Our Livelihood 75 India’s future will be defined by its ability to enable a generation for gainful employment and the extent to which it can meaningfully absorb its growing working population. In this series focused on the Livelihoods sector we’ve shown India must increase annual training capacity 8-10X from 4.4M…
By adopting the use of portable vision screeners throughout India, the vision of approximately 10 lakhs (1m) children can be treated and saved before the onset of permanent damage from amblyopia Amblyopia: Affecting 10 lakhs (1m) Children Every Year Amblyopia is a medical condition in which a person’s vision in…
The Momentum of Aadhaar, India’s Universal ID System, is Increasing India has a population of approximately 1.3 billion people today; however, the country does not have a formal system of universal identification for each of its citizens, analogous to a Social Security Number in the United States. As result,…
As Aadhaar continues to enroll thousands of Indians each day and add terabytes of data to its Central Identity Data Repository, MongoDB and other data management and analytics software providers continue to produce insights that will aid Aadhaar and the lives of millions of India’s BoP citizens. In November 2013, it was…
As a result of Aadhaar, India will become a hotbed for new startups and investment opportunities serving India’s low-income BoP population. Many would argue that Aadhaar (also known as UID or Universal Id) is one of India’s most revolutionary and impressive technological endeavors in recent history. What other technology or…
Milaap Social Ventures, South Asia’s leading impact-focused fundraising platform, today announced it has raised an additional 6.6 core INR ($1.1 million USD) in venture funding. Investors included Jungle Ventures, Toivo Annus, Lionrock, Jayesh Parekh & Unitus Ventures. Milaap enables any one in the world to engage in microfinance by lending…
Billboards could possibly become more than an eye sore in Lima, the capital of Peru. The University of Engineering and Technology of Peru partnered with the ad agency Mayo DraftFCB, to engineer and build the first ever billboard that extracts drinking water from the air. Using an inverse osmosis filtration…
After decades of effort, rural electrification proceeds agonizingly slowly: What secrets must be revealed to accelerate a solution? I took the picture above while on a research expedition in Kenya. The wires on the power poles have been cut and stolen; leaving the remainder to dangle impotently. The work crew…
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Unitus Ventures, a leading venture capital firm in India, is joining forces with its US affiliate Capria Ventures, a Global South specialist, to operate with a unified global strategy under a single brand, Capria Ventures.
