The follow are opportunities to join Indicorps staff – apply immediately. Who we are and who we want: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead Indicorps is an entrepreneurial organization run by a small, tight-knit community [...]

We had mentioned earlier in this space about the Jaipur Foot Organization, which has helped millions of patients in India and around as the world’s largest provider of low-cost prosthetic devices. We had also mentioned the initiative by a group of MIT students helping to improve the Jaipur Foot design and also to reduce production [...]

Top posts of the week Prerna’s op-ed on self-interest and social good A guest post on CSR by Badhri Not published last week, but Vinay’s post on the sex worker bank continues to generate interest Reaching into the archives Shital’s post on an organization known as Barefoot College back in March provides an example of [...]

Editors Note: Guest Blogger Badhri is a hardware engineer at Synopsys India Private Limited, Hyderabad. He has formed a team for corporate social responsibility in his company and has been heading it for last two years. He strongly believes that awareness is the starting point for societal change. He writes at overtea.blogspot.com and is associated [...]

What image comes to your mind when someone mentions a government school?  I suppose a torn down building, badly equipped classrooms and a high student-teacher ratio, right? Now, imagine a government school where classrooms are equipped with a projector and a LCD screen, a well-equipped computer lab, labs for sciences, a language resource room and [...]

Stories on water are either on the rise or are more likely to catch my eye – either way, another interesting design innovation to contribute to water issues is critiqued by NextBillion.net. A YouTube video on the site also explains the Aquaduct, a tricycle that aims to provide a means of transportation and simultaneously filter [...]

Today, I attended a lecture at the Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) entitled, “Social Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Strategies,” by Lisa Nitze, Vice President of the Global Entrepreneur to Entrepreneur Program at Ashoka. One of the themes that the lecture touched upon was the concept of “self-interest”, and how the effectiveness of social entrepreneurship ventures lies in [...]

Raja Sekhar Malapati shares a piece on water technology that is not as popular or known in the quest for safe, accessible drinking water everywhere. A company known as Aqua Sciences developed a way to extract water not from the ground, but from the air – even in dry regions. According to a Wall Street [...]

Delhi has been going all out in its effort to clean-up the city, in the run up to the Commonwealth Games, to be hosted in the capital in 2010. Take for instance the goal of making the national capital beggar-free. It seems like a fairly high-tech intervention – with video cameras and biometric fingerprint scanners [...]

Your daily dose of headlines: Health: The governments of India and Bhutan are looking to build a high quality health corridor in the Assam and Bhutan regions. Government: The Ministry of Urban Development has launched an e-Gazzete to better inform the public. The Power of Microfinance: A powerful feature on one 24 year old woman’s [...]