The Goa Project

Society

Society track of The Goa Project 2016

A society is a group of people involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societies are characterised by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent members. In the social sciences, a larger society often evinces stratification or dominance patterns in subgroups

  • Social Media and Technology: How are these two affecting societal situations today, and how are we leveraging them to stimulate change in untapped areas.

  • Stories of Social impact: The rising tide of social entrepreneurship. Social impact projects at scale and at the grassroots.

  • Patterns of relationships between subgroups of society: How cultural expectations affect our approach to politics, civil sense, and how we go about daily life.

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Abhineeta Raghunath

@chilliflakes17 Proposing

Digital Desh: Is Rural India equipped to be in the startup scene? Here's what we found.

Submitted Jan 15, 2016

Technical level: Beginner

Between the logistic/policy hassle of enabling Desi Entrepreneurs and putting them online, we forgot to check how their organic growth is really like.

Outline

Ever wondered what mobile network operators mean when they say they’ve connected thousands of cities and villages? Being in the business of making small businesses larger, we wondered what businesses were like in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities. Was the scene “happening” enough? In the scores of case studies we made, we found inspiring, heart-breaking, and innovative rural entrepreneurs. But what we learnt from them is the real clincher.

Speaker bio

Jasminder Gulati worked at global corporates for over 18 years, including 12 years at Microsoft before co-founding NowFloats in 2012 with Ronak Kumar Samantray, Nitin Jain and Neeraj Sabharwal. NowFloats helps local businesses get a meaningful digital presence that connects the business with local consumers resulting in higher revenue & profits. Over the past 3 years, NowFloats has over acquired over 200,000 customers and drives over 6M consumers to them every month. NowFloats has 6 patents, all ‘Make in India’.

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The Goa Project
#The Goa Project Funnel The Goa Project is an unconference - where unlike a typical conference, the talks are not put together by a panel or knowledge partner - but is proposed by the attendees themselves. You propose a session or talk that might be of interest to the audience at the unconference, … more