http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/12/12/guest-post-l-ramp-innovation-awards-2007 Comments for "Guest Post: L-RAMP Innovation Awards 2007" en http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/12/12/guest-post-l-ramp-innovation-awards-2007#comment-21500 The L-RAMP Lifetime achievement award went to Sanjit “Bunker” Roy, who after an enviable education and elite job quit the affluent world to start his work for India’s rural poor. He established the Barefoot college in Tilonia - one of India’s most backward districts. He is also the founder director of the Social Work and Research Centre – an eponymously titled social foundation. <br class="clear" /> Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:07:36 -0500 Indian comment 21500 at http://www.nextbillion.net http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/12/12/guest-post-l-ramp-innovation-awards-2007 <p><em>Shatajit Basu, a college junior at IIT Madras and a core member of the India <font face="arial,sans-serif">chapter of Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship society (ASES), attended the L-RAMP Innovation Awards 2007 and sent us this guest post.<br /><br /></font></em><strong><font face="arial,sans-serif">By Shatajit Basu</font></strong><br /><br /><img src="http://www.lramp.org/images/logo.gif" border="0" alt="L-RAMP" title="L-RAMP" width="165" height="75" align="left" />The <a href="http://www.lramp.org" title="L-RAMP">L-RAMP</a> Innovation Awards is a joint initiative of premier Indian engineering school – <a href="http://www.iitm.ac.in/" title="IIT Madras">IIT Madras</a> and the <a href="http://www.rinovations.org/" title="Rural Innovations Network">Rural Innovations Network</a>, supported by the <a href="http://www.lemelson.org" title="Lemelson Foundation">Lemelson Foundation</a>. L-RAMP is an acronym for &quot;Lemelson Recognition and Mentoring Programme.&quot; The foundation identifies innovators and harnesses their creativity to build their innovations into sustainable and scalable enterprises. The goal is to transform living standards of poor communities through such ventures. <br /><br />The winners of L-RAMP Innovation Awards 2007 were feted by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India at a gala ceremony hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Dr MS Ananth, the director of IIT Madras began by congratulating the winners and then gave a brief overview of the various socially relevant inititiatves and projects under incubation at IIT M. This was followed by a short talk by Professor TT Narendran, the Dean for Industrial Consulting and Sponsored research (IC-SR). Charismatic as always, his message stressing the importance of “rural engineering” was largely aimed at the hundred strong engineering students in the audience. <br /><br />Following this, the L-RAMP innovators were presented the awards by Dr. Kalam. The award carries a cash award of INR 25,000 INR and a trophy. <br /><br />(This post continues past the break; click Read More to continue)<br /></p><br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/12/12/guest-post-l-ramp-innovation-awards-2007">read more</a></p> http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/12/12/guest-post-l-ramp-innovation-awards-2007#comment Agriculture Energy Financial Services Health Water Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:28:05 -0500 Nitin Rao 4951 at http://www.nextbillion.net