Tag: technology
The Desire To Do CSR Has To Come From Within: Gagan Rai, MD & CEO, NSDL e-Governance
"The desire to fulfill CSR has to come from within. There are companies giving out a cheque bearing the mandatory sum to an NGO...
CSR: STEAM Education Gathering Steam In Schools
Globally, the term STEAM is used to indicate ways in which the Arts or art-practices (and sometimes more broadly the Humanities and Social sciences)...
E-Governance: A powerful tool toward resilient, inclusive and sustainable disaster risk management
A major report launched by the United Nations this week highlights the critical role E-governance plays in building inclusive, resilient societies in anticipation and...
Technology shift serving happiness to NGOs
India has close to 31 lakh Non-Governmental Organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, who are working intensively towards some of the fundamental challenges in...
India’s Leap Towards A Sustainable Fourth Industrial Revolution
Globally, the advent of digitally enabled Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has already been termed as the fastest period of innovation ever. Rapid advancements in...
Technology – An Enabler for Corporate Social Responsibility
Over the past four years, India Inc. has progressively adopted the national CSR directive having spent more than INR 30,000 Crores, with over INR...
Helping Corporates And Incubators Collaborate
Samhita Social Ventures and Villgro with support from GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) have launched Incubator Marketplace, an online portal, which will help companies and incubators identify and connect with each other.
Considerations For A Systems Practitioner
In the first piece of this three-part series, I introduced the relevance of systems thinking for development and CSR. The second piece talked about...
Major Gaps In Public Education System: AVPN Report
Anil Swarup, in his keynote address, shared best practices in education from across India and stressed on the need to adopt them to scale.
Systems Thinking At Work
In my first piece in this three-part series, I introduced systems thinking and discussed why it is so relevant for the development sector and...
Banks Joining In: Artificial Intelligence
A lot of banks are introducing humanoid robots to answer customer queries in their branches in metro cities, like Bengaluru, New Delhi and Mumbai.
A Revolution is Brewing!
As a developing country India has huge potential towards harnessing technology for good, Anirban Ghosh, Chief Sustainability Officer, makes the case.
