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The Manthan Award Southasia 2008

MEdRC EduTech won "Manthan Award for Best e-Learning Content Development”. These awards have been instituted by Digital Foundation and had nominations of over 350 entries from across 12 South Asian Nations..

New Delhi, October 18, 2008

With the backdrop of identifying the best practioners of the south asian region, the Digital Empowerment Foundation and the World Summit Award organized together with the Center for e-Governance, the South Asia Conclave on ICT & Digital Content for Development instituted this award as part of efforts to strengthen the Digital Content Movement in the countries of the region.

The prime objective of this initiative is to promote quality contents as an essential element in the creation of a quality information society and to address the widening digital divides and strategies to bridge the content gap between the North and the South. South Asian countries play a critical role in advancing the Digital Content Movement thanks to the strong economic growth of the last years and the high levels of technical education and creativity among multimedia and internet professionals, companies and NGOs.

MEdRC won the award in the category of “e.content Development” for its innovate approach of digitizing the entire health care education curriculum converting MBBS, Dental & Pharmacy courses into interactive digital learning modules enabling a rich learning & teaching experience for both the tutor and taught.

Thus, the strategic direction of WSA is to strengthen the digital content industries and the creative development in the region by holding national contests in all countries and partnering with leading organizations such as the Digital Empowerment Foundation for conducting workshops, conferences and Global Digital Content Summits.

WSA's plan up to 2015 foresees a myriad of innovative content in fixed line and mobile Internet applications.WSA takes great pride at leading this vision thanks to the cooperation with the Manthan Award, which now proactively encompass the entire South Asia for the World Summit Award.