PARALLEL SESSION 1.1 – Social Media and Empowerment Award Session – Presentations from Finalists || DAY 1 || 12:00 PM – 05:00 PM || SILVER OAK

The emergence of new media and social media platforms has pushed traditional media to the fringes. Social Media not only has an immense network where the butterfly effect can pull down governments but given power to communicate and collaborate. The characteristics of social media are dependent on 3Cs (Connectedness; Collaborate; Community).

In an effort to identify how social media platforms have been utilized for their campaign-and-cause based programs, Digital Empowerment Foundation initiated Social Media and Empowerment under the patronage of ‘The Manthan Award Asia Pacific’ to recognize and honor best Social Media practices across India. This session will witness how social media can be used as a catalyst for communication, spreading awareness and fulfilling their mission and needs.


Session Focus

• Examine how social media has been utilized by various organizations, NGOs, individuals, for campaigning, promoting cause-based programs and fulfilling their mission and needs;
• How social media have been used as a tool to disseminate information, a mobiliser of protest, a tool of causes and a facilitator of campaign-based programs;
• Have hands-on session on using Digital media and Social media tools for social entrepreneurs, activists, journalists and students;
• Share practices for empowering youth, women entrepreneurs , startups through social and digital media;

Methodology
• Chair of the Jury will initiate the session & will start the introduction round for the Panel.
• Session manager will handover the Jury expert kits to the Panel including marking sheets.
• Chair of the Jury will be the sole decision maker in case of any conflict of interest.
• Chair of Jury can intervene anytime, if needed.
• Each finalist need to present their initiative for 5 minutes which is followed by a Q & A session.
• Each nomination will be marked and evaluated by all the Jurors on the Panel.
• Discussion and voting on the Presenter will happen by the Jury panel on spot.
• After Discussion & on the basis of Jury marks allocation as per predefined parameters; Five winners will be selected and the names of the winners will be announced during the Award Gala only on December 6th.

Grand Jury Panel
• Chair of Jury: PK Roy, Advisor, Cybermedia
• Aditya Gupta, Co-Founder, Social Samosa
• Karuna Nain, Public Policy Programs Manager, Facebook
• Abhishek Baxi, Digital Consultant, Technology Columnist
• Soumya Sarkar, National Editor, Mint
• Vishal Kumar, Director, Swaniti initiative
• Subhranshu Choudhary, Founder, CGnetSwara
• Neelesh Khare, Mumbai Bureau Chief, ABP Maza News Channel

Presenters
• India Untraveled, Roads Untraveled Pvt. Ltd
• Wild Blossoms Project
• Chinh early education web channel, Chinh India
• Youth Incorporated, Splash Publication Pvt Ltd
• Chai with Lakshmi, Red Bangle
• Dehradun Football, www.DehradunFootball.com
• worldoo.com, Focus kids Communication Pvt ltd
• GoUNESCO Travel Challenge, GoUNESCO
• Flats Without Broker
• SC Judgments, Advocate Khoj
• Safecity
• Sevamob
• India Politics, Mango Technologies
• M.P. Warehousing and Logistics Corporation
• Mahila Shakti, Human Welfare Association
• CRY Click Rights 2013 Focus on the child, CRY – Child Rights and You
• Climate Himalaya, Prakriti-a mountain environment group
• Vidya poshak
• Seven Sisters Project
• 5th Pillar
• Peoples Movement to Help Drought Affected, Drought Help Group,Pune
• ComputerSeekho.com
• India Cheers Loud and Clear, Ethinos Digital Marketing
• Youth Ki Awaaz
• Kissan Kerala- YouTube Agri Video Channel, Indian Institute Of Information Technology & Management Kerala

PARALLEL SESSION 3.4 – Social and Citizen Media Summit for Digital Empowerment || DAY 2 || 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM || THE THEATRE

Session Focus
• This summit would identify how social media itself has become a tool of empowerment and who are those players & discuss the best of social media movements.
• This summit would identify how social media itself has become a tool of empowerment

Methodology
• Event format will be ‘visioning discussion panel’ structure
• Moderator will introduce the session panelists & start the session presentations
• Moderator will call presenters one by one to be a part of the discussion group
• Chair of the panel will consolidate the session with 5-10 recommendation points.

Dignitaries
• Aditya Gupta, Co-Founder, Social Samosa
• Madan Mohan Rao, Research Director, Your Story
• Ankhi Das, Public Policy Director – India, Facebook
• Abhishek Baxi, Digital Consultant, Technology Columnist
• Soumya Sarkar, National Editor at Mint
• PK Roy, Advisor, Cybermedia
• Anika Gupta, Digital Strategy & Outreach, Whypoll Foundation
• Subhranshu Chaudhry, Founder, Cnet Swara
• Neelesh Khare, Mumbai Bureau Chief, ABP Maza News Channel
• Raheel Khurshid, Communication, director, Change.org,India
• Vishal Kumar*, Director, Swaniti Initiative

Participants
• India Untraveled, Roads Untraveled Pvt. Ltd
• Wild Blossoms Project
• Chinh early education web channel, Chinh India
• Youth Incorporated, Splash Publication Pvt Ltd
• Chai with Lakshmi, Red Bangle
• Dehradun Football, www.DehradunFootball.com
• worldoo.com, Focus kids Communication Pvt ltd
• GoUNESCO Travel Challenge, GoUNESCO
• Flats Without Broker
• SC Judgments, Advocate Khoj
• Safecity
• Sevamob
• India Politics, Mango Technologies
• M.P. Warehousing and Logistics Corporation
• Let Me Know
• Mahila Shakti, Human Welfare Association
• CRY Click Rights 2013 Focus on the child, CRY – Child Rights and You
• Climate Himalaya, Prakriti-a mountain environment group
• Vidya poshak
•Seven Sisters Project
• 5th Pillar
• Peoples Movement to Help Drought Affected, Drought Help Group,Pune
• ComputerSeekho.com
• India Cheers Loud and Clear, Ethinos Digital Marketing
• Youth Ki Awaaz
• Kissan Kerala- YouTube Agri Video Channel, Indian Institute Of Information Technology & Management Kerala


Session Manager: Lucky Tamang || lucky@defindia.net