We're absolutely thrilled to win the prestigious Manthan award for South Asia, for the e-Localization category. The award was presented to us at a grand event in New Delhi, on Saturday Oct 18, 2008, by Padma Bhushan recipient and the very inspiring Shri Anna Hazare.

The Manthan Award is a first of its kind initiative to recognize the best practices in e-Content. It was launched on 2004, by Digital Empowerment Foundation in partnership with World Summit Award and American India Foundation.

The Manthan Award South Asia 2008 had received 284 nominations from 8 countries across 13 categories. Participating countries were India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.

We received the following Certificate of Appreciation from the Jury,

"The need of localization is becoming almost mandatory and various efforts are making Information Communication Technology tools, especially computers work across all languages. Out of total 22 official Indian languages, 16 have been considered by Lipikaar, including Urdu, Arabic, Sanskrit and Kashmiri. Lipikaar works with the same English keyboard without being fluent in English across popular browsers like Mozilla FireFox and Internet Explorer. In Lipikaar, the typing method is unambiguous and efficient, making it very easy and enjoyable to type out stories, articles and documents in your chosen language. On the desktop, Lipikaar unlocks the potential of the PC for use with regional languages. On the Internet, Lipikaar offers the possibility of professional & user generated content, communication and other applications, remote banking and financial services."

Thank you Manthan for recognizing Lipikaar's appeal to the masses. This award further motivate us to work towards digitally unifying our multi-lingual world.

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