GKP Youth and ICT Awards 2005 Winner:
The Household Wastewater Recycling Management Project includes an innovative design for a pipeline system that could potentially address the severe water shortage in Beijing, and ultimately, all of China.
Interviews
GKP Youth and ICT Awards 2005 Winner: Providing non formal education in SE Asia : Raj Ridvan Singh, Leadership Character Development Institute (L-CDI)
In Cambodia for example, 63 percent of children who do enroll in primary schools, drop out before reaching grade VII.
GKP Youth and ICT Awards 2005 Winner:Youth is not a problem, youth is a solution : Rana Gulzar, AMAL
Rana Gulzar is working as Project Manager with Amal.
GKP Youth and ICT Awards 2005 Winner: Alleviating poverty by self employment : Nileshni Sekar, FRIEND
Nileshni Sekar is working as Art Project Supervisor in Foundation for Rural Integrated Enterprises N Development (FRIEND) in the island nation of Fiji.
Telecentre sustainability requires a balanced approach of both financial and developmental goals : Mark Surman, Telecentre Support Network, telecentre.org
telecentre.org is a new initiative aimed at building the capacity of people working in telecentres around the world. The main way we do this is by supporting networks that provide support, training and information sharing services to telecentres in a particular country or region. This support for networks includes a combination of social investments and support services.
R(e)volutionary journey of Singapore : Choy Peng, Deputy Chief Executive (Industry) and Government Chief Information Officer, IDA, Singapore
The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA, www.ida.gov.sg) of Singapore is the key body of Singapore government responsible for charting the growth of its infocomm industry and spearheading the delivery of citizen-centric e-government services, regulating the telecom industry. One of their main objectives is to build and operate the Government
Benefitting the farmers, farmer
e-Choupal was conceived as a more efficient supply chain to source agricultural commodities for our export business.
Rajeev Chawla, IT Secretary, Government of Karnataka, India
The three critical factors for Bhoomi success in Karnataka were the following:
Telecentre sustainability requires a balanced approach of both financial and developmental goals : Mark Surman, Telecentre Support Network
telecentre.org is a new initiative aimed at building the capacity of people working in telecentres around the world.
Budget is not a constraint for any IT project in Chhattisgarh : Aman Singh, CEO, CHiPS Chhattisgarh, India
Chhattisgarh, earlier a part of the state of Madhya Pradesh (India), came into being on November 1, 2000. Despite being a new state, Government of Chhattisgarh is taking many e-Government initiatives to deliver significant benefits to citizens and businesses. It has come out with IT and ITES Policy and is first state in India to design a comprehensive roadmap for e-Governance.
