Nomination being solicited for NGOs adopting innovative ICT approach and tools to reach out and publicize its activities and work with impact oriented outcomes for its organization or its stakeholder community or those who are being served by the organization. A key parameter here is number of visitors visiting the website on a timely basis.

Nomination being solicited from NGOs who have adopted ICTs in most innovative way to produce or promote and market local and community produce by local entrepreneurs or by the organization itself in a social enterprise model.

Nomination being solicited from NGOs who have adopted ICTs including new and social media to advocate issues of wider civil society, development and governance concerns including education, health, livelihood, women issues, child issues, corruption, good governance, environment and other critical areas.

Nomination being invited from NGOs who have deployed and used ICTs including mobile, web and other mediums to improve its organizational efficiency and effectiveness in its operation and functioning with demonstrable outcome in terms of reducing costs, time saving, better office and team management and so on.

Nomination being invited from NGOs who have deployed ICTs in most innovative way to promote sustainable development in a community context in any of the 3 spheres – social, economic and environmental. The social category would imply efforts to use ICTs to promote and develop social capital including capacities of human resource, local agencies, women, youth and others towards desirable outcome.