Archive for India
Innovations Series Part 1: Rickshaw’s
Cycle rickshaws are widely used in cities of South and Southeast Asia and rickshaw driving provides essential employment for recent immigrants from rural areas, generally impoverished men. One study in Bangladesh showed that rickshaw driving was connected with some increases in income for poor agricultural laborers who moved to urban areas, but that the extreme [...]
India’s Social Entrepreneurs of the Year
Cross posting from Think Change India: The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship recently recognized three individuals with significant impact in India as Social Entrepreneurs of the year for 2009. This was the fifth annual addition of these awards and was held in collaboration with the UN Development Program and CII. The first winner of this award is Rajendra [...]
Laura Parkin: on Entrepreneurship and the Indian Startup Ecosystem
Amit Singh, Paragon fellow 2009, interview Laura A Parkin for the Headstart network he is running. Laura is the Executive Director of the Wadhwani Foundation, whose mission is to help individuals achieve economic success. The foundation works in two areas: developing business entrepreneurs, and helping the disabled build livelihoods or achieve gainful employment. Amit Singh: [...]
Asia’s Young Changemakers: Joshua Hishey – India
Design education in India is comparatively very expensive and out of reach for most people. While in a country as rich in diversity as India there is no dearth of creativity, it needs to be supported by education and training in various aspects of Design Strategy and Application. Joshua, turned his passion for design into [...]
Omidyar Network Awards $9 Million to Rural Development Institute
The Omidyar Network has announced a three-year, $9 million grant to the Seattle-based Rural Development Institute to help millions of people living in poverty secure land rights. The grant will enable RDI to expand its existing programs in India, China, and sub-Saharan Africa as well as launch new projects through its Global Center for Women’s [...]
Indian entrepreneurs turning investors
A number of successful indian entrepreneurs have started their own venture funds in India. Wipro’s Azim Premji too started his own $1bn fund, and Infosys’s co-founder, NS Raghavan quit the firm as joint MD, now runs Nadathur Investments. He has invested in about a dozen firms including ace-spinner Anil Kumble’s venture called Stump Vision. has [...]
Asia’s Social Changemakers: Babar Ali (India)
Great story about Babar Ali by the BBC: Around the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because their families are too poor to afford to send them to school. In India, one schoolboy is trying to change that. In the first report in the BBC’s Hunger to Learn series, Damian Grammaticas [...]
India’s Biggest Business Plan Competition for Social Entrepreneurs
via The Social Innovation Blog: Villgro presents the annual Business Plan Competition for social innovators. Wantrapreneur is all about identifying ideas that have the potential to transform lives and nurturing them to become market-ready products and services. So if you have an idea that you think can change lives, apply now. The top two winners [...]
Young Indians making a difference – New rediff series
rediff.com celebrates the sincere spirit of young Indians making a difference in a new series. There first story: “I aspire to make a difference in the lives of people around me,” says Apoorve Dubey, who at 26 delivers motivational lectures in schools and colleges, works as a software engineer with Symantec and has also written [...]
Indians now see career options in the business of social good
Salary structures are better and social sector experience can also prove very useful in the corporate sector Bangalore: This summer, after she graduated with a master’s in information systems from Texas A&M University, US, Pooja Rao headed to India for what she thought would be a six-month break before taking up a job. To fill [...]
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