We hope these students run with this idea and make it a reality. The country and the planet is depending on them to change the unsustainable solutions we are currently using.

Can’t imagine why we didn’t see this earlier…we’re on Vimeo practically an hour a day!

But there’s still 5 days left to submit that one amazing idea you’ve been percolating in your brain forever! Good luck!

Rules, regulations, prizes and other must knows here.

Is India pulling a China?

Medianama is reporting that some ISPs in India have blocked Typepad, Mobango and Clickatell. From what we’re reading it is sporadic and happening in certain parts of India.

Also read their piece ‘How the Indian Government plans to regulate online content and blogs’

Excerpt:

So, what does this mean?

It means that given that the Indian government is unable to control content on the Internet, it is giving itself enough powers to control access of its citizens to that content, by controlling the ISPs. The process by which it can block sites is fairly bureaucratic, and it will be difficult for a request from a normal citizen to be entertained. But what is alarming is that the government itself has enough opportunity, given how vague the reasons for blocking are, to block anything it wants to block.

Saras Sarasvathy, Darden School of Business and Effectuation.org

Saras Sarasvathy, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business has a study out on how great entrepreneurs think.

Sarasvathy concluded that master entrepreneurs rely on what she calls effectual reasoning. Brilliant improvisers, the entrepreneurs don’t start out with concrete goals. Instead, they constantly assess how to use their personal strengths and whatever resources they have at hand to develop goals on the fly, while creatively reacting to contingencies. By contrast, corporate executives—those in the study group were also enormously successful in their chosen field—use causal reasoning. They set a goal and diligently seek the best ways to achieve it.

We’re currently watching a live chat with her at Inc.com. The question asked was ‘how do you become a successful entrepreneur.’ Sarasvathy’s answer, “Ask yourself, are you willing to fail?”

Good enough for us.

Everyone must get a second chance in life. So good on this Hyderabad prison that is training their inmates in computer skills to eventually operate a call center in there.

Which is all good and all…till we read this one sentence in the story that made us go WTF??!!!

One of the inmates in training is RS Ratnababu, a 53-year-old former bank assistant manager sentenced to six years in jail for “misappropriation” of 30,000 rupees (£450). (Read full post at Guardian)

Read that sentence again. They’ve jailed a guy to six (gulp!) six years for embezzling 30,000 rupees? By that math how many years would Kalmadi or A. Raja or any of the rich folks with billions stashed and robbed get you think?