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On Sunil Abraham Ayrookhuziel

Full Name: Sunil Abraham Ayrookhuziel
Date of Birth: 17-06-1973
Nationality: Indian
Phone: +91 80 3536028
E-mail: sunil@mahiti.org
Place: Puthencavu
Status: Married
Address: 30/2 Miller Road,
Benson Town, Bangalore - 560 046

Personal
1999 ASHOKA FOUNDATION
Elected as Ashoka Fellow for exploring the democratic potential of the Internet.

He has recently been selected as an 'Ashoka Fellow' - a prestigious fellowship that supports social entrepreneurs with practical dreams likely to positively influence society.

1997 SAMUHA
Web master for online fundraising campaign. Also worked as a programmer. MAHITI is a project of SAMUHA.

1996 SCENE DESIGNS
Worked with 2 designers on screen and offset printing jobs.

1995 VOICE
Edited and produced a monthly newsletter for Wesley Church.

1993 STUDENTS FOR PEACE
Setup express apolitical and secular express platform during Ayodhya/Bombay riots. 5000 students holding candles on MG Road, Bangalore.

Founded MAHITI in 1998 along with Sreekanth and Allan to provide appropriate and affordable IT services to the voluntary sector. Started by providing free E-mail service and web sites for around 20 organisations. Built over 50 web/intranet/kiosk/multimedia applications for clients including - Ashoka.org, Indian Foundation for the Arts, ChangeMakers.net, Datacons, National Law School University of India, N-logue, Partners in Change.Joint promoter of BangaloreCares.org, a directory of 570 voluntary organisations from Karnataka.

Joint promoter of IndiaCares.org, a donations portal for the Indian voluntary organisations. This portal is being merged with ICICICommunities.org. We have just started work on ICICICommunities.org ver II. Joint promoter of ''Development Laboratory'' along with Centre for Knowledge Societies, Madhyam and Voices.Presentations and trainings for South Asia Fundraising Group, Indian Tobacco Company, Indev, Public Affairs Centre, Asia Foundation,, VOICES, World Bank, Ashoka Foundation, Indian Social Institute, Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Tirunelvelli Corporation.

Technical trainer for Concorde Motors, Sterlite and Vista Interactive. Chief Technical Officer [on behalf of MAHITI] for Explocity.com [Portal, E-commerce Builder, Web Site Builder company funded by NewsCorp] and Tarahaat.com [Rural ICT Project - winner of this years Stockholm Challenge Award] Two software products under development.

Knowledge management product for Intranets and the Internet. This product was a finalist for Erica 2000 constituted by Ericsson. Relationship management product for managing donor relationships supported by Ford Foundation. Project design and consultancy for rural ICT and e-governance projects such as Anandwan [Baba Amte''s community at Nagpur, Maharastra], Gokul Prakalp Prathistan [Ratnagiri District Maharastra] and Azim Premji Foundation [Karnataka].

He is a self-learned in the computer field.

Response mechanisms adopted (if any) and in which field.
He decided to switch to Linux because of the free source policy of the operative system. The Windows system was too expensive to maintain for all the machines do to the feed for the license. Linux sustain itself by charging for services (the same policy adopted by Mahiti). At the moment they have only three machines which still run with Windows system the other run with Linux OS. They had problems in switching the systems because it is like starting again from zero; it is a completely different structure. An other problem with Linux was the lack of professional applications available that make it almost impossible to choice if you work in graphics, designs, or TV.