Prerana : Integration of ICT education into rural supply chains

The paper below presents the case of Prerana, a community-driven content platform created by SEWA in collaboration with RUDI in Western India, with learning material designed to address the educational and business challenges of self-employed women. Through Prerana platform on Moodle, the women have access to e-learning modules that can be of immediate use to them, and then can create their own module on all topics they think can be of use to the other women of SEWA. There are many opportunities for social innovation with ICT education contributing to improve rural supply chains and local . The paper proves that many opportunities exist for social business creating a double bottom line in developing rural businesses and ICT skills at the same time.

"Opportunities for Social Innovation at the Intersection of ICT Education and Rural Supply Chains", 2012 - Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) Program