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Inside Innosight, Disrupting in the BoP

By Vinay Ganti | Published: April 21, 2009

Editors’ note: The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with first-hand insights from groundbreaking changemakers. Readers will be able to see other conversations under our TC-I Changemakers and Change-Agent tags.…

Posted in ALL POSTS, Change-Agent | Also tagged BoP, bottom of the pyramid, business plan, business school, Change-Agent, changemaker, changemakers, Clayton Christensen, consumption, Dheeraj Batra, disruptive innovation, Harvard, harvard business school, Innosight Ventures, Innovation, InSight, mobile phone, Mumbai, Opportunities, P&G, patent, profits, SKS, Solar, SRI, TC-I Changemakers, Technology, TV, venture capital, village laundry service | Leave a comment

Ashoka Launches Collaborative Competition for Rural Innovation

By Shivam Srivastava | Published: March 18, 2009

TCI had earlier discussed open innovation as an emerging tool for social entrepreneurs. An excellent initiative in this field is Ashoka Changemakers, which provides an online space for social innovators to present ideas and collaborate…

Posted in Change-Agent, Competitions | Also tagged Agriculture, Ashoka, Ashoka Changemakers, Change-Agent, changemaker, changemakers, collaboration, Competitions, Developing World, farmers, Gates Foundation, Geotourism, Health, Innovation, Intel, NRI, Open Innovation, Opportunities, rains, Rural, rural development, rural innovation, SEED, Small farmers, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, Social Innovation | Leave a comment

Laptops and Local Trains

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: February 4, 2009

When I first heard the news, I was reminded of chaiwalas on local trains who chant, “chaiiii, chaiiiii, chaiiiii” and sell just the right amount of delectable tea in earthen cups for a very sweet price. Has the day come?…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Atan, Atanu Dey, computer, deesha, deeshaa.org, Education, Government, III, Indian government, Innovation, markets, Media, NComputing, Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC, Op-Ed, PPP, rains, Technology, Wi-Fi | Leave a comment

[TC-I Call to Action] Business Development Professionals at iDiscoveri Education

By Aishwarya Mishra | Published: December 23, 2008

iDiscoveri is a social enterprise working towards ushering in change in society by reviving education in India. It is doing this by working at different levels of the education system. It is looking out Business Development Professionals. Read more about

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Posted in Jobs | Also tagged Business Development, call to action, Cambridge, Chennai, Coimbatore, Discoveri, Education, Energy, English, Environment, Harvard, IDG, idiscoveri, IIT, Incentives, Jobs, leadership, meeting, Meetings, Opportunities, SEED, social enterprise, Social Entrepreneurship, Tamil Nadu, TC-I Call to Action, teachers, travel | 3 Comments

Changing the Face of Public Health: Click Diagnostics

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: December 7, 2008

This winter, through the gracious support of the Social Equity Venture Fund (S.E.VEN), I will be working in Cairo, Egypt with Click Diagnostics, a mobile tele-health social enterprise venture that recently won the

Posted in Primary | Also tagged 100k entrepreneurship competition, cellphones, click diagnostics, developing countries, diagnostic, Entrepreneurship, for profit, Health, healthcare, market based poverty alleviation, markets, mobile technology, poverty, poverty alleviation, PPP, public health, risks, Rural, rural health, s.e.ven fund, SKS, social enterprise, Social Equity Venture Fund, start-up, Technology | 11 Comments

(IFMR) Trust Me

By Vinay Ganti | Published: December 2, 2008

Editor’s note: In addition to being informative, this post also outlines what IFMR Trust is looking for in potential hires. If you would like to see that immediately, go after the jump.

Before Thanksgiving break I had the pleasure of…

Posted in Jobs | Also tagged America, BoP, Business Development, CIC, consultant, criteria, David Wallack, debt, Finance/Credit, financial inclusion, Financial products, financial services, for profit, Housing, ICICI, ICICI Foundation, IFMR, IFMR Trust, Inclusive Growth, InSPIRE, Jobs, Media, MFI, Microfinance, Nachiket Mor, non-profit, Private Equity, profits, Rural, SMEs, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Venture Capital, supply chain, Technology, Transaction, transaction costs | Leave a comment

[TC-I Call to Action]: MSME Business Plan Challenge – Sankalp 2009

By Shital Shah | Published: November 12, 2008

IndiaPRwire helps announce the launch of yet another challenge; this time, focusing on micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) business plans. The nationwide challenge, titled Sankalp, is presented by India Development Gateway, a new portal “designed…

Posted in Competitions | Also tagged business plan, call to action, Competitions, FLOW, IDG, India Deve, India Development Gateway, IndiaPRwire, Innovation, MSME, networking, online platform, Opportunities, portal, prize, Prizes, Rural, rural innovation, Rural Innovations Network, Sankalp, Sankalp 2009, SMEs, social enterprise, Social Entrepreneurship, TC-I Call to Action | Leave a comment

[Op-Ed]: The (Il)Logic of Laptops and Education

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: October 22, 2008

At several points during his presentation at MIT yesterday, Nicholas Negroponte mentioned prominent figures in passing – Kofi Annan, Steve Jobs, the Prime Ministers and Presidents of dozens of countries – but at no point did I think he was…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Aishwarya, corporate strategy, Education, Entrepreneurship, for profit, Government, grassroots, Grassroots development, Innovation, InSight, Jobs, meeting, NComputing, NGO, NGOs, NGOs and Non-profits, Nicholas Negroponte, non-profit, OLPC, One laptop per child, Op-Ed, partnerships, Pratham, profits, RAND, scalability, social venture, teachers, Technology | Leave a comment

Outsourcing Health and Education Knowledge: This Time India is the Sender

By Vinay Ganti | Published: July 8, 2008

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…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Africa, beta, E-education, e-medicine, Education, Government, Government of India, HCL Infosystems, Health, Help others, iGovernment, Indian government, Infosys, infrastructure, markets, medical care, medicine, networking, Outsourcing, PATH, PPP, Technology, tele-education, tele-medecine, Universities | Leave a comment

Guest-Post: The Savior of Madurai’s Mentally-Ill

By Vinay Ganti | Published: July 7, 2008

Editor’s Note: This article is contributed by Sarah Scrafford, who regularly writes on the topic of top accredited universities. She invites your questions and writing job opportunities at her .

Very…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Akshaya Foundation, Bangalore, Beggars, BoP, budget, CRY, Health, ITC, Job Opportunities, Krishnan, Madurai, Microsoft, NGOs and Non-profits, Opportunities, Sanitation, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, Tamil Nadu, Universities, Volunteer, waste | 3 Comments

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