Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya from ekgaon technologies was a co-organiser of Resilience 2011 Conference. He shares his impressions soon after the three-day event ended in Kuala Lumpur on 5 March 2011. Vijay is a social entrepreneur and development professional having experience of designing systems and institutions for enabling access to services and markets for rural producers and artisans. Vijay's work revolves around utlising information and communication technologies for enabling access to markets, climate and weather information, technology & knowledge, finance and handholding services to rural businesses, producers and artisans for making them competitive in global business environment.
Sasikumar K is a commerce graduate with post graduation in Finance and Computer Applications from Bharathiar University, Tamil Nadu, India. Sasi has experience in financial management systems, enterprise resource management applications, database development and a financial analysis. As a keen researcher Sasi has developed in depth understanding of development finance sector and systems needs for realizing the potential of the sector. Sasi areas of interest involve sustainable development and development finance. Sasi is President & Regional Head with ekgaon.
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Sasikumar K is a commerce graduate with post graduation in Finance and Computer Applications from Bharathiar University, Tamil Nadu, India. Sasi has experience in financial management systems, enterprise resource management applications, database development and a financial analysis. As a keen researcher Sasi has developed in depth understanding of development finance sector and systems needs for realizing the potential of the sector. Sasi areas of interest involve sustainable development and development finance. Sasi is President & Regional Head with ekgaon.
Mr.Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya, CEO, Ekgaon Technologies presented the demo on "Nutrient Management Decision Support System for Livelihood Security of Farmers" in ICTD 2010 London.
Vijay Pratap Singh has not just made farming easier but also helped in facilitating micro-finance for the those who need it. CNN IBN coverage of ekgaon.
The Dell Small Business Excellence Award honors businesses that apply technology in innovative ways to improve the customer experience and grow. ekgaon was chosen out of more than 7,000 applications as a Winner in the India round. ekgaon would represent India in a global competition of Dell Small Business Excellence Award 2009, where finalist of all countries from world would present their companies to an International Jury.
David Kuria, Vijay Pratap Singh, Gregory Van Kirk, and John Wilbanks discuss the importance and benefits of collaboration while attending the Ashoka-Lemelson Tech4Society Conference in Hyderabad, India.
We are still in India meeting Social Entrepreneurs. We are at the beginning of this Asian tour and this time we met guys from ekgaon technologies, a really cool Social Enterprise which designs and develops technologies and information systems to meet the needs of developing communities. In a few word, they use information and communication technologies to improve rural lives. For example they empower villagers by giving them agricultural information for them to know when to plant, water and harvest their crops. However these magicians are also doing a lot of other great stuff with technology. Ekgaon Social Enterprise approach is shared by all its team and impulse by the Social Entrepreneur Mr. Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya. Mr. Vijay was travelling, but we get the chance to meet Mr. Rohit (COO), Mr. James and Mr. Kiran. Here is what they think about our project and our web-app. Thanks guys for receiving us !.
The award ceremony was held on 9th Feb 2010 at Grand Hyatt, Mumbai, India. Mr. Ashok Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra gave the away the award in a glittering ceremony at the NASSCOM Leadership Summit, witnessed by the top honchos of IT companies of India and world. Award was received by Mr. Rohit Magotra, Chief Operating Officer, ekgaon, Ms. Dhartari Raut, Secretary, WOSCA and Mr. Sisir Pradhan, Programme Manager of Concern Worldwide. Receiving the award, Mr. Rohit Magotra, Chief Operating Officer of ekgaon said "the technology has created not only transparency in tracking social entitlements but we have also proved that effective mechanism for delivery of services through mobile phones. We are looking forward scale the solution through out the country and provide the solution through leading mobile phone service providers".
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