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 [...]

In the first of the two-part analysis of CSIM’s Workshop on Empowering the underprivileged through Innovations, I analyzed the pre-lunch session of  presentations –  Harsh Bhargava, professor from ICFAI Business School, on Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, Karuna Gopal, president of Foundation for Future Cities, on scope for innovation for urban poor, and A. Ravishankar, Center for good [...]

I have attended the first workshop conducted by the students of CSIM Hyderabad under the title “Empowering the underprivileged through innovations” that was previewed in my earlier post. The workshop’s purpose is to ..”Develop” the social consciousness among people, which can “Inform” those in need of answers and which can “Empower” those in need of support for [...]

If you are socially conscious but  spoilt for ideas, you are likely to get some tips this Sunday, May 24th in Hyderabad where the workshop on”Empowering the Underprivileged through Innovations” scheduled to be held. The workshop is conducted by the Hyderabad wing of Center for Social Initiatives and Management (CSIM), an organization that was covered earlier in ThinkChange-India [...]

I read Atanu Dey’s take on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in India in response to a question put forward by Sramana Mitra on her blog Why is the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India not coming together as well as it needs to? Atanu makes a strong pitch for leveraging existing solutions for development, reasoning that India has not [...]

TC-I reader Suresh Parmar tipped us about a workshop focusing on social entrepreneurship on April 16-17 in New Delhi.  Held by the Centre for Training and Research in Responsible Business and Social Entrepreneurship (New Delhi), in partnership with the Centre for Social Initiative and Management (Hyderabad), the workshop will focus on a range of issues. [...]

I had the opportunity to attend the International Conference on Social Entrepreneurship in India on the 4th and 5th of December. In this post I will try to narrate my experience at the conference. In the posts following this one, I will talk about people and organizations I got in touch with, and most importantly [...]

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 tab. In this edition TCI-changemaker focuses on Prof. [...]