Talking ₹ubbish! at Design Public
*Join us at 4.00 pm on Monday, the 2nd of November at the Vihara Innovation Campus, to play ₹ubbish! Since the last Design Public, in March of 2014, we’ve been talking about waste as a quintessential...
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With 12,000 cases of dengue reported in the Delhi alone, India is facing its worst dengue outbreak in the last twenty years (NDTV India). The number of deaths has touched 41 including the three highly...
View ArticleInnovation & Social labs for better and responsible cities : Mexico City Lab
Evolution of cities through time has highlighted dynamic growth, human development, and simultaneously paved the way for diverse, complex challenges. Governments are faced with hurdles in trying to...
View ArticleChange and How We Make it Happen
In India and across the globe, governments are teaming up with civil society organizations and the private sector to create innovative and lasting solutions to society’s challenges. But what are the...
View ArticleHow Do We Accelerate Civic Innovation?
India is witnessing a revolution. The recent civic technology boom led by startups has changed the way citizens engage and interact with each other. Their bottom-up approach to solve on-the-ground...
View ArticleLive Blog: What is Civic Innovation?
Following a morning of welcomes by Namrata Mehta and Opening Remarks by Delhi Dialogue Commission’s Namit Arora, the first panel of the sixth annual Design Public will explore how public service...
View ArticleLive Blog: The Top-Down-Bottom-Up Smart-City (Panel discussion)
Even as the Smart City concept evolves, the role of the citizen within it remains largely undefined, leaving room for the exploration of approaches, techniques and environments, through which a new...
View ArticleLive Blog: Changing Society and Governments (Panel Discussion)
This session will explore the appropriate modes of dialogue and engagement between civil society, the private sector and government. Panelists include Garima Aggarwal, Ashoka Changemaker Schools...
View ArticleLive Blog: Civic Tech Demos
Today’s Civic Tech Demos will see 8 different organizations demonstrate how they function and thus give us a glimpse into how they aim to change our polity. These demos will show us how these vibrant...
View ArticleLive Blog: How Do We Accelerate Civic Innovation?
After a full day of panels, breakout sessions, and civic innovation demos, the sixth annual Design Public’s final session is a plenary panel to reflect on the day; identify the new services that will...
View Article#InnovMAMPU Talks: 1. The MAMPU Innovation Team
The MAMPU Program initiated an Innovation Fund in October, 2014 to encourage civil society organizations to experiment with creative solutions for improving poor women’s access to local governance,...
View ArticleMapping Appropriate Story Content For Children
CKS is working on a project which looks into early reading for children in India between the age group of 0 to 6 years. Our research is aimed towards understanding reading behaviours, perceptions...
View ArticleUnderstanding the regional contours of the Early Grade Reading problem in India
Team READ Alliance conducted a research on the status of early grade reading in India based on extrapolations of different data sources. Here is an excerpt outlining the reading landscape through data...
View Article#InnovMAMPU Talks: Yayasn Satu Karsa Karya
For the second in our series of #InnovMAMPU talks, we spoke with Yayasn Satu Karsa Karya(YSKK), one of MAMPU’s six Innovation Fund partners, who is working to enhance the livelihood of Indonesian women...
View Article#Tenunjam
Here’s our third blog to the series of #InnovMAMPU talk, where we organised and facilitated an event for YSKK, called Tenunjam/ #TenunJam. This blog has a series of images that captures the essence and...
View ArticleUsing Mobile Phones to Encourage Reading
Recent research shows that the first three years of a child’s life greatly impact their lifelong skills acquisition and development. Just as access to healthcare and good nutrition results in a child’s...
View Article#InnovMAMPU Talks: On Track Media Indonesia
In the fourth blog in the#InnovMAMPU talks series, we spoke with On Track Media Indonesia (OTMI) who is using digital media for raising awareness about reproductive health among adolescents. OTMI aims...
View Article#InnovMAMPU Talks: Yayasan Walang Perempuan
Adding to the series of #InnovMAMPU, here is our fifth blog, where we spoke with Yayasan Walang Perempuan, who is working to improve women’s role in policy making. Yayasan Walang Perempuan is working...
View Article#InnovMAMPU Talks: Kopernik
In the sixth blog in the#InnovMAMPU talks series, we spoke with Kopernik who is working to enhance women’s livelihoods. Kopernik aims to provide women in the remotest areas of Indonesia with safe,...
View Article#InnovMAMPu Talks: Consortium of Global Concern Dan Kopel
For the seventh blog in the #InnovMAMPU talks series, we spoke with Consortium of Global Concern Dan Kopel (CGCK) that is working to improve women’s role in policy making. CGCK recognizes that poor...
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