Venkat, of Deccanet fame, has put an initiative in place to find a solution to lack of rural education – Billionways. It focuses on finding an entrepreneurial solution to the problem of illiteracy, and seeks to jumpstart the same through a non-profit fund. There is emphasis on sustainability, where after a while, each of these units become profitable for the local entrepreneur.
I wonder what is the funding per seat capacity, and whether it is low enough to make this truly large scale. Having said that, I can see people around me who are keen to contribute to such an initiative if they are confident that it will create a sustainable solution.
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Hi,
I am more intrested in knowing if I can contribute in anyway apart from finance.
Regards,
Chakravarthy
Hi Venkat,
Wonderfull initiative and great effort. This will surely have impact on growing India in Decades and Generations to come.
I have some idea to add up-
Why not we use technology to reach millions of children. Im not talking about e-learning , rather a different route
We can use the live telecast mechanism where by teachers from various locations (studios) can impart training live to childresn across location. this can be facilitated through video conferencing, where by each location with a center can avail this through television and with many to one & one to many interaction.
We can also tie-up with carriers like reliance or Bsnl on this novel initiative to reach out to millions
We can also make them earn by youngsters teaching little ones like class 9-12 students can teach for childresn from 1-5 there by making them self sustaining which can take care of thier education by itself
May be what i have written will not work. Its just a thought to your excellent initiative
Regards & All the best
Bala
bgpiyer@gmail.com
Dear All
I am one of the members of Entrepreneurship Development Cell(EDC) at
IIT Roorkee.We are relatively at infant stage.Social Entrepreneurship is at the heart of our cell.We organised an event called “Samadhan”.We invited innovative and entrepreneural ideas in fields of social concern like Electricity,Education,Womens Empowerment etc.This years theme was completely EDUCATION.We had some tie ups with NGOs and DST Govt of India.It would be good to hear how can we improve this contest.
I will post the link for our site shortly,currently its going under renovaion.
Thx a lot
Divjot Singh
B.tech 3rd yr Civil
IIT Roorkee
Dear ekal
I am not looking for donation based approach.
I am looking for social entrepreneurship approach for-profit/non-profit(either/or/both) with investments, business plans, franchising, quality control etc etc to make it REALLY BIG, SCALABLE and REPLICABLE .
It should be an example of DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION OF SOCIAL CHANGE as posted by me in venturewoods
http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2006/12/13/hbr-dec2006-article-abstract-disruptive-innovation-for-social-change/
Check out this
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/kiva_philanthropy20.php#more