Dataquest e-Gov Champion Award 2006

Dataquest is launching the first edition of ‘DATAQUEST e-Gov Champion Award 2006’ to recognize and award individuals for championing the cause of e-Governance in India.

The Award is the first of its kind in India, which emphasizes on the importance of e-Governance in a comprehensive manner. It is a salutation to the ‘change leaders’ in the government who have been making a difference in people’s life through technology intervention, thereby ensuring ‘Good Governance’ at the local, regional and national level.

The award aims at recognizing the e-Gov Champions at three level in a regional format—East, West, North and South—and would be across all departments and States in each of these regions. A jury comprising industry experts, senior government officials, academicians and civil society would select the champions.

This is part of Dataquest’s culture of participating in nation building exercise and to pushing a cause driving high societal impact in bridging the digital divide, information gap and bringing in transparency in the governance process thereby enabling the country meet the Millennium Development Goal of ‘good governance’.

Objective

• The aim and purpose of organizing the ‘e-Gov Champion Award’ is to recognize, encourage and further disseminate e-Governance practices and delivery to break the traditional mode of public delivery mechanisms in day-to-day governance.
• The purpose is to recognize initiatives to empower citizens and serving public services clients and strengthening participation of citizens in information society decision making.
• The message to be delivered through the award ceremonies is to emphasize the importance of e-Governance mechanisms and practices – its vitality and relevance among people, institutions, civil society and others.

The Award is open to all government officials who have been championing e-Governance at any administrative level they are entitled to, at the state, district, city or tehsil and panchayat level—directly and/or indirectly benefiting the citizens. The objective is to recognize efforts to increase the efficiency of government departments itself as such efforts ultimately creates a ripple effect that improves the government to citizen transactions at all level.

The awards will be judged region wise. A total of three champions shall be chosen from across the States and departments in a region. Hence, overall 12 e-Gov champions shall be felicitated at the Dataquest e-Gov Summit 2006 in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai.

• User Interface & Aesthetics
• Reliability/Sustainability/Scalability
• Quality & Comprehensiveness of Content
• Technology Infrastructure & Execution
• Strategic Importance in Bridging Digital Divide
• Originality & Innovativeness of Idea
• Intensity of Impact on Citizen/End User