time from paper-based records of the beneficiaries in the field using mobile phones.
MERComs's Management Information System is modular, expandable and localized (in English, Hindi, Oriya) for NGOs, INGOs and volunteers for monitoring entitlements delivery to rural poor. This system monitors entitlement of the rural communities as given through identified government programmes to reduce corruption and help increase access to services to them who have not been covered under the programmes due to lack of access to "updated" information. Thus creating a system to ensure compliance of service delivery, reduce corruption and work towards building a system for a real-time access to services to beneficiaries with 100% transparency.