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A good social enterprise founder talks : Social Entrepreneurship – Interview with DesiCrew [Rural BPO] Founder

If you are looking for start up jobs, here are some links to crawl the web for your job search. Some of the links take you to the Internships also and some may take you to the permanent government jobs. Have a look at them. There are many other similar portals to help the recruiters and the job seekers, you may google them ;-) . http://www.hellointern.com http://www.jijau.com/naukari http://www.sutrajobs.com http://jobs.joelonsoftware.co. in http://barcampmumbai.org/ Startup_jobs http://www.venturewoods.org/ index.php/venturejobs/ http://pluggd.in/coffee/forum/ indian-startup-jobs http://ecosystem.pluggd.in/ index.php/StartupJobs http://www.nenonline.org/jsp/ startup_jobs/home.jsp Wishing you best luck! ============================ Never Ever Feel Defeated, Because Every One Is Born To Win! ---[myStupidQuotes] ============================

By opting for the free and open software platform (FOSS) for the state-sponsored IT@School project, Kerala's General Education Department has saved Rs.11 crore. The project's Executive Director K. Anvar Sadath said if proprietary software were used in the 11,065 laptops and computers to be supplied in schools, a minimum of Rs.11 crore would have been spent in procurement of software. "This deployment, considered to be the largest ever, will start from tomorrow (Friday) and will include 8,385 computers, 9,607 UPS, 2,680 laptops, 1,871 multimedia projectors, 2,222 laser printers, 1,076 dot matrix printers and 1,759 scanners to be made available to schools," said Sadath. This scheme is already running in 1,016 government schools and is now being extended to 3,055. At present it covers classes 8 to 12. "The advantage of using free software is not only cost reduction, there are philosophical reasons behind this including sharing of knowledge. ...

The E-learning Outsourcing industry in India is expected to achieve revenue growth by $603 million by the end of 2012. The Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) is expected at 15 percent per year, which might also waver till 2010 because of the global economic recession.......the growth rate of the e-learning industry will be slow for coming 6-8 quarters, but will attain its pace by then.....The e-learning industry earned a profit around $341 millions in the year 2008...... Prestigious institutions like Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) are actively adopting e-learning courses... .... The greatest challenge faced by the players in the industry is the acceptance of the concept of e-learning amongst the people as they do not understand the value of the software for learning purposes...... Read Complete News at SiliconIndia

James Gosling interview on JAVA http://intruders.tv/en-tech/exclusive-interview-with-james-gosling-the-father-of-java/ 3 Key Lessons for an Entrepreneurial Internet Company - Hoffman (CEO LinkdIn) http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1687

His Is The Team India Needs! These are the days of election fever and every politician is suffering from it. Many have started showing the symptoms of the high fever, you might have observed some ads flooding the web saying “XYZ for PM”. And I feel sad for it, because this thing once again proves that we Indians always try to blindly copy things from west or make something which is somehow an Indian version of an American thing. I strongly think that Indian people feel proud in “Importing Ideals”! Same disease has attacked our leader who is just dying to be PM [sorry to say this but it’s what seems!]. Many politicians in India got impressed with campaign of the Obama for the presidential elections in America . I don’t know are these some politicians are impressed with what he does and what he speaks. I think this leader of ours don’t know India is not a presidential democracy and India doesn’t need only a good PM but a complete perfe...

India has to initiate "structural reforms" in the educational system if it wants to reap the benefits of its "demographic dividend", National Knowledge Commission (NKC) Chairman Sam Pitroda said here Thursday..... ...."Today education has become indispensable to the country's ambitions in the knowledge economy and therefore there is a need to develop a new knowledge paradigm, simultaneously addressing concerns of disparity and inclusion," Pitroda said. read complete news at http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/53912