Development Dialogue

Development Dialogue was one of the best programs for us because we met so many NGO leaders. It was one an opportunity to build network with entrepreneurs and NGOs. Development dialogue program was started on 27th to 30th January. We all fellows participated actively and we had some role and responsibility in Development dialogue. All fellows were categorized with different responsibilities and were assigned in committees like Food committee, Registration committee, Transportation committee and Class room committee. So I was in class room committee to take care of it.
First day 27th January 2009 Program started through registration and breakfast. Then all delegates from around the word went for site visits. I too went with delegates who were interested for getting knowledge on livelihood. First we visited a school they adopted rain water harvesting technology for storing the water then we went Haveri for visit activity sites of NEEDS NGO that is working different sector.
In afternoon there was a LEAD mela of LEAD program students where LEAD leaders decorated their respective stalls to present their Projects. At the end of the day prize distribution was done for first five best Teams. I visited some of the LEAD stalls with my co fellows and felt very happy by listening their experiences and ideas. Here I want to mention some of the interesting projects those have done by students such as
Ø Blood line
Ø Cloth bank
Ø Medicine bank
Ø Teaching Tech
Ø Energy consumption
Ø Women empowerment
Ø Quiz for school students
Ø Development aid for disabled children
Ø Ball cock

Second day 28thjanuary 2009 program started through innovative case studies around BVB collage within 10 classrooms in different locations. Case Studies were based on like Agastya internationaional foundation, BIEF, Deshpande fellowship Program, Karnataka health Promotion Trust, Mann Deshi, Technology in the sandbox, Samraksha, Technoserve, TIDE, Water literacy Foundation. I took responsibility of TIDE case study for taking notes. In auditorium hall there was introduced the platinum program by Gururaj and Jaishree Deshpande. Gururaj Deshpande shared few words about ups and downs of his life. Head of the R&D,Google india , Mr. Prasad Ram talked about how create operational tools solution for solution for the development sectored.



In the lunch all delegates enjoyed north Karnataka food. After lunch I went to Technoserve case study for note taking it completed at 4.30. At evening we all had our dinner at hotel Naveen and enjoyed local dance.
29 January I attended Ashoka social entrepreneurs Fellows presentation on their great efforts of entrepreneur. They shared their challenges and innovation in the social sector. In afternoon there were case study sessions. For night dinner I went to hotel Trupti and joined all, here I enjoyed cultural songs and performance performed by Kalakeri Sangeeth Vidhyalaya.