Posted on May 12, 2008 by Santhosh
Livemint reports that India’s insurance companies (private and state-owned) are expanding rapidly in rural markets, and have topped the IRDA’s mandatory rural targets.
Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) is Government of India body set-up to regulate the insurance sector, which has gone through significant liberalization in the last decade. IRDA has continuously emphasized the [...]
Filed under: BoP, CSR, Finance/Credit, Government | Tagged: Insurance, IRDA, livemint, microinsurance, Social business, TRAI | No Comments »
Posted on May 11, 2008 by Santhosh
Byrraju Foundation (a philanthropic foundation founded by Satyam head B. Ramalinga Raju and his family in 2001), is organizing India’s first National Conference of Rural BPOs named ‘Jyotismay’. The conference is to be held on 16th May, 2008 in Hyderabad, and you can register to participate in the conference through this link. It is [...]
Filed under: CSR, Conferences, Technology | Tagged: Byrraju Foundation, GramIT, Jytismay, National Conference, Rural BPO | No Comments »
Posted on May 6, 2008 by Santhosh
CSR: Turns out Government of India is planning to set-up a institute focused on corporate affairs and Corporate Social Responsibility. The proposed think-tank is to be called Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) [via iGovernment]
Social Security: According to a report by the People’s Collective for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (PCESCR), an umbrella organisation [...]
Filed under: CSR, Microfinance | Tagged: CSE, HDFC Bank, IICA, PCESCR, Social Security | No Comments »
Posted on May 2, 2008 by Vinay
AMD, the only real competitor to Intel’s effective monopoly on microprocessors, has established an ambitious initiative to provide internet access to 50% of the world by 2015. Here is the video of Hector Ruiz, AMD’s CEO, on the project titled 50×15.
from www.ted.com posted with vodpod
Filed under: CSR, Technology, Uncategorized | Tagged: 50x15, AMD, Hector Ruiz, Intel, internet access | No Comments »
Posted on May 2, 2008 by Santhosh
IFFCO Kisan Sanchar (IKSL) is a unique partnership between India’s largest mobile operator, Airtel and Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO). According to the brief on iGovernment:
IFFCO Kisan Sanchar (IKSL), would be focusing on communication requirement of rural India, besides providing agriculture related information to enable villagers take right farming decisionsIKSL will offer handsets, co-branded SIM [...]
Filed under: Agriculture, CSR, Technology | Tagged: Airtel, cellphones, connectivity, IFFCO, rural India | No Comments »
Posted on April 30, 2008 by Shital
SustainAbility’s new publication, “The Social Intrapreneuers: A Field Guide for Corporate Changemakers,” features a case study on Hindustan Unilever’s Shakti project. SustainAbility defines the social intrapreneur as:
Social intrapreneur, n. 1 Someone who works inside major corporations or organizations to develop and promote practical solutions to social or environmental challenges where progress is currently stalled by [...]
Filed under: BoP, CSR, Social Entrepreneurship, Women's Rights | Tagged: corporations, Hindustan Unilever, International Business Leaders Forum, Skoll Foundation, social entrpreneuership, sustainability, Vijay Sharma | No Comments »
Posted on April 23, 2008 by Santhosh
In 65 days, 70% of Gujarat’s villages will be linked with Broadband connectivity, promised Chief Minister Narendra Modi[via iGovernment]. Lets see if he comes through. He cant fool us here at TC-I, our correspondent Prerna is in Ahmedabad as we speak. Staying with promises, the Chhattisgarh government proposed to electrify 79 villages using Solar Energy [...]
Filed under: CSR, Competitions, Education, Energy, Government, Technology | Tagged: Ashoka, CSR, Dhan Foundation, Geotourism, Gujarat, P&G, Siksha, Technology | No Comments »
Posted on April 23, 2008 by Santhosh
Its been almost three years since Businessworld India published a feature on Rural BPO, writing about a company called Lason. Lason had just just set up its first rural BPO unit in Kizhanur village, 50 km from Chennai. The unit was the brainchild of Pradeep Nevatia, then managing director of Lason India, a subsidiary of [...]
