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: July 2014
A Mother and Child Centric Approach to Nutrition: Systems Thinking for Public Healthcare
Our public healthcare system, all its policies, programs and designs, seem to be targeted primarily at the mother and the child- the end beneficiaries at whose welfare the system is aimed. While this way of thinking and designing may seem … Continue reading
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Tagged Bihar Innovation Lab, BIL, health, health care, health innovation, maternity health
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Patient Centered Care – One of the Many Solutions to ReduceMaternal Mortality
The Bihar Innovation Lab is a venture of potentially epic proportions. It  is a collaboration between the State Government of Bihar, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Center for Knowledge Societies. A key argument positioned by the Bihar … Continue reading
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Tagged Bihar Innovation Lab, BIL, Health Public, healthcare innovation, Maternal Mortality
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Food for conversation at Health Public
The Bihar Innovation Lab , in association with Center for Knowledge Societies  and the Ananya PartnerProgram  , introduces its first time unique edition of the Design Public Conclave called Health! Public, which is to be held on 22nd August ‘14 … Continue reading
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Theories – Because I have one for pretty much everything
It’s been a bit of a vaguely panic-stricken publicly unproductive week in terms of content dissemination, insemination etc etc. The blog crashed, we were under spam attack (yes it is an intergalactic invasion in cyberspace) , all sorts of red … Continue reading
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Reading Together at the Vihara Study Group
Some weeks ago we began a journey of reading and talking together that I hope will not soon end. We read Thomas Picketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, a long and difficult book, which I’m sure many of us wouldn’t … Continue reading
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EDU Hackathon Recap – 5th July 2014
On 5th of July 2014, READ Alliance in partnership with GoogleforEDU hosted a day long Google Chrome App Developer Challenge in cities of Bangalore and Gurgaon. From Gurgaon, app developers participated through Google Hangout. The main idea of this … Continue reading
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Tagged app developer challenge, apps, Bangalore, google, GoogleforEDU, Gurgaon, hackathon, READ Alliance
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Hackathons as a Mode of Production
This past Saturday the READ Alliance team from CKS was at the Google offices in Bangalore, hosting a Hackathon on building apps to develop reading skills for Indian children. We met a group of about 40 developers and some 4 … Continue reading
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Saturday workshops? Not dull anymore!
Following the field work in Myanmar, CKS hosted a collaborative brainstorming workshop on 28th June at the Vihara Innovation Campus to understand the Information and Knowledge needs of poor Micro Entrepreneurs in Myanmar, a project Shruti, Namrata, Georgy and I have … Continue reading
How everybody met the(ir) Makers – Pecha Kucha #27
Pecha Kucha Night is always fast, eye-opening, exciting and close to an adrenaline rush in a vaguely academic (even if partially industrious this time around) sense. Keeping a track of it successfully would work if you had super-fast internet speeds, … Continue reading
Crispy Honey Chili Photos.
In June, Namrata, Anusmita, and I travelled to Shanghai to participate in a workshop with our research partner in China. When we weren’t creating hypotheses, we sampled some fascinating food from across the country and beyond. If you think your … Continue reading
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