Friday, July 29, 2011

Vijay Anand : The Startup Guy





Vijay Anand, an Indian entrepreneur, passionate and driven by technologies related to the Mobile, VoIP, and Emerging Internet space, with a wide range of interests from simple economics to biotechnology and genetics, with a biased corner for anything related to artificial intelligence and neuro-science.

Putting words into action, he is the Founder of Proto.in, the startup ecosystem body, and has been a driving force in being involved in community events such as Barcamp Chennai, Blogcamp, Wikicamp, Podworks, Open Coffee Club in Chennai and seeding such similar initiatives across the country.

Vijay strongly believes that it is the right mix of Technology, Business models, execution and timing that great companies are made of.  As a revolutionary in heart, he seeks to change the global perception to India being much more than just an outsourcing destination.

He is also on-board a few companies and teams, providing strategic advice and consulting on Product Management, Strategy and Business Operations.


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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Ekjaa-Unanimous Growth




Ekjaa is a persian word which means Unanimous. Ekjaa is the first organization in the world to provide Hybrid Solution with donate and the lend model on the same platform in the social sector. They help to raise social awareness and responsibility among the members of society and bring them together to support each other.

Ekjaa brings NGOs, MACs, MFIs, Corporate and Educational Institution all together to contribute in the upliftment of society by not only raising funds but also providing social and humanitarian support to build a better world for tomorrow. 

Ekjaa is one body with different financial institutions and individuals as its soul. Its mission is to serve as a common platform for all sections of society to come together and contribute towards holistic development of Humanity. 

It aims for Fund Raising, Fund Monitoring and Providing Humanitarian Support. Its vision is to make every individual contribute to the growth of the country and society at a large scale and thereby make every person live with self-dignity and pride.


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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

AIESEC Chandigarh: Recruitments


JOURNALIST: Srishti Kush


AIESEC has 60 years of experience in developing high-potential youth into globally minded responsible leaders. AIESEC offers young people the opportunity to participate in international internships, experience leadership and participate in a global learning environment. 

AIESEC is run by young people for young people, enabling a strong experience to all its stakeholders. Its members are part of an exciting, driven global network. They are able to contribute to societal change while exploring their own vision for a positive impact on society. AIESEC is supported by thousands of partner organisations around the globe who look to AIESEC to support the development of youth and to access top talent through its global internship program.

Each year, it provides over 8,500 AIESEC members the challenging opportunity to live and work in a foreign country in areas of management, technology, education, and development. To gain a holistic experience AIESEC offers you the opportunity to take on a leadership role before or after your internship. 

One of the best ways to develop what it takes to be a leader is to take up one of 8,300 leadership roles involved in running AIESEC, at local, national, regional and global scale, as well as trainings in soft skills and functional areas in over 470 conferences and thousands of activities each year.


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Saturday, July 23, 2011

HPAIR



The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) is student-run organization of the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences. HPAIR organizes Harvard University's largest annual student conferences in the Asia-Pacific region. Since 1991, it has continuously gathered a growing pool of international students from top universities, renowned academics, business professionals, and political leaders to engage in our rigorous educational events.

The Academic Conference is HPAIR's oldest flagship program, centring on six stimulating workshops that bring together undergraduate and graduate students to interact with a distinguished group of speakers and explores issues ranging from international security to natural resources. Workshops include speeches and discussion, interactive projects and activities, and are framed by serious research. In addition to the workshops, plenary sessions, panels, workshops, and other events allow each conference to span a multitude of issues relevant to the Asia-Pacific region.

In addition to its international conferences, HPAIR aims to promote understanding of the economic, political, social, and cultural issues facing the Asia-Pacific region within the Harvard community by organizing panels and other events on Harvard's campus. Through all of its activities, HPAIR strives to maintain the vision of its mission statement: "to promote understanding of the economic, political, social, and cultural issues facing the Asia-Pacific region within the Harvard and international communities." 

