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2008/05
31st May 2008
TC-I Week in Review
Top posts:Prerna’s op-ed on income generation for womenShital’s post on a promising model for ecotourismVinay’s feature of the pot-in-potReaching into the archives:A few months ago, Santhosh featured ...
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31st May 2008
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30th May 2008
TC-I Tidbits
Education’s Woes and Pros: A new study conducted by UNESCO reveals that less than 30% of schools have access to electricity and only half of them have toilets for girls. In order to address such woefu...
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30th May 2008
The simplest refrigerator — please come to India
Using some of the more basic principles of physics, a grassroots inventor in Nigeria named Mohammed Bah Abba developed a way to refrigerate items simply by using two different sized clay pots. Malapat...
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30th May 2008
Digital Green: ICT and a Participatory Framework
SciDev.Net brings attention to Digital Green, a project that uses digital video to disseminate information to small and marginal farmers in India. Recently, Digital Green won the culture category in t...
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29th May 2008
Social Responsbility in IIMA's curriculum?
Its about time the country’s top business school started incorporating social responsibility into its a curriculum (I would think its probably running late by a few years). But, Indian Institute of Ma...
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29th May 2008
Global Water Challenge Winners
I previously posted about voting in the Global Water Challenge – well, the winners are in, and all three are from India! (There must be something in the water there… ) The projects are highlighted bel...
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28th May 2008
Taking people to jobs vs. Taking jobs to people
Last Sunday’s Economic Times carried a opinion piece titled “Ending the Ovarian Lottery” by Manish Sabharwal, the Chairman of TeamLease Services, the country’s largest temp staffing agency. In the op-...
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28th May 2008
TC-I Tidbits
Health:Soon, every mother that registers at a primary health center will receive a smart card with their photo ID that tracks the medical history of their family.India is among the worst hit by the he...
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26th May 2008
Entrepreneurial (and Non-Exploitative) Ecotourism
Santhosh pointed out the complexities of slum tourism, and ecotourism itself is a contested issue. Ecotourism extends past slum areas, and into any area where ecological or environmental factors are a...
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24th May 2008
TC-I Week in Review
Top posts:Santhosh’s posts all dominate the top three this week. First, his dissection of slum tourism in DharaviHis post on Fab India’s business modelFinally, he brought attention to the Internationa...
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23rd May 2008
Aravind Eye Care System wins the Gates Award for Global Health
The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation just announced that the Madurai based Aravind Eye Care System wins the $1 million Gates Award—the world’s largest prize for international health which honors extr...
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