FIWE organised a day long event on "Unleashing Women Power through Entrepreneurship" on 18th August, 2011 at IIC, New Delhi. For more details on the event see FIWE Event Highlights HERE
Educocity (http://www.educocity.com), launched in 2011, is an education tech start-up which promotes & shouts for collaborative pedagogy along with blended learning. People at Educocity firmly believe that modern day education means much more than the traditional one way communication that happens in the classroom between the teacher and the student.
Today education requires holistic guidance in & outside of the classroom; and requires continuous parental engagement. Studies show teens typically have:
Keeping this in mind, Educocity has developed an unique Social Learning Management System called ‘GUIDE’ which stands for Grow as yoU Identify Delight in Education. GUIDE is unique in many ways, but most importantly it is designed in such a fashion that Parents, irrespective of their academic qualification or level of computer proficiency, are as important a part of the system as Teachers, Students & Administration are. GUIDE’s uncluttered interface and social network like user experience encourages everyone to connect to the school system multiple times a week, build a strong virtual community and take part in decision making.
AWARDS & ACCOLADES This unique and modern approach has been well appreciated from all quarters and recently Educocity has been chosen as one of the top 10 start-up companies at Pitch It! 2011 by IIT Bombay (http://ecell.in/pitchit/).
Also Educocity has been shortlisted for the prestigious Social New Venture Challenge 2012 by University of Chicago Booth School of Business (http://blogs.chicagobooth.edu/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=main&webtag=nvc&entry=60).
(Submitted by Debarati Goswami by mail)
DAY 1, March 1, 2012
Session I – Inaugural Chief Guest: Ms. Swaran Lata, Country Manager, W3C India Guest of Honour: Mr. N Sikander, Director, NBT Keynote: Mr. Pradeep Gupta, CMD, CyberMedia Panelists: Mr. R. Mittal, CAPEXIL, Mr. S. Malhotra, FIP, Mr. Parimal, DBSTA
Session II – E-Publishing and Distribution Moderator: Ms. Dolly Bhasin, MD, SPH Consultancy & eServices Pvt. Ltd. Panelists: Mr. MM Sharma, Mr. L Fernandes, Mr. A.Agarwal, Mr. A. Jain, Dr. Brijesh
Session III – New Technologies and E-Content Moderator: Mr. Satish Jha, OLPC India Foundation Panelists: Ms. Suchita Singhal, Manupatra; Mr. Mayank Kool, Adobe Systems
DAY 2, March 2, 2012
Session IV – Introduction
Session V – E-Publishing Moderator: Ms. Dolly Bhasin, MD, SPH Consultancy & eServices Pvt. Ltd. Panelists: Mr. S. Dash, Mr. L Fernandes, Mr. A. Jain, Dr. Brijesh
Session VI – E-Publishing Standards and Educational Publishing Moderator: Ms. Swaran Lata, Country Manager, W3C India Panelists: Mr. S. Jha, Ms. Sangeeta Mehra, Ms. Jaya Jha, Mr. P Verma
Session VII – E-Content and New Technologies Moderator: Ms. Dolly Bhasin, MD, SPH Consultancy & eServices Pvt. Ltd. Panelists: Mr. A. Malhotra, Mr. M. Rajoria, Mr. H Giri, Ms. Sairee Chahal
The E-Publishing seminar was successfully organised by W3C India and Federation of Indian Publishers and managed by SPH Consultancy & eServices Pvt. Ltd. and S Media group. The seminar was split in two half days and was held in the conference hall of New Delhi World Book Fair at Pragati Maidan on March 1 & 2, 2012.
Day 1
The seminar began with an Inaugural session, on March 1, 2012 at the appointed time. The chief guest of the day was Ms. Swaran Lata, Country Manager, W3C India and Mr. M A Sikander, Director NBT was the guest of honour.
Other dignitaries present at the dias were:
While, Ms. Swaran Lata introduced the e-publishing standards through a presentation and the work that W3C India is doing for the implementation of these standards, Mr. Sikander welcomed this initiative and reiterated his commitment to work with the standards body and help popularise and implement the same in NBT and its constituent network. Mr. Sudhir Malhotra, FIP welcomed the guests and thanked them to have taken precious time from their busy schedule to be at the seminar. He raised the practical problems of Book Piracy and the dilemma of which standards to adopt and which platforms/devices to adopt for e-publishing. He was thankful to W3C India for giving useful information on the standards in the e-publishing space which would help the publishers and the audience to make an informed choice.
