11th CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Awards to be held in Visakhapatnam

Marching into its second decade of encouraging e-Governance in India, the CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Awards instituted by the Computer Society of India’s Special Interest Group on e-Governance and sponsored by Nihilent technologies has announced the final list of nominations for the year 2012-13.

The awards has received over 200 nominations from all over the country, including the North East and Jammu & Kashmir and vying for recognition across four categories, ‘Award of Excellence’, ‘Award of Appreciation’, ‘Appreciation for Sustenance’ and ‘Award of Recognition’.

Prof. Harish Iyer, Convener of the Awards 2012-13 said, “The eleventh anniversary of the CSI-Nihilent e-Governance awards is special not only because it marks the beginning of a new decade, but also because it has brought with it several new measures aimed at the spread of knowledge. It is our privilege to thank all the participants and to offer our congratulations to those who made it to the final awards list.”

Ravi Teja, Vice President – Global Consulting, Nihilent said, “That we are into the eleventh year of the award is a testimony to the fact that the award has grown from strength to strength. As we stride into the second decade of the initiative, we are confident that we’ll see more and more projects and states planting what we’d like to call , the seeds of e-Governance revolution.”

The objective of this award ceremony is to recognize and appreciate the efforts in successful achievement of initiatives for good governance using Information and communication technology (ICT).