2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge

2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge

Organised By:
USAID and Global Development Commons.

Key Dates:
Submission Period: October 13,2008- November 28,2008
Community Voting period: December 1-12, 2008
Annoucement of Winners: January 15, 2008

ForumNokia Calling All Innovators: Mobile Application Development

ForumNokia Calling All Innovators (Website)

Organised By: ForumNokia

Key Dates:
Deadline for Submission for winning an early bird prize: November 10, 2008
Deadline for Submission of entries: December 15, 2008

Project 10 to the 100th

Project 10 to the 100th

Organised By: Google Inc

Key Dates:
Deadline for Submission of Ideas: October 20, 2008

“Project 10 to the 100th” is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.

IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2008

Event: IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2008 (Website)

Organized By: IBM

Key Dates:
Conference-
@Bangalore: August 28-29, 2008
@Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram: August 28, 2008

MBA’s Without Borders – Developing People and Nations

Resource: MBA’s Without Borders – Developing People and Nations (Website)

In 2004, co-Founders, Tal Dehtiar and Michael Brown, believed that business can and must play an important role in alleviating poverty in developing countries; they also believed that MBAs have valuable skills which are needed by businesses and NGOs working in developing countries.

WIDER-MERIT Research Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Technological Innovation, and Development

Event: WIDER-MERIT Research Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Technological Innovation, and Development (Website)

Organised By: UNU-WIDER and UNU-MERIT of the United Nations University (UNU)

Key Dates:
Submissions of paper abstracts before- May 30, 2008
Accepted papers are required by- September 22, 2008
Event Dates: October 30-31, 2008

Engineers for Social Impact: Prestigious Fellowship / Summer Internship Program

Opportunity: Engineers for Social Impact Fellowship (Website)

Key Dates:
Application deadline: March 2, 2008

For Whom:
Current undergraduate students at these premier engineering schools: BITS-Pilani & BITS-Goa , IIT-B, IIT-D, IIT-K, IIT-KGP, IIT-M, NITK-S, NIT-T, NIT-W and NSIT

Legatum Fellowships

Program: Legatum Fellowships 2008-2009 (Website)

Offered By: Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT

Key Dates:
Deadline for Submitting fellowship application: January 31, 2008

Harvard Global Essay Contest for Bangladesh

Competition: The Anwarul Quadir Prize of 2008 Global Essay Contest for Bangladesh (Website)

Organised by: Center for International Development at Harvard University

Key Dates:
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2008
Results: October 15, 2008

Propose an innovative and practical idea that would improve the lives of low- and middle- income people of Bangladesh (everyone except the top-third of the population in terms of annual income). Proposals will be judged by four Harvard University faculty members, in consultation with scholars familiar with Bangladesh.

This global contest is open to any individual in the world. Any compelling essay that establishes a way to improve the lives of low- and middle-income people in Bangladesh is acceptable for submission. The essays will be rated giving equal weights to a) innovative nature of the idea; b) clarity and cogency of argument and writing; c) ease and practicality of implementation; and d) the size of impact.

The author of the winning essay will be awarded the Anwarul Quadir Prize, USD $25,000.

Edit: Essays should be no longer than 25 pages, excluding bibliography, table of contents, and any diagrams. Rules and Regulations

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Students Club for Augmenting Innovation

Organization: National Innovation Foundation (Website)

Students’ Club for Augmenting Innovations (SCAI) at grassroots is a body of students from India’s best management and technological institutes. National Innovation Foundation (NIF) is encouraging students to set up SCAI chapters at various schools, colleges and universities in order to provide Product Development, Business Development (setting up of ventures), Mentoring and Monitoring support to entrepreneurs/innovators/traditional knowledge holders at grassroots level in the country.

Professor Anil K. Gupta, President SRISTI and Professor Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, is the Executive Vice Chairperson of NIF.

The most significant outcome of SCAI would be that students from different Business Schools and Technical Institutes would come together for advancing the cause of grassroots innovators. This is an effort to link the informal knowledge system (grassroots genius) with formal knowledge system and thereby have a distributed knowledge system in place. Such an attempt would ensure the reach of economically poor-knowledge rich people to the masses and will also prevent the erosion of indigenous knowledge base.

This is an unprecedented event and has enormous potential to change the development paradigm. Contact scai at nifindia dot org to contribute to grassroots innovation.

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StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation

Event: Global Institute for Social Innovation, London Business School (Website)

Organised by: StartingBloc – Created in partnership with the MIT Sloan School of Management, the first and only USA based 501c3 to educate youth on corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship.

Key Dates:
Dates: July 2008 (four consecutive days)
Application Deadline: December 1, 2007

For Whom:
StartingBloc aims to prepare outstanding undergraduate students and young professionals who will become the next generation of leaders in all three sectors—public, private, and social.

Editor’s Note: I have completed the StartingBloc Fellowship in 2007 – and will be happy to answer any questions about the program.

StartingBloc Institutes for Social Innovation are four-day fellowship programs in social innovation. At the Institute, candidates learn industry best practices around corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, and sustainability. Corporate innovators, social entrepreneurs, and academics discuss cutting edge strategies around implementing social and environmental change through enterprise.

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