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Microcredit Competition to Draw Nobel Laureate Yunus

The University System of Georgia is to host on Oct. 17 an economic development conference that is to showcase student-initiated business plans addressing social issues facing Georgia communities.

Muhammad Yunus, the acknowledged founder of the “microcredit” concept, is to be the featured speaker at the conference to be held at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Ferst Center, and is to present awards to the winners of a social business plan competition.

The judges include 21 national and local business and community leaders.

Kazi Huque, CEO, Grameen Intel Social Business; Zeev Klein, board member at Digital Wish, general partner at Landmark Ventures and co-founder and director at Doing IT for Good; C.N. “Madhu” Madhusudan, CEO, VectorSpan Inc. and president of TiE Atlanta;

Narayan Sundararajan, CTO, Grameen-Intel Social Business, Intel Corp.; Eileen Sweeney, senior director of Motorola Giving and Philanthropic Rleations, Motorola Inc. and Boby Zukis, global strategy and technology executive.

To read the full form of the entire article visit: http://www.globalatlanta.com/article/25112/

Better expertise for farmers in offing

BHUBANESWAR: The farmers of the State will now have better technological expertise to increase crop output with the launch of e-Agro business initiative.

E-Agro is a joint venture of Intel and Grameen Intel Social Business (Bangladesh). This is a model programme where an entrepreneur will be given charge of 2,000 farmers. He will be responsible for keeping database of production of last five years and provide the farmers know-how for better harvest. The database will be made in the local language so that the farmer will be able to access it. Gradually, the number of farmers assigned to each entrepreneur will be increased depending on his capacity. The entrepreneur will be backed by OUAT, Paradeep Phosphates and Intel.

"We are trying to find ways to bring technology to people. We had technology but did not have the knowledge about entrepreneurial needs. And Grameen helped us providing a complete solution," said Frank Martinez, director of Intel's World Ahead Programme.

The e-Agro initiative has been launched in 12 locations of the State as a pilot project.

"We are working on this for the last two and a half years and it is a learning process. Now is the time to scale up and expand," said K C Mishra, CEO, eKutir. De-risking is a crucial part of the programme where farmers are provided with best quality seeds, fertilisers and an advisory to minimise the chances of crop failure.

Jobs are being created at the macro level and the farmers are getting quality services for a fixed payment, said Frank.

"The e-Agro initiative is a big boon for us as it will help us gain know-how on how to grow crops better," said Charana Sasmal, a beneficiary of the programme.

To read the full form of the entire article visit: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/better-expertise-for-farmers-in-offing/186532-60-117.html