Vision Revisited

Dazasya was born on 28 July 2007 (1 Year and 13 days short of 5 months ago). I have been very clear with what I wanted to do and over the period of time I have been refining my thoughts to ensure clarity before I begin. 

The key focus area is Society.

My strengths are understanding Technology and Entrepreneurship. How can Technology and Entrepreneurship work towards building a better society?

There are many Social Entrepreneurs in the country and they are working on various aspects to uplift the quality of life. Thanks to the Media, Television, Radio and top of the pyramid population, these high quality aspiring individuals are never in the limelight or their works are never known.

There are many angel investors and Venture Capitalists, but unfortunately, no one is interested in a social idea.

Our education system has always concentrated on studying very hard and becoming an engineer or doctor, unfortunately not Entrepreneurs.

Why am I bringing this topic for discussion? I believe in one principle very strongly – When you cannot fit into the system, stop complaining and go your path. This principle of mine comes from the famous quote – Don’t follow the path which everyone takes, instead, take a different one and leave a trial.

I alone nor a group of people cannot change how the world runs, but we can definitely take a different path and contribute what ever we can. Right?

Coming to the main aspect of Dazasya, let me explain what I would like to do:

• One stop place for Social Entrepreneurship.
• Ideas coming together for enhancing the quality of your, mine and each person’s life. 
• Emphasize on Social problems where technology can contribute to solving issues/concerns. 
• Entrepreneurship education. 
• Bring together Funding organizations for Social Projects. 
• Mentorship to solve any social concern which needs more than a pair of hands. 
• Consolidating Social Enterprise information across India. 
• Bringing information on Social Entrepreneurship to easy access.
• Network of HealthCare, Education and Non-Profit organizations. 

The list goes endless. To begin with, I would like to start work here. 

First Project

My first project is to create the website and an interactive map on HealthCare infrastructure in India. I collected information with respect to Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Care Center’s across the country and I would plot the same on the map. 

Target time to complete this Project is end of February 2009. 

Helping Hands

I am looking for interested parties to step forward to help me in any way they can. As an example, if you have some bandwidth left and would like to consolidate a list of all Private HealthCare Organizations in India or build a list of all Social Entrepreneurs in a particular region, you are welcome. The above two are just a sample, however, I will compile a list of activities which need volunteering and if you can spare few hours of your time, you are most welcome. 

Do write to me at hpudipeddi {at} gmail {dot} com if you need any further information.

Updates

I have been researching and working on building Dazasya. Over the last few months, have had insight into where I would want to start and how to build the web iste. However, am looking for a good web site and logo designs. I will continue to see if anyone can help, but if you can help, please do not hesitate to write to me.

Next steps

• I am working towards creating the HealthCare infrastrcutre map of India. On this map, we will identify the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary care center’s across the country.
• After the Centers are identified, we will build information pertaining to the HealthCare centers (Population which is being served, center infrastructure etc)

I would want to finish this and go forward to creating the ecosystem to enhance the quality of HealthCare delivery in the Country.

Vision Statement

I have come up with a simple vision statement for Dazasya….here it goes.

To create a platform to foster Service, Innovation and Entrepreneurship contributing to Quality of Life.

PS: I am still working on my logo design, your inputs are welcome.

Dazasya is Born

Dazasya – www.Dazasya.org.in is born on the 28 July 2007 at BarCamp Bangalore 4 – The Collectives Edition in and formally launched at the Startup’s Collective.

Dazasya (pronounce as Daasasya) in Sanskrit means “Service”.

Dazasya’s mission is to provide service to Society in any form possible and be a catalyst to foster Entrepreneurship and contribute to technology.

Society
Many of us are interested in providing some kind of service to Society and in someway or other, we do. Dazasya will help in brining like minded people together to work towards touching lives in anyway we can.

Technology
SofTReL (Software Testing Research Lab) was born in 2002 which works towards contributing towards Research and Development in Software Testing. We have worked on one open source project and on the similar lines would want to work towards contributing towards any other similar projects.

Entrepreneurship
There are organizations which bring budding and innovative ideas to the world by fostering Entrepreneurship. However, there is a great need for information and connection between the idea and market. Dazasya, works towards brining innovative ideas to shape and connect people behind the idea to the appropriate resources which could help make ideas a reality.

This is my first version of mission for Dazasya. I am sure, over the period of time, my ideas will mature and take further steps.

This mission will not and cannot be accomplished by myself and I definitely need helping hands. If you are interested in contributing in any way, please do write to me at hpudipeddi@hotmail.com.

I sincerely thank everyone who were present in the Startup’s Collective (I do not know and remember each name, I aplogise for it) for being there and blessing me.