Written by Awaaz.De on April 27, 2012
A Gujarati television station, VTV, recently produced a news special on Avaaj Otalo. DSC‘s communication manager Paresh Dave and executive director Sachin Oza share about the history of Avaaj Otalo: what it does, who it reaches, and what challenges it faces. At the end, real farmers share some stories...Written by Awaaz.De on November 10, 2011
As part of the Tech Awards week, laureates participated in the Nexus Conference hosted at Santa Clara University. Each laureate was asked to prepare a 60 second elevator pitch on their organization. After drafts and re-drafts, feedback from a speed pitch session where we practiced 14 times each 🙂...Written by Awaaz.De on October 26, 2011
One of many perks of being a Tech Awards Laureate is having a short film produced on our work. Thanks to Sandy Smolan and his team for putting this together, it turned out great!Written by Awaaz.De on September 22, 2011
Awaaz.De was named a finalist for Mashable.com’s Startups for Good Challenge. Jon, who interned with Awaaz.De this summer, represented us in New York at the famous 92nd Street Y. There he gave a three-minute pitch of Awaaz.De to a panel of judges and a live audience. He did a...Written by Awaaz.De on April 1, 2011
From DNA Ahmedabad: Tapan Parikh, an assistant professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information, was awarded the five-year grant by the National Science Foundation and, with his team, will use the money to explore ways the voice-based interface can be made more user-friendly for low-literacy users. According to...