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| We congratulate all the Manthan Award Winners |
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| Manthan Awardees on NDTV Money Mantra |
Manthan Awardees figured prominently in one of the discussions recently on NDTV's popular Money Mantra programme. The Pankaj Pachauri anchored show also had Mr. Shankar Aggarwal, Joint Secretary in DIT, GoI, DEF's Founder & Director, Osama Manzar and Manging Editor of Livemint.com, Sidin Vadukut on the discussion panel. The panelist and the Manthan Awardees discussed at length how digital media is changing the face of India and how digital content innovators are bringing about a shashaktikaran (empowerment) of rural India. See the full programme by clicking the image below.
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| Link to all the Manthan Award South Asia 2009 Winners |
 Here is a quick run down on all the Manthan Award South Asia 2009 Winners:
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| South Asia's Best E-Contents 2009 |
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| Profile of Manthan Award South Asia Grand Jurors 2009 |

The Manthan Award South Asia Grand Jury was held in New Delhi on Sep 8 to 10, 2009 recently. The 20 member strong Grand Jury comprised of names from different walks of life bringing rich and diverse perspectives to the 3 day event which sealed the fate of the 360 odd nominees of this year's Manthan Award South Asia. 45 of them emerged as Winnners. A brief profile of each of them is given on the next page.
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| The Odyssey of Raghav Mahto |
DEF had visited in early 2007 to find in detail how an individual as
young as a teenager could make a community radio so successful that it became
household habit for the villagers of Vaishali. DEF’s work is in the area of
connecting masses through information communication technology (ICT) and radio
being one of the most popular ICT tool was a great subject of case study for DEF
to see how this tool had been used by Raghav Mahto as an empowering means as far
as rural masses are concerned.
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| DEF-NIXI eNGO Programme launched |
eNGO is a programme initiated by DEF to offer FREE websites to the orgnisations working at grassroots level. eNGO would like to see that maximum number of organisations finds a virtual face, identity and be visible to global and national audience. eNGO programme offers websites in any Indian recognized language.
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