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pleasure principle
This rural neighborhood, Horsu, in Tamil Nadu near Bangalore has seen a growing number of green houses for flowers. As the city provides relatively constant consumption of flowers, they make a relatively low-risk yet high-margin business. The wise farmer we talked to said: “It will be the mobile entertainment service that farmers will adopt first. ...
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mobility of your existence
I was asked for my home address today – I could only say “I don’t have one at the moment, except my temporary address.†Have you realized the limited access to services you will experience when one of these is taken away, lost, or invalid: Home address, mobile phone number, governmental identification, credit/bank card? The ...
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new home in bangalore, india
I took on a new job to lead a research team since the beginning of this year. Along with it I moved to a new homebase, a city often referred to as ‘silicon valley of India’, or formerly as ‘garden city of India’. Compared to any other places I had taken on as my home ...
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design for behavioral changes
Posters and drawings on the walls of primary health centers in India. If you want to get an idea of the seriousness of the matter to educate and treat the local population, you can have a look at the comparison of top 10 causes of death between the developed and developing countries. Can you design ...
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born blessed
A good maternity care is the foundation of a healthy society. While traditional wisdom still prevails in communities with little influence of modern technology and services, it does not always offer the best possible solutions available. One of the challenges that primary health centers (PHC) in rural India are facing is to make people be ...