We have featured Jagriti Yatra in TC-I in the past. Its quite a phenomenal idea to encourage social entrepreneurship among young people through enabling them to participate in a train journey across the country. This year, the journey took a new dimension with participants from around the world. On a socio-economic train voyage of India, [...]

We covered the arrival of TED in India earlier, and now they are looking for TEDIndia Fellows.  A message from TEDIndia organizers: Organizers of the TED Conference announced they would begin the search for 100 TEDIndia Fellows to participate in the TEDIndia Conference in Mysore, India, following upon the successful TED Fellows program launch at [...]

PATH is looking for a Manager for its Safe Water Project. Attached is the flyer with details on the job description. Here is a short description of the Project itself: PATH’s five-year Safe Water Project (SWP) aims to identify, evaluate, adapt, and develop appropriate products and investment strategies to enable sustainable commercial enterprises to produce, [...]

The inspirational, energy-filled, and fun TED conference is heading to India this year.  From November 4-7, 2009, TEDIndia will take place in Mysore and bring together speakers and delegates that are reinventing India.  The huge success of TED makes its arrival in India even more exciting.  At TC-I, we covered a few TED talks here, [...]

Aahar: Meals for Poor at Rs. 5, has won the grand prize ($10,000) at the  Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) as reported by IndiaPRwire. The business plan was presented by a group of students from the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, (NMIMS) Mumbai. GSEC was organized by the Foster School of Business at UW [...]

Social enterprises are often searching for sustainable breakthrough innovations, but lack the resources to invest in large-scale research and development.  One creative, and increasingly popular, solution to this problem is open innovation.  The basic concept is to utilize the collected knowledge of experts from around the world to solve design challenges. One such tool is [...]

The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with interviews with people we believe are at the brink of something special but have for the most part been overlooked by the mainstream media. Readers will be able to see other conversations under our TC-I Changemakers tag. This week, Vinay sat down (over the phone) [...]

Last week, Ashoka announced that the organization will use a US$15 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support the placement of Ashoka fellows in Africa and India.  The grant money will specifically target social innovation and entrepreneurship in agriculture and sustainable development.  According to their press release, Agricultural and rural sustainable [...]

So living in New York City has made it damn near impossible to not be wrapped up in the minute by minute saga that is the US financial crisis. Moreover, the fact that here at Stern Business School, over 50% of our job prospects have evaporated with the slew of bankruptcies and buyouts has effectively [...]

Update from the Editors: This project has actually be reported on before by Prerna. You can read it here. What is new is the inclusion of an education component. In an interesting role reversal, The Government of India along with its technical partner for the project HCL Infosystems, will be “setting up an e-networking infrastructure [...]