Editor’s Note: Guest blogger Lindsay Clinton is an Associate Vice President at Intellecap, where she is the Managing Editor of Beyond Profit and Microfinance Insights. Prior to joining Intellecap, she worked as the Marketing and Communications Director at The White House Project, a women’s leadership organization based in New York City. Lindsay writes a semi-regular [...]
MBAs Without Borders is looking for a Business Development Associate for a 6 month position in Ahmedabad, India. The project is with the Environmental Planning Group Limited (EPGL). The Environment Planning Group Limited (EPGL) is a socially minded for-profit company incorporated in Ahmadabad, India. EPGL’s vision is to manufacture, install and operate 3,000 Reverse Osmosis [...]
Here is an update on a great fellowship founded by one of our colleagues Nitin Rao. The Engineers for Social Impact (E4SI) Fellowship Selection Committee is delighted to announce that, after receiving and carefully reviewing the close to 500 internship applications it received for its 2009 edition, it has made offers to 24 outstanding candidates [...]
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 similar to Nokia’s LifeTools that ThinkChange India reported a few days earlier. However, [...]
Editors’ note: The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with first-hand insights from groundbreaking changemakers. Readers will be able to see other conversations under our TC-I Changemakers tab. Cheryl Dorsey is the President of Echoing Green, a leading global nonprofit which “invests in and supports outstanding emerging social entrepreneurs to launch new [...]
What do the words “new start-up” and “garage” bring to your mind? The old stories about how all the tech companies started off to make today’s Silicon Valley? If that sounds a little too boring now, here is something as appetizing as a pizza. Started right here in India’s Silicon Valley by by Padma Srinivasan, [...]
Nokia is about to launch a set of “Life Tools” to be embedded in its mobile phones in an effort to expand its base into rural India. These Life Tools cater to the needs of the rural community with information on three different sectors namely Agriculture, Education, Entertainment. On agriculture, the Life Tool is likely [...]
Here is the quiz: Which of the following Indian organizations made it to the Fast Company’s list of 50 most Innovative companies in the world? 1. Infosys 2. Wipro 3. Dr. Reddys Labs 4. Aravind Eye Care System The answer is 4. Aravind Eye Care System! Its remarkable. Aravind is the only Indian organization in the Fast [...]
Looking for interesting conferences to attend over the course of the next two months? Well, look no further! Below are three upcoming conferences that we recommend you attend – The Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Conference (March 1, 2009), The Harvard Business School India Business Conference (March 15, 2009), and the Harvard Kennedy School International [...]
Social enterprises are often searching for sustainable breakthrough innovations, but lack the resources to invest in large-scale research and development. One creative, and increasingly popular, solution to this problem is open innovation. The basic concept is to utilize the collected knowledge of experts from around the world to solve design challenges. One such tool is [...]
