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The
Madhu Valluri Memorial IT Journalist Award for 2002 was presented
to Express Computer editor Valentine de Souza (Val Souza),
at a function in Mumbai recently.
Val Souza has been at the helm of computer magazine publishing
in India for the last twelve years and has launched three
magazines and two websites for the computer industry and computer
users during this period. He is the founding editor of
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Val
Souza receiving the award
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Express
Computer. He was chosen for the award after an elaborate selection
process that sought nominations via e-mail, website polls,
feedback from IT industry CEOs, and final selection by a panel
of judges comprising Ashank Desai, chairman and managing director,
Mastek; Pradeep Kar, chairman and founder, Microland Group;
and Ashok Advani, publisher, The Business India Group.
The Foundation also presented a “Vijeta” award to
16-year-old cancer survivor Abhiram Jha, who has been battling
bone cancer for the last ten years.
The Madhu Valluri Memorial Foundation (MVMF) was set up in
memory of pioneering IT journalist Madhu Valluri, who succumbed
to leukaemia in 1994, at the age of 38. Valluri launched India’s
first software magazine, Software Review. The MVM Foundation’s
mission is to help the common man understand information technology
by instituting educational scholarships and awards, holding
seminars, and donating PCs to schools and colleges. The Foundation
wishes to use IT to make a difference to millions of lives,
serve as a platform to award excellence in IT journalism,
and also help cancer victims in every way possible.
The Foundation is seeking donors to enable it to institute
a greater number of IT scholarships and awards to promote
excellence in IT journalism, organise seminars and lectures,
as well as contribute more towards cancer patient rehabilitation.
Those
interested in helping out may contact the Foundation via e-mail
at madhuvallurifoundation@rediffmail.com.
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