Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) has been actively involved in recognizing innovators, who are socially empowering the lives of people through the use of ICT and digital media tools, through its initiatives – Manthan Award and mBillionth Award.
The core objective of the mBillionth Award is not only to recognize and honor the best practices but also to nurture, scale up and stimulate development of innovative mobile ideas, applications and services. Applications that are doing pioneering works towards social and economic change in women through mobile technologies are only encouraged to apply. In 2014, mBillionth expects to see the tremendous growth in recognizing mobile innovations to bridge the Social and Developmental gaps in the communities by creating a conducive-exchange platform for developers, content creators, telecos and device players.