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indiarevisited: March 2010
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Big Brother South Asia. I had a business call with a colleague in Karachi, Pakistan last night. The call lasted 15 minutes. We spoke about organizations that are working on infrastructure issues in urban areas. Simple. This morning I received a text message from my phone company: "You have made a call to ISD CODE 0092 Code.We urge you to exercise caution when calling unknown number and sharing personal details as it can be misused.". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Reveling, in India.
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mobility :: Partners
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Is a collaborative project which brings together some of the leading academics, technicians, educators and practitioners in the IT and mobile fields with the common goal of developing an exciting and empowering range of tools and resources to unlock the power of mobile applications development for users in the developing world. Focusing on the use of ICT to leverage economic development in Africa and Latin America. One dedicated to low-tech African ingenuity, and the other to high-tech mobile and web cha...
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indiarevisited: Is India Really a Hotbed for Social Enterprise?
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Thursday, November 18, 2010. Is India Really a Hotbed for Social Enterprise? I'm writing a few posts a month for Good Magazine. Anything at all about social enterprise, you are probably familiar with the fact that many of the case studies cited as successful are Indian in origin. Case in point: Aravind Eyecare. Jaipur Rugs, Barefoot College. It makes you wonder: Is India better at producing social entrepreneurs than other countries? Is there something in the water? So, what makes India different? India h...
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indiarevisited: Forget the American Dream, Collaborative Consumption is a Better Path for Developing Countries
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Thursday, November 18, 2010. Forget the American Dream, Collaborative Consumption is a Better Path for Developing Countries. My latest post for Good Magazine. Was founded on the idea of idea of individual liberty, individual ownership, and individual needs. Unfortunately, this is a costly way for a country to develop, especially if every citizen aspires to express his freedom and individuality by owning a car or a house or a hammer. Consider the space we use. Do we all need to live in a house? As the Eas...
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indiarevisited: April 2010
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Breaking Bread at Bellagio. Labels: Bellagio rockefeller international italy foresight. Monday, April 26, 2010. Bellagio in the Rain. Sent from BlackBerry on Airtel. Sunday, April 25, 2010. Olives and Oysters in Ferney, France. Is this thing on? It's been awhile. Work has been beastly. For months. But let this be the re-start of a concerted effort to write more often. Mumbai Gets an Organic Market. My latest post on Mumbai in the New York Times, originally published April 8, 2010.
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indiarevisited: Where will Social Enterprise be in 20 Years?
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Thursday, November 18, 2010. Where will Social Enterprise be in 20 Years? Check out a recent interview I did with Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs in conjunction with their Social Enterprise Bootcamp! Fri Nov 19, 01:18:00 PM GMT 5:30. It is always great to hear from site visitors, whether your comments are positive or negative. Thanks for sharing your perspective. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Tales from the life of a tall texan indophile living, working and writing in mumbai.
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indiarevisited: July 2010
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010. India Journal: Employership vs Entrepreneurship. Left) A future employer? Read below for my latest article for the. With more than half a billion people under the age of 25, India is sitting atop a potential powerhouse of intellectual and physical energy. But, India’s demographic dividend is only a ‘potential’ positive unless India’s social entrepreneurs become actors in this transition. A look at the numbers released in the recently published India Labour Report 2009. Now, cons...
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indiarevisited: October 2009
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009. A Shopping Crawl Through the Suburbs of Mumbai. Excerpted from my blog on Globespotters, The New York Times. For full post, click. Head up the hill to Dr. Ambedkar Road and take a left. About a block down, you’ll find Mela (Siffin Apartment, Dr. Ambedkar Road; 91-22-2649-7562), where many a bohemian has dug through the tie-die racks to find the perfect prairie skirt or a fuchsia head scarf. A sequined shrug is yours for under 1500 rupees. Nearby D7 (Turning Point Building, in...
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indiarevisited: May 2010
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Monday, May 31, 2010. Facebook Fallout: Looking on the Bright Side. Labels: facebook lahore pakistan. Border Guard at Pakistan/Indian Border. Tall Guard at the Border with a fan on his head. Labels: wagah india guard. I crossed into Pakistan today on foot wearing my salwar kameez. Looking the part of a conservative foreign woman. An Indian porter, a proud Sikh. Because India is a great country. I believe he means for me to deduce the opposite about his neighbor. This morning, along with me, there was one...
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indiarevisited: What's Policy Got to do with Social Enterprise?
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Tuesday, December 07, 2010. What's Policy Got to do with Social Enterprise? Here's my latest (December 6, 2010) for the Wall Street Journal. Many social entrepreneurs and social investors tend to avoid inviting the government to their table because it often means a slow, fat-fingered solution, rather than a targeted, nimble infusion of resources. What does a marriage between social enterprise and government look like? Read the rest of the article here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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