Skoch announces 'The World Is Open Awards' winners

Mumbai: Skoch Consultancy Services, a market analysis and strategy consulting firm, has announced the winners of its first 'The World Is Open Awards'. In the event, Dr. B. K. Gairola, Director General, National Informatics Centre was declared the 'Open Source Evangelist of the Year.'

The first of the annual awards set up to recognize the most impactful open source technology implementations in the country received 163 nominations and the winners include 24 open source technology projects implemented across the country.

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The projects nominated include governance, banking, financial services, telecom, healthcare, education and infrastructure amongst others. The selection of the winners was determined by an independent jury comprising of eminent industry personalities headed by Dr Deepak Phatak, Subharao M. Nilekani Chair Professor and Head, Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay, while the entire process of nominations, submission and evaluation was audited by Skoch Consultancy.

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), a provider of open source solutions was the sponsor for these awards.

"The World is Open awards showcase IT projects based on Open Source technologies as well as projects incorporating Open Source components. We have received 39 percent of the nominations from Government, 10 percent from Banking & Financial Services, 4 percent from Education and remaining 42 percent from other sectors which included Telecom, healthcare, infrastructure, and services. The projects were adjudged on several parameters including effectiveness in delivering project objectives, innovation, open standards, relevance, scalability and flexibility," said Sameer Kochhar, Chief Editor and CEO, Skoch Consultancy Services.

The awards were presented by Gery Messer, President, Asia Pacific/Japan, Red Hat Asia Pacific and Dr Deepak Phatak, Subharao M. Nilekani Chair Professor and Head, Kanwal Rekhi Schoolof Information Technology, IIT Bombay at a ceremony held in New Delhi.