Participants can be from the Institutes, Business organizations, Research Institutes and Interns from incubation centers of universities/recognized institutes.

Following are the criteria for nominees:

• The nominee should be practicing as an IT Professional working in public, private sector, community, social service organizations, research organisation or incubation centres of Universities/recognised institutes.
• The nominee should have high degree of technical/entrepreneurial qualities as reflected in his management style, innovativeness and leadership.
• The nominee should have demonstrated outstanding entrepreneurial ability and innovativeness in the choice of products, technology, location, etc. and achieved high levels of performance and growth for his organization in the recent years.
• The contribution to be recognized for the YITP Award will be outstanding achievement(s) of professional or a kind of work, which will benefit a sizeable group of people, irrespective of their category. While the work concerned may relate to one or more functional area (s), the emphasis will be on integrated approach to professional effectiveness.
• IT Professionals with high potential are encouraged.
• Total years of experience
• The type and range of products and services dealt with
• Innovative practices, if any, adopted
• Other factors like Overall personality, Involvement in training and development, Extent of cross functional experience/expertise, Participation in public/institutional activities and programmes, publication and other activities of a public nature.

The nominations will be categorized in the following divisions in the respective themes :

• Division 1: Hardware:
  • Hardware development, Cloud implementation
• Division 2: Software:
  • Information Security, Artificial Intelligence, BFSI, Manufacturing, Retail, Multi lingual applications, Applications for rural development, Medicine or Health care Equipment’s
• Division 3: Applications :
  • Multi lingual applications, Applications for rural development, Medicine or Health care Equipment’s, Fashion industry / art, Public transport, BFSI, Manufacturing, Retail, Gaming
• Division 4: Communications:
  • Telecom, Mobile computing
• Division 5: Education and Research:
  • E- learning, Animation Industry

Young professionals working on multi-language applications and devices, professionals who have set-up cloud based infrastructure or service, develop various applications / projects indigenously implemented including in the area of education/e-learning, information security products/inventions, etc. can also participate.

• The most outstanding technology project of any kind, completed during the year 2014 / 2015 (project duration could be of 2 -3 years from the start date) within an organization will be judged for following criteria by the selection committee.
• Award will be presented to organizations and to project team that has achieved exceptional results through their outstanding implementation of technology and their high levels of professionalism in IT

1. Criticality of IT Usage :
   • The application cannot be effective by itself; it has to be followed up with equality effective and innovative usage, for instance, Electronic Commerce.
2. Improvement of Customer Service :
   • Enabling faster delivery of the products or services, as per specific customer choices.
3. Innovation :
   • Has the project introduced new or leading-edge technologies, supported a new way of working or pioneered an original change in business processes? Has the project stimulated new thinking, or laid the foundations for further innovation?
4. Return on Investment :
   • Has the project measurably and substantially improved the organisation's ability to achieve its core goals? Has it bestowed a significant competitive advantage, or dramatically enhanced the services offered to customers, staff or partners? Have there been spin-off benefits of the project?
5. Quality of Management :
   • Was the project completed on time and within budget? Did the project deliverables match or exceed the initial objectives? How resourcefully were obstacles overcome, and what lessons were learned to improve the management of future projects?
6. Impact
   1. Organisations : What measures have been used to assess or quantify the success of the project? How has the project demonstrated technology's role as a vital enabler in improving organisational excellence, competitiveness or quality of service? How will the project's deliverables be developed, or how will they support future growth or change in the organisation?
   2. Society : The impact and influence of the IT solution on the society at large. This would include the number of people deriving benefit from the solution; its impact in terms of India’s global competitiveness; how it helps in spreading awareness about IT among the masses and also how it helps create a climate for better appreciation and usage of IT.

Trophy and Certificate to winning team/individual and prize as under :

• 8.1 Regional Round
  1. Short listing of nomination will be done to restrict the number of entries in final Regional Round (maximum up to 8 entries).
  2. In the final Regional Round, short-listed nominees will make oral presentation followed by a Q&A session in the presence of selection committee on the day of contest.
  3. The winners will be awarded Regional trophy, cash prize and certificate in the category of Winner and Runners-up. A special mention cash prize and a certificate will be given to the third winner (if any).
  4. The winners of regional round are eligible to contest in the national round
  5. The selection committee decision will be final and binding to all participants
• 8.2 National Round
  • The winners of the regional contest will participate in the national round. Winner and runner up participate in national YITP competition organized by HQ.
  • They will make oral presentation followed by a Q&A session in the presence of selection committee on the day of contest. No changes in the nomination submitted are allowed between regional and national rounds.
  • National Awards will be presented on 4th March, 2016 two day before the CSI Foundation day at Udaipur, which is hosted by CSI, Udaipur Chapter.

