TEDxOxbridge - Akanksha Hazari - m.Paani: Making the Connector the Water Connection

Akansha Hazari aspires to help build a better India. A social entrepreneur, peace negotiator, and businesswoman, Akanksha was honored by former President Bill Clinton with $1,000,000 for developing m.Paani, an innovation in development financing aimed at solving the global water crisis.

In this talk, Akanskha explains how m.paani leverages strong competition in industries that value the poor customer to generate revenues for community-owned funds to be used for economic development at the base of the pyramid.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• India
• water
• social entrepreneurship
• mobile
• technology
• poverty
• global issues
• health
• business
• TEDxOxbridge
• united kingdom
• english
• m.paani

[kjkotipalli13]

Brilliant stuff! Is the project being implemented? How many people has it benefited ?

[jagratube]

Nice talk. She reminds me of a classmate of mine in Poona.

[ambani6]

Does she speak anything other than jargon? How patronizing.

[harilela2]

"Ongoing and accelerating behavior of mobile phone usage"...LOL. She doesn't seem to realise that acceleration doesn't mean the same thing as an increase in frequency. I am imagining people using phones faster and faster!!!!

[kaasvaag]

@1:35 The government does not support our life..

We support them, albeit involuntary.

Nice talk nevertheless.