We had featured American India Foundation New York Young Professionals Chapter’s annual benefit in the past. Here is a recap from AIF itself of the event.
For the 2008-2009 fiscal year, our second since forming in summer 2007, the New York…
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…
Vinay Ganti on 20 February, 2009 in UncategorizedThe ThinkChange India team is proud to introduce Shivam as one of our new part-time bloggers. A quick introduction of Shivam:
Shivam Srivastava is currently a WiMAX systems engineer at Motorola, Inc, where he designs and deploys wireless networks for rural…
Using a mobile bus (such as the Nandini Mobile Van, which focuses on sanitation) is a popular method to do outreach to rural or underexposed areas. Google India is launching their Internet Bus Project, an initiative that is essentially a mobile exhibition…
[Story source: Business Standard]
Recently, Business Standard carried three articles under the Smart Cards byline. The articles – “Smart choice, sloppy plan“, “Andhra villagers now have pension on their fingertips“, “From Dhenakal to Bellary” – track the introduction of smart cards…
In the past week, I’ve come across several stories that highlight isolated successes or intriguing ideas that are being implemented on a small scale. Here’s a quick recap:
In a series of articles on Slate.com, Mira Kamdar (of the World Policy Institute and author of Planet India) discusses the challenges and outlook for organic farming in India based on her visit to Punjab farms. After an introduction to her visit and…
In line with its National E-Governance Plan, the Government of India recently launched the India Development Gateway, which seeks to “foster inclusive growth and empower its rural users through relevant information in six languages – Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Bengali…
There has been considerable discussion with regard to the role of Cable television in influencing womens’s status in India. Not long ago a couple of economists from the NBER used panel data in India and found that introduction of Cable…
Echoing Green has announced its Fellowship Finalists for 2008, a pool of organizations chosen from a whopping, record-setting, 1500 applications.
You can see the list here. The below video provides a good introduction to what Echoing Green does.
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If you are one of…
