GHMC's Off Site Real
Time (OSRT) system has bagged the ‘mBillionth Award' for
South Asia under the ‘m-Governance' category on July 23-07-2011.
The awards are endorsed by the Union Ministry of Communications
& IT along with several prominent organisations of the region,
an official spokesperson said on Saturday.
OSRT has been launched in the beginning of the year
to keep tab on town planning operations and also attendance of
the sanitation staff where photos are taken by mobile phones by
officials and uploaded into the GHMC website with precise timings.
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| mBillionth Award is a dedicated platform
to explore the latent potential of mobile & telecom sector across
8 countries in South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India,
Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The mBillionth Award
is designed as an annual South Asia’s leading mobile &
telecom award platform leading to larger regional Mobile Congress
in media and policy advocacy. It is to honour excellence in mobile
communications across South Asia spread over 11 core categories:
m-Business & Commerce/Banking |
m-Culture & Heritage |
m-Governance |
| m-Education & Learning |
m-Health |
m- Environment |
| m-Inclusion |
m-News & Journalism |
m-Travel & Tourism |
| m-Infrastructure |
m-Entertainment |
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The mBillionth Award South Asia 2010 was the first-of-its-kind
in the region recognising and felicitating mobile innovations,
applications and content services delivery.
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