Project Accelerator Night
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Hola Amigos!
You're invited to our first Project Accelerator Night!
For this event, we will be featuring Teach For India, Digital Green, Arghyam, Janaagraha and Karnataka Learning Partnership.
We have space for just 40 data volunteers for the PAN. If you or your friends or acquaintances would like to attend, please fill out our online form (http://goo.gl/forms/WTTh3azC1J). If your skill set aligns with the projects on board, we'll send out a formal invite to you with location and other details.
Five great organizations have confirmed their participation for the Project Accelerator Night (PAN). They will present the high-impact work they are doing and discuss real data challenges they face. We will get an opportunity to interact with them and ideate on potential solutions that can help improve their effectiveness in the field. Note: There will only be data samples, no actual data or coding.
The PAN will be followed by a Data Jam (end of January'15), which is open to all. Please keep your calendars booked for the Data Jam for sure! :)
Agenda
5:00 - 5:15pm: Registration and check-in (food will be provided)
5:15 - 6:00pm: Introduction to our featured non-profit organizations
6:00 - 7:30pm: Break-out for group discussions
7:30 - 8:00pm: Reconvene to share learnings, and see how this can be brought forward
Teach for India
Teach for India started out in 2009 as a nationwide movement of outstanding college graduates and young professionals committing two years to teach full-time at under resourced schools and working towards the pursuit of equity in education. Currently, Teach for India is active in 7 cities, with a network of 910 fellows and 660 alumni.
Digital Green
Digital Green, founded in 2008, is an international, non-profit development organization that builds and deploys information and communication technology to amplify the effectiveness of development efforts to affect sustained, social change. Their model combines technology and social organization to maximize the potential of building the capacity of community members on improved, sustainable agriculture, livelihood and health interventions.
Janaagraha
Janaagraha was established in 2001 as a non-profit organisation that works on combining the efforts of both the government and the citizens to transform our cities and ensure better quality of life by improving quality of urban infrastructure and services and quality of citizenship. Their civic portal IChangeMyCity promotes civic action at a local neighbourhood level.
Arghyam
Since 2005, Arghyam supports sustainable water management towards meeting the basic water needs of all citizens, especially those from vulnerable communities. While the focus is on domestic water, Arghyam’s activities are contextualized around the broader issues of the water sector and take into consideration agricultural, industrial and environmental aspects.
Karnataka Learning Partnership
The Karnataka Learning Partnership is a public platform where all the stakeholders involved in primary education can participate and contribute to the cause of ensuring better schools and education for all children in Karnataka. This effort envisages a system where a network of nonprofits working across multiple verticals - education, health, nutrition etc., will bring their data together to present a factual assessment and this will be used to galvanize community led ownership of the public schooling system to drive change.
Form link: http://goo.gl/forms/WTTh3azC1J