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Get the world’s best brains on your R&D team

By Shivam Srivastava | Published: February 23, 2009

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…

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TATA NEN Hottest Startup Nominees

By Shital Shah | Published: December 1, 2008

The TATA NEN Hottest Startup Awards recognizes high-potential startup organizations in India. Startups seems to be a dime a dozen these days, so beating out hundreds of other new ventures is quite a feat. I’ve picked out some…

Posted in Competitions | Also tagged advertising, Awards, bicycle, Competitions, composting, CRY, Daily Dump, Ecomove Solutions, Environment, featured, global warming, Health, IIM-A, ITC, Media, New Ventures, rickshaw, RTBI, Sammaan Foundation, SMEs, Social Entrepreneurship, startups, Tata, Tata NEN Hottest Startup Awards, Technology, Transportation, travel, waste, waste management, YouTube | Leave a comment

Another Victory for Sex Workers

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: May 2, 2008

In a prior post, Vinay wrote about a groundbreaking event – the establishment of the first ever bank run for and by sex workers in Kamathipura, Bombay.

As a follow up to that post, OneWorld South…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Aman, Basic Rights, basic services, Bengal, Bombay, durbar mahila samanwaya committee, fundamental rights, Government, Insurance, life insurance, life insurance corporation, Mumbai, OneWorld, OneWorld South, OneWorld South Asia, rights, sex work, sex worker, sex workers, sex workers bank, trafficking, Women's Rights | Leave a comment

Civil Disobedience Comes to Life in Traffic-Infested Bombay

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: May 1, 2008

Those of us who have lived in an urban area in India know how traumatizing (and potentially life-threatening) the pedestrian’s experience can be. Horns blaring, buses hurtling towards intersections at breakneck speed, motorcycles weaving in and out of traffic, ineffectual…

Posted in Change-Agent | Also tagged Ahmedabad, Bombay, cars, Change-Agent, civil disobedience, construction, English, Entrepreneurship, Gandhi, Government, grassroots, Grassroots Initiatives, Gujarat, Hindi, Indicorps, ISB, khadi, krishnaraj rao, languages, Mumbai, npr, PATH, pedestrian satyagraha, pipe, rains, rights, sahasi padayatri, satyagraha, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, Social Entrepreneurship, waste, waste management, waste management system | Leave a comment

Midday Newsfeed

By Vinay Ganti | Published: April 4, 2008

Some newsworthy headlines of interest:

Entrepreneurship: Himachal Pradesh to adopt an open door policy to encourage entrepreneurs to work within the state. In a similar effort to attract more high tech companies, the Cabinet Committee on Economic

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On Behalf of Exploited Domestic Workers, A Call for Justice

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: April 3, 2008

For women like Meena, overworked, abused, and poorly compensated for 11 grueling months of domestic work, avenues for legal recourse against her abusive “employer” are limited, and in some cases completely non-existent. Currently, there are no laws to protect…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Basic Rights, Bengal, Domestic Workers, Employment, girls, Government, human rights, human trafficking, Infochange, InfoChangeIndia, Jharkhand, Jobs, laws, legal protection, legislation, Madhya Pradesh, migrant labourers, National Campaign Committee for Unorganized Sector Work, National Commission for Women, Nreg, Orissa, placement agencies, profits, rights, security, Social Security, trafficking, unorganized sector, women' s rights, Women's Rights | Leave a comment

Reducing traffic congestion in Bangalore through Carpooling: Commonfloor.com

By Santhosh Ramdoss | Published: April 2, 2008

Everyone complains about the traffic in Bangalore these days. For that matter, its a chronic problem in every big Indian city. Most of us sit around and complain, and blame the city administration for inadequate planning, not enough roads, poor…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Bangalore, carpoolilng site, carpooling, commonfloor.com, congestion, Energy, Environment, IIT, IIT Roorkee, IndiaPRwire, maxHeap, maxHeap technologies, networking, regulation, Social Entrepreneurship, social network, start-up, subsidies, Technology | 5 Comments

What is so Gross about Happiness?

By Vinay Ganti | Published: March 25, 2008

While not directly related to India, one of the interesting outgrowths with regard to social entrepreneurship is Bhutan’s focus on measuring its Gross National Happiness. Wall Street Journal reports.

As Bhutan enters these uncharted political and economic waters,

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Posted in Primary | Also tagged Bhutan, economic growth, Entrepreneurship, Environment, girls, GNH, Governance, Government, gross national happiness, Health, infrastructure, Migration, Policy, smoking, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, Social Entrepreneurship, Studies, survey, wall street, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

Hello Indimoto

By Vinay Ganti | Published: February 19, 2008

In an effort to address rising pollution levels, traffic congestion and overall convenience, Indimoto.com is a carpooling matching site that allows for commuters to find other people in their area to share rides with. With the recent unveiling…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Avashya, carpooling, congestion, Employment, Energy, Environment, Government, government inaction, Incentives, Indian government, Indimoto.com, matching, public transportation, Social Entrepreneurship, Tata, Tata Nano, Technology, Transportation, travel | Leave a comment

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