Sify Technologies supported Gems of Digital India Awards and Book Launch 2017 organised by COEUS Age consulting. The winners were identified through a rigorous discovery process over a span of 12 months by COEUS. Started with a repository of 1600 eGovernance projects in India and through multiple iterations of analysis, jury and analyst selection, 41 path breaking initiatives were identified. Insightful case studies were written on each of the winner initiatives and compiled them in the form of a book. It took 13 months and 30 man-months of effort.

Central Public Procurement Portal won Gems of Digital India Award 2017 under Analyst's Choice. Award received by Sh. K. Ganapathy and Sh. Rama Amirtham of eProcurement Division of NIC.