Biosense Technologies

by Kanika Kakkar

 

Biosense Technologies is a technology and design driven initiative. Their dream is to add value to the lives of people by developing products and product extended services that help improving their ways of life.

Their primary and current focus is in developing the ToucHb platform. Their vision is to enable and empower every health worker as a vital decision maker towards saving lives by providing them with simple, portable & reliable diagnostic tools. With ToucHb, a non-invasive hemoglobin estimation device in the hands of every doorstep health-care worker, they aim to shift the paradigm of anaemia surveillance and drastically reduce the number of deaths occurring due to anaemia that is close to 1 million per year at the moment.

In December 2008, Anaemedia was reincarnated as Biosense Technologies Private Limited.  

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Nuru Lights

by Brototi Roy

Nuru Lights is a social enterprise that sought to invent an affordable and clean off-grid lighting system for the world’s poor. The main reasons behind the motive to replace kerosene by the company are to bring on an affordable, healthy, environmentally friendly and safe for purpose way of lightning the world. 

This venture has a myriad of positive impacts for the rural people. Not only it's an affordable form of lighting system, resulting in over a 85% savings over kerosene but also helps the environment by providing an emissions-free lighting system and aids in employment opportunities for the local people. Their innovative technology won many awards and business plan competitions and has been mentioned in the New York Times, Fortune magazine and the likes.

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MAM MOVIES

by Kanika Kakkar

MAM: ‘I AM’ is what it means in Sanskrit. It’s an open source network of voluntary independent filmmakers who use media, the arts and technology to inform, inspire and empower others to create positive action in the world.

They believe inner transformation leads to outer change and to express it through stories they have been doing with several experiments like either moved by love, seva journals, lok darhsan, etc. Currently the team and volunteers of MAM Movies organize film screenings in public spaces and create awareness on various social causes. 

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iXiGo

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iXiGO, launched in 2007, is a global travel search engine. It searches more than 100 travel sites to find the best flight, hotel deals. Its mission is to aggregate travel information and make it searchable and useful with passion of bringing a technology that brings speed, usability and transparency to the travel world. It is among the NASSCOM 100 IT Innovators 2007.

iXiGO is an infomediary, not an intermediary. That means it’s NOT an online travel agency. It just let you search directly across multiple airlines, hotels, buses, trains and online travel agencies in real-time so that you don't need to search a zillion travel websites. It thus aims to make your travel search easier for you, the same way Google does for information on websites.

iXiGO is a search of the traveler, by the traveler and for the traveler. Unlike travel agencies, there are no biases or commercially-motivated deals within their results. They provide objective, comprehensive and transparent information to assist us in making informed traveling. iXiGO's utility and ease of use have made it a top travel search engine almost entirely through word of mouth from satisfied users. 

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TechWomen

Correspondent: Alam Bains

Techwomen is an initiative of the U.S Department of State’s  Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. It is a professional mentor-ship and exchange programme that identifies 38 women who are emerging leaders in technical fields in Muslim communities in the Middle-East and North Africa region and brings them to United States for a five week, project-based mentoring programme at leading technology companies in the Silicon Valley. 

TechWomen strengthens participants’ professional capacity, expands and diversifies networks of technology professionals in the Middle East and North Africa region, fortifies partnerships between the U.S and the chosen region and expands their interest in tech-based careers by exposing them to role models in the technology field.

Mentorship participants are selected from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, West Bank and Ghaza and some of the companies supporting TechWomen include Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, IBM, Intel, AT&T, HP, Microsoft Corporation and Twitter among others.

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PRAGATI

PRAGATI mission is to educate and train deaf children from different socio-economic backgrounds, so that each child’s area of strength is identified and a base is built upon which to develop future skills, leading to their integration into mainstream society.

It’s objective is to develop a one-stop centre for comprehensive deafness management with a range of services to meet the different needs of deaf children and their families. The organization wishes to create awareness at different levels of society and spread the benefits of education, modern technology and new techniques among the deaf.

PRAGATI has counselled families of over 300 deaf children and provides educational and technical support to about 30 children with hearing impairment in the school. It also provides Speech Therapy to about 25 children. 

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Vijay Anand : The Startup Guy

Vijay Anand, an Indian entrepreneur, passionate and driven by technologies related to the Mobile, VoIP, and Emerging Internet space, with a wide range of interests from simple economics to biotechnology and genetics, with a biased corner for anything related to artificial intelligence and neuro-science.

Putting words into action, he is the Founder of Proto.in, the startup ecosystem body, and has been a driving force in being involved in community events such as Barcamp Chennai, Blogcamp, Wikicamp, Podworks, Open Coffee Club in Chennai and seeding such similar initiatives across the country.

Vijay strongly believes that it is the right mix of Technology, Business models, execution and timing that great companies are made of.  As a revolutionary in heart, he seeks to change the global perception to India being much more than just an outsourcing destination.

He is also on-board a few companies and teams, providing strategic advice and consulting on Product Management, Strategy and Business Operations.

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Technospot.IN

Technospot.IN, a brain child of Ashish and Manav, is a web portal which strives to help Indians locating resources which can be helpful in their daily life by finding exclusive, untold and unfolded insights of India. 

Technospot vision is to bring forward unknown yet resourceful informative sites, start-ups, thoughts and discussions to make people more aware of India and Indian bases. It aims to help people to find, learn and use information scattered around and make them more productive.

The site first started to let people know about the beautiful Mughal city Agra has widen its horizon and now caters to several Indian genres, Indian Culture, Indian Start-ups, Indian Tech, etc.

Technospot.net, their sister site, helps user to understand computer, internet and mobile in a better, safe and productive manner. 

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