Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

My last stop in New Delhi was to visit the American India Foundation, which is the largest Silicon Valley/India foundation. They are very focused on education linked to vocational outcomes: the goal is to help these children move up the economic ladder with real job skills. The school is in its third year of the DE program.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Indian cities are home to hundreds of millions of low-skilled workers who hail from villages in search of work. On Wednesday it announced its acceptance by the market has helped it raise $70 million in a new financing round as the startup prepares to scale the 16-month-old app across India. And that bet is working. Apna app (Apna).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase Ventures have minted a new unicorn in India: CoinSwitch Kuber. This is a16z’s first investment in India. Existing investors Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital India also participated in the new round, which is also the largest for a cryptocurrency startup in India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind. The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. I'm still recovering. No wonder I am still tired!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

At the time, Rufina was the CEO of Nasscom Foundation and transforming the nonprofit technology sector with her incredible networking, scaling, and capacity building skills. This prompted some amazing questions for children that age anywhere: How many jets did you take to get to India? How deep is the Pacific Ocean? Stay tuned.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

“We saw that resumes had a very mixed correlation to skills, and that was what triggered this,” Ravisankar said. . “We saw that resumes had a very mixed correlation to skills, and that was what triggered this,” Ravisankar said. This include improving their skills as much as finding a job.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Goa-based startup has raised millions to bring an unaccredited, high-quality alternative to higher business education in India amid a broader awakening of the country’s growing startup scene. He estimates that during the 24 weeks, about 30% of the program is focused on foundational skills such as how to work with data and research better.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 23, 2024

According to a report from The Economic Times, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang proposed the project to leverage India's highly skilled workforce in chip design. Nvidia has approached the Indian government to explore the development of a new AI chip tailored to the local technology market. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Prismforce, an India-U.S. million in a Series A round led by Sequoia Capital India. IT providers spend a large part of their variable costs on hiring skilled employees. Prismforce’s product catalog includes SkillPrism, which uses AI over a skill inventory management application to automate talent profiling.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

A startup by an Apple alum that has become home to millions of low-skilled workers in India said on Tuesday it has raised an additional $12.5 One-year-old Apna said Sequoia Capital India and Greenoaks Capital led the $12.5 Existing investors Lightspeed India and Rocketship VC also participated in the round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A 22-month-old startup that is helping millions of blue- and gray-collar workers in India learn new skills and find jobs has become the youngest firm to join the coveted unicorn status in the world’s second-largest internet market. The Apna app allows these workers to learn new skills to become eligible for more work opportunities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

In 2017, early adopter nonprofits began launching Amazon Skills. WhatsApp Payments are launching soon in India. The Internet of Things. By the year 2020, over 50 billion things – cars, appliances, roads – will be connected to the Internet of Things. 2018 is a crucial year for smart speaker technology and innovation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

Maria was raised by the sisters of the local Chennai Church, given a basic education and was sent off to Worth Trust to learn life skills. Thanks to a generous grant from the Lavelle Foundation, Bookshare has been able to work with Worth Trust, a nonprofit with offices in Chennai, India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010. The man denied it and left.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Joy of Giving Week is a "festival of philanthropy" held October 2 through 8 all over India in conjunction with Mohandas Gandhi's birthday. To celebrate, TechSoup's partner in India, BiGTech , held the Find an IT Partner event in Mumbai to connect local nonprofits with IT students.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

India is the second largest demographic represented in the new batch. For companies in India, founders no longer have to spend three months away from their customers or teams. When it comes to choosing founders in India, we accept them based on the same criteria we judge companies from anywhere else.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Participants will, of course, have to use their financial modeling skills to determine the answer to each question. Case studies contain real-world problems, along with six to 15 questions that vary in complexity — the more complex a question, the more points are awarded to the player.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

There are thousands of management colleges and institutions in India, but other than those at the top of the charts, most are unable to attract enough students. “We partner with these institutions to offer upskilling and soft-skill courses as well as campus-life programs for students so that their quality of education improves.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

