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ONLINE | Going Forward From Social Impact to Social Justice: Can Technology Help?

Date: 20th October, 2021
Time:11:00AM to 12:30PM (EDT)

ONLINE | Going Forward From Social Impact to Social Justice: Can Technology Help?

Online | Zoom

    This panel will discuss:
  • The ways in which technology can help in advancing not only social impact, but also social justice
  • The off-tech work required to make technology deliver the impact and justice goals
  • The challenges in making technology-based solutions reach the extremely marginalized and excluded groups
  • The importance of context developing and deploying ‘appropriate’ technologies
  • The role of ecosystem actors such as the funders and government in the development and deployment of technologies for social good
  • Short and long term implications of Covid for technology development and adoption

Moderated by Simy Joy, Faculty Fellow, Center of Excellence for Social Innovation, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode.
Introduction by Latha Poonamallee, associate professor of management and social innovation & chair of management programs.
Remarks by Prof Sridhar Guda, Dean (Executive Education), Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode.
Save the date for our next Management & Social Justice Conversation panel on Thursday, November, 4, 2021 at 12:00 PM EDT.

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Social Impact and Change

Date: 21st December, 2020
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Paul Basil

Co-founder & Partner of Menterra


Paul Basil is co-founder & Partner of Menterra, an impact investment fund.
He is Founder and former CEO of Villgro Innovations Foundation and an Ashoka Fellow.
Paul has also contributed to building the social enterprise eco- system in India through Unconvention, India’s leading conference on innovation and social entrepreneurship;
Villgro fellowship that recruits global mid career professionals to experience social entrepreneurship and the India Chapter of Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs.
A mechanical engineer by training and post-graduate in forestry management, Paul been conferred the Samaj Seva Bhushan Award and the Star Entrepreneur Award.