IIM-A edupreneurs plan wisdom village AHMEDABAD: Three students from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) have resisted the lure of lucrative jobs to create what could be Indias Silicon Valley for education. The students have a grand vision to create Edupreneur Village - a place where all the education entrepreneurs, technology, products and services can work together. The concept is to create an ecosystem of educational structures - both for-profit and not-for-profit - that will change the future of education from the bottom up. The Edupreneur Village will focus on self-help, awareness about the needs of its potential users, mutual benefit among participants and self-generated sustainability at all levels of the pyramid. It is still a concept and needs further refinement over the next few years to come up with a structure for such a platform, said Vignesh Shankar, who is planning the venture with batchmates Priyanshi Mathur and Rahul Kumar Sahu. Like others, the students dreamt of joining a professional company before joining IIM-A. Rahul had interest in strategy, Priyanshi wanted to be a consultant and Vignesh was inclined towards marketing. However, the two years spent at IIM-A exposed us to other domains as well, and simultaneously we got interested in entrepreneurship. Ultimately, we decided to pursue entrepreneurship, the students said. While working towards their ultimate goal, the students plan to create products for education in the next one year. Right now, the students are strengthening their ideas at the school level by engaging children between 12 and 16 years. We came up with a leadership workshop module for children aged between 12 and 16 years. We chose this age group as we believed students in this age group have a burning desire to learn new things and can easily be moulded to be better leaders. We conducted the workshops in a few schools in Delhi and Ahmedabad, the students said.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 02:27:35 +0000
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