The NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours (NSIH) celebrates innovations that demonstrate exceptional use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for social development.
The Foundation pioneered the Honours in 2008 to recognize and showcase such innovations that aim to impact the society in a positive manner. The Honour’s aim to identify social innovations across public, private and not-for-profit sectors and recognize any innovation in the form of a principle, an idea, an intervention or a combination of all of the above.
The ‘social’ aspect of the innovation falls in line with the overall agenda of the Foundation to enable and influence inclusive social development in India. 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. NSIH aims to give voice to social enterprises and bring about mass social change.
Value to Winners:
NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours provides an excellent opportunity to the winners to interact and network with the leaders of the IT industry. It also offers a platform to join the network of the past winners for access to additional training, funding and networking opportunities. The positive publicity helps the winners to build their brand image and associate with brand innovation.
Eligibilty
For Not For Profit, Corporate, Social Enterprise and Government categories, all organizations should fulfill the following criteria-
- They should be Indian entities or foreign entities with a registered presence in India
- The innovation being applied for the Honours must benefit India, or a community in India
- The Project and Organization / Department of Government should have been in existence in India for over one year (on or before July 1, 2011)
- The initiative entered by the Project / Organization / Department of Government should not have been recognized by the Honours in the previous two years
- For Multi Stakeholder category, all applying organizations should satisfy the following criteria:
- They should be Indian entities or foreign entities with a registered presence in India
- The innovation being applied for the Honours must benefit India, or a community in India
- The Project and Organization should have been in existence in India for over one year (on or before July 1, 2011)
- The initiative entered by the Project / Organization should not have been recognized by the Honours in the previous two years
- The Project should have a minimum of 2 stakeholders as party to the initiative
- For Group and Individual category, all individuals or groups should satisfy the following criteria
- The individual / group of individuals should be Indian citizens
- The group should not be registered under the Societies, Trusts or Company’s Act
- The innovation being applied for the Honours must benefit India, or a community in India
- The group can have a maximum of 6 members
- The said innovation must be either at implementation stage or a prototype stage
- Each member of the group should have completed 18 years of age as on date of Application
- For the Student category, all students or student groups should satisfy the following criteria
- The student / group should be a representative of an Institute* affiliated with a state board or should be a registered deemed university
- The said project may be either a concept or in operational stage.
- The student group can have a maximum of 6 members
- Each member of the student group should have completed 16 years of age as on date of Application)
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