The wiCamp Experience: ‘Thoughts Applied’
Writing by admin on Saturday, 12 of July , 2008 at 4:15 am
The theme revolved around inovation, with what the big guys have done to become big, and what they do to remain big. The buzz words were: innovation, creativity, efficiency…
A great start, with me being slightly late thanks to the ‘awesome’ number allocation of plots at udyog vihar.
The start was from Shailesh Mehta, he being the one who has hit the road, with the aim of becoming the next door Google by deeper penetration into our local ecosystem. A Search engine for providing the local search, this would be a content distributor along with being a content creator. The concept of providing a space for users to write their reviews, might actually help in making the search better, and more institutive. Although there are several other players in the market, the claim stood that it is the user community will make the venture perform better in the market in due course of time. <- personal note: I have used Sulekha for long, thinking of trying both of them and putting up the results… gt sm masala fr d nxt post ;)- > check this link out at: http://www.onyomo.com/ they call it ‘on your move‘
Next on the list: Two individuals have finally removed the N from non reliable indians NRI and have come back to their nation, to fill colours of prosperity with their venture called rangde.org, these were Smita Ram and Ram NK. A cool name inspired by the bollywood block buster hit rang de basanti. A peer2peer non-profit micro-finance company with the aim of providing small amounts in the multiples of 1000 to the needy. The deviation from the normal track has been to promote women of the villages as money lenders. The philosophy driving them is: ‘women are more proactive in returning the investment’, I would add ‘more often’ and make is more suttle. So they more often lend money to the women which in turn shall distribute it further. A great awakener for us youngsters who have put their benchmarks as packages in rs a.k.a $ and not as change in the society. My five for the couple and best of luck in life.
The brain storming session talked about loads of statements of what innovation is and what is means to companies big and small. I for innovation and innovation for I, a quote by pavan from wipro provoked each one of us. The adrenaline for innovation comes from the need for it. The need in the individual to get recognition. The need for the company to earn more. The need creates and the need drives. The thought opened by Anand from wipro and towards the end unaimously agreed upon. I would add that for eras man has innovated to improve his way of living, and is constantly doing just that. (boring though, try something new. something which is just the opposite. like much more of bioweapons, missiles….). Dissatisfaction for the current situation,mentions a need for change and a change is innovation. And as a lady mentioned it can a sustaning or a breakthrough innovation.
The debate between creativity and efficency was the one I loved more. I concluded with the mention that: creativity is a galloping horse, with the reigns of efficency controlling it. The rider falls of (due to bad ROI) if the efficiency levels are not reached.
Bigbrotherly treatment of the bosses are great killers of innovation, cited with and example of the man who proposed first aid kits in maruti cars back in 1980’s was suppressed.Today he has a venture which supplies these kits to several auto mobile manufacturers, mentioned pavan from wipro. Illetracy was cited as another good cause.
I just forot to mention the new media devices from Vmedia which might as be a great way to watch movies. These are blue-ray optical disks smaller than a credit card. and the player fits nicley into an mobil phone. plug in and plug out into a HD experience. This was Anuraj from Vmedia.
Innovation was becoming such a cliche in these 4 hours. 
with all these high end statements. I found this last real life narration quite joyous. A node-netwrok was setup in a matter of 5 months at this engineering Institute, by few IIIrd year students with old computers (PI, PII and 386’s) along with old hubs and switches. Linux was the saviour of these garbage boxes, who saw the light of the day in a ’server’ room. The room soon became a high profile dare-not-enter area, mentioned …..
It was filled with old junk and great minds, ‘beware we bite’
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