ITC and E Choupal, e-commerce in villages
October 8th, 2010 § 0
For software services, India has Wipro and Infosys, for social enterprises, India in general proudly present 2 “champions” promoted by big companies and worldwide renowned : HUL Shakti and ITC E-choupal.
Shakti has already been presented. Let’s talk today of E-Choupal, that became famous worldwide since C. K. Prahlad presented it in his book The Fortune...
Shakti, a BOP case study on adaptation of a product to local villages
September 29th, 2010 § 0
For those who are interested in the Bottom of the Pyramid phenomenon in India, one cannot avoid two experimentations that have been systematically cited as examples throughout the world: Shakti and e-choupal! I will only concentrate on relating the Shakti project, a classic “case study” conducted by the Hindustan giant UNILEVER in order to adapt its...
NSEF Youth Confluence 2010
September 13th, 2010 § 0
What is NSEF ?
The National Social Entrepreneurship Forum is a non-profit organization with the objective of promoting Social Entrepreneurship in Universities across India. With this objective NSEF establishes chapters at local communities which conduct various activities to create an ecosystem that will produce the next generation of Social Entrepreneurs. IIM Lucknow, BITS Pilani - Pilani,...
Slum networking
August 25th, 2010 § 1
Himanshu Parikh, a graduate from Cambridge University, seems to have succeeded where numerous Government and World Bank aided slum improvement projects have floundered.
Slum Networking, a holistic approach that proposes comprehensive water and environmental sanitation infrastructure as being central to improving slums not by locking them into deprivation but by assimilating them into city’s high quality...
Aporv: Giving rural handicrafts a new dimension
August 3rd, 2010 § 0
Aporv (www.aporv.com) launched by Sudip Dutta in June,2010 is an online portal that gives handicraft lovers all over the world easy access to a unique collection of ancient, modern as well as contemporary Indian art.
EkSochh interviewed Sudip about Aporv, how it all began, what makes it unique, and some interesting...
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