Neerja Raman writes that Hewlett Packard’s new data cooling technology has found it home, not in Silicon Vally or the offices of Google in Mountain View, but rather in the heart of India 2.0 Bangalore. Because in Bangalore, just like in other big cities in India, with its poor infrastructure and intermittent power supply, you [...]

Utilizing the power of internet technology, GlobalScholar.com is an online platform for teachers, students, administrators and other education professionals to develop, disseminate and review curriculum. The company goes one step beyond that to figure out ways to implement such curriculum into schools. Focused on K-12 education, the venture is currently searching for a CEO to [...]

In a joint venture, Acumen Fund and Hindustan Latex will begin the development of hospitals with 25-30 bed capacities throughout India to help address the dearth of low income maternal and child healthcare services. To be labeled LifeSpring Hospitals, the venture will build upon the success of the phase I hospitals established since 2005 that [...]

Operating as a for-profit SE, OneRoof through its subsidiary in Chennai (and another in Mexico) intends to build out franchises throughout the country that offer what it considers nine essential services to the world’s poor. You can see from the organization’s website the services they plan to offer. They currently have 20 locations between India [...]

As reported by GreenBiz.com,  Coca Cola plans to reshape its water consumption practices for its beverages in order to operate in a more socially responsible manner throughout the world.  The report, “Drinking It In: The Evolution of a Global Water Stewardship Program at The Coca-Cola Company” follows the company’s efforts to achieve “water neutrality” across [...]

This past week I was in Costa Rica on vacation, and while the trip was no doubt amazing it kept me away from a computer and thus unable to blog. However, the trip did give me sometime to catchup on some reading. I was able to rifle through the last four Economists, an Atlantic Monthly [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_o5j2wgLsg] I picked up this video from Guy Kawasaki’s blog. This is how he describes it: This is a video of the winner of Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Week innovation tournament. The challenge for the tournament was to use an everyday object to create as much value as possible. The “RubberBandTogether” team’s goal is to sell the [...]

Karmayog refers to itself as a “unique free platform for concerned citizens – for social and civic issues”. The organization has published what might be India’s first ever rating of the CSR initiatives of the country’s 500 largest companies. (via ProPoor.org) The detailed methodology for the rating process can be found here. Companies were provided [...]

Business Standard reports that the Tata Group has launched a International Social Entrepreneurship Scheme in partnership with UC Berkley and University of Cambridge: As part of the Tata International Social Entrepreneurship Scheme (TISES), the University of California, Berkeley and University of Cambridge will identify up to five students each from the undergraduate or higher study [...]

A refreshing op-ed, written by David Brooks in the NYTimes, focuses on the trend of social entrepreneurship. Titled “Thoroughly Modern Do-Gooders,” the article is overall positive about the field and lauds its pioneers as “some of the smartest and most creative people.” Brooks likens the field to a growing fad: Fashions in goodness change, just [...]