1. Individual or a team not exceeding three individuals can apply. Additional member can join the team in special circumstances.
2. Nomination should reflect a specific achievement, innovation, algorithm, value-addition in the work of project undertaken during the project tenure ending 2014 / 2015.
3. Nomination should be supported by the institution or the organization to which the applicants are attached.
4. Nominations nominated by any CSI Fellow are also eligible.
5. Nominations should be original and not published prior to the event.
6. Nominations should be made in the prescribed format available on the CSI-website: www.csi- india.org on or before the last date of submission for the specific region.
7. Nomination fees :
   Non CSI Members
   • Individual                                       Rs. 3000
   • Team of three members               Rs. 5000
   • Additional team member               Rs. 2000
   CSI Members
   • Individual                                       Rs. 2000
   • Team of three members               Rs. 4000
   • Additional team member               Rs. 1000

The Regional rounds will be held at the CSI Chapter of the following regions during February, 2015. The host chapter will announce the schedule for the particular region.

The selection committee will comprise of CSI ExeCom member, Fellows and past Presidents of CSI, leading IT Professional, Academicians and Scientist. The number of members in the selection committee will be 3 or 5. The Regional YITP Coordinator/National YITP Convener and host chapter chairman will invite the above in the committee. The member of the selection committee should not have the conflict of interest. The selection committee member of regional round will not be considered for the national round. The chairman of the selection committee will be identified by the Regional YITP Coordinator and host chapter chairman. The names of the Selection Committee Members should be identified before issuing the Call for nominations so that Selection Committee Member names can be announced.

• Judging Process
  
  Each nomination will be judged by the selection committee. The selection process shall be based on :
  
  1. Receipt of Nomination with fees.
  2. Short listing of entries by Selection Committee.
  3. Presentations by short listed entries to the Selection Committee
  4. Final Awards will be based on joint evaluation by the selection committee as per the evaluation criteria. (Annexure – A.8)
  5. The selection committee will reserve the right to seek additional information from the nominated entries during the evaluation process.
  6. The final recommendation of awards will be made by the selection committee on the basis of the information available to them in the nomination form and presentations made by the applicants.

REGIONAL YITP AWARD (FOR EACH REGION)

• REGIONAL YITP AWARD (FOR EACH REGION)
  • Winner :                       Trophy + Rs. 5,000/- and certificate
  • Runner up :                  Trophy + Rs. 3,000/- and certificate
  • Special mention :                        Rs. 2,000/- and certificate
• NATIONAL AWARDS
  • Winner :                    Trophy + Rs. 50,000/- and a certificate
  • 1st runner up :          Trophy + Rs. 25,000/- and a certificate
  • Special mention :                         Rs. 15,000/- and certificate

The selection committee will comprise of CSI ExeCom member, Fellows and past Presidents of CSI, leading IT Professional, Academicians and Scientist. The number of members in the selection committee will be 3 or 5. The Regional YITP Coordinator/National YITP Convener and host chapter chairman will invite the above in the committee. The member of the selection committee should not have the conflict of interest. The selection committee member of regional round will not be considered for the national round. The chairman of the selection committee will be identified by the Regional YITP Coordinator and host chapter chairman. The names of the Selection Committee Members should be identified before issuing the Call for nominations so that Selection Committee Member names can be announced.

• Category and criteria for judging the application finalisation.
• Content for the Application Form.
• Curtain Raiser: Announcement of the YITP Awards in CSI Communication and portal.
• Application Last Date Submission.
• Regional Dates for organizing YITP.
• Receiving the winners list from all regions for final round.
• The National round will be held at one of the Chapters.
• CSI National Young IT Professional Award will be presented on the same day.

The YITP award is instituted both at National as well as Regional level. To make this award popular and to get maximum entries for participation at each region, promotion by way of advertising and branding will be done by CSI HQ by having a brochure, announcement in CSI communication and on CSI website, mailing to leading IT companies, service industry, academic institutes and members. The event can also reach the mass through social networking sites.

Print Material

CSI HQ will provide the 100 printed broucher to each region for marketing purpose. To maintain the consistency in the event, seven common banners and certificates will be designed at HQ with respective host chapter, venue and event date details as given by all the host chapter. Each host chapter will receive the soft copy from HQ and they can print it at their end.

The data and information provided in the nomination by the individuals/organizations will be treated with absolute confidentiality. CSI reserves the right to publish any of the data and information submitted by the individuals/organizations, without attribution.

To make the YITP award a success YITP committees at National and Regional level will jointly put effort.

Regional YITP Committee: Each region will have regional YITP committee. The RVP of region will be the YITP Coordinator for that region. He will nominate the Regional Convener preferably from the host chapter. Regional Coordinator and Regional Convener will invite senior members of the host chapter, leading IT professional and academicians in the Regional Committee.

National YITP Committee: The National YITP Convener will have all Regional YITP Coordinators in National YITP Committee. The president can nominate ExeCom members, leading IT professionals and Academicians in this committee.

• Lessons Learned
• Articles to be published in CSI Communication and on Portal

This reference manual will give a perspective of YITP Awards to all the stakeholders to make this event a success and create a brand of its own. Preparing this manual is first of its kind and will be enhance every year. We request all the RVPs and YITP Conveners to prepare and share a report (with lesson learnt) of the YITP Awards conducted at their respective region. This will help to improvise the event and smooth functioning for the future event.

Dr Nilesh K Modi
National Convener, Young IT Professional Awards, CSI
nilesh@drnileshmodi.in

CSI HQ
Computer Society of India
Email: yitpawards@csi-india.org
Tel : 022 29261700