Aishwarya Mishra is a software engineer by profession. He has completed Engineering in Computer Science from Cochin University of Science and Technology. He dabbles in a lot of things - quizzes, debates, sports, playing guitar. He writes his personal opinions on social issues at http://wheredoiblog.blogspot.com. He is part of a group of friends who are trying to bring about an improvement in the standard of living in Indian society. You could read about their efforts at http://targetingtheroots.blogspot.com .
TED has announced the name of 103 individuals as TEDIndia 2009 fellows. They will be participating in TED India to be held in Mysore from Nov 4-7 2009. As mentioned on their website and as is evident from a cursory glance at…
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Of the 5 billion medical injections administered in India every year, 62 percent are unsafe – startling figure that brought Marc Koska, inventor of non reusable K1 syringes, to India
This is how the article starts –…
Close on the heels of Shivam’s post on the open innovation tool, Innocentive, I am excited to write about the Open Innovation Portal, backed the Centre of Excellence in E-governance at Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi), along with Sun Microsystems and Knowledge Commons.
One very important point…
Aishwarya Mishra on 21 February, 2009 in Uncategorized[Story source: Businessworld]
Businessworld is a well read business weekly in India. They are planning for a special issue on “India’s Hottest Young Entrepreneurs”.They are calling for entries from entrepreneurs/organizations to feature in this issue. Click here to read more about it.
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I read Atanu Dey’s take on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in India in response to a question put forward by Sramana Mitra on her blog Why is the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India not coming together as well as it needs to?
Atanu makes a…
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While browsing through a blog, The Better India, I came across this Livemint report about a bookstore on wheels. Started by Pankaj Kurulkar, the project has been kicked off in Maharashtra. Kurulkar expects to take it to more states. The article…
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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) alumni plan to create a social fund aimed at supporting various projects that will create job opportunities for rural youth and transform India’s Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs). PanIIT Alumni, which conducted the PanIIT…
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Day 2
The second day started off by getting down to business immediately. Madhav Chavan of Pratham was the first speaker and his mandate was to enlighten the gathering on “How to scale up an organization?”. It really was a treat listening…
I had the opportunity to attend the International Conference on Social Entrepreneurship in India on the 4th and 5th of December. In this post I will try to narrate my experience at the conference. In the posts following this one, I…
