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India is the third largest innovation ecosystem in the world. From India's transformational growth in the IT sector to her rapid digitisation, innovation is truly having its moment in India today. However, despite this promising outlook, social innovation continues to face challenges to scale.

Faced by the perennial challenge that the problems for people and planet are running faster than the solutions being created to solve them, social innovation has a critical and lasting role to play in ensuring we break the cycle of creating poor solutions for the poor. In this episode of Decoding Impact, Rathish Balakrishnan and expert guest Manoj Kumar engage in a dialogue on social innovation that is not only helpful to understand the innovation landscape in India today, but to also numerous ideas and examples of what social innovation looks like.

Through this discussion you will get insight into:

• India's innovation landscape

• The mental models for entrepreneurs to succeed

• The architecture needed for social innovation to scale

• How we need to look at unlocking diverse forms of capital from across CSR and Philanthropy

Tune into this latest episode of Decoding Impact today!

Manoj Kumar is the founder of Social Alpha, a multistage innovation curation and venture development platform that has supported over 300 startups under his leadership. Manoj is one of the pioneering forces in India's social innovation landscape, with a wealth of expertise and hands-on experience founding startups.

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Guest: Manoj Kumar

Host: Rathish Balakrishnan

Producer: Meenakshi Iyer

Produced by: Pickle Jar Media

Worldwide, roads are increasingly seeing the presence of electric vehicles (EV) and India is expected to take 30% of the EV market worldwide. However, these tailwinds are attracting many players to the EV ecosystem, from suppliers to customers, to make EVs a reality on the road.

In order to ease the challenges that these stakeholders could face in coming together, Digitial Public Infrastructure could have a key role to play and could help:

• Reduce frictions

• Enable greater customer experience

• Drive better adoption for electrical vehicles in India, especially when it comes to the charging experience

To learn more about India's burgeoning EV market and understand whether the promise of DPI can enable the EV market to solve some of its current challenges, in this episode of Decoding Impact Rathish Balakrishnan is joined by Akhil Jayaprakash, co-founder at Pulse Energy, and Arun Vinayak, co-founder at Exponent Energy. Through this discussion Akhil and Arun share their expertise to help us understand who the key stakeholders are in the EV market, what is the user experience when it comes to EV today in India, and what unification using DPI could look like in the EV market.

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Guest: Akhil Jayaprakash and Arun Vinayak

Host: Rathish Balakrishnan

Producer: Meenakshi Iyer

Produced by: Pickle Jar Media

Chapters

00:00 - Precap

01:30 - Welcome

01:43 - Topic and Guest Intro

03:28 - Akhil & Arun's journey into the EV ecosystem

08:21 - The key players in EV

11:41 - What a vertically integrated stack looks like

12:32 - The EV Market

15:51 - Summarising insights on the EV market & players

17:07- Approaching the new world with an old world mental model

26:36 - Challenges in the charging EVs

30:22 - Access to EV for different vehicles

35:45 - Understanding the user experience of the EV charging infrastructure

41:13 - Moving past the obvious solutions

48:39 - Summary and further understanding of how to solve for charging anxiety

59:10 - Achieving unification through a DPI approach

01:06:58 - Where can unification unlock value

01:10:05 - Imagining the end game

01:16:31 - Wishlist for scaling EV infrastructure in India

01:20:29 - Summary & Thanks

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Philanthropy plays a vital role in the development sector naturally, however, in India today philanthropy capital accounts for only 5% of the total funding, with 95% coming from the governments.

Is there a way we can reimagine the development sector, as a market place, that can manage risk in the hope of certain returns and rewards? With blended finance there is an opportunity to change how capital fuels and enables scale of impact. Within the promise of blended finance, philanthropy could play a significant, catalytic role, and in this episode of Decoding Impact host Rathish Balakrishnan is joined by Prachi Windlass, a Senior Director and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, India, to discuss:

• What does blended finance look like in India today?

• How does philanthropic capital and other sources of capital come together to create a blended finance model?

• The maturity curve for blended finance to come in

• Tangible examples of how blended finance can enable impact

With the challenge of a capital shortfall to meet the total annual funding required for India to achieve the promise of the Sustainable Developement Goals by 2030, Prachi lends her experience and expertise to illustrate the true value philanthropy can unlock to enable a sustainable transformation in India's impact ecosystem. Listen to the latest episode of Decoding Impact today on Youtube!

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"There are three types of people who work in education today: those who know the reality of a classroom, there are those who know the reality of grassroots, but there are very few who know the reality of how government looks at education."

In this very special episode of Decoding Impact, host Rathish Balakrishnan is joined by Anil Swarup, Founder Chairman, Nexus of Good; Former Secretary, School Education (2016-18) & Coal (2014-16), and Author. Mr. Swarup joins us to help us decode the complex Education sector in India today and understand more about:

• The visible and invisible challenges in Education

• The role of the government between Delhi and the hinterlands

• How to enable young adults thrive in the Indian Education system

• Defining roles for different stakeholders in the Education sector

Tune in to the latest episode of Decoding Impact today to understand more about the government's role in Education as well as some unique stories from Mr. Swarup's incredible Bhārat Yātra across the nation!

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Guest: Anil Swarup

Host: Rathish Balakrishnan

Producer: Meenakshi Iyer

Produced by: Pickle Jar Media

Chapters

0:00 Precap

1:36 Welcome to Decoding Impact

1:50 Topic & Guest Introduction

03:12 Anil Swarup's journey into Education in India

06:44 The mafias in Education

14:58 Making Education politically salient

18:23 Anil Swarup's journey through education on the ground

24:31 Is Education enabling young adults in India today?

30:49 How to develop a winning aspiration for young people in India school systems

34:13 From policy to implementation

36:55 Addressing the government's mistrust in the private sector

39:58 Bringing in role clarity in school systems

44:23 Reflecting on the role of the facilitator and counselling

47:00 Understanding the role of different stakeholders in relation to the government

49:12 Who should play what role

52:10 State vs. central government capacity

54:00 Whose accountable for state outcomes?

56:30 Summary and thanks

58:11 General outro

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