NASSCOM Foundation has announced the NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours 2012 (NSIH), its annual flagship event, in collaboration with Genpact. Scheduled to be awarded in February 2012 at the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum, the awards aim to showcase projects that demonstrate best practices in using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for social transformation. Entries for the countrywide competition are now open, and with some phenomenal projects having been showcased over the past years, NASSCOM Foundation is expecting to identify path breaking projects to be a part of this awards cycle.
Rita Soni, CEO, NASSCOM Foundation said, "India has a tremendous number of problems ranging from illiteracy to female foeticide to lack of electrification to absent school teachers. To solve these endemic issues, we require innovation and active participation across India. And to reach the necessary scale - 41.6% of Indians below the international poverty line, 1.08 million missing girls, 1, 00,000 unelectrified villages - we require innovative uses of ICT. The Genpact NASSCOM Social Innovation Honour not only recognizes these ideas but brings them to a platform where the who's who of the IT-ITeS industry gathers in search of partners and ideas. We aim to give voice to social enterprises and bring about mass social change."
N.V. Tyagarajan (Tiger), President & CEO, Genpact said, "Technology and innovation has a large role to play in driving inclusive growth in India. Working closely with NASSCOM Foundation on NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours gives us the opportunity to jointly drive growth and honor talent across India. This initiative brings alive the spirit of innovation and can have a significant impact on the social landscape."
