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Babajob is hiring a Bihar Manager

By Shital Shah | Published: July 1, 2011

Babajob.com is looking for a passionate, creative individual to head our activities in Bihar, build up our database of local job seekers and create relationships with local employers.

Roles and Responsibilities

Develop and

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Posted in ALL POSTS, Jobs | Also tagged Babajob, Bihar, Employment, job opportunity | Leave a comment

Join the LaborVoices team to promote dignity and transparency

By Shital Shah | Published: December 17, 2010

LaborVoices (LV) promotes transparency in labor markets by allowing migrant workers around the world to fact-check prospective employers and employment conditions by accessing the LaborVoices mobile phone application. LaborVoices is a migrant worker job review portal that maintains…

Posted in ALL POSTS, Jobs | Also tagged employer reviews, job opportunity, job review portal, labor markets, LaborVoices, migrant workers | 1 Comment

[Op-Ed]: Free mobile phones for the rural poor – let’s call it “Wireless Welfare”

By Santhosh Ramdoss | Published: June 24, 2009

The idea popped when I was reading this NY Times article on a federally funded program in the US where wireless carriers receive a subsidy to provide people under welfare with a mobile phone and 68 minutes of talk time…

Posted in ALL POSTS, Op-Ed | Also tagged Digital Divide, Government of India, ICT, Op-Ed, Rural Connectivity, social welfare, subsidies | 6 Comments

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, expertise, Harvard, harvard business school, Innosight Ventures, Innovation, InSight, Mumbai, Opportunities, P&G, patent, profits, SKS, Solar, SRI, TC-I Changemakers, Technology, TV, venture capital, village laundry service | Leave a comment

Ask Echoing Green Fellowship finalists

By Shital Shah | Published: April 21, 2009

Echoing Green, an organization we have both interviewed and posted on, is adding a new twist to their fellowship selection process this year. With twenty-two social entrepreneurs chosen as finalists, EG is…

Posted in ALL POSTS, Primary | Also tagged Aman, changemaker, changemakers, Echoing Green, Echoing Green fellowship finalists, Employment, Fellows, Fellowship, Fellowships, Finalists, infrastructure, job training, Mumbai, partnerships, performance data, SEED, Seed Funding, skills training, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, Technology | Leave a comment

mKrishi – More power at farmers’ hands

By Badhri Jagannathan | Published: March 15, 2009

The Hindu reports about mKrishi (mobile Krishi) a mobile agro advisory system launched by Tata. It can help farmers get personalized advise and updated information on their mobile phones about factors that may affect their crops such as weather.

Prima…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Agriculture, Awards, computer, CSR, engineering, farmers, for profit, Global Innovation Technology Award for 2008, Innovation, Krishnan, Life Tools, mKrishi, Mobile Phones, Nokia, Rural, Social Innovation, Tata, Tata Indicom, Tata Teleservices, Technology, The Hindu, wall street, Wall Street Journal | 2 Comments

Nokia poised to help farmers to expand its rural base

By Badhri Jagannathan | Published: March 6, 2009

Nokia is about to launch a set of “Life Tools” to be embedded in its mobile phones in an effort to expand its base into rural India. These Life Tools cater to the needs of the rural community…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Agriculture, BoP, Education, empowerment, entertainment, farmers, for profit, Life Tools, Mobile Phones, Nokia, Public Awareness, Rural, rural India, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Technology | 2 Comments

Round 2 with CGAP’s Gautam Ivatury

By Vinay Ganti | Published: February 17, 2009

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…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged adoption, Africa, Awards, Bandhan, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, BoP, branchless, branchless banking, cashnxt, CGAP, changemaker, changemakers, consulting, credit crunch, developing countries, diagnostic, empowerment, Energy, Finance/Credit, financial services, France, Gautam, Gautam Ivatury, GSM, Identity, IFC, infrastructure, Innovation, markets, McKinsey, Media, MFI, Microcredit, Microfinance, mobile banking, Mobile Phones, Monitor, New Ventures, NGO, NGO/Non-profit, NGOs and Non-profits, Outsourcing, Policy, Rural, rural India, SKS, SKS microfinance, smart card, SMEs, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, Social Entrepreneurship, software, software for MFIs, TC-I Changemakers, Technology, Transaction, Ultrapoor | Leave a comment

Transfer money after the beep

By Vinay Ganti | Published: February 2, 2009

Here is an interesting approach to the technological hurdles of mobile banking. Called Cashnxt, this venture in Kerala, uses high-pitched sounds via mobile phones to encrypt and decrypt the secure data needed to perform a financial transaction. An article…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged cashnxt, CRY, Finance/Credit, HIV, ITC, Kerala, Microfinance, mobile banking, Mobile Phones, PluGGd.in, Rural, rural India, Social Entrepreneurship, startups, Technology, Transaction, YouTube | 1 Comment

[TC-I Changemaker]:GreenMango’s Yasmina McCarty and Nandini Narula – Providing a platform for unorganized service providers

By Aishwarya Mishra | Published: September 9, 2008

Posted in Primary | Also tagged advertising, Aishwarya, America, Awards, beta, Business Development, changemaker, changemakers, computer, corporations, developing countries, Echoing Green, economy, Employment, Fellows, Fellowship, Financial products, Girl Child, GreenMango, Health, Health Insurance, Hyderabad, IDG, Insurance, Market access, marketing, Media, metrics, MFI, Microfinance, microfinance institutions, Migration, Mumbai, nandini, Nandini Narula, NGO, NGOs, NRI, Opportunities, partnerships, portal, service provider, Social Entrepreneurship, TC-I Changemakers, Technology, unorganized sector, Urban migration, We Can Do, Women's World Banking, World Bank, Yasmina McCarty | 1 Comment

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