In the year 2006 the conference was held in Mumbai, business capital of India, and was hosted by Indian Institute of Management Ahemdabad. After 6 years another Indian University BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus is bidding for the HPAIR Conference in 2012. India has emerged as a major force in Asia in recent years and given its robust economy and young population India’s influence as a major player on world stage is expected to grow in the near future. There could not have been a more apt time for the conference to be hosted in India.

Important: Join Facebook page, click here to support BITS Pilani bid to organize the HPAIR Conference 2012 in India.

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Thursday, July 21, 2011

ACT MAGAZINE: Atelier Community Theatre





ACT, creative review of Indian Theatre, is a quarterly magazine devoted to theatre and performing arts by Atelier Theatre.

Atelier a registered body is headed by Rajiv Bawa in capacity as a Chairperson. It’s a workshop of communication enthusiasts who have over the time stood in the forefront of organizing Creative Educational Programmes and devising socially relevant plays.

ACT is an offshoot of Atelier’s Capacity building Project for the Creative Youth to make theatre and performing arts approachable and experiential rather than intellectually compartmentalized and elite.

ACT Magazine like its very name acts as a medium to reach out to masses employing the written word. The agenda is unambiguous: channelizing the growing energies in the theatre circuits in Delhi and nearby regions in general and Campus Theatre in the University of Delhi in particular, collating, documenting and archiving the craft.

Moreover, ACT would also act as an interface for the professional practitioners and the college upcoming actors and directors. The content of the journal would include academic papers and popular theatre cultures coupled with theatre photography.

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Commutiny – The Youth Collective


 
Commutiny – The Youth Collective (CYC) is a group that promotes youth development in India.  They understand that to bring the youth in the centre of development processes, they need to build an enabling environment, a positive image of young people and their contribution, and facilitate a big leap in mainstreaming youth centric processes in the country

Commutiny is a collective of like-minded professionals from diverse organizations who believe passionately in the power of young people to envision the future and to act in the present. 

While working directly with youth and youth organizations CVC also work actively with the media which needs to resurrect itself as a genuine dipstick of the youth pulse and become a responsible platform for getting authentic youth voices into the mainstream. CVC overall goal is to promote youth leadership for greater participation in decision making.
 
CYC’s Creative Media & Policy Group equips youth at the grassroots with media tools and resources to enhance the positive social impact in Commutiny. 

The Commutiny Learning and Leadership Journeys (LLJ) is a yearlong programme for Young Change Leaders from across India; the Programme offers support for a Journey of intensive personal learning and reflection, combined with an opportunity to lead an independent social change experiment.

It was all started back in 2006, when Pravah and the Youth & Civil Society Initiative of Sir Ratan Tata Trust (YACS-SRTT) worked together to develop strategies for strengthening youth development in India.



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Sunday, July 17, 2011

AdvenD



N2MN first Start-Up Venture Post

AdvenD, a visionary project of Ankit Vij, Roohani Arora, Shravan Suri and Prateek Jain, taps the potential which lies in the availability of advertisement space for roadside vendors, and in turn equips them with a better looking stall, ease of registration, hygienic selling conditions, and a provident fund type scheme which will subsequently enhance their standard of living. It’s a service of advertisement for roadside vendors. It will cater to all three major arms of business viz. the vendors, the advertisers and the general public.

The idea is unique because it aims to be complete in its essence. AdvenD have a bunch of professional designers for the work of designing different types and sizes of stall catering to each and every vendor.

AdvenD is a new and highly attractive way of advertising and aims to revolutionize not only the marketing but also the advertisement sector. 

N2MN wishes AdvenD success.  

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Friday, July 15, 2011

Becoming I- The Foundation


Through multifarious projects in the fields of Education, Women Empowerment, Life Skills Development, Conflict resolution, Human Rights, Substance Abuse, Peace Building etc., it aims to hone the leadership potential of the youth to take action on issues that they themselves are passionate about.

The concept of 'I am' has been taken from Mattie J.T. Stepanek's book - 'Celebrate through Heart Songs'. The foundation aims to create a group of thoughtful, committed people. 
 
