Kerala State IT Mission’s Projects Receives Recognition from ComputerWorld

Kerala State IT Mission (KSITM) received this year’s ComputerWorld Honors Program Laureate awards for two of its projects in the award categories viz. Economic Opportunity and Health. The award recognizes men, women, organizations and institutions around the world whose visionary applications of information technology promote positive social, economic and educational change. The Awards are instituted by International Data Group (IDG), the largest technology media, and research organisation in the world with a presence in more than 90 countries with headquarters at Boston,USA. KSITM Director, Smt. Ishita Roy received the medals and citations.

KSITM was honoured in the Health Category for its initiative Dr. SMS project. This innovative programme provides comprehensive information on health-related resources via the short message service (SMS) to citizens who are in urgent need to locate the nearest health facility in the shortest possible time. This was developed with the technical support of National Informatics Kerala.

The other project that received recognition in the Economic Opportunity category was the utilization of mobile technologies innovatively to create, improve and inclusively deliver public service with better transparency, accountability and reach thereby catalysing economic development in Kerala.

Shri. P. K. Kunhalikutty, State IT Minister Stated “I am delighted to see that KSITM has won two awards and could establish its footprint amongst the leading innovators of the world by bringing unique distinction to Kerala. I would like to congratulate the Team @ KSITM for their relentless effort in pursuit of innovations.”

Shri. T. Balakrishnan, Addln Chief Secretary (Information Technology) said, “KSITM has been in the forefront in taking Kerala miles ahead of other States in Mobile governance. The recognitions being received from far and wide over the years stand testimony of KSITM’s enormous valuable achievements. It is a matter of great pride that the institution has again made the State proud by winning two more awards.”

Both the nominations found their place amongst the 45 Finalists chosen by an International Jury, from amongst 1200 nominations received from across the globe and competing with nominations from AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah , Accelrys, Inc. , Aimar Foundation, the , AIP Publishing , Auburn University , Bancolombia , BrandGames , Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department , Cisco , Clemson University , Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare , COMPUTAEX , Department Of Education South Australia , Face Forward Fund , Feed The Children , Georgia Department of Human Services, Division of Child Support Services , HaoSolar , HSBC,, Infratab Inc. , Inveneo , Justice Network (JNET , Kaweah Delta Medical Center , Littelfuse Inc. , Merck , National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) , National Industries for the Blind , NPower Pennsylvania ,, Open SGP , Red Cross Spain , Service-now.com , Sparked.com , Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) , The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) , The Maltese National Electricity and Water Utilities and IBM , Transformyx, Inc. , TurkDex , U.S. Census , UPMC , VGo,  and such giant global innovators