India needs to develop its own model of how to utilize information and communication technology (ICT) to benefit the masses, said Sam Pitroda, adviser to the Prime Minister on public information infrastructure and innovations. “We need to create an Indi- an model of information sys- tem suited to our needs,“ Pitroda said at the 7th Man- than Award South Asia 2010, hosted in New Delhi on Saturday. Organized by the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF); One 97, a provider of mobile value-added services; Internet Society; and the Indi- an government's department of information technology (DIT), the theme of the awards this year was “empowering rural masses through wireless, 3G and broadband“. Mint is a strategic partner of The Manthan Awards.
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