By Tricitynews Reporter
Chandigarh 22nd
September:- NASSCOM Foundation, in partnership withMphasistoday
announced the launch of the tenth edition of the NASSCOM Social Innovation Forum (NSIF) – India’s largest platform to
foster innovative use of technology to create sustained social impact. The
program instituted since 2008, identifies, honours and supports, innovative Information
and Communications Technology (ICT) based projects, products and solutions that
have the potential to address critical gaps in key developmental areas and contribute
to inclusive growth.
Building on the solid foundation from the last
nine years’ triumphs and learnings, NSIF is inviting entries from a diverse
range of social innovators across NGOs, Social Enterprises and Social Start-ups.
With support from our donor partner-Mphasis, NSIF
will award catalytic grants of INR 10
Lakhs each to the strongest tech innovations that are creating radical
social impact in areas of Financial Inclusion, Healthcare, Environment, Education and Accessibility. The
grants will be given to winners from across these thematic areas.
The projects will also be provided with a 12-monthSupport
to Scale Mentoring by experts in the industry as well as access to NASSCOM
Foundation’s network of tech for good leaders in the country. The Forum aims to
drive CSR capital to encourage and scale innovations across relevant and
topical themes in the country.
Srikanth Karra, Chief Human Resources Officer, Mphasis Limited said that in the last 3 years of Mphasis support to
NSIF, the program has scaled significant heights not only in terms of geography
and number of applicants, but also in terms of high quality innovations being recognized,
receiving follow-on funding and catalysing bigger social impacts. Mphasis is
happy to have been part of this journey so far and hopes that the initiative
will continue to gain further momentum this year again.
Shrikant
Sinha, CEO, NASSCOM Foundation said that with active engagement with over
2000 innovators across sectors/verticals, from 25 states in the country, the
NASSCOM Social Innovation Forum has become one of the strongest ecosystems
encouraging tech-aided development in the country. As the NASSCOM Social
Innovation Forum enters its 10th year, our goal is to become a driving force for
technology for good and add momentum to the change-inspiring work of social innovators
around the country. We are glad to continue our partnership with Mphasis to
help us in our journey to solve the some of the most difficult social problems
that currently plague us, thus improving the social fabric of our nation.
Applications
for NSIF are open from 21stSeptember 2017 till 31stOctober,
2017.
Once the applications are received, they will
undergo a carefully designed 3 stage, shortlisting process with jury members
consisting of the leaders from across industries. The winners will be announced
and felicitated at the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum – NASSCOM’s flagship
event.
To celebrate NSIF’s 10th year of
supporting tech for good solutions, NASSCOM Foundation will also be hosting a special
Innovation evening in March 2018 to share impact stories of technology as a
transformative force across social areas & get insights from industry
leaders on further driving technology revolution for good.
For details on the NSIF application process
and more, please visit – www.nsif.in or write
to the team at nsif@nasscomfoundation.org.
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