Meet SMSONE: Innovation & Entrepreneurship doesn't require money,education,experience
SMSONE is a good example to understand that innovation does not need lot of money, education and 'experience'. TechCrunch recently published about SMSONE. Following is the excerpt from the article on TechCrunch:
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SMSONE is basically a very-local newsletter. Ghate goes to a village and scouts out an unemployed youthâpreferably one whoâs had jobs as a street vendor or has experience going door-to-door shilling for local politicians. The kid pays Ghate 1000 rupees (or about $20) for the âfranchiseâ rights to be the local reporter for that village. He goes door-to-door singing up 1,000 names, phone numbers and other basic information, then mails the slips to Ghate. Ghate enters it all his databases and all those âsubscribersâ get a text introducing the kid as their villageâs reporter. In India all incoming texts are free so, the subscribers donât pay anything.Source: #-Link-Snipped-#
And what readers get is pretty powerful. Right now there is no way to get a timely message to people in a village. Thereâs no Internet access, no TV, no local paper, and frequently no electricity. All they have is a basic mobile phone. SMSONEâs service can give farmers instant updates about crop pricing or news of a seed or fertilizer delivery a town away. That means the farmer only makes the trip when he knows the shipment is there, rather than wasting days of travel hoping the shipment is there.
Consider something even more fundamental: Water. Much of the villages have government-owned water pipes that are turned on for an hour or so once a day, or even in some areas once a week. Everyone has to bring their vats, pitchers and empty kerosene cans and get as much water as they can while the pipes are on. But these pipes donât really run on a schedule so people frequently miss getting the day or weekâs water. Now, SMSONE subscribers get a text when the pipes are about to be turned on.
I just checked out the website and found following link - #-Link-Snipped-# , do go through the 'Our Team' section 😁
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Saandeep SreerambatlaRe: Meet SMSONE: Innovation & Entrepreneurship doesn't require money,education,experi
The idea is good.
Its a great Innovation must say!! -
sarveshguptaRe: Meet SMSONE: Innovation & Entrepreneurship doesn't require money,education,experi
Indeed a great idea..
Indian brain after all
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