The first step would be to understand the local ecosystem and its stakeholders and to become familiar with existing and similar experiences, their successes and failures, both at a local level and in other places. This would keep us from duplicating efforts, repeating mistakes and would allow us to learn from such experiences and to identify local partners and others with relevant......
Given enabling environments for social entrepreneurship, both individuals and institutions will have similar incentives (beyond their social motivation) to innovate, explore, pursue and develop solutions, goods and services for their local communities and global markets....
From a recent Fortune magazine that I read that most companies in S&P have been rated as risky. This represents a huge challenge for companies as new emerging economies such as India, China or other countries mean new business models which have to be sustainable and scalable and I do not think that there are in most text books or case studies of......
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It is not volunteerism that we need. Not even social responsibility. What we need is community engagement and tangible benefits for each and every party involved. Only then can a project prosper in the long term, long after the unique champions who push them are......
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Disease surveillance is an important aspect of any public health-care programme that serves two essential purposes, one of which is monitoring the progress of ongoing medical interventions for disease reduction, and the other is for the early detection of outbreaks to initiate investigative and control measures. Disease Surveillance is also a basic tool for the field epidemiologist as surveillance data provide a scientific basis for implementation of an appropriate health-care policy, disease control decisions, the evaluation of the efficacy of surveillance initiatives, and for the allocation of resources in the primary health-care system....
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Digital Divide,
Indian Subcontinent,
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Social Entrepreneurship,
Community Collaboration,
Institutional Collaboration
It is not volunteerism that we need. Not even social responsibility. What we need is community engagement and tangible benefits for each and every party involved. Only then can a project prosper in the long term, long after the unique champions who push them are......
Short Description:
Disease surveillance is an important aspect of any public health-care programme that serves two essential purposes, one of which is monitoring the progress of ongoing medical interventions for disease reduction, and the other is for the early detection of outbreaks to initiate investigative and control measures. Disease Surveillance is also a basic tool for the field epidemiologist as surveillance data provide a scientific basis for implementation of an appropriate health-care policy, disease control decisions, the evaluation of the efficacy of surveillance initiatives, and for the allocation of resources in the primary health-care system....
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Digital Divide,
Indian Subcontinent,
Sub-Saharan Africa,
Open Source,
Projects Profiles,
Health Administration,
Public Health and Safety,
Relief Services and Disaster Recovery,
Mobile and Wireless Technologies,
Fund Raising,
Networked Health and Welfare,
Access to Capital,
Social Entrepreneurship,
Community Collaboration,
Institutional Collaboration