Becoming I is inspired by The Three Dot Dash - Just Peace Summit - A global initiative of the We Are Family Foundation designed to recognize and support the efforts of Global Teen Leaders around the world who are actively working on projects that promote a more peaceful society by addressing issues related to basic human needs: food, water, health, shelter, safety, education and the environment.

Their latest project is named Fiza that deals with the issue of Commercial Sex Trade in remote parts of Delhi. Through theatre workshops and exercises, art and craft programs, simple dance exercises and performances, community building and singing sessions, it aims to provide life skills development. Through these media, they also strive to provide them with an alternate source of employment and push them towards education.

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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Chavvi Rajawat

Journalist: Srishti Kush


Chavvi Rajawat, a 31 year old, born in Rajasthan is an alumnus of Lady Shri Ram College and holds a management degree. The jeans-clad Rajaway could easily be mistaken for some model or a bollywood actress. But she quit her corporate job and left city life to help develop rural India and serve her village Soda, a village sixty kilometers from Jaipur, Rajasthan as the youngest women sarpanch.
 
She was the chairperson of the 11th Info-Poverty World Conference held at the United Nations in March 2011. "In three years I will transform my village. I don't want money. I want people and organizations to adopt projects in my village as often projects fail owing to lack of a local connect and that is what I am here to provide by bridging that gap.” says Chavvi.

From a village largely known for its water bodies, Soda was losing them as one after the other water body was drying out. But, after becoming sarpanch, the first task that she took upon herself was to de-silt an old water body. The number of people who joined her in the task voluntarily was another instance of her popularity there. Perhaps the only MBA village head in the country, Chhavi spoke of the necessity to re-think strategies for including new technologies like e-services in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in an era where resources are becoming limited.

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Godparents [dot] in



Godparents.in is an online platform founded by Shubham Srivastava and Shivam Srivastava with a mission to bring together NGOs and potential donors assisting in the nationwide effort to create opportunities for the millions of underprivileged children who otherwise do not have access to even the most basic necessities of life.

Godparents.in partners with NGOs that have a proven record of dedication and commitment to the cause of creating opportunities for underprivileged children. Godparents.in aims to be a data-rich, transparent platform specifically focussed at facilitating one-to-one financial support to underprivileged children

They strive to enable the donors in making informed decisions on their donations, track where their money goes, how it is used, and most importantly how it impacts the lives of children that they wishes to support. 

Godparents.in is a 'Social-Service Network', a network of socially-minded individuals and organizations. 


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Sunday, July 10, 2011

IndyKids : A Free Paper For Free Kids

IndyKids is a free newspaper, website and teaching tool that aims to inform children on current news and world events from a progressive perspective and to inspire a passion for social justice and learning. It is geared toward kids in grades 4 to 7. IndyKids produces content monthly during the school year (September through May) with five print editions and four online editions.

IndyKids currently produces 10,000 copies of every print issue – and reaches kids in 36 states across the USA through nearly 200 classroom and individual subscriptions. IndyKids believes that it is the people, through grassroots organizations and movement-building, who make social change. IndyKids aims to engage young kids to understand that they can form their own opinions and become part of the larger movement for justice and peace.

IndyKids was formed in June 2005, with the help of the New York City Independent Media Center, by a group of independent journalists, students, parents, teachers and activists. They recognized the need for progressive current events news to be presented in a way that would interest and engage young kids.


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Friday, July 8, 2011

Youth United


Youth United is a social reform and youth revolution, being carried out by the young generation of the nation for the betterment of society and the nation as a whole by launching various projects aimed at different social and national issues. Youth United creates opportunities and forums for individuals and conglomerates to mobilize their skills and resources for various social issues through its various undertakings, which sincerely attempts to work for Universal Primary Education, Gender Equity, Child Health, Maternal Health, Environmental Sustainability, and to fight against Poverty and Hunger.  

