NASSCOM Foundation exhibits the best of the Social Innovations at its Flagship CSR Leