Vinay Ganti20th Apr 20122013 Stanford-India Biodesign (SIB) Fellowship Accepting ApplicationsWhat:Stanford-India Biodesign (SIB Fellowship)Where: New Delhi and Palo Alto, CAApplication Deadline & Link: May 18th, 2012; submit applicationLength of Fellowship: 1-year (a second year may be grante...Think Change IndiaRemove22nd Mar 2012As India grows too rich for the World Bank, other philanthropic sources are neededAccording to a presentation by Cornell University Economics Professor Ravi Kanbur, India is only a few years away from becoming ineligible to receive funds from the World Bank’s International Developm...Think Change IndiaRemove7th Mar 2012Shifting Focus: From BoP to EMThe term Bottom of the Pyramid is one that has garnered significant attention in recent years. C.K. Pralahad championed the term in his book,The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, and numerous othe...Think Change IndiaRemove20th Feb 2012Fixing the Agricultural Supply Chain from the Top and BottomIn a land where roughly 70% of the populationresides in rural areas and half of the nation’s populationfarms for a living, the importance of India’s agricultural sector cannot be overstated. Despite t...Think Change IndiaRemove14th Feb 2012Necessity is the Government> “Necessity is the mother of Invention.”Many of us are familiar with this quote. Basically it describes how innovations we see today aimed to solve a problem or need of before. We admire the resource...Think Change IndiaRemove10th Feb 2012New Report Optimistic About Branchless Banking in IndiaMicroSave, an organization committed to expanding the reaches of financial inclusion, released a report that was bullish on the state of electronic/mobile banking (e/m) (aka branchless banking) in Ind...Think Change IndiaRemove4th Feb 2012Women Need to Be Invested InBuilding upon Shital’s post, another article has raised the importance of including women in the global economy. In the recently concluded World Economic Forum, there was a panel titled “Women as the ...Think Change IndiaRemove24th Jan 2012Good and Bad News for Indian MicrofinanceIt appears that the microfinance sector in India has received a mixed bag of news recently. First, the good news is that investment in the sector continues to appear robust. According to Microcapital....Think Change IndiaRemove5th Mar 2011NSEF Authors of Change to place 50 interns in 30 social enterprises this yearThe National Social Entrepreneurship Forum (NSEF) (written previously about here) is conducting its 2nd annual Authors ofChange initiative, which will connect and place 50 interns in premier social en...Think Change IndiaRemove31st Dec 2010Special Series on Clean Energy and the BoP, Part 3IFMR Centre for Development Finance and theWorld Resources Institute came out with a report focusing on clean energy options for the base of pyramid in India, this report is titled “Power to the peopl...Think Change IndiaRemove30th Dec 2010INNOLAB to disply innovation front and centerOn February 11th and 12th, ECell TISS will hold INNOLAB as part of the iPreneur program. This program intends to:> InInnolab, we intend to invite technological, services or process based innovations i...CompetitionsRemove30th Dec 2010Grassroots: National Conference on Social Profit to be on January 15, 2011To be held at BITS-Pilani in Goa, the Grassroots: National Conference on Social Profit will be an event that will:> demystify Social Businesses for the youth of today. It is themed “Social Profit” und...Think Change IndiaRemove1233435