Mr. Ramesh Mittal spoke briefly of the kind of potential e-Publishing has, considering the huge untapped export markets, not just in developed countries but also in developing countries. He also invited the participants to come forward and participate in the other international publishing events which CAPEXIL is organising in the next few months.
Mr. Pradeep Gupta shared the journey of CyberMedia of last 26 years in the areas of E-publishing activities of the company. While, the magazine business has an e-published version for most of the print magazines of the group; he mentioned that GLOBAL SERVICES magazine is only e-published (no print version) for world- wide audiences. He also mentioned that a division of CyberMedia handles outsource development of book and magazine content in electronic mode spanning Legal, Technology and Generic content. The power of e-publishing can be exploited if you re-examine the power of each channel and what/how the content has to be purposed to take the maximum advantage. He shared that BBC has made it mandatory for every news item which is produced to develop the 140 char version of same for distribution through twitter and a small clip for promotion through Youtube. Back home, he shared the success of the “KOLAVARI DI” song by offering the free download partially but charging for the full version of the song and making huge amount of money by advertising, etc.
The inaugural session was followed by the E-Publishing Session, chaired by Ms. Dolly Bhasin, MD, SPH Consultancy & eServices Pvt. Ltd. She indicated that the publishing industry has been witnessing a paradigm shift from print to digital publishing. The basic trends in ePublishing and the segments which can be tapped, various aspects of e-publishing and the trends were discussed by a panel of veterans from the Industry during the session –
While Mr. Sharma elaborated the legal aspects of e-publishing, Leonard touched upon the new emerging formats of e-publishing. Mr. Adi Jain shared his experiences of working on digital content for projects at the World Bank and African school children. Mr. Abhaya Agarwal emphasised the role of electronic distribution of the e-published content to reach untapped global markets. Dr. Brijesh shared his experiences as a publishing BPO operation as well as an e-distribution platform for e-publishing and his tryst with ebooks.
A rapid change is occurring in Content creation approaches and underlying publishing technologies. The choice of multiple devices like PCs, eBook readers, smart phones and tablets force a publisher to adapt to these new developments. The next session on E-Content Creation & New Technologies discussed some of these trends.
The session was chaired by Mr. Satish Jha, OLPC India Foundation and presentations were made on the experiences of e-publishing Legal Content by Ms Shuchita Singhal, COO, Manupatra and on the software suites of the Adobe Digital Solutions by Mr. Mayank Kool, Adobe Systems to the audience.
The sessions of the first day ended with a promise to meet the next day to have more intense deliberations on the issues of e-publishing.
DAY 2
The second day of the seminar began in the Hall 14 at the appointed time. After the welcome address by Mr. SM Dutt, Technical Editor of S Media group the program format was introduced by Ms. Bhasin and the technical sessions were initiated.
The first session of the second day was on E-Publishing, which was chaired by Ms. Dolly Bhasin, MD, SPH Consultancy & eServices Pvt. Ltd. She shared that the basic e-publishing industry can be looked upon as composed of E-Books, E-magazines, E-Documents and E-Newspapers. While in US the E-books have already surpassed the physical book sales in 2011, other countries have still not fully adopted the same. She also shared some of the statistics of the e-book sales and the major target segments and devices on which they are being offered. Various aspects of e-publishing and the trends were then discussed by a panel of veterans from the Industry in the session –
Mr. Shantanu, discussed the importance of Mobile Publishing and some of the key reasons why e-publishers need to adapt it in the Indian context. He also urged the educational e-publishers to consider offering e-versions of their content to the new generation of students. While, Mr. Leonard discussed how self-publishing and on demand publishing works with the special reference to book publishing. He emphasised that special business models like subscription services and digitization services can be offered to schools. Mr. Adi Jain stated that Mobile and new devices are here to stay and valuable content needs to be made available through e-publishing for this huge untapped opportunity across the globe. He urged that Indian Publishers should rise to the opportunity and create their own niche. Dr. Brijesh shared his vast experience in e-Publishing and shared the emerging standards being adopted by publishers in India for offshore as well as new e-published work.
