Osama Manzar (Know more)Mr. Osama Manzar is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, editor, columnist, and new media specialist who is spearheading the mission to overcome the information barrier between India’s rural sector, and the so-called developed society, through Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) http://www.defindia.net, the not-for-profit organisation founded to accomplish the mission.
Shaifali Chikermane (Know more)Ms. Chikermane is with expertise in creative and design world taking the leadership role in digital designed based solutions to various community centric programmes within Digital Empowerment Foundation. She has a professional experience of 14 years by now.
Technology is as good as what it does. That is the basic principle on which we started our journey at the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and instituted the Manthan Award. The idea was to identify initiatives that use information and communication technology (ICT) tools to achieve specific goals with the long-term target of empowering the masses, especially in rural areas. 
