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Indian social enterprises get in-depth coaching from ICCLab Director Harry Barkema at Sankalp Summit
Professor Harry Barkema is delivering a workshop for eight Indian social businesses from across the country, who are today gathered in Mumbai for the kickoff of this year’s Annual Sankalp Summit. The enterprises come from a variety of sectors, representing education, health, financial services, agriculture, and clean energy. They are among a group of 30 social [...]
ICCLab’s Lehdonvirta on mobile innovation in the World Bank Private Sector Development blog
ICCLab’s Lehdonvirta has published another guest article in the World Bank’s Private Sector Development blog. Read the full article here. Almost two months ago, infoDev launched an online challenge to aid digital job creation in developing countries. The challenge, called m2Work (after mobile microwork), asks participants to identify real-world problems that could be addressed by [...]
First Sankalp 2012 Innovation Workshop participant named: Classle
The first Sankalp 2012 Innovation Workshop participant has been named. The workshop is part of ICCLab’s partnership with Intellecap to help social enterprises grow. The first nominee is Classle, a Social Enterprise committed to bring quality, access and outcome in education and learning. Leveraging technology for scale and scope, Classle’s social learning network is designed [...]
ICCLab’s Millington wins prize in World Bank’s digital development competition – second time in a row!
The following announcement was posted yesterday by the organizers of m2work, an idea competition organized by World Bank’s infoDev program and Nokia. The goal of the competition is to find ideas for alleviating poverty through “mobile microwork”, paid chores that could be carried out by mobile phone owners in the developing world. ICCLab’s Vili Lehdonvirta [...]