The second session of the second day was on E-Publishing Standards and Education E-Publishing, which was chaired by Ms. Swaran Lata, Country Manager, W3C India. She shared the basic e-publishing standards and the work being done on implementing these standards in India. Various aspects of standards and their implementation with a greater emphasis on Educational e-publishing were then discussed by a panel of veterans from the Industry in the session -
The Open Source Content in education in particular and e-publishing in general were discussed by Mr. Satish Jha, who iterated that educational content needs to be made available to young children in an interesting and engaging manner. He shared the experience of Nepal who have adopted OLPC in local language for the entire early school system. Ms. Sangeeta Mehra discussed some of the nuances of Educational Publishing in India through her experiences with Pearson, VRVirtual Bookshop and other educational initiatives. While Mr. Prashant, shared the work being done on Indian languages standards and sought the industry to work with them to consolidate the effort by providing their valuable inputs. A questionnaire was circulated for the feedback on same. Ms. Jaya Jha discussed the various myths of Going Digital. She iterated that every publisher needs to plan their journey to go digital, some may just consider the strategy to experiment with few new titles, some may try the same with low print run titles, or as they deem fit considering their business. She also indicated that Piracy is not just restricted to e-publishing, any book can be pirated whether printed or e-published. The main reason of piracy in e-publishing is due to non-availability of the content in some geographies, or the price is too high or the DRM protected copies are too complicated for readers.
The last session of the day was on E-Content Creation New Technologies & Self Publishing. This session was also chaired by Ms. Dolly Bhasin. A rapid change is occurring in Content creation approaches and underlying publishing technologies. The choice of multiple devices like PCs, eBook readers, smart phones and tablets force a publisher to adapt to these new developments. The session introduced the concepts of Crowd sourcing, Google Books, Self Publishing and talking pens. The Panelists for the session were:
Self-Publishing is an attractive option for the Authors and offers flexible work options for women as elaborated by Ms. Sairee Chahal. She also shared her experiences in working with new tools and methods to source content through blogs, twitter and other social media. Mr. Malhotra shared the information pertaining to Google Books and how selective e-published documents were being shown to readers for them to take decision to aid the book buying process, which is further helped by independent reviews of the books. Mr. Himanshu, in his deliberation explained how Pratham Books is crowd sourcing the content for their children books from the community. Mr. Manish Rajoria showcased the talking pen technology which would make the printed books more accessible to the readers (especially young and illiterate) by reading the text aloud for benefit of many listeners at the same time.
The vote of thanks was delivered by Mr. S K Khurana, Editor, S Media Group, who thanked all the panelists and the participants for making this seminar a success and formally closing the seminar. He also requested the participants to kindly fill up the W3C questionnaire and the Feedback form and hand over to the volunteers or mail the same to sphces@sphconsultants.com.
The Photo gallery has some pictures from the seminar, which can be viewed here.
March 1-2, 2012
The publishing industry has been witnessing a paradigm shift from print to digital publishing. With increasing costs of production and print, the industry is making a strenuous effort to deal with the demand for digital content as opposed to print.
How will India become an e-Publishing base in the near future? To answer this question, we need to know what we have to offer from India and how the capacity of the publishers can be enhanced to meet the challenges of the future.
This requires a capacity building initiative in e-Publishing for the entire publishing eco system including publishers, printers, authors, distributors, mobile devices and ebook reader manufacturers, etc.; through this event we are trying to address this issue.
W3C India and Federation of Indian Publishers with SPH Consultancy & eServices Pvt. Ltd. brings to you E-Publishing Seminar. The event is split in two half days of deliberations to offer a better understanding of: • How e-publishing technologies and market developments will create opportunities for book publishers and printers, • How Authors can benefit by new approaches in ePublishing of Self-Publishing and On Demand Publishing. • How the Publishing ecosystem can offer ePublishing on Mobile devices including Tablets, Reading Devices and Smartphones. • How Publishers and Authors could use e-Distribution Mechanisms to monetise their Book inventory • Content Discovery in the Age of Tablets, E-readers and Google
The ePublishing event is targeted to introduce the new concepts, tools and technologies and developments in the digital publishing space.
