Find three ideas you want to adopt, or technologies you want to learn to work with, or innovations you want to spread. Search the internet, or ask your friends and mentors on the EVOKE network for help. Share at least one amazing story for each -- an example of another hero putting them into action. Make us feel awe, wonder and amazement -- and then post a link to the story that inspired you.…
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Added by Rahul Dewanjee on May 11, 2010 at 6:28am —
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I always wanted to write this but perhaps
this diagram triggered me to finally pen my thoughts here in a separate blog. And thank you Agent Rao for inspiring me to doing so. The
graphic illustration has succeeded in communicating the
key issue posed by the
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Added by Rahul Dewanjee on April 18, 2010 at 4:00pm —
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Below are names of the energy companies that are operating in India specifically operating to harness wind energy:
Suzlon Energy Ltd |
http://www.suzlon.com/RRB
Energy Ltd |
http://www.rrbenergy.com/NEPC
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Added by Rahul Dewanjee on March 21, 2010 at 5:05am —
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I am an optimist. I am a firm believer in the 'long tail' of innovation. I see our Indian deserts and the associated arid lands as opportunity to explore for potential farming endeavors using radical innovations brought by the next generation of Israel's innovative and entrepreneurial firms
Making our deserts bloom is a central theme inspired by Israel's tryst with nature to create a…
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Added by Rahul Dewanjee on March 20, 2010 at 5:30am —
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I wish to start a debate
whether large scale energy savings schemes are more effective than little savings per person every day in the
Context
of developing and under developed nations?
WHICH SIDE WILL THE ENERGY EQUATION TILT? Small or Big?
(everyone is requested to participate)…
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Added by Rahul Dewanjee on March 20, 2010 at 2:52am —
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I have this tendency of always getting very excited every time I hear my friend Murray (he's on my friend list!) speak....i mean I am almost instantly all charged up to enact my fantasy scenario game....based on what he just wrote in one of the blogs:
"That is brilliant! I know pharmaceuticals can have terribly high prices
on their often cheaply made medicines..."… Continue
Added by Rahul Dewanjee on March 19, 2010 at 10:04am —
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Can I imagine myself in ten years from now
feeling more younger, communicating with more simplicity and evoking my peers to join me in building a genuinely empathetic and socially responsive India where there is greater equality, inclusion and inspiration. I see myself living in India with a renewed zeal to make
innovation embedded in my entrepreneurial DNA while making it my mission to co-create…
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Added by Rahul Dewanjee on March 16, 2010 at 4:34am —
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Developing countries face the greatest challenge from food insecurity. Simplistic approach to prevent a food crisis could be growing your own veggies on your balcony or roof top. Great idea. It can help no doubt. Only if you have the time. As a person you may do so. But as a nation, you can't do so. Let's get realistic. There is no room for naivety when there is a clear and present…
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Added by Rahul Dewanjee on March 14, 2010 at 7:51am —
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Nobel Laureate, poet and one of the greatest Bengali literary figure, Rabindranath Tagore's famous words: "if nobody listens to your call, walk alone" seems apt to start this short write-up on a special person who has dedicated his entire life for rural empowerment and given us inspiration how to create context and character for our social innovation initiatives. Bunker Roy lives by it everyday,
transforming livelihood of… Continue
Added by Rahul Dewanjee on March 12, 2010 at 9:00am —
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"Purpose is the place where your deep gladness meets the world's needs."
- Frederick Buechner on
Social TransformationIf purpose of social innovation is to provide endearing value to all stakeholders of an inclusive society, we need to understand the narrative of what we mean by
endearing value. I reckon we need to progress from seeing value as a mere function of affordability. We need to progress…
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Added by Rahul Dewanjee on March 12, 2010 at 2:00am —
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Sometimes when we are almost sure that we have created innovation in what we intend to offer in terms of a product or a service feature, we tend to miss the essence of innovation: value creation.
So when I read the 33 different secrets to innovation in the 'Design for Africa' post, I felt the one thing that can critically alter the narrative of what innovation can be - is the quest for value. So whether innovation can DELIVER VALUE especially in the context of whether there is a…
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Added by Rahul Dewanjee on March 10, 2010 at 7:32pm —
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