Winners of India's Top Social Enterprise Honors Announced
Technology for Development: Spatial Ideas
Spatial is building an e-Gov platform for India. The enterprise uses technology to bring transparency, accountability and efficiency in important citizen services such as sanitation, healthcare, public distribution system, employee accountability, etc. With the help of an innovative platform that converges Geographic Information System, mobile applications, Business Intelligence and Biometrics it enables real time dashboards, SMS Alerts, email reports, insightful maps for decision makers by connecting citizen touch points using tablets/phones.
Women Empowerment: MicroGraam
MicroGraam is an online peer-to-peer lending platform that brings several innovations to traditional micro-credit. It offers flexible repayment terms and low interest rates to borrowers. Under its micro ventures model, micro-venture capitalists provide upfront funding to micro-entrepreneurs to build a small business, the two parties share in profits or losses for a pre-determined number of year. Most of its borrowers are women from extremely low-income backgrounds.
Clean Energy / Technology: Aura Herbal
Aura Herbal makes herbal textiles and dyes, and helps in impeding pollution and the harm caused by regular textile dyes. The enterprise also recycles the solid as well as liquid waste produced, to generate fabric that is 100 percent eco-friendly.
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