Awards

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[Think Sport]: Beyond Sport Awards 2010 promote sport-led social change

Dharmesh Mistry is a contributing writer to Think Sport.

The Beyond Sport Awards are open for another 80 days. There are 12 categories for the Beyond Sport Awards 2010 covering the entire sporting spectrum of health, social inclusion, corporate and social responsibility,…

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Villgro hosts the UNCONVENTION

Villgro (formerly known as Rural Innovations Network) is hosting the “UNCONVENTION - Where Path Breakers Meet Path Makers” in Chennai on December 10-12, 2009.  As we wrote about before, a business plan competition called Wantrapreneur was held to select finalists, who will present one…

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Marico Innovation Foundation accepting applications for 3rd Innovation for India Awards

UPDATE: The deadline has been extended until October 31st. So anyone interested can still apply.

On March 12th, 2010 the Marico Innovation Foundation will announce the winners of it Innovation for India contest, which honors three categories: Business Innovation (Products/Services, Business…

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India Needs Social Entrepreneurs and Social Intrapreneurs to Fight Recession

This op-ed was submitted by Suresh Pramar, and is a user post. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of TC-I, but we feel that it is important to cultivate opinions from all sides.

India like the rest of the…

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mKrishi – More power at farmers’ hands

The Hindu reports about mKrishi (mobile Krishi) a mobile agro advisory system launched by Tata.  It can help farmers get personalized advise and updated information on their mobile phones about factors that may affect their crops such as weather.

Prima facie, this looks very…

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Kubera-Edelweiss Social Innovation Honours awards 3 Indian organizations

Anjali, Azad Foundation and Samata are the winners for their innovative and outstanding work for the Girl Child in the fields of Health, Employability and Education. Here are the descriptions of each social entrepreneurship organization:

Anjali: Focusing on mental health issues…

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‘Aahar’ Wins the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition

Aahar: Meals for Poor at Rs. 5, has won the grand prize ($10,000) at the  Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) as reported by IndiaPRwire. The business plan was presented by a group of students from the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management…

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E-governance Gaining Momentum in India

A few weeks ago, Vinay wrote about the growing business opportunities in the e-governance sector. An exciting recent development in this area has been the announcement by the Government of India of knowledge kiosks being set up in Panchayats. The project is…

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Round 2 with CGAP’s Gautam Ivatury

The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with interviews with people we believe are at the brink of something special but have for the most part been overlooked by the mainstream media. Readers will be able to see…

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How do we go from here?

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…