This event is being organized in the same venue of the DELHI WORLD BOOK FAIR, namely-International Trade Fair exhibition grounds at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi on 1st- 2nd March 2012.
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Day 1 : March 1, Hall No 6, Conference Room No. 2, Time: 11-1 PM Day 2 : March 2, Hall No 14, Conference Room No. 3, Time 1-5 PM
Tentative Agenda: Please click Here.
The Venue locations can be seen in the map
The event is targeted for the entire publishing eco system including
The e-Publishing event is jointly organized by W3C India, Federation of Indian Publishers and SPH Consultancy & eServices Private Ltd.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. Led by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and CEO Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C’s mission is to lead the Web to its full potential. The Indian W3C office (W3C India) is the national contact point for W3C activities in India.
The Federation of Indian Publishers is the representative body of publishers in English, Hindi and other regional Languages with its membership from all over India, representing more than 80 percent of the publishing industry. All the leading publishers of the country are tits direct members, other publishers being represented through various local associations.
SPH Consultancy & eServices Pvt. Ltd. is an innovative provider of high quality Value added Information Services on IT enabled services, software products, cutting edge solutions with specific focus on e-publishing, e-marketing, education/training, hospitality and travel.
The event is being exclusively promoted by S-Media Group which is a B2B media house that focuses on five verticals–printing, publishing, signage, newspaper and pet industries. The publications are a proven medium to develop integrated business and marketing solutions amongst its readers.
The event would have the following sessions;
DAY 1- March 1, 2012 11.00 AM to 1.00 PM
1. Inaugural Session
2. e-Publishing and e-Distribution
3. e-Content Creation & New Technologies
DAY 2- March 2, 2012 1.00 PM to 5.00 PM
4. Introduction Session
5. e-Publishing
6. e-Publishing Standards & Educational e-Publishing
7. e-Content Creation, New Technologies & Self Publishing
There is no participation fee but the registration is compulsory for the event. Please register for the event in advance to avoid disappointment, as the seats are limited.
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For more details please contact:
The Federation of Indian Women Entrepreneurs (FIWE), an apex body of associations of women entrepreneurs and professionals in India, is organizing the 12th Global Conference on “Trade Liberalization and its global impact on women entrepreneurs”, in association with International Federation of women entrepreneurs (IFWE), in New Delhi (India) on 3rd, 4th and 5th April, 2012.
FIWE, a member of the IFWE, has 29 member associations and more than 15,000 women entrepreneur members. It organizes events such as exhibitions cum buyer seller’s meets, seminars, workshops and skill training programs to promote entrepreneurial skills and open avenues for self employment amongst women at national and international level.
International Federation of women Entrepreneurs, (IFWE), an international non-governmental organization of small and medium enterprises, has been in existence since1993 and now has member and associates in 21 countries. It maintains a close working relationship with the international labor office, international trade center, UNCTAD/WITD, OECD and various international non-governmental organizations dealing with small and medium enterprises.
The conference is another effort in this direction, in which more than 800 delegates from 150 countries are expected to participate. The deliberations at the meet will take place on matters of women entrepreneurship development and their contribution towards national and international economy and growth. The conference will also provide a platform to learn and disseminate success stories, networking and business matching opportunities. An exhibition of products from different parts of the world by women and artisans will also be held at the conference.
Please find the details of the conference 12th Global Conference brochure.
“Women’s Empowerment – Why Business Should Care”, a half day consultation based on the UN Global Compact Women’s Empowerment Principles
India Habitat Centre, New Delhi 15th December 2011 from 2 PM to 5.30 PM
Theme: Gender Equality has been recognized as an important driver for over all development of human societies. Globally governments and companies are increasingly focusing on innovative policies and programmes for empowering women to participate fully in economic and social life across all sectors. NGOs have also been playing a crucial role in this endeavor as partners and knowledge leaders.
The adoption of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEP) by the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) initiative, the largest CSR initiative in the world, on 8th March 2010 has been an important milestone for engagement on the issue by Businesses globally. While emphasizing the definite business case for Companies to actively encourage women’s empowerment, the Principles recognize that inclusion of women’s talents, skills, experience and energies require intentional actions and deliberate policies. The Principles thus provide a set of considerations to help Companies focus on key elements integral to promoting gender equality in the workplace, marketplace and community.
