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Official website
  
manthanaward.org

Manthan Award

Awarded for
  
Outstanding contributions in digital content creation

Date
  
2004-10-10 (2004-10-10)

Presented by
  
Digital Empowerment Foundation

The Manthan Award is an annual award for South Asia given in recognition of exceptional digital content creation. Nominations are accepted from the public and multiple awards are given in many categories. In some cases awards are given for content creation tools such as Azhagi, a component enabling text entry in Indic scripts.

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The award is issued by the Digital Empowerment Foundation and was partly inspired by the World Summit Award. It was created 10 October 2004 originally restricted to India but in 2008 was expanded to include other South Asian nations.

In 2011 The Hindu referred to the Manthan Award as "one of South Asia's biggest events in information and communications technology for development initiatives."

2007

  • Arbit Choudhury
  • 2013

  • IndiaMart
  • 2014

  • Parikipandla Narahari
  • 2015

  • Paytm
  • Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana
  • Xondhan e-Magazine
  • Feminism in India
  • References

    Manthan Award Wikipedia