Avinash has an excellent idea to make the most of our educational institutions and social organizations. It is pretty simple, really - he wants them to collaborate on coming up with solutions to problems like the kind most NGOs deal with. Educational institutions can definitely be financially and ideologically perfect for NGOs to get help for their projects while giving the students and faculty some much needed real-world scenarios to find solutions to and test their technologies on. It is a win-win.
He would like to find out if there is some such collaboration in place in India - Yazad?
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One suggestion is to work with NSS units in colleges. They have a social agenda and students volunteer for helping the community.
Posted by: JK at March 3, 2005 11:20 AM
Thanks, JK - btw, do you know some bloggers in the bay area?
Posted by: Shanti at March 3, 2005 1:24 PM
Shanti, I personally know one blogger in the bay area.
Posted by: JK at March 3, 2005 1:27 PM
I knew you used to be in the bay area before and moved to LA. I will ask Avinash (the blogger I linked to above) to email you.
Posted by: Shanti at March 3, 2005 1:29 PM
that’s a good idea, @NSS.
The reason I was trying to get in touch with some bloggers in the area was that I’m hoping to start up a quasi-regular bloggers’ meet here.
if there aren’t all that many around, maybe we can have an audio conference of sorts. not much, but better than nothing:)
Posted by: avinash at March 3, 2005 11:32 PM