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Establishing commodity cooperatives – promoter philosophy, leadership and cooperative rules

Vishy KurugantiAugust 19, 20115 mins

[Editor’s Note: This is part 6 of a 7-part series on commodity cooperatives in drought prone regions, originally authored as a pre-published paper by Dr. Trilochan Sastry (Academic Dean, IIM-Bangalore…

Greenway Smart Stove: A cleaner smarter stove for 150 million BOP households

Vishy KurugantiAugust 18, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: I briefly met Neha Juneja, co-founder of Mumbai-based Greenway Grameen Infra, on the sidelines of Sankalp Forum (covered here). I followed up with a phone conversation with her last…

The mud chulhas of India

Vishy KurugantiAugust 17, 20112 mins

I’m still halfway through my post on Greenway Grameen Infrastructure (published here). The Greenway Grameen Infra crew has done a fair amount of market research and have amassed a veritable photo…

Establishing commodity cooperatives – crucial role of member stakes

Vishy KurugantiAugust 12, 20113 mins

[Editor’s Note: This is part 5 of a 7-part series on commodity cooperatives in drought prone regions, originally authored as a pre-published paper by Dr. Trilochan Sastry (Academic Dean, IIM-Bangalore…

BOPEEI: Generating off-grid electricity in cloudy and coastal regions

Vishy KurugantiAugust 11, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: An early blog subscriber and friend clued me onto an energy inclusion social enterprise started by one of her classmates from University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. The…

Working for informed and participatory democracy – the PRS story

Vishy KurugantiAugust 09, 20117 mins

[Editor’s Note: It’s a pleasure to bring TechSangam’s first guest post, on PRS Legislative Research (PRS), from Yogesh Upadhyaya. Yogesh is co-founder of banking and financial services software…

Establishing commodity cooperatives – perils of using funds to mobilize people

Vishy KurugantiAugust 08, 20115 mins

[Editor’s Note: This is part 4 of a 7-part series on commodity cooperatives in drought prone regions, originally authored as a pre-published paper by Dr. Trilochan Sastry (Academic Dean, IIM-Bangalore…

Establishing commodity cooperatives – social mobilization

Vishy KurugantiAugust 04, 20114 mins

*[Editor’s Note: This is part 3 of *a 7-part series on commodity cooperatives in drought prone regions, originally authored as a pre-published paper by* Dr. Trilochan Sastry (Academic Dean, IIM…

Health Insights from Banerjee Duflo's Poor Economics

Vishy KurugantiAugust 03, 20113 mins

Joe Madiath, Founder of Gram Vikas (Pic: courtesy socialprotectioncommunity.in) This is Part 3 of our series of insights from Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s Poor Economics – culled from Chapter…

Creating a Nation of Electronics Geeks

Vishy KurugantiAugust 02, 20114 mins

Srikanth Jadcherla, CEO of Seer Akademi, successfully using webex in a remote rural school in Nalgonda District. [Editor’s Note: Srikanth Jadcherla is a serial entrepreneur straddling the worlds of…

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