Thursday, August 18, 2011

Service-oriented social enterprise

The wheels of social enterprise have been turning. I've been working, with my colleagues at the Univ. of Calcutta, and in Tripura, on the application of formal software engineering techniques to the modelling, analysis, monitoring and redesign of rural services in emerging economies. We have a tool, tentatively called UNNOTI (the Bengali word for "progress"). We entered the idea in the Trailblazer innovation competition at the Univ. of Wollongong, and got the Runners-up Award. I've been promised support in making this off-beat, but potentially powerful idea into a full-blown social enterprise. Let's hope it happens....

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