Tech4Society in Hyderabad, India
UPDATE: Tech4Society is over! Thank you to everyone who made it possible. Scroll down below to catch up on all the media generated from the conference.
Last week, February 11-13, 2010, Ashoka and The Lemelson Foundation, with support from Microsoft, brought together pioneers and thought leaders in the field of technology and invention for systemic social change. Among them were over 100 Ashoka-Lemelson Fellows, pioneers on the cutting edge of innovation in solar energy, clean water, mobile technology, science education, agriculture, and healthcare, bringing powerful and affordable solutions to many millions of the world’s poorest people and inspiring people around the world to envision solutions to the world’s most pressing social challenges. Joining them were business and philanthropy leaders, former and current government and public officials, global thought partners, and other innovators from the citizen sector. The goal of this first-of-its-kind event: to build systems that maximize the social impact of technological innovation, and that continually cultivate the world’s next generation of inventor-entrepreneurs forging change around the world.
Here you'll be able to watch videos of sessions, see interviews and gain insights from participants, read thoughtful analysis from our official blogger Elliot Harmon, and be directed to other media outlets for timely, relevant, and insightful content.
Follow the content, insights and conversation that came out of this unique event here, and continue to check back as we'll continue adding more material and coverage as it comes in, collected from event participants and media as it is published.
If you're interested in more information about the event, click here.
For a full list of how people were able to engage with the conference online from Hyderabad and all over the world, read about it here.
Even though the conference is over, the discussion is still going. Follow what was tweeted from Hyderabad and around the world, and add your two cents on Twitter using #tech4soc.
POST-EVENT:
Tech4Society in the media:
Sierra Club: Making Salt
NextBillion.net: Weekly Roundup: Live from Hyderabad
Business Wire India, Press Release: Tech4Society Identifies NextGen Inventors
DAY THREE:
AshokaTECH Blog Posts:
Mobile Science Lab and the Future of Science Education
Sustainable Agriculture: Food is Security
Lemelson Foundation:
Tech4Society: Notes from the field, Day three
Tech4Society in the media:
Scienceblogs - John Wilbanks: Tech4Society, day three
DAY TWO:
AshokaTECH Blog Posts:
Video: Mobile Technology Inventions in Rural India
Youth Venture: New Inventors and New Ideas
Jack Sim and the World Toilet Organization
Reaching for Economies of Scale at Tech4Society
Javier Fernandez-Han: Spend One Hour Inspiring Someone
Lemelson Foundation:
Tech4Society: Notes from the field, Day Two
Tech4Society in the News:
Wall Street Journal Blogs: To Make Change Learn to Take Change: One Rupee at a Time
Wall Street Journal Blogs: It Should Take Less Than 18 Months to Get Your Model Right: Tech4Society
Wall Street Journal Blogs: For Non-Profits and For-Profits, Opposites Attract Success: Tech4Society
Scienceblogs - John Wilbanks: Tech4Society, day two
Videos:
Mobile Technologies in Rural India: The Case for Building Business-Social Bridges:
Ashoka and Microsoft Introduce Video Case Study of Partnership at Tech4Society:
Jack Sims and the World Toilet Organization:
Youth Venture team Tractor Factor:
DAY ONE:
AshokaTECH Blog Posts:
Intellectual Property: Saving the World and Saving Your Ideas
Ashok Gadgil on UV Waterworks and Simple Technologies
Welcome Address: Why Don't Some Innovations Meet There Potential?
Tech4Society: Notes from the field, Day One
Tech4Society in the News:
Wall Street Journal Blogs: “Affordable Prices” is The Way to Get to The Bottom of the Pyramid: Tech4Society
Wall Street Journal: Drivers Drive Google's India Innovation
Wall Street Journal LiveMint Blog: Tech4Society: Redesigned Ricksaws, Mobiles for Health
GOOD Magazine: Dispatch from India, calling all changemakers
Scienceblogs.com: On the Nature of Ideas
Special Edition of Innovations magazines on Tech4Society
Read more about what The Hindu has to say about the event in Hyderabad, India.
Videos:
Ashok Gadgil explains UV waterworks:
David Green on new hearing technologies:
Twitter:
Here's what's going on right now on Twitter, from Hyderabad and discussion all over the world about Tech4Society. You can join in too—just log on to Twitter and use #tech4soc in your tweets.
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