DRONA, DELTECS RECEIVES MBILLIONTH AWARD SOUTH ASIA 2010 FOR INNOVATION IN M-EDUCATION AND LEARNING.

Digital Empowerment Foundation along with Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India and OnMobile recently presented DRONA (from Deltecs InfoTech) with mBillionth Award South Asia 2010. m-Billionth Award is a dedicated platform to explore the latent potential of mobile sector across South Asia. The m-Billionth Award South Asia 2010 is first of its kind in the region recognizing and felicitating mobile innovations, applications and content services delivery.

It is to honour excellence in mobile communications across South Asia spread over 9 core categories. The m-Billionth Award is designed as an annual South Asia’s leading mobile content’s award platform towards larger regional Mobile Congress in media and policy advocacy.

The response to the mBillionth Award nomination process has been phenomenal: more than 250 entries were received and after screening 165 nominations were successfully accepted: India – 121, Sri Lanka - 28, Bangladesh – 07, Pakistan – 05, Nepal – 03, and Maldives – 1. The 14 member Jury came up with 24 winners & 12 special mentions from 5 South Asian Countries.

DRONA from Deltecs InfoTech received the award for innovation in m-education and learning category. Drona, a mobile learning solution empowers organizations and trainers to create their mobile learning courses and applications.

The users can add content similar to multi-media, making the lessons more interactive. They offer options to customize each application, mode of data transfer and themes. Drona doesn’t stop at delivering the learning and tests but also extends to collating scores and results, and generate reports to help analyze the performances. It’s a complete solution for imparting learning & assessments to a distributed audience for tracking their performance & usage.

“We are encouraged to offer many more innovations, applications and practices by bringing power of M to billions of users,” says Kinjal Vora, Business Development Head, Deltecs InfoTech.

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