The Fair Trade Forum-India is holding a roundtable on Promoting Fair Trade & Sustainable Consumption in India. They have partnered with HIVOS, IRFT & Shop for Change ( interview). Here are the details for the launch: 5 PM on 30th June 2010 at India International Center (Conference Room No 2) Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi (Contact: [...]

As promised in my earlier post, I attended CSIM’s Workshop on Innovation and Leadership in Social Sector. Organized by the students of  CSIM, the workshop was held in Dr. Reddy’s Labs’ Conference Hall attended by approximately eighty people. Attendees comprised of a few students from Indian School of Business, young employees of corporate sector, well [...]

Last May, I extensively covered the “Workshop on empowering the underprivileged” organized by CSIM Hyderabad (The coverage can be read here and here). This year CSIM Hyderabad is coming up with the second edition of their workshop, which focuses on “Innovation and Leadership in Social Sector”. The lead speakers in this event are Mr.Gregory Rake, India [...]

On Saturday, May 1st the Harvard Kennedy School, in collaboration with the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Medical School, is hosting the 2010 Global Public Health & Technology Conference themed, “Moving Beyond the Technology.”  A brief description of the conference follows: Information and communications technologies (ICTs) have the potential to transform health [...]

WEDNESDAY, 12TH MAY, 2010, LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL REGISTRATION | AGENDA | SPEAKERS: www.indiabusinessforum.net The next phase of India’s growth is critically linked to unlocking value at the bottom of the pyramid. At this year’s conference, join a dynamic group of speakers to explore opportunities in FDI, joint ventures, and rural and social enterprise. In its [...]

The United Nations Development Programme International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) will be hosting an Academic Forum on the 12th and 13th of April 2010 in correlation to the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) summit to be held in Brasilia, Brazil on the 15th of April 2010. The theme will be social development strategies for inclusive growth. [...]

Are you all set to meet with some of the best and most dynamic social for-profit businesses? Observe how enterprises looking to establish and scale find projectile? And participate in a buzzing confluence of some of the most dedicated and seasoned minds in social business? If yes, then you’re ready for Sankalp 2010! An annual [...]

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 & Innovation Conference convenes more than 2,200 students and professionals from 55 countries who are interested [...]

Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) Jamshedpur is set to organize its second national level conference on “Solutions for Inclusive Development” from January 29 to January 31, 2010. XLRI seems to have learnt a bit about the down side of the way conferences held in a conventional manner from its experience in its first conference They [...]

A few weeks back the Aspen Institute India invited essays based on a simple prompt, Do you have ideas that could address some of India’s problems? Some of these ideas were presented a few weeks back at Aspen Institute Conference in Delhi. Fighting Corruption One of the highlights of the event was Mr. Shashi Mather, founder [...]