TY - GEN
T1 - Revitalizing the Yamuna river
T2 - 2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology, PICMET 2018
AU - Mulloth, Bala
AU - Rao, Bharat
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to sincerely thank the University of Virginia’s Center for Global Inquiry + Innovation as well as the Yamuna River Project team for providing us the funding and the opportunity for this research project.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology, Inc. (PICMET).
PY - 2018/10/4
Y1 - 2018/10/4
N2 - New Delhi, India's capital city, with a population of almost twenty-two million faces a daunting challenge: Its sacred river, the Yamuna, is one of the most polluted in the world. In fact, within the city limits, the Yamuna is primarily constituted by treated and untreated sewage and other toxic effluents. The water is rendered 'dead' with zero oxygen, thus posing serious health hazards to the citizens of New Delhi. Might there be a way to cleanup and revitalize the river plain using social entrepreneurial approaches? In this paper, we propose to study the key ingredients required for creating and nurturing a social entreprenurship and innovation based ecosystem in the region. The methodology employed is qualitative in nature and draws on evidence based on interpretative interviews as well as direct and indirect observations. Using case examples of five socially driven ventures in the region, we examine how they they impact the local community in a manner that opens up new frontiers for positive social change. In doing so, these social entrepreneurs create value by introducing technology innovations that solve problems, while creating new opportunities for organizations and communities involved with the Yamuna river cleanup efforts.
AB - New Delhi, India's capital city, with a population of almost twenty-two million faces a daunting challenge: Its sacred river, the Yamuna, is one of the most polluted in the world. In fact, within the city limits, the Yamuna is primarily constituted by treated and untreated sewage and other toxic effluents. The water is rendered 'dead' with zero oxygen, thus posing serious health hazards to the citizens of New Delhi. Might there be a way to cleanup and revitalize the river plain using social entrepreneurial approaches? In this paper, we propose to study the key ingredients required for creating and nurturing a social entreprenurship and innovation based ecosystem in the region. The methodology employed is qualitative in nature and draws on evidence based on interpretative interviews as well as direct and indirect observations. Using case examples of five socially driven ventures in the region, we examine how they they impact the local community in a manner that opens up new frontiers for positive social change. In doing so, these social entrepreneurs create value by introducing technology innovations that solve problems, while creating new opportunities for organizations and communities involved with the Yamuna river cleanup efforts.
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U2 - 10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481862
DO - 10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481862
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85056460558
T3 - PICMET 2018 - Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology: Managing Technological Entrepreneurship: The Engine for Economic Growth, Proceedings
BT - PICMET 2018 - Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology
A2 - Steenhuis, Harm-Jan
A2 - Niwa, Kiyoshi
A2 - Perman, Gary
A2 - Kocaoglu, Dundar F.
A2 - Anderson, Timothy R.
A2 - Kozanoglu, Dilek Cetindamar
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 19 August 2018 through 23 August 2018
ER -