IIITM-K bags award for best e-content

The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management "� Kerala's (IIITM-K) Education Grid project has bagged this year's Manthan Award for India's Best e-content in 2007, in the e-education category.

A spokesperson for the IIITM-K said that under the Education Grid initiative, the institute has been evolving systems and methodologies for improving the quality of education through Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching (TELT).

Several systems and processes have been developed under the Education Grid that are of significant value to improving the standards of teaching and learning in our colleges and higher education institutions.

Of the total 353 nominations, 39, including three from Kerala, received the award. The Education Grid of IIITM-K under e-education, Manorama Online in the e-news and puzha.com under the e-localisation categories were the winners from the state.

The Manthan Awards, launched in 2004 and administered by the Digital Empowerment Foundation in partnership with the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), aims at encouraging the networking of the recipients and others so that it becomes a movement across the country for more innovations and bridging the digital divide.