DataWind receives Amity Leadership Award for Business Excellence

DataWind receives Amity Leadership Award for Business Excellence

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New Delhi, 16 January: DataWind Innovations which specializes in affordable internet access has been awarded with “Amity Leadership Award for Business Excellence by leveraging IT in Designing Innovative Mobile for Education” in Noida.

The award was presented by Amity School of Engineering and Technology Founder President Dr Ashok K Chauhan during the 6th International Conference on Cloud System and Big Data Engineering Confluence 2016 in Amity University Campus, Noida.

The award recognized DataWind’s revolutionary and innovative approach to bridge the digital divide for the forgotten billions with its launch offree internet access on low-cost smartphones and tablets.

Amity University had organized Confluence 2016 in association with EMC Corporation where IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK), IETE (The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers), ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, USA) and CSI (Computer Society of India, India). The academic partners of the Confluence were University of Massachusetts, USA; Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada; Purdue University, USA; University of Cape Town, South Africa; Cloud Lab University of Melbourne, Australia.

It was stated that DataWind’s products break the affordability barrier and deliver internet access across traditional mobile networks as the company executes a vision to empower the next three billion internet users. The DataWind Pocket Surfer smartphones and tablets incorporate the most powerful technology thatallows fastest internet access on the remotest locations of India’s mobile networks.

DataWind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli said “It’s a great honor to receive the Leadership Award from one of the most renowned education institution in India today. Our Pocket surfer Smartphones are the most economical and technology advance devices which comes bundled with free internet browsing for one year on Telenor and Reliance networks.”

Tuli added that in order to help close the gap of the existing 'digital divide' in classroom education we have recently launched new Ubiclass Application which shows our commitment towards education on bringing the socio- economic and educational benefits of the Internet to emerging markets around the world.