Amit Bhargava's journey into the social impact space with the Ashoka Support Network After 25 years of international experience in mergers, acquisitions, and corporate strategy development and execution, Amit Bhargava feels he can now contribute to the citizen sector with his time... How Nikunj Jhaveri, a businessman with 20 years in the social sector, is set to relaunch the ASN in India Giving back to the community in his home country India has been a priority for the last 20 years for Nikunj Jhaveri, a successful self-made entrepreneur, founder and chairman of a large group of IT... The ASPIRe Story ASPIRe was launched in April 2020 as a joint initiative between Ashoka and Societal Platform (now referred to as Societal Thinking ). The impetus for this collaboration came from two organisations... Regenerating forests with machetes and tech to fight climate change at scale Deforestation, climate change, and the migrating effect of young generations from rural to metropolitan areas are among the most threatening factors for the biodiversity and livelihood of the rural... The rise of citizen video journalism as a tool to meet SDGs and enable citizen participation in creating and using data Issues affecting rural areas in India, where 70% of the population of the country live, are hardly ever reported on mainstream media, a virtual “invisibility” that motivated Jessica Mayberry to set up... Here’s how Karo Sambhav is building circular solutions at scale to India’s e-waste problem Pranshu Singhal has dedicated his career to finding innovative ways to tackle electronic waste. After two decades working for big tech corporations, he decided to approach the problem with a whole new... Meet the founder of AtmaGo – the social network empowering vulnerable communities A passionate belief that technology can help change the world from the ground up was the inspiration behind the launch of a social network that is helping millions of people develop greater resilience... How a digital micro-pension revolution could help a billion workers avoid retirement poverty An estimated 1.8 billion self-employed informal sector workers in Asia, Africa and Latin America are at risk of living in post-retirement poverty unless effective systems are put in place to help them... TrustCircle, the AI-based self-awareness and mental health prevention platform set to reach 10% of the world population by 2040 When the world is failing to address growing mental health problems, hope lightens up as an initiative, with a successful track record in India, the United States, Malaysia, and Africa, and the... The social entrepreneur using platform tech to create population-scale, community-led resilience to climate disasters When it comes to leadership in the relief sector, few people can claim the experience of Manu Gupta, who over 28 years has helped more than six million people rebuild their lives after being hit by... Free education for all is becoming a reality – here’s how it’s happening It’s a sobering fact that 93% of the world’s population has not had a college education, but statistics like that may soon become outdated thanks to innovative projects that are tearing down barriers... Lessons from a teacher on raising 1.4 billion dollars for underfunded classrooms over 22 years Teachers in state schools in the United States spend almost two billion dollars of their own money each year on classroom supplies due to underfunding in the education system. As this situation... Thinking and Acting Like a Platform Will Help Social Entrepreneurs Create Impact at Scale Platform thinking pushes social entrepreneurs to leave the role of the problem solver in favor of being an enabler of changemakers who can solve problems locally. A Special Power for Good Tech Everything is changing faster and faster. Everything is connected. The almost opposite, familiar world of repetition is in an exponential death dive. These are the facts, our only reality. To succeed... Lessons From The Frontlines: Preparing A Global Vaccine Workforce Dr. Sanjeev Arora had been using Zoom for years, long before Covid-19 put it on the desktop of every manager, consultant, and third-grade teacher from Columbus to Capetown. He founded Project ECHO —... Societal Platform Thinking In India, a group of innovative strategic entrepreneurs and philanthropists — among them the co-founder of Infosys — are piloting an ambitious approach: societal platforms are open digital co-creation...
Amit Bhargava's journey into the social impact space with the Ashoka Support Network After 25 years of international experience in mergers, acquisitions, and corporate strategy development and execution, Amit Bhargava feels he can now contribute to the citizen sector with his time... How Nikunj Jhaveri, a businessman with 20 years in the social sector, is set to relaunch the ASN in India Giving back to the community in his home country India has been a priority for the last 20 years for Nikunj Jhaveri, a successful self-made entrepreneur, founder and chairman of a large group of IT... The ASPIRe Story ASPIRe was launched in April 2020 as a joint initiative between Ashoka and Societal Platform (now referred to as Societal Thinking ). The impetus for this collaboration came from two organisations... Regenerating forests with machetes and tech to fight climate change at scale Deforestation, climate change, and the migrating effect of young generations from rural to metropolitan areas are among the most threatening factors for the biodiversity and livelihood of the rural... The rise of citizen video journalism as a tool to meet SDGs and enable citizen participation in creating and using data Issues affecting rural areas in India, where 70% of the population of the country live, are hardly ever reported on mainstream media, a virtual “invisibility” that motivated Jessica Mayberry to set up... Here’s how Karo Sambhav is building circular solutions at scale to India’s e-waste problem Pranshu Singhal has dedicated his career to finding innovative ways to tackle electronic waste. After two decades working for big tech corporations, he decided to approach the problem with a whole new... Meet the founder of AtmaGo – the social network empowering vulnerable communities A passionate belief that technology can help change the world from the ground up was the inspiration behind the launch of a social network that is helping millions of people develop greater resilience... How a digital micro-pension revolution could help a billion workers avoid retirement poverty An estimated 1.8 billion self-employed informal sector workers in Asia, Africa and Latin America are at risk of living in post-retirement poverty unless effective systems are put in place to help them... TrustCircle, the AI-based self-awareness and mental health prevention platform set to reach 10% of the world population by 2040 When the world is failing to address growing mental health problems, hope lightens up as an initiative, with a successful track record in India, the United States, Malaysia, and Africa, and the... The social entrepreneur using platform tech to create population-scale, community-led resilience to climate disasters When it comes to leadership in the relief sector, few people can claim the experience of Manu Gupta, who over 28 years has helped more than six million people rebuild their lives after being hit by... Free education for all is becoming a reality – here’s how it’s happening It’s a sobering fact that 93% of the world’s population has not had a college education, but statistics like that may soon become outdated thanks to innovative projects that are tearing down barriers... Lessons from a teacher on raising 1.4 billion dollars for underfunded classrooms over 22 years Teachers in state schools in the United States spend almost two billion dollars of their own money each year on classroom supplies due to underfunding in the education system. As this situation... Thinking and Acting Like a Platform Will Help Social Entrepreneurs Create Impact at Scale Platform thinking pushes social entrepreneurs to leave the role of the problem solver in favor of being an enabler of changemakers who can solve problems locally. A Special Power for Good Tech Everything is changing faster and faster. Everything is connected. The almost opposite, familiar world of repetition is in an exponential death dive. These are the facts, our only reality. To succeed... Lessons From The Frontlines: Preparing A Global Vaccine Workforce Dr. Sanjeev Arora had been using Zoom for years, long before Covid-19 put it on the desktop of every manager, consultant, and third-grade teacher from Columbus to Capetown. He founded Project ECHO —... Societal Platform Thinking In India, a group of innovative strategic entrepreneurs and philanthropists — among them the co-founder of Infosys — are piloting an ambitious approach: societal platforms are open digital co-creation...
