We have set alarms for 3:30 in the morning, an unholy hour to be waking up. We have a car to the airport at 4AM—more unholy hours. Once we’ve successfully navigated more of the racist bureaucracy of the Indian domestic travel system, we settle at…
We’re only here for two days here in Indore, really. We have a 6:50AM flight from Indore Wednesday morning, so we have Monday and Tuesday here to complete our work. We have even more difficulty than usually getting picked up at our hotel Tuesday,…
We travel from the city with the worst air quality in the world to the cleanest city in India. Indore has banned plastic bags, and—like Delhi does in some places—employs compostable cups, bowls, and other dishware when providing street food. After our …
One of the engineers on my team has a cousin in Delhi, and we start the day by texting her to see whether she’s still willing to meet up with us. We had already agreed in Vietnam that we wouldn’t try to fit Agra and the Taj Mahal into our…
We encounter some unexpected international travel issues at the Hanoi airport, which is especially annoying considering we are entitled Americans with the 6th most powerful passport in the world and unaccustomed to restricted movement. Even though I…
There is nothing I can write about India that hasn’t already been written. The land of a thousand paradoxes. What I can do, is write the truths that I have seen in my time here. I think I have seen … Continue reading →
I had the pleasure to help organize and run the second installment of Tech4Impact, an accelerator program being run jointly by CIIE and Village Capital. Entrepreneurs go through a 3 month accelerator and are taught how to evaluate one another’s … Continue reading →
While doing research for my MIIS capstone project, I have come across readings referring to the birth of the social enterprise sector. Many of the readings refer to the growth of the third sector leading to social business. The third … Continue reading →
SELCO, a leading solar energy company based in Southern India, has been producing and selling solar energy units to the rural poor since 1995. SELCO works alongside state-owned andcooperative-owned banks in India, to provide loans to rural households in order … Continue reading →
… And new change of scenery. Last summer, I was working for a social enterprise incubator in Bogota, Colombia. This Spring/Summer, I am working at the Center for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) on the campus of India Institute of … Continue reading →
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