Tablet donation drive for underserved
children
·
Collaboration
with NGO Literacy India to drive programme
·
Launches Book 'Catalysing Change Through CSR' with
Actor-Social activist Nandita Das
·
Hon’ble Minister of Communications & IT – Shri Ravi
Shankar Prasad felicitates 11
technology - led social innovations with grants and mentorship
Mumbai, 13th
February, 2015: NASSCOM Foundation has launched the ‘Ignite the Spark’
programme – a Tablet donation drive for the under-served children across the
country - at the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum. NGO Literacy India will
present the tablets to underprivileged students.
Mr. Shrikant Sinha, CEO, NASSCOM
Foundation said, “The
Tablet donation drive is a manifestation of NASSCOM Foundation’s commitment to
digitally empowering the underserved sections of the society. With tablets
becoming the primary vehicle for digital engagement, in villages where power is
scarce, we hope to bridge the digital divide and empower the bright sparks in
rural India.”
Actor and social activist Nandita Das,
R Chandrasekaran – Chairman, NASSCOM; Dr. Ganesh Natarajan, Chairman NASSCOM
Foundation; Neeraj Aggarwal, Director, Boston Consulting Group; K. K.
Natarajan, CEO and MD, Mindtree, Aruna Jayanti, CEO, Capgemini Amit
Agarwal, Senior VP, Genpact and Prof. Amit Lahiri from Centennial
College, Toronto released ‘Catalysing Change through CSR’,.
The book is jointly authored by Rumi
Mallick Mitra, Vice President, NASSCOM Foundation and Seema Bansal,
Head, Social Impact and Development Practice, The Boston Consulting
Group. The book showcases a variety of philosophies and strategies that
are already in place inside IT&BPM companies in India and will help CSR
practitioners identify the questions that they need to answer as well as
provides frameworks that could help answer those questions.
Dr. Ganesh Natarajan,
Chairman NASSCOM Foundation and CEO, Zensar Technologies said, “The new
CSR legislation requires companies to give focused attention to their efforts
in the sector. The book compiled by NASSCOM Foundation is especially relevant today when CSR contribution is slated
to grow to US$ 2.5 billion from US$ 0.5-0.6 billion in 2012-13.”
Ms Nandita Das spoke on the need to
create an Inclusive India. Prof. Amit Lahiri from the Centennial College, Toronto
and Neeraj
Agarwal, Senior Partner & Director, of the Boston Consulting Group
also spoke on how companies are currently conducting their CSR activities from
a global and a local perspective.
The winners of the NASSCOM Foundation Seventh
NASSCOM Social Innovation Forum awards were felicitated by the Hon’ble
Minister of Communications and IT, Shri. Ravi Shankar Prasad.
The winners chosen from over 1,000
nominees were:
Category
|
Winner
|
Catalytic Grants |
1. iGest
by Enability
Technologies 2. SkillTrain by SkillTrain Training & Consultancy Pvt Ltd 3. Kinect based applications for special needs individuals by Tamana |
Certificate of Appreciation |
Mobile Early Detection and Prevention of Oral Cancer
(mEDPOC),Biocon
Foundation |
Certificate of Appreciation |
CORE PDS (Centralised Online Real-time Electronic PDS) Sabrang Trust |
Corporate –Responsible Business Practice |
V 101 Housekeeping and F&B, Lemon Tree
Hotels |
Students, Individuals and Groups |
SOS Device for Personal Safety, Piyush Aggarwal |
Not For Profit organization |
Knowledge management of Small and Marginal Farmers
through ODL Systems, Vidiyal NGO |
Social Enterprise |
SimplEye, Kriyate Design Solutions Pvt Ltd |
Certificate of Appreciation |
Solar Prahari – ANDON System, Frontier Markets
Consulting Pvt Ltd |
Certificate of Appreciation |
EasyGas: e-solution for LPG monitoring, District Administration Kanpur Nagar |
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