What is Design Public?
Design Public is a series of conversations about design and innovation in the public interest.This blog is curated by the Center for Knowledge Societies, the innovation consulting firm that guides the establishment of the Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation.
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Turning Rags into Riches
Rags2Riches, a Philippines-based social enterprise, is an effort to provide more livelihood options for impoverished women. The founder, Reese Fernandez-Ruiz, noticed that a lot of women were using scraps of cloth to create cheap foot rugs and other products. Desiring … Continue reading
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Tagged empowering women, haute couture, recycling, social entrepreneur
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Milaap: India’s First Online Platform for Microlending
Milaap, a year-old online platform for microfinance in India, has recently been approved by the RBI to go global. This means that the site can now accept loans from donors anywhere in the world, making it the first global platform … Continue reading
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Tagged crowdsourcing, microfinance, Milaap, online platform
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Jugaad and its Relationship to Innovation
Tim Leberecht of frog design wrote in a recent article: The term Jugaad (pronounced “joo-gaardhâ€) is a colloquial Hindi word that describes a creative ad hoc solution to a vexing issue, making existing things work and/or creating new things with … Continue reading
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Tagged frog design, India, innovation, jugaad, technology adaptation
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India Innovation Fund Invests 10 Crore in Start-up
India’s only domestic venture fund, the India Innovation Fund, backed by software services major TCS and telecom giant Airtel, announced its second investment last week. The IIF declared that it would invest Rs. 10 crore in Bangalore-based digital media and … Continue reading
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mPowering’s Antipoverty Mobile App
A new nonprofit organization, mPowering, uses existing mobile technology and infrastructure to empower the poorest of the poor (those living on less than $2 a day). The organization, which has begun work in India and Nepal, uses an incentive-and-award approach … Continue reading
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Tagged eliminate poverty, empowerment, mobile technology, mpowering, rural india
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Collaborative Workshop for VDK Prototype Refinement
Last week, the Centre for Knowledge Societies (CKS) held a collaborative workshop in New Delhi. Organized by the team working on the Vaccine Delivery Kit (VDK) project, the purpose of the workshop was for the team to present their methods … Continue reading
ISB’s iDiya Competition: Applications now available
Via ThinkChangeIndia, The Indian School of Business (ISB) announced on Friday, 29th July that applications are now available for the 3rd annual iDiya competition. The ISB iDiya Challenge is a social venture competition for working professionals in India, targeting business … Continue reading
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