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SafetiPin mobile safety app wins mBillionth Awards South Asia 2014, in the category of e-women and children

Fri, 27 Jun, 2014
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Safetipin is honored to have won the mBillionth Awards South Asia 2014, in the category of e-women and children.

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About the mBillionth Awards 2014

mBillionth Award is a dedicated platform to explore the latent potential of mobile & telecom sector across 8 countries in South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The core objective of the mBillionth Award is not only to recognize and honor the best practices but also to nurture, scale up and stimulate development of innovative mobile ideas, applications and services. In 2014, mBilionth expects to see the tremendous growth in recognizing mobile innovations to bridge the Social and Developmental gaps in the communities by creating a conducive-exchange platform for developers, content creators, telecos and device players. 

e-Women and Children

Women and children are always the majority of the society and they both are the infrastructure, present and future of the comprehensive and balanced society. Yet women and children are most vulnerable. Digital media and device like telecom and mobile have become tools of empowerment for the women and this in many ways also overcome insecurities around children. This category will look into various such initiatives which directly targets the lives, works, needs and socio-economic well being of women and children. This category is also meant to encourage promotion of handheld devices sich as mobile to have empowering applications and content directly benefiting the women and children.