They said that people need to do a rapid fire round of Idea Generation. Most folks were skeptical, but when it did happen, the line up behind the microphone to pitch ideas, only kept growing longer and longer.

Kudos to Amit Somani and Kiruba Shankar for Fabulously Moderating this session.

Summary:

What is this about?
What do you do when you get a bunch of really smart, energetic, passionate entrepreneurs in a room? Well you get them to do a “power” brainstorm to try to identify trends, tough problems to solve and in general how to move the needle in a significant way.

How will this be run?

* Any one who has an idea should describe the pain point, trend, observation with one use case (how will this help someone – a consumer, a business, whoever). Moderator(s) will only validate to make sure we capture the spirit of the idea. Be as specific as possible …
* As soon as an idea is proposed – people can “Build on an Idea” or “Jump to on to a related idea” – hence the Jam

The moderators will facilitate to keep the Jam moving and sort of “on topic” …

Session 1 – Idea Jam

No. Of distinct ideas: 34

Domains: Web, Mobile, Education, Social Entrepreneurship & Miscellaneous

WEB

01 Making internet applications voice enabled to develop internet among masses

Internet limited by people online. Voice enabling, incorporates Engines into platforms. 10% cost saving in call centres from this idea.

02 Cheaper Payment Gateways

Good payment gateway. .5% TDR rate. Banks are making us bleed. Non regulated income should be reduced in the banks.

03 Internet must compress data, distribute load across idle nodes, not increase bandwidth

Internet penetration has to increase: Either carpet the whole world or were your slippers – bandwith increase is like doing carpeting. Compressing data is the other, and the way to go. Wimax/ 3g will make it happen.P2P manner – every mobile phone has a transmitter. Access transmitters from nearby mobiles that are idle – distributed computing.

04 Job Portals for creative people/ Labourers

Handicrafts. Job portal for creative people. Profiling labourers/ homemade/ plumbers – low level job sites.

05 Custom & Semantic search

Searching generic terms is out of date. Semantic/ context driven engine at a scale of google is required.

06 Geographic information sites on India

Sites where Indian geographies are well defined. – india is lagging Europe etc. Need some body to do that. Maps are very few with very little attention to detail.

07 Web Portal to track Politicians

Web portal where we profile all politicians. Have track record of their commitments. Catalogues election promises. Keep track of working record. Have case log of the work.

08 Doctor reco portals

People moving to towns, don’t know good doctors. Users recommend doctors in a locality in a website.

09 Audio files Searching

Podcasts, news bytes, lectures. Hum a tune and tuner plays a related song.

Speech to text recognition. Index audio, tag them in the text and give it to public to easily access the audio files.

10 Online / P2P Stock exchange

Cut out brokers – save on transaction money .

11 Audio Blog reader

Aggregate Feeds from different blogs. Hear the feeds from desktop.

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

12 Private contracts for cleaning Yamuna

Cleaning Yamuna – Give it to private companies. Get green tech. BOT model. 25k crores spent currently without much result.

13 Bands of Pros

I: idea factory – Band of professionals. 1 set of professionals to solve probs. (lawyers, doctors, eng., teachers) etc. They go to a village and attempt to solve whatever they can.

14 Microfinance for students/ start-ups.

Govt needs to facilitate this. Give tax deduction for the affluent people to share money with start-ups/ poor people. Example: keyword.org, rangde.org

15 Non profit blogging

Commit time to write on a portal for few hours every week.

16 Track social class ability in India

Why don’t we track starting people in lower class? Collect revenue and track savings of lower class people. Help them to move up by making them save more.

17 Energy generating cooler in the cars

It will save energy compared to A/C. Water vapour used as a coolant and cools the car.

18 Novel Advertising for social causes

Use advertising revenue to make a difference. For example 1 lac people watching 1minute ads in restaurants to give 2 lacs that can be used for social service.

EDUCATION

19 Prevent school dropouts & provide free education till 10th or 12th

Stop children from dropping out. Get children to attend school. Incentivise them and their parents. If it helps, give free education to all till 10th or 12th.

20 Teaching Initiatives

Teach people how to teach. Remove illiteracy. Ask children to teach illiterate parents. They do it for their friends. Create viral effect. Education has ethics. That is also something to work on. E-based platform is a possibility. Both web, mobile channels. Get Habit of teaching for love for teaching. Have workshops for students to show importance for teaching during school days. Consider all cultures while creating lessons and make it readable in any language. Give ratings to teacher. Give them shit load of money. Open up teaching as a business. Teachers are getting violent. Have the power to take away child’s future. Have the rights to question them.

21 Job training in colleges

The quality of college education is low. Break gap between universities and corporate wall. Make it cost effective, but worthwhile. Service requirements of IT companies in recruitment. Train students well.

22 A ‘Branding’ Platform for Tier 2, 3 college kids

Tier 2 colleges need a platform to share a brand for deserving candidates. Else they don’t get a shot at the exciting global opportunities that are accessible only from IITs IIMs.

23 Collaborative e- learning

Kids hate to learn alone. Kid and neighbour kid learning online. Learning together is fun. Have an online classroom.

MOBILE

24 Emergency based mobile services

Track accidents through location based services and provide ambulance help. Also, if someone has an accident, people around can sms to a toll free number that can call up the victim’s family. Can be done as a call centre service.

25 Public “Issue Awareness Generation” Mechanism

Give a quote on a issue along with a classified code. Have a person compile messages. Based on the message code(for the problem) to spread it to the right mediums such as radio, internet etc.

26 Location based gaming network

Develop games that can be played by people in the same location at a point in time. Ex: treasure hunt in a mall, dating game.

27 Voice SMS or voice to SMS conversion

MISCELLANEOUS

28 Next generation OS

Computer OS done by UI designers, with culture and symbols. Bumptop is an example. No words/ languages. Only graphical elements such as symbols and signs.

29 Start up incubation services

Lend office spaces. Collaborate on infrastructure

30 Authentic Indian Food courts

Have food courts with authentic unexplored Indian food. Food sucks in 5 stars.

31 Community cricket matches

32 Get passports in 1 week

33 south Indian burger

2 idlies and a vada in between.

34 Have a recorder to record self talk.

Session 2 – Idea Building

Idea selected: 07 (Internet) Web Portal to Track Politicians

01 Ideas on ‘tracking information’

* Track Politician expenditures
* Implement a milestone tracking system. Have timeline of politicians and their events/ Promises. Politician stands on issues on a timeline. Possible timeline segmentation can be: Promise before entry, during the period of 5 years and what happened during 5 year period for future.
* Create Honesty/ credibility ratings
* Track Income tax returns and gifts

02 Ideas on Implementation

* One server/ provider platform can be easily influenced by the politician’s power. Build a tool that sends out the data to multiple application hosters and distribute control across public to avoid influence.
* For priming the system, file RTI against an MP and share it with the public.
* Create the platform in a wiki mode, which can be edited by users.
* Be inclusive in the management of the system. Use govt officials with a good track record in board of advisors.

03 Ideas on Value added services

* SMS issues to politician through a service. Track the status of the issue and when the problem rectified, send confirmation.
* Create awareness about the politician’s policies and execution.
* Along with tracking the politician, also enable the public to aid the politician in issues. Develop a user generated content platform to help to politicians in their decisions and actions – Enable more public interactions for politicians who have a good track record.