Daily Archives: February 6, 2018

How social entrepreneurs can use lean start-up principles for better impact

MADANMOHAN RAO Author, Consultant, Research Advisor The lean start-up approach, which is being used with increasing zeal and rigour by start-ups and corporates, is now being applied to the social enterprise sector as well by mobile-centric NGOs and innovators. This topic is now being addressed by a number of resources and books, such as ‘Lean…

Building an Eastern army of young e-Edu leaders

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, all play and no work makes Jack a dull boy,” believes Maria Edgeworth, a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults’ and children’s literature. With a view to provide space for work and play, the ITE Centre in Nagaon (Assam) organised a three-day winter camp at Nehru…

Contemporary relevance of traditional libraries

Public libraries in India, which have acted as the reservoirs, preservers and disseminators of knowledge for many years, are struggling to remain relevant and sustain themselves in the digital era. The public libraries have, especially, served well to the youth in smaller towns of India, who have limited resources to access knowledge. Our former Prime…