NASSCOM Foundation is pleased to announce the NASSCOM Foundation Social Innovation Honours 2010 (NSIH 2010). NASSCOM Foundation will honour innovations based on the use and implementation of Information and Communication Technology to bring about social change. The Honours aim to recognize excellence and to encourage innovation in social development initiatives.





The NSIH 2010 invites applications across the following five categories:



1. ICT innovation for… Continue

In a recently concluded capacity building workshop conducted by NASSCOM Foundation ( as a part of the NASSCOM Knowledge Network programme) for NGOs interested to start telecentres, participant’s views on sustainability of services reinstates what previous studies have indicated. Some of the prominent feedback were-



ICT Vs non-ICT services at the telecentre

Participant grassroots NGOs were of the view that non-ICT services hold equal potential value in the sustainability of… Continue

In order to train grassroots NGOs to set-up and run telecentres, NASSCOM Foundation inked up with eleven NGOs with forty participants in a five days capacity building workshop in the state of West Bengal, ( located in the eastern part of India) India. NASSCOM Foundation (NF) partners with a large number of not-for-profit organization (NGOs) and voluntary groups for scaling up telecentres under the NASSCOM Knowledge Network (NKN) programme. A key component of implementing this programme and… Continue