International award for Kerala State IT Mission

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA: The Kerala State IT Mission (KSITM) has received this year's Computer World Honors Program Laureate awards for two of its projects in the economic opportunity and health categories.

KSITM is an autonomous nodal IT implementation agency for the information technology department.

The awards are instituted by the International Data Group (IDG) -- the largest technology media and research organisation in the world, headquarters at Boston, US.

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KSITM was honoured in the health category for its SMS project developed with the technical support of the National Informatics Kerala.

The programme provides information on health-related resources via SMS to those urgently needing to locate the nearest health facility.

The project that received the award in the economic opportunity category involved utilisation of mobile technologies in an innovative way to create, improve and inclusively deliver public service with better transparency, accountability.

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State IT Minister P.K. Kunhalikutty said that he was delighted to see that KSITM had established its footprint amongst the leading innovators of the world.

Both the nominations found their place amongst the 45 finalists chosen by an international jury, from amongst 1,200 nominations from across the globe.