From Zero To A Thousand: How Jaffna Is Conquering The Digital Divide
The Yarl IT Hub was established in the northern peninsula eight years ago, an year after the end of the civil war. It started off as a non-profit social enterprise, with the aim to make Jaffna ‘the next Silicon Valley.’ The idea first took off on social media, and has evolved steadily since. The IT Hub now has its own coding school, [...]
Start Ups going North with the Yarl Geek Challenge
The Yarl Geek Challenge (YGC), an annual hackathon and highly anticipated event in the country’s tech and startup calendar, is about to go down in the Jaffna Peninsula for the fourth year running. According to Dhananjeyan Balaretnaraja of the Yarl IT Hub, the organisers of YGC, this year’s event will see the participation of about 25 teams from all parts of the country in the [...]
NoPo Nanotechnologies
NoPo is a Nanotechnology startup that makes the world's best Carbon Nanotubes. The company is on a mission to reduce exploitation of natural resources by developing materials that are far superior to anything nature has created. We’ve started with an amazing nanomaterial called Single Walled Carbon Nanotube. This material is incredibly strong, highly conductive, can be a semiconductor and is very light. It [...]
Venture Center
Venture Center is committed to social innovation and entrepreneurship. We actively nucleate and nurture enterprises that focus on solving socially important problems and are working to build sustainable entities (for profit or not-for-profit) to deliver the solutions to society. Currently, our focus areas include affordable health and attrition, assistive technologies, empowering farmers, clean energy, sustainable resource utilization, environment and circular economy, [...]
Powerhouse
Powerhouse is the first project that CSVI incubated. There is a shortage of 26 million homes in India and a large percentage of this shortfall is located in ‘off-grid’ locations. Powerhouse builds quality, low cost, prefabricated houses, customizable with five base designs, and with integrated photo-voltaic (“PV”) solar panels. The panels not only provide electricity for the inhabitants to live, but also allow electric two [...]
RISE INFINITY FOUNDATION (RIF)
Rise Infinity Foundation (RIF) was founded in 2014 with the objective to help create a more Responsible, Inclusive, Sustainable and Eco-Friendly society that will meet the immediate needs of those who are challenged and underserved. Our multi-stakeholder multi-modal approach with the four values ensures that we look at community development as inter-related and not in a mutually exclusive manner. Rise Infinity Foundation is [...]
RCupe Lifesciences
RCupe Lifescience is a developer of a portfolio of cardiopulmonary access devices. The products developed are Ozyn-D an intravenous access device and a cardiopulmonary resuscitation device for cardiac arrest treatment. Contact Information Website: www.rcupe.com Primary Office: Ardente Office One Unit No 1301, Hoodi Main Road Hudi Circle, Hoodi, Bengaluru Karnataka 560048, India RCupe Lifesciences' Facebook page RCupe Lifescience is affiliated [...]
Creativiti Council
WE BELIEVE IN THE POTENTIAL OF CREATIVITY & INNOVATION IN ADDRESSING THE UNMET NEEDS OF THE SOCIETY Our Vision & Mission Innovations in elderly/bedridden/palliative care: With gradual deterioration of abilities, the aged population faces extreme difficulties to meet their daily needs. It has been noted that with loss of autonomy and freedom of movement, life becomes miserable for the aged. The situation is [...]
