Innovation, People / Stories

Innovation Award – Empowering people through knowledge sharing

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The Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)  seeks to find and bring to scale the most incredible stories on people’s empowerment around the globe.
Stories like YOURS!
You can nominate yourself, or another person you admire who empowered you and therefore your unique and special story. We truly believe that the major social challenges of our time can be solved only with the full participation of people at all levels of society.
This innovation award represents DSPD’s commitment to the promotion of people’s empowerment and social development globally. It is administered by DSPD as part of its mission to promote more equitable growth, seeks to identify innovative approaches for poverty eradication, social integration, full employment and decent work for all.
The deadline for submitting your stories is 14 May 2013.
Once the selection process is completed, we will be honored to announce the final six winners on our website. Winners will also receive an award certificate from the United Nations.
To submit your story, please complete the online form following 2 basic rules:
1 – 1.000 words maximum for your written story (in English)
2 – 10 minutes maximum for your recorded video-story (in English or with English subtitles)
Empower yourself and Inspire the World!
Empowering People Through Knowledge Sharing
Mentoring

How to find the right mentor

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redBus.in was founded by three engineers — Phanindra Sama, Charan Padmaraju and Sudhakar Pasupunuri — who studied together at the BITS, Pilani, and later worked in various companies in Bengaluru.

Started modestly in August 2006 with a few seats from one bus operator, redBus today is one of the most successful online bus ticket booking agencies. Today, it has 700 bus operators, 10,000 buses listed on it, works in 15 states and sells around 5,000 tickets every day.

In this video Phanindra shares some tips on finding the right mentor.

Education, Social Entrepreneurship

Creating rural entrepreneurs

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At KVAFSU, farmers are trained in animal rearing, post-harvest preservation and processing technologies

Teaching, research and extension are on the agenda of every farm university. But the Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University is trying to break the mould by introducing another important component to it – entrepreneurship development among farmers.

C. Renuka Prasad, who took over as the Vice-Chancellor recently, said the university would share advanced technology with farmers and tie up with private corporations to promote industries based on farm and animal produce.

Click Here for the full story from The Hindu

Management

Managing time for growth

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Time management is a skill that a lot of us struggle with. Most of us plan for the day in the morning, but end up frustrated since we do so many other things during the day which were not planned for. Quite often, we do not even review our day! Busy business owners are just that: busy!

It is very critical for SME owners to understand time management, with the clear intention of freeing themselves from routine work. In this process, you will start identifying accurately how much of your time is spent on productive activities that directly contribute to the results you want, and how much of your time is spent unproductively. This is a revealing process, and will help you identify areas for improvement very quickly.

Click Here for the full article by Chaitanya Shah, SME – Financial & Growth Navigator

Business Ideas, News

Forrester’s top 15 emerging technologies

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Research firm Forrester understands that everyone who’s been listening with even one ear knows that mobile, social, cloud, and data are big freight trains of change that are blowing up old business models and old business practices.

But let’s face it: that train is in the station. What’s next?

Analyst Bryan Hopkins gave us a peek into what Forrester thinks is next, and much of it builds on those four horseman of disruptive change. “We went a level deeper in our research by examining how today’s hot technology create platforms for future disruption,”
Click Here to read more

 

Training

3 Best Practices of Entrepreneurship

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Being an entrepreneur is a tough job. You will find that suddenly all the comforts of a structured environment is gone! You are all alone instead a team of people waiting to execute your orders. You are the Chief Operating Officer as well as the Chief Plumbing Officer. In this video Arun Jagannathan, Founder, CrackVerbal, shares his experience that will help you deal with this new role more efficiently.

Arun Jagannathan , Over the past decade has worn multiple hats as tutor, entrepreneur and a technology manager. He has taught and mentored over 4000 students, teaching topics ranging from hard-skills such as software engineering to soft-skills such as time-management. His main focus however has been test preparation — teaching at major test prep companies in India such as IMS, Career Launcher, Kaplan, and Princeton Review

 

Finance, Resources

Raise your own funds online – Crowdfunding

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GoFundMe personal online fundraising websites are perfect for individuals, groups & organizations!
You create your own microsite, tell your story and share it with the world around you, including your friends on Facebook, Twitter, etc. The entire process is totally free, except that when you receive funds, GoFundMe deducts 5% and remits you the balance 95%. You have nothing to lose !

An innovative way of raising your own funds for your projects, studies, NGOs, Business Ideas, Donations, and more !

Click Here for their website

Here’s how it works.

 

Innovation, Motivations, Networking, News

Encouraging innovation

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For one week, lakhs of people across the country will come together to celebrate Entrepreneurship Week India. Designed to build public awareness and support for entrepreneurship, E Week India focuses public attention on today’s biggest opportunities and encourages participants to reflect on their role as leaders and innovators. The campaign is led by the National Entrepreneurship Network and supported by the Wadhwani Foundation.

By far the largest entrepreneurship activity in the country, E Week’s dramatic results in the past – building support for entrepreneurs – is encouraging ever more participation. This year’s E Week is set to engage over 7,00,000 participants. The campaign will see active involvement of more than 30 organizations that support entrepreneurship; corporate entities; industry captains, experts, non-profits, and faculty leaders to inspire, encourage, and guide students.and faculty leaders to inspire, encourage, and guide students.

Click Here to learn more

 

News, People / Stories

Jantakhoj offers background verification with a single click

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JantaKhoj aims to simplify People Search and Background Checks.

  • India is a country with 1.21 billion people.
  • India is now a major IT power too.

However, when it comes to the area of People Search and Background Checks, there is a lot of work to be done. JantaKhoj is dedicated to bridging this gap.

To achieve these, JantaKhoj has brought together a great team covering the diverse areas of data engineering, online business, and background checks. This team is passionate about applying the data aggregation technologies to solve the complex problems in People Search and Background Checks that are unique to Indian scenario.

Click Here for their website