To be held on April 17th-18th, Unite for Sight’ 7th Global Health & Innovation Conference in New Haven, Connecticut looks to be a major opportunity to learn and and network in the space. According to the conference:
The Global Health &…
Deadline extended to January 2, 2010.
The objective for the EdelGive Social Innovation Honours 2010 is to identify and reward organisations that are innovating to empower women in India. This year’s award categories are as follows:
• Health and well being: Awarding an…
Challenge:Future is a global student competition, aimed at promoting innovation for the world’s sustainable future. If you are a student between the age 18 and 30, Challenge:Future sincerely invites you to join our competition to develop sustainable solutions for specific…
In the first of the two-part analysis of CSIM’s Workshop on Empowering the underprivileged through Innovations, I analyzed the pre-lunch session of presentations – Harsh Bhargava, professor from ICFAI Business School, on Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, Karuna Gopal, president of Foundation for…
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India like the rest of the…
Today, Startup Dunia featured a neat new ecofriendly social enterprise – BK Environmental Innovations. Based in Hyderabad, they have created “bakeys,” which is edible cutlery. In addition to producing a good that is environmentally friendly (they claim the spoon can degrade…
[Article Source : Business Standard]
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 –…
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This week, Vinay sat down (over the phone) with Dheeraj Batra…
The World Resources Institute (WRI) and Nextbillion.net recently published a great interview with C. K. Prahalad on the role of private enterprise in development and poverty alleviation. Prahalad is the author of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid and one of…