Filed under: BoP, CSR, Employment, For-profit, Technology | Tagged: Lason, Ninestars, Rural BPO, Socially Responsible Outsourcing | 3 Comments »
Posted on April 22, 2008 by Shital
Health: According to a report, India is not on track toward the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child and maternal mortality. The number of children who die before their fifth birthday stands at 76 per 1,000 live births, while the goal is 38.
Government Schemes: The Gujarat state government’s Jyoti Gram Yojana, a program to [...]
Filed under: Agriculture, CSR, Energy, Government, Health, Research, Uncategorized | Tagged: child mortality, electricity, food output, Government, Health, Maternal mortality, MDG, Migration, OSRAM, renewable energy | No Comments »
Posted on April 21, 2008 by Vinay
Brought to our attention by Technology, Health & Development Blog by Aman is a story of technological innovation at its finest. The challenge was to create an affordable, portable electorkardiogram (EKG) that helps doctors assess various heart ailments, particularly acute heart attacks and strokes. The original story can be found in Business Week. Here is [...]
Filed under: CSR, Health, Technology | Tagged: affordable, Aman, Business Week, EKG, GE, Technology Health & Development | No Comments »
Posted on April 19, 2008 by Santhosh
The Hindu reports that AcerlorMittal, the worlds largest steel company has promised to spend US$ 500 million on CSR initiatives focussed on Jharkhand and Orissa. Its no coincidence that the company has multiple project sites within these states.
Lakshmi Niwas Mittal-promoted world’s biggest steel company has announced two steel projects in Jharkhand and Orissa of [...]
Filed under: CSR, PPP | Tagged: ArcelorMittal, Jharkhand, Orissa, The Hindu | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 9, 2008 by Santhosh
In what could be an interesting example of a Public-Private Partnership in the pharmaceutical sector, India’s largest drug-maker has entered into an agreement with the Department of Biotechnology to push for discovering new drugs to treat tuberculosis. The Department of Biotechnology will provide a three-year grant to Ranbaxy as per the agreement to conduct research [...]
Filed under: CSR, Government, Health, PPP | Tagged: Department of Biotechnology, iGovernment, MDRTB, PPP, Ranbaxy | 3 Comments »
Posted on April 9, 2008 by prernasri
For your reading pleasure:
International Relations: The India-Africa summit kicked off with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promising to ease access from the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Said Singh, “under this scheme, India shall unilaterally provide preferential market access for exports from all the 50 least developed countries.”
Green Energy: As we have been covering in [...]
Filed under: Approaches, CSR, Energy, Government, Trade | Tagged: CSR, Green Energy, India-Africa, Kalyanai Group, Kenersys, PRME, XLRI | No Comments »
Posted on April 8, 2008 by prernasri
Some titillating headlines:
Microfinance:
Whole Planet Foundation (WPF), a Whole Foods Market nonprofit that “empowers individuals in the global community through entrepreneurship” recently announced the creation of the Whole Planet Foundation Supplier Alliance for Microcredit (WPFSAM), a coalition of natural foods companies that aims to support the financial endeavours of WPF. The WPFSAM Alliance has pledged [...]
Filed under: BoP, CSR, Education, Finance/Credit, Government, Health, Issues, Microfinance, PPP, Public Awareness, Research | Tagged: alcoholism, BPL population, breast cancer, Credit Suisse, dalit population, Grameen Trust, Health Insurance, literacy, Microcapital.org, Microfinance, road management system, social capital exchange, social responsibility index, whole foods market, whole planet foundation supplier alliance for microcred, world planet foundation | No Comments »
Posted on April 5, 2008 by Shital
Saturday afternoon news:
Social welfare: The Government of Himachal Pradesh is planning to issue separate ration cards to single widows in the state to enable them draw benefits under various state social welfare programmes. (Source: iGovernment)
Health research: Using supercomputing simulations and lab experiments, an IBM research team plans to accelerate the design of drugs that inhibit [...]
Filed under: Agriculture, CSR, Conferences, Energy, Government, Health, Research, Technology | Tagged: Bill Gates, Clean technology, creative capitalism, government leaders forum, Green Investor Summit, Hindustan Unilever, HIV, IBM Research Labs, ration cards, social welfare | No Comments »