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		<title>Another successful year for ForSE 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another successful conference on Social Entrepreneurship was held on October 23rd, this time at Babson College in Boston's Wellesley suburb. Details on the conference and photos were posted in a local e-magazine, Lokvani.com and are reproduced for those who could not attend. For details go to  
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		<title>Why you need to go beyond the numbers to view rural poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past decade, much progress has been made in India and people have been justifiably proud of the improving economic situation. While most observers point to the top line numbers that show the number of people living below the “poverty line” has been consistently decreasing, by focusing on just these aseptic numbers, they fail to understand and capture the continuing anguish in the rural countryside.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=513&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reply to comment about Rural Indian Consumer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 05:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Responding to a comment on my recent blog post on "The Increasing Focus on the Rural Indian Consumer" I decided to write a longer response outlining what needs to be done to really address increasing rural income in India.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=461&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A visit to the Agastya Center in Kuppam</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I had written an article about an interesting organization, Agastya, that was transforming rural education in India by bringing a fresh new approach to teaching and introducing science and technology concepts to parts of the country that are typically ignored. Since then I was fortunate to visit Agastya founder Ramji Raghavan in Bangalore and accompany him to their Agastya Center in Kuppam.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=366&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Agastya  &#8211; transforming education in India</title>
		<link>http://blog.ambientengines.com/2008/10/09/agastya-transforming-education-in-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the chance to visit Agastya's operations in Hubli earlier this year. Agastya is a NGO based in India that is hoping to transform the educational system by making it more interactive, experimental and interesting for children. Recently Ramji Raghavan, Agastya's founder visited Boston and I had occasion to meet and hear him speak passionately about why he started Agastya after a career in banking.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=290&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OLPC India Tidbits</title>
		<link>http://blog.ambientengines.com/2008/08/21/olpc-india-tidbits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who are tracking the progress of OLPC in India, here are few tidbits gleaned from the web: A fairly in-depth description of the OLPC pilot and a recent update on Nick Negroponte's visit to Mumbai in August.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=169&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BusinessWeek &#8211; One Laptop per Child Lands in India</title>
		<link>http://blog.ambientengines.com/2008/08/06/businessweek-one-laptop-per-child-lands-in-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MIT-spawned OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project has finally penetrated India with a tie up with the mega-corporation Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG). After several failed attempts Negroponte, the godfather of the OLPC, has realized the way to get around India is thru the Ambanis. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=85&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vigyan Ashram &#8211; A Hidden Rural Education Jewel</title>
		<link>http://blog.ambientengines.com/2008/07/02/vigyan-ashram-a-hidden-rural-education-jewel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to visit Vigyan Ashram in February. Vigyan Ashram is a residential rural education center founded 25 years ago. Over the years, Vigyan Ashram has significantly changed the local economy, providing livelihood to many in the region while training scores of youth and making them self sufficient. More importantly, it has now been formalized as a regular course on Rural Technology and taught at 25 schools in the state of Maharashtra.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=29&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mann Deshi Mahila Bank &#8211; a Women&#8217;s bank</title>
		<link>http://blog.ambientengines.com/2008/06/29/mann-deshi-mahila-bank-a-womens-bank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raj Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently micro-finance has caught the attention of the public specially after Prof. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2006. One of the challenges that micro-finance faces is that beyond providing its borrowers with credit, it needs to make sure that they also have marketable skills and training that will increase their income generating capacity and the required business skills to help them manage their enterprises.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.ambientengines.com&blog=3998279&post=22&subd=socialecosystem&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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