Neil Patel and Tapan Parikh: India is a developing country with a very low internet penetration rate, especially in the rural parts of the country. Although internet is unavailable, mobile phones have become the new mode of communication that people even in remote areas use.

Neil Patel and Tapan Parikh founded Awaaz.De in 2010 and Neil’s thesis at Stanford’s Department of Computer Science inspired them to start this enterprises. Awaaz.De allows experts to connect with people from these rural areas and give them advice about agriculture through question and answer sessions, phone surveys or broadcast messages.
Awaaz.De is becoming an increasingly popular forum where farmers can get to know about anything they want, related to agriculture.

Chetna Sinha: Being a farmer herself, Chetna Sinha wanted to help the rural women farmers. She thought that financial support would help these women from their poverty, and persuaded banks to loan money to women. She founded the Mann Deshi Mahila Bank, which is a micro enterprising development bank, that loans money to poor women.
Mann Deshi Mahila now has four branches that provide services to over 2,359 Self Help Groups, and has about 185,000 clients, with 10-20 percent women.

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