TC-I Week in Review

This week’s review - top posts:

Vinay’s feature on the bank for sex workers in Mumbai
Santhosh’s post on The Hindu’s interview with Pradeep Nevatia
A documentary fable about global warming, highlighted by Shital last week

Reaching into the archives:
Just last week, Prerna discussed The Talent Vacuum in India’s educational system (which also generated many hits), focusing on the [...]

TC-I Tidbits

Energy and the Environment: Tata Power promises an environmentally conscious power plant in Cuttack and also pledges to pay above market rates for acquiring the land. The national government launches its ‘Green India’ campaign that will plant trees over 6 million hectares of degraded forests over the next 10 years.
Women and Media: Women at the [...]

TC-I Tidbits

Your daily dose of headlines:

Health: The pharmaceutical industry in India fears that one in five drugs sold in the country are fake. A study undertaken by the by the drug controller general will focus on this.
Transportation: India and France on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in railways, including constructing world class stations, [...]

TC-I Week in Review

Top 3 posts from the week:

Although from the previous week, Prerna’s discussion on waste management continues to attract readers and comments.
Vinay’s featured interview with Gautam Ivatury of CGAP from last Sunday was the most read as a new post from the past week.
Santhosh’s post on the partnership between Airtel and the IFFCO also generated a [...]

TC-I Call to Action

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Jobs

The Institute for Financial Management and Research is looking for a Senior Researcher to work out of their Chennai office. The research will primarily comprise of the BoP energy sector. Go here for more information, and the full job description can be accessed here.

Fellowships

We have blogged about Atlas [...]

TC-I Tidbits

You daily dose of headlines:

Health, Women and Mortality:The lack of inclusion of midwives within the National Rural Health Mission is highlighted as one of the main reasons for the high maternal mortality rate in India.
Education: Wada Na Todo Abhiyan (WNTA) continued to push the government to pass the Right to Education Bill.
Public Awareness: Swagat Thorat, [...]

[TC-I Changemaker]: CGAP’s Gautam Ivatury on the linkage between technology and financial empowerment of the poor

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 see other conversations under our TC-I Changemakers tab.
This week, Vinay sat down (over the phone) [...]

TC-I Week in Review

Top 3 posts from the week:

Prerna’s post on waste management and ecology was the most widely read post from this week.
Her op-ed on the pros and cons of SKS Microfinance’s recent decision to go public earned the second spot.
Finally, Shital’s post on waste management as a PPP opportunity was number three.

Highlighted Jobs, Opportunities, etc.
We will [...]

TC-I Tidbits

Your daily dose of headlines:

Health: India continues to have the world’s highest number of polio cases this year, with the disease having crippled more children till April than it did during the same period in 2007. [Source: Times of India]
Children: In a unique lobbying effort, more than 100 ex-child laborers knocked on the doors of [...]

TED | Talks | Hector Ruiz: The power to connect the world (video)

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

[TC-I Changemakers]: Interview with Maya Ajmera of The Global Fund for Children

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 see other conversations under our TC-I Changemakers tab.
Maya Ajmera is the Founder and President of [...]

[TC-I Changemakers] A book for every child — the mission for Pratham Books

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 see other conversations under our TC-I Changemakers tab.
This week we had the opportunity to [...]

TC-I Week in Review

First off there seems to be a lot of interest in our TC-I Changemakers profiles as that page on our website received a number of hits this week. For us here at ThinkChange India, interviewing people active in the field of social entrepreneurship in India is something that we truly love to do and we [...]

ISTE Conference and Student Essay Competition on Rural Technology

From Let Me Know, here is a conference and essay competition on “Technology For Rural India: Challenges and Perspectives.” The conference will focus on the following:
In celebration of the ISTE Day 2008, the Delhi Section of the Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE) is hosting a conference on “Technology for Rural India: Challenges and Perspectives”. [...]

TC-I Tidbits

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 [...]