{"id":4962,"date":"2012-11-20T14:54:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T09:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2012-11-20T14:54:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T09:24:58","slug":"narayana-murthy-honoured-with-global-humanitarian-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/narayana-murthy-honoured-with-global-humanitarian-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Narayana Murthy honoured with Global Humanitarian Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy was honoured with <strong>James C Morgan Humanitarian Award<\/strong>. Philanthropist in all sense Murthy was selected for this award which recognises contribution of people using technology to change human lives.<\/p>\n<p>The Applied Materials in California&#8217;s Silicon Valley recoganised twelve innovators who apply technology in creative and practical ways to improve the human condition in areas such as health, education, environment and economic development.<\/p>\n<p>The prestigious James C Morgan was received earlier by internet entrepreneur Jeff Skoll, education and cross-cultural dialogue advocate Queena Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan, Nobel Laureate and former US Vice President Al Gore and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that technology not only has the power to make a difference in health, nutrition and sheltering the poor, but it also can enhance one&#8217;s confidence and dignity,&#8221; Murthy said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Around 240 laureates were honoured with this award since the award inception in 2001. The Applied Materials India President and Managing Director Aninda Moitra said that Murthy has set the benchmark for doing business globally and has played a large role in putting India on the global IT map.<\/p>\n<p>The Infosys Foundation was established in 1996 and in partnership with non-governmental organisation focus on healthcare, education and rural development initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy was honoured with James C Morgan Humanitarian Award. Philanthropist in all sense Murthy was selected for this award which recognises contribution of people using technology to change human lives. The Applied Materials in California&#8217;s Silicon Valley recoganised twelve innovators who apply technology in creative and practical ways to improve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":4971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[174,448],"class_list":["post-4962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-infosys","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}