Organisers: CARE India, a not for profit company, registered under section 25 of the Companies Act 1956, currently works on education, health and livelihoods with primary focus on 100 districts across the states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, MP, Odisha, UP, AP, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Pondicherry, Delhi, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Women and girls are at the heart of all our interventions. With 61 years of experience of implementing large scale projects across India, as a UNGC signatory and as a member of the Global Compact Network, India (GCN, India), we have a natural interest in efforts to strengthen the WEP in India. The Consultation on “Women’s Empowerment – Why Business Should Care” is our first effort to engage with Businesses in India on the issue.
Objectives: The Consultation would be an opportunity for a select group of thought leaders and practitioners from Businesses to come together under a common platform to explore in-depth issues around women in business; looking at current best practices and identifying problems, obstacles as well as possible solutions, focusing on women within companies, in the supply chain and in communities within the sphere of influence of respective companies. We hope that this would be the beginning of a continued engagement to support practical ways to incorporate women’s empowerment into business practice and strategy.
Program Details: The details of the programme can be downloaded here.
The Program brochure can be viewed here.
For More Information Contact: Mr. Namit Agarwal, Manager Strategic Partnerships & Alliances, CARE India Mob: +91-85950350711 Email: nagarwal@careindia.org
2nd Women Entrepreneurship Conference on
“Women Entrepreneurship: Unplugged!!!”
Thursday, 15th December, 2011
Program Schedule
The main topics covered were:
Session I Women Entrepreneurship: Unplugged!!! Key-Note Speaker: Ms. Neena Malhotra, President, FLO Ms. Rajnee Aggarwaal, President, FIWE Chief Guest: Mr. C. Arvind, DANICS, Joint Commissioner, Industries Deppt., General Manager, DSIIDC Ltd. Guest of Honour: Mr. K.G Alai, Chief General Manager, SIDBI
Session II Emerging Business Opportunities for Women
Session Moderator: Ms. Easter Martinez, Co – Founder & Managing Editor, People Matters
Session III Funding Mantras
Session Moderator: Mr. Raj Pathak, CEO, YuvaUdyami.com
Session IV Cost Effective Ways to Create Brand & Sales Leads
Session Moderator: Dr. Neena Sinha, Dean, I.P University
A one day seminar on “Role of Information Communication and Technologies (ICT) for Women Empowerment” by Federation of Women Entrepreneurs (FIWE) and SPH Consultancy & eServices Pvt. Ltd. The seminar is supported by NSIC and other women group partners – FLEXIMOM and TIE SIG Women Entrepreneurs.
The day long seminar will deliberate on the Role of ICT for women empowerment.
Date: 21st Nov, 2011 from 9.30 A.M
Venue: Techmart Pavilion, Hall No. 14, Pragati Maidan
The main topics covered are:
Session I Using Skype for Business
Session II Internet as Viagra for Business (Panel Discussion)
Session III Cloud Computing for Business (through live demo)
Session IV Mobility Session (Panel Discussion)
For more details please visit
FIWE Ms. Riya Rawat (9873346376) Phone No. 011-26850395 Email ID: fiwe.event@gmail.com
The Session IV of the “Unleashing the Women power through Entrepreneurship” event was on “Leveraging ICT for growth of MSMEs” The Photo gallery of the ICT session and the interviews with the panelists of the FIWE event can be seen here.
Pragjyoti Nair, Yahoo Inc., Session Panelist
Dr. Ajay Mian, All E Technologies (P) Ltd.
Mr. Vipan Sawhney, Progression Infonet Pvt. Ltd.
Mr. Sanjay Diwan, IMI mobile
Also See Videos of Interviews of the Women Entrepreneurs
The Photographs of the event can be viewed here.
We tried to Interview some women entrepreneurs and panelists during the FIWE event.
Here are some of them:
Ms.Pooja Kumar, SME Joinup, Session Moderator
Ms.Ginni Kapoor, A Women Entrepreneur
Ms.Ruchi, Marketing Manager of Apna Circle.com, Session Panelist
Interview with Ms. Priyanka Sachhar, Social Media Consultant, Session Panelist
The Photographs of the event are here.
Also See Videos of Interviews of the ICT Session
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