eChannelling PLC won the award for the Best digital healthcare platform in the ‘Health and Wellbeing’ category at the South Asia mBillionth award 2018 in New Delhi, India recently.
Organised by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF), India, the South Asia mBillionth award witnessed participation from South Asian countries. DEF is one of the world’s leading practitioners in the field of Information and Communication Technology for Development. Led by the belief ‘Inform, Communicate and Empower’, DEF finds sustainable digital interventions to overcome information poverty in rural and remote locations of India, and empower communities with digital literacy, digital tools and last mile connectivity.
The mBillionth Awards 2018 evaluated eChannelling across various parameters such as Content and Services, Impact and Sustainability, Functionality/Navigation, Interface and Visual Design USP and Strategic Value, Execution and Implementation, Accessibility and Overall Experience – all factors on which eChannelling scored the highest in the South Asian region in its category.
The industry-driven and peer-acknowledged mBillionth Awards acknowledge South Asia as a key hub of the world’s mobile and telecom market in terms of penetration and innovation.
The region, however, suffers from a significant digital divide. These Awards recognise that at the moment, mobile phones are surpassing all other media in terms of penetration in the region. Mobile platforms are becoming the natural choice for smashing the information barrier and extending essential and innovative digital services to the broadest section of the population.
The awards, therefore, seek to not only reward all those who are taking initiatives to bridge the digital divide, empower people and bring about greater socio-economic equality but also create an ecosystem and network of such innovators and developers.