Jyotindra Nath, Harshit Bahl, Sahil Rihani, Rohan Aneja, Kunal Gulati, Saurabh Verma, Ritoban Chakrabarti, Saloni Bajaj, Neelima Walia, Sabiha Basur, Aurobind Vidyarthi and Sukhmani Khanna vision led to the foundation of Youth United in February, 2007.

Youth United is an assortment of various projects, being run in different locations across India, contemplating on a specific issue or cause. Youth United project may include conducting surveys, organizing campaigns and events, publishing periodicals, launching various drives, establishing welfare centres like hospitals & schools, using legal avenues like PILs and RTI Act, making use of media like internet, radio and television etc. 

The objective of YOUTH UNITED is to encourage and foster the development of the youth of India and hence the development of society as a whole through its activities like periodicals, events, community Services and online portals.

The vision of the Organization is to empower the population of India to utilize their skills, knowledge, resources and capabilities to work for the overall betterment of society, to help underprivileged and backward sections of the population and to promote National harmony, integrity and fraternity.


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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Katha

Journalist : Tarunima Mago

Katha, a Non Profit Organization working with and in story and storytelling for 22 years now, has more than 300 published titles, including quality translations of fiction for adults and children; 21 Indian languages in the voices of over 600 writers and translators.

Katha’s mission is to enhance the joy of reading for children and adults, thereby helping every child realize his or her full potential. To combat social injustice and poverty through active story based learning, quality education and community action. Katha has a pan India presence with its active participation throughout Arunachal Pradesh, NCT Delhi, Haryana and Maharashtra. 

Started in 1988 with a magazine for children from the undeserved communities, Katha’s work spans the literacy to literature continuum. By seamlessly connecting grassroots work in education and urban resurgence, Katha brings children living in poverty into reading and quality education. To date, through its many programmes, Katha has brought schooling to 162,500 children, trained 17,000 of them in IT, taught 90,000 women in income-generation and social activism skills, and brought the joy of reading to more than 6,000,000 children. 

On the other end of the creative spectrum is Katha publishing programme that bolsters the reading initiative by producing books that create space for culturally distinctive literature and celebrate the glorious polyphonous multiplicity that is India. With every carefully chosen and published title, quality has been the single major idea that drives Katha. 


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Monday, July 4, 2011

EPIC: World of Words


EPIC aka “Ensemble of Plainly Idiosyncratic Citizens” is the brainchild of two college-going-awfully-bored-Rang-De-Basanti-inspired-wannabe-revolutionaries. Vanya Kaushik and Srishti wanting to break free from the usual monotony of a bland engineering college plotted, planned and rejected a million ventures before finally landing up their shoes up with an idea of starting an e-magazine. 

EPIC’s slogan WOW (World of Words) purely depicts the youthfulness and sincerity behind the magazine incorporation. EPIC works on the principle of collective posting where anonymous authors, writers and bloggers can post their articles as guest members. 

EPIC looks forward to get partner with like-minded organization in future and for the same they coined BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal). 

Wishing them Success from the team of N2MN and looking forward for their print version. 


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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Su Swapn -A golden dream


Su Swapn, named after late Suvarna Mishra, came into existence on 18thJune, 2011. Suvarna Mishra was a young energetic girl who was brutally murdered by her cousin. Her humble and generous nature was the motivation which drove her parents and friends to open a NGO dedicated in fulfilling Suvarna’s dream of a society free from evils like female foeticide, girl backwardness, corruptionand pollution. Su Swapn strives to help physically challenged and homeless people.
 
Their first project, conducted under the guidance of Maa Sarojini Agarwal, provided trunks, books and school bags to the orphan girls. The members of Su Swapn donated blood at civil hospital and distributed clothes to the destitute in the Lucknow city. They also donated baby kits and diapers to Vardan Shishu Grih in the city.

In future Su Swapn looks forward to conduct and organize various blood donation & medical camps, sponsoring education of poor girl child and organizing city cleansing drives. 

Su Swapn is the youngest NGO to feature in News Not Making News.  



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