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ISB Launches iDiya Social Venture Competition (apply by Sep 19)

Posted by on 3 August, 2010 in Competitions, Opportunities, Primary
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The Indian School of Business has launched the iDiya Challenge, an idea competition for social ventures which is open to working
professionals across India to participate in. The competition opened on July 23rd and will accept applications till Sep 19th. The winners of the competition will receive Rs. 1,00,000 and six teams will get a chance to participate in a week long bootcamp with industry leaders, VCs and mentors. Last year’s bootcamp included speakers like S.Sivakumar, Chief Executive of Agribusiness, ITC, Atreya Rayaprolu, Vice President, Intellecap, and Sachin Malhan, Co-founder & CEO, Inclusive Planet.

The evaluation process focuses on the social need, business plan and the measurable social impact of the idea. The winners of 2009, Source Pilani is a Rural BPO focussed on medical transcription. Since the competition, they have have provided employment to 25 villagers in the area around Pilani, Rajasthan.

The competition requires only an executive summary and is open to people across India. It is geared at individuals or groups that have a vision and are looking for support and mentorship to take it to the next level. The iDiya Challenge is a great platform for anyone looking to take the leap into social entrepreneurship!



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Shivam Srivastava

Shivam Srivastava is currently a WiMAX systems engineer at Motorola, Inc, where he designs and deploys wireless networks for rural parts of South and Central America. Shivam hopes to combine his passions of engineering and learning to achieve his long term goal of making the quality of education available in India independent from the student’s economic background. He is the co-founder of EPR India, an organization that aims to empower and educate Indian citizens about appropriate responses to emergency situations. Shivam is also actively involved in a start-up social venture to empower Indian women with IT skills and a number of other non-profit organizations. He has received a number of distinctions including being named a StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation Fellow and receiving the Clinton Stryker Distinguished Leadership Award. Shivam graduated in 2007 with a degree in Computer Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago where he was also an Ed Kaplan Enterpreurship Scholar, and plans to join a JD/MBA program in the near future.

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