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Hi Karishma,
Really true, there is a need to define social entrepreneurship in its true sense. But Shahid added important comments "consider serving the community through offering non-profitable services we call social entrepreneurships. Improved ve…
Shipra,
You noted that "The beauty of the concept lies in...." Your use of the word "beauty" caught my attention, as I felt the "beauty" of what you wrote. "Profit" is like rain on an arid field. Rain germinates the seeds for growth and helps seeds…
Hi Karishma,
I do agree with you that social enterprise is a confusing concept. Most of these telecentres are trying to develop its own business, though it offers some social good.
Having said that, I would also like to take us to a broader discus…
i'm very curious to understand what folks think regarding the "definition of social entrepreneurship" in the sense that it currently encompasses both for profit and non profit organisations. is there a need to delineate more clearly for-profit and n…
hi everyone, thank you for your thoughts so far! this is great.
the question i have more specifically is though that is there a need to further sub-segment the space and dilineate by the underlying business model. i think most people are excited ab…
Dear Karishma, Shipra. Shahid and others,
Surely this is a very interesting discussion. I think that Social entrepreneuship like any other concepts shouid evolve to meet the challenges of the future. The concept and its applications should be interp…
As Shahid mentioned, 'social entrepreneurship' means combining business with community development. Since it is a business, profit making is inherent to the concept; it can't be a non profit enterprise. The beauty of the concept lies in its focus on…
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- Karishma Kiri, Unlimited Potential
Karishma Kiri is a Director at Microsoft Corporation. She currently drives various Emerging Market strategies and incubations, primarily focusing on product strategy and business development.
As a part of Microsoft Unlimited Potential, Kiri has led Microsoft’s global rural computing (BOP) initiatives since inception. She has co-authored several papers on the rural kiosk space and given presentations around the world. Kiri has extensive experience working on Microsoft’s business efforts in India, including driving the creation and launch of Project Shiksha, a program to help teachers and students leverage technology to enrich the education experience.
Most recently, Kiri along with her team and esteemed industry partners, published a book called “Making the Connection: Scaling Telecenters for Development” on creating sustainable approaches to telecenters and using technology to accelerate socio-economic development for underserved communities. In addition, Kiri co-authored the book, “Connecting to Customers: Strategies and Solutions for Growing your Business Online.” Kiri also has significant experience in driving business strategies at Microsoft for the E-Business, development tools and embedded technology spaces.
Kiri holds a bachelor’s degree in business economics from University of California, Los Angeles, with an emphasis on Computer Science and South Asian studies.
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- At 8:33am on September 28, 2009,
Mijan Chy said…
- Dear friend
Take my cordially love . I am Bangladeshi and a computer engineer After my graduation I have setup an organization in our rural area for computer teaching and all necessary information I am giving by internet . Our people is poor they can not bear expanse of this project basically this is a rural ICT project .Now I need some fund for expend this project otherwise this project will be closed . If you possible pls help me anyway .
Mijan
Bangladesh
- At 12:43pm on January 23, 2009,
Boateng Ebenezer said… - Hello Kiri,
Am Boateng from Ghana working telecentre in Ghana and like to cooperate with you in other deploy Microsoft’s global rural computing in our telecentre
- At 5:17pm on October 8, 2008,
Christine Prefontaine said… - Hi Karishma. Happy to see you here ;)
- At 1:25pm on October 8, 2008,
Miguel Raimilla said… - Dear Karishma
always great o see you. I like also to invite you the group Social Enterprise that is also part of this site. Your comment and ideas there would be highly appreciated.
Hope you are having lots of good times and enjoying your self in your sabbatical.
Best.
- At 3:06pm on October 5, 2008,
Partha Sarker said… - Welcome Karishma to this community space.
As a starter, you may want to see our 'Getting Started' link at: http://telecentrecommunity.ning.com/notes/Getting_started or 'Help and Feedback' link at: http://telecentrecommunity.ning.com/notes/Help_%26_feedback
Please feel free to drop me a line if you need any help. Best wishes,
Partha
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Dear Vidyaratha,
I agree with that there is limited software to enable billing .
Have you checked all the links that I have provided up here? There must one that has a link to billing software. You can also check the following links :
http://www.a…
Thanks George for the sharing.
You have nicely highlighted on cost-effectiveness of using free and open source software and the need to spend on technical skills to make good use of the software. I agree with you that there should not be completly…
Dear Wandila
thanks for sharing these resources and to open the discussion. I think the problem has been that there is limited software to enable 'billing' , and to manage the time of the user sessions. Apart from those issues, there are FOSS option…
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I am currently traveling in Asia and would be interested to help and build a better telecentre network across Nepal. I might…
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upul from sri lanka
I am very pleased to see your blog because i need your book for my Research.
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Thanks Wandila, Seuwandi and others for this important debate.
I just want to inform you that this morning i was contributing to another discussion list on Raising Voices, on a different topic entiled "Funders and Citizen Media" and i brought up so…
Hello everybody !
Thanks to all of you who are taking part is this discussion. This is really an interesting topic and it has just come at the right time. Lets continue sharing.
Wandila
Dear Ranabir,
Your sharing is an indication of the practical opportunities that free and open source software has , Iam realy impressed with this practical sharing . I hope all telecentre operators having a glance at this have their eye caught .
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