DQ e-Gov Champions Award 2007 Jury

The Dataquest e-Gov Champion Awards 2007 was decided by certain procedures and rules governing the evaluation of the entries. It is pertinent to clarify the processes needed to carry out the evaluation and reporting, together with a schedule for the operation. The call for nominations for the ‘Dataquest e-Gov Champion Awards 2007’ was open till December 25, 2006. Professionals, ministries, departments, civil society were invited to nominate their most eminent persons for the Award who in their view was spearheading e-Gov efforts in any of the regions in India.

An eminent Jury including representatives from government, academia, industry, media and civil society selected the Dataquest e-Gov Champions for year 2007. The Grand Jury was constituted by the Dataquest e-Gov Champion Awards 2007 office.

Initiatives and projects handled by the nominees were evaluated by the selected Jury in phases of selection process including online and in-person Jury and the main task of the Expert Panel was to select and propose the 15 award winners out of as many nominations that came by as nominated by various stakeholders.

The selected Champions and their projects / applications were invited to the ceremony of e-Governance champions at the Regional level wherein the Awards were presented in the midst of an august gathering.

E-Gov Champion Award Jury Meet

The 12-member distinguished panel of Dataquest e-Gov Champion Awards 2007 Jury aimed at recognizing the e-Gov Champions in a regional format—East, West, North and South, besides, a fifth category—Central—that was added this year to include champions working with various agencies, departments and ministries directly under the Central Government. A jury comprising industry experts, senior government officials, academicians and civil society selected the champions through a two-tier process as below:

Online Jury: The Online Jury process was held between January 4, 2007 till January 10, 2007 enabling each Jury member to evaluate nominees based on certain parameters to evaluate the initiatives and projects handled by the nominees to shortlist champions for the second, ‘In-Person Grand Jury’ from out of as many nominations that came by as were nominated by various stakeholders.

Jury Members

Some of the eminent experts, professionals and organizations were roped in to be part of the Jury to select the e-Gov Champions. The Expert Panel selected eminent champions of e-Governance from the 35 Indian states and union territories. 12 Jury members were assigned the task to select the awardees from the list of nominees.

Standing from left: Ibrahim Ahmad (Editor – Dataquest); Osama Manzar Director DEF, Award Process Partner); PK Gopalakrishnan Juror); Tanmoy Chakrabarty (Juror); Satish Kaushal (Juror); Shubhendu Parth (Executive Editor – Dataquest)

Sitting from Left: Dinesh Tyagi (Juror); LC SIngh (Juror); Bibek Debroy (Chairman of Jury); N Vijyaditya (Juror); Shyam Malhotra (Juror); Sunil Kapoor (Juror)

Not in Picture Jurors: Prof Anil Gupta; Meera Shenoy; Prof Subhash Bhatnagar; Laveesh Bhandari; Frederick Noronha; V Shekhar; Hemant Adarkar;

The main task of the Expert Panel member was to select and propose the 12, in his/her opinion, best champions of e-Governance in the country. The selection was made according to the selection guidelines, provided by The Dataquest e-Gov Champion Awards office.

The Jury evaluated all nominations and the selected champions were invited and awarded as per the five classified regions—East, West, North, South and Central.

Jury and Evaluators Briefing

There was an official instruction to the Jury regarding the call for entries, the award rules and the rules governing the jury evaluation based on the documents approved by the Dataquest e-Gov Champion Awards office and the Jury Evaluation Guide.
An informal meeting also took place in order to introduce to the evaluators the general idea of e-Gov Champion Awards project and to encourage the importance of working within a team.