A long absence from one’s own website, such as the one visitors to this website have witnessed for quite some time, requires explanations.

Well, we were here all the time, but as sometimes happens (though shamefully should not happen to an ICT-minded outfit such as ours), our small team was always busy doing other things, or rather – those of us who are willing to submit postings (most are not – they prefer to be out and about putting up nodes and would rather struggle for hours with a pesky connection rather than try to articulate what it is that they are doing).

“I have a terrible headache!” admitted Dhonam, climbing down after a 2-hour stint in the    mid-day sun near Pong lake. We were all dehydrated and discouraged. We have been trying to bring up the carefully-planned and so far meticulously executed link for the best part of the day with little success. It was time to rethink our approach

The Stockholm Challenge Award winners were announced on Thursday, May 22 at a Gala dinner held in Stockholm. The winners were selected from among 2,000 registration, from whom among 145 finalists were selected. Of those, seven projects received prizes as winners of their categories and nine additional projects received special mentions for excellence in the use of ICT.

With some delay (quite some delay…) we are happy to let you know that we have been selected as finalists for the Stockholm Challenge Award in the Public Administration Category .
The Award promotes ICT4D initiatives by highlighting projects that use ICT to tackle development challenges. The Stockholm Challenge 2008 features a six category award in the following areas: Culture, Economic Development, Education, Environment, Health and Public Administration. The winning projects – one for each category – will be announced at a prize ceremony that will take place in Stockholm on May 22nd. Each winner receive the Stockholm Challenge trophy and certificate of achievement and a cheque for 5,000 Euros.