A brand new Intellecap publication, Beyond Profit, was launched during Sankalp in Mumbai on Tuesday. The magazine focuses on social enterprises globally, and contains stories, features, interviews, and interesting tidbits of information on events and organizations. My personal favorite was a section on “10 New Ideas that Could Change the World.” The article contains short [...]
Google has launched the India Elections Center, for voters in the upcoming general elections. Google launched similar election tools for the Australia and US in the past, but has added a number of new features to this iteration and added a stronger focus on localized information. The election center enables citizens to get information about [...]
To start, I want to say that my mind has been racing despite sleep deprivation and jet lag since I touched down in Mumbai at 0135 IST this morning. This is the first I have set foot in India since 2005 and thus my first visit since the inception of TC-I, which makes the experience [...]
In what could be a significant boost to the Rural BPO industry in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Cisco Systems is partnering with the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and Tiruchirappalli Regional Engineering College – Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Park (TREC-STEP) to nurture and support ICT entrepreneurs in the country [via Economic [...]
This week has had no shortage of announcements of accepting nominations for some competitions and the unveiling of winners from others. Today, IndiaPRwire reports that the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, Schwab Foundation, and UNDP has picked finalists for the 2008 Social Entrepreneurship of the Year Award. The Award recognizes individuals who offer the most [...]
Source: Nextbillion.net There are two openings in India, one for a Business Development Manager and the other for a Portfolio Associate. Both are accepting applications and hope to close the application period early next week (August 20). View both job descriptions in PDF format, and consider applying. Learn more about the Acumen Fund here.
We have highlighted here at TC-I the potential for rural BPOs to create jobs. One of the more interesting players is Dhristee, the company whose primary business is franchising rural information kiosks. Recently the company ventured into the rural BPO space, setting up pilot unit in the rural hinterland of Bihar. CNN-IBN recently ran a [...]
The Ashden Awards is a UK-based charity that works to increase the use of local sustainable energy worldwide. They find, reward and publicise the work of leading sustainable energy programmes working across the developing world and in the UK. They just announced the finalists for the 2008 Global Green Awards. Among an impressive list of [...]
Recently, traditional income generating activities, specifically those associated with self help groups (SHGs), have gained acclaim as effective tools for poverty alleviation. The assumption is that if, for example, Sunita, a woman from an agricultural community in Gujarat, learns how to make papad, she will then have the skills necessary to sustain a productive livelihood, [...]
At the first national conference on rural BPOs, as mentioned previously by Santhosh, the real spotlight was on women. Business processing organizations all over the country are discovering that women are just as capable, if not more, than men in completing the tasks related to these jobs. “We give the same entrance test for both [...]
