CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Awards
 
 
CSI - Nihilent e-GOVERNANCE 2009-10 AWARDS
The Computer Society of India has instituted a series of awards for recognizing the contributions made in the field of e-Governance in the country. These awards have been sponsored by Nihilent Technologies Pvt. Ltd. The awards are given for recognizing the efforts made in e-Governance area at the State, Department, District and Project level.
Award Categories
Nominations for the year 2009-10 Awards are being accepted for the following four categories:
   
Award of Excellence – State Category  
States will be judged based on their overall performance in e-Governance initiatives during the year 2009-10, especially with respect to policies, infrastructure, capacity building, projects, etc.
Award of Excellence – Department Category
Central and State Government Departments who have demonstrated excellence in the area of e-Governance during the year 2009-10.
Awards of Excellence – District Category
Outstanding efforts demonstrating excellence in e-Governance during the year 2009-10 at the District level.
Award of Excellence – Project Category  
Projects that have been implemented or enhanced during the year 2009-10 and delivered benefits to its stakeholders will be judged in three sub-categories, namely G2C, G2B, andG2G/G2E.
Note: Depending on the number of entries, Winner/runner-up may be choosen in each category. The committee may appreciate an effort taken by an organization, in addition to the above listed awards. The decision of the selection committee will be final.
Conditions for Entry :    
Entry for sending nominations is open to all Government agencies in India (both Centre and State/UT Governments, down to District level). All the Government Organizations & Semi-Government Corporations, District Collectorate, Municipal Corporations, Autonomous bodies including Public Sector Undertakings are welcome to apply
Entries should fall in one of the specified Award categories.
Entries under Project category are only for those projects which have been implemented in India
In case of project category, they should have at least 75% of the services being delivered should
be Government services.
 

Awards for year 2009-10 will consider the value addition and contribution made during 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010. These can be either implemented during the current year in question or Special incremental efforts or enhancements to the earlier initiatives.

To encourage fresh e-Governance efforts, the Initiatives that have been recognized and awarded by CSI in the last 2 years may not be considered by the Selection Committee for recognition.
Judging process :    
Nomination to each category will be judged by the Awards selection committee, consisting of members from Government, Industry and Academia
The judging process shall be based on:
 
On-line nomination submission.
  Field visits to short listed entries by Selection Committee/nominated members
  Presentations by short listed entries to the Selection committee
 
Final Award list is generated based on the combined evaluation at different stages as above.
The selection committee reserves the right to seek additional information from the nominated entries during the evaluation process.
The final recommendation of awards will be made by the selection committee on the basis of the information available to them in the nomination form, on-site visits and presentations made by the applicants.
Evaluation Criteria for the Awards :    
The evaluation criterion is based on two indicators i.e. Results and Enablers. The attributes considered for Result indicator are mainly in terms of outcomes and the attributes for Enabler indicator are in terms of the processes in place so as to achieve the desired results. Keeping into consideration the constraints on time and resource, for the purpose of these Awards, only the key attributes are being considered for these awards.
  The nomination Details are covered at the website for the online submission
http://www.csinihilent-egovernanceawards.org/
All details for submission of information are explained there
The quality of content submitted by the applicants for the nominations will be of most important part of the evaluation process. The information should be as per format and restricted to the prescribed page length defined in the respective “Nomination Submission Template”. The information provided in the nomination form should contain the crucial and important aspects only.
The key indicators and attributes being used for evaluation under each award category are given
in subsequent pages in the respective “Nomination Submission Template”. As mentioned above with brief explanation of each of the attributes
Each nomination entry should accompany a “Statement of Intent” stating the reasons for nominating the entry to CSI - Nihilent e-Governance Awards 2009-10. This should not be of more than half page.
The nomination process starts from 15th April 2010 and closes on Closing extended to 31 Aug 2010.
Judging will take place during the period Sept to 10 Nov 2010
Awards winners will be felicitated at the CSI National Convention on 26 Nov 2010 to be held Mumbai
     

 

 

   
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