DataWind Named to MIT Technology
Review’s2014
50 Smartest Companies List Recognizing World’s Most Innovative Companies
50 Smartest Companies List Recognizing World’s Most Innovative Companies
New
Delhi, February 26, 2014 —DataWind has been identified as one of 2014’s 50 Smartest
Companies in MIT Technology Review’s
annual list of the world’s most innovative technology companies. The honorees
are nominated by MIT Technology Review’s editors,
who look for companies that have demonstrated original and valuable technology
over the last year, are bringing that technology to market at significant
scale, and are clearly influencing their competitors. The companies on the list
represent the disruptive innovations most likely to change our lives.
“At times it seems impossible to keep pace
with important emerging technologies. This issue celebrates organizations at
the forefront, displaying ‘disruptive innovation’ that will prove to surpass
the competition, transform an industry, and change our lives,”states
Jason Pontin, publisher and editor in chief of MIT Technology Review.“DataWind has an innovative approach: sell
inexpensive hardware and make money instead on advertisements and apps. After
beginning by selling inexpensive tablets in India
DataWind was
chosen for its breakthrough internet delivery platform and disruptive business
model that allows it to deliver the world’s lowest cost tablet computers with
‘free’ internet access. Delivered to the Indian government as Aakash and
commercially as the UbiSlate computers, 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.
Since its
launch in India ,
DataWind’sUbiSlate tablet computers have positioned the company consistently
among the three largest tablet suppliers in the country, which was followed in
late 2013 with the US
“We are honored and humbled to be recognized by MIT Technology Review
as one of the most innovative technology companies in the world,”said Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO of DataWind.“Such recognition provides further
encouragement for us to pursue our vision of making the power of computing and
internet access available to all.”
DataWind and
the other honorees will be featured in the March/April edition of MIT
Technology Review, published online today and available on newsstands
worldwide starting March 4.