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October 01, 2003
The CSI National IT Awards 2002-2003, instituted to identify successful
e-governance implementations, were presented in a function held at The Marine
Plaza, Mumbai yesterday. 
The Andhra Pradesh government bagged the top honors for Rural
eSeva , an e-governance project implemented in January this year across
several districts in the state. The project also brought acclaim for Pramati
Tecnologies, a Hyderabad-based enterprise Java platform vendor. Pramati won the
CSI-Infosys Award in the Best Shrink-wrapped Product category.
Pune-based network solution provider, Divinet Access Technologies,
shared the Best IT Usage award with the state of Andhra Pradesh. Divinet
received the award for the development of RAMNet (Remote Access Metropolitan
Network), a broadband MAN solution.
Among other award winners,
Hyderabad-based Satyam Computer Services won the CSI-Wipro Award for Best
Packaged Application for A-Mantra--an enterprise-wide facilities management
solution. Web Peripherals, Bangalore, was declared the runner-up in the Best IT
Usage category in recognition for its project named 'Empowering Brick Economy
with Click Economy'. 
Instituted by the Computer Society of India (CSI), an association of
information technology professionals, the awards were sponsored by Infosys,
Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
The panel of judges
comprising Dr Keshav Nori of TCS, H. R. Mohan of The Hindu, and Anil Kekre of
Satyam, evaluated the contenders on the following broad parameters: Criticality
of IT usage; improvement in customer service; impact on quality and
productivity, and impact on society and innovation.