I recently learned about an nonprofit organization in India dedicated to using video to help alleviate poverty and accelerate social change in the developing world. At the end of the year, the NGO has the skills and capacity to continue producing community videos. It's a reminder that sharing your video offline can also be powerful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2012

By the time you read this post, I’ll be somewhere in the air between California and India to facilitate a “Networked NGO” training for NGOs in India that are Packard Foundation grantees. My article talks about the importance of having your nonprofit staff grow content curation skills. More about that later.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Like many other startups including Oyo in which Microsoft has invested in India, the Zupee deal sought to have the startup use Azure and other Microsoft cloud services as part of the deal, two people familiar with the matter said. Zupee declined to comment. Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment late last month.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2021

In addition to Latin America, ELSA will also focus on expanding in Vietnam, India and Japan, where it saw high demand last year. In Vietnam, India and Brazil, people with higher English speaking proficiency can earn about two to three times more than their colleagues, she said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It was part of the seventh cohort of Surge, Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia’s accelerator, which led the round. ” But designers with 3D animation skills are “some of the rarest talents you can find,” observed Cyril Nie, co-founder and CTO at PixCap. million from a seed funding round. France and Russia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Lighting of the lamp is a traditional way to begin a conference here in India. Can we deliver job skills for $10 per skill? Tags: india. I'm still very jet-lagged and adjusting to both the time zone and culture in Mumbai. He sees many opportunities on the horizon.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. Of the 3 million NGOs that operate in India, most are small and dependent on volunteers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Apna, a 21-month-old startup that is helping millions of blue- and gray-collar workers in India upskill themselves, find communities and land jobs, is inching closer to becoming the fastest tech firm in the world’s second-largest internet market to become a unicorn. India poised for record VC year as unicorns head for decisive IPOs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

I’m not sure if I would qualify for an EB-1A, but since I was born in India, I face a much longer wait for an EB-2 NIW. Inventive from India. Those can include folks born in India or China, who might face long green card backlogs. I’ve been looking at the EB-1A and EB-2 NIW. Any tips on how to proceed?

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

With ALX, the group has now set its sights on teaching tech skills to not just thousands but potentially millions of tech workers. It’s not a university — but it’s for people who already have college degrees and then we re-skill them for these careers in the fourth industrial revolution.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

I explained Benetech’s efforts to grow the impact of our Bookshare library globally, specifically discussing partnerships with groups in India and Kenya. This fellow had relearned to walk and talk, but was frustrated by the loss of a specific cognitive skill: the ability to listen to numbers (like a phone number) and transcribe them.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

billion, helping it enter India’s fast-growing list of unicorns, a person familiar with the matter said. Games24x7 said in a statement that it is now India’s most valuable “multi-game platform,” but declined to comment on the valuation. The round values the startup at $2.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

American Family Ventures, MassMutual Ventures and SIG; existing investors Blume Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, Nexus Venture Partners, Dream Incubator and Trifecta Capital also participated in the round, which brings Turtlemint’s total to-date raise to $55 million. Only a fraction of India’s 1.3 million customers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Rakuten India CEO Sunil Gopinath is joining the Twid board of directors on behalf of Rakuten Capital. The executive noted that there are plans to bolster the technology and “invest a lot” in data science. “Rakuten Capital sees tremendous potential and future synergies in this investment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

To realize our goal of democratizing insurance for the general public, we are expanding our reach and will continue to build on our tech-based solutions and empowered advisors so that they can serve every village and region of India by the end of the year,” said Agrawal.

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Tableau

JANUARY 18, 2023

A believer in sharing knowledge, Anya helps people develop their data skills by introducing data analysis and visualization tools into their everyday workflows, conducting training, writing manuals, and presenting at events. Rahul is passionate about helping others learn how to code, improve their visualization skills, and become job-ready.

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Medium Technology Section

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

India, an unexplored land of enormous talent, has millions of people with amazing skills yet to be unearthed. From Mumbai's hustle and bustle to Arunachal Pradesh's quiet villages, India is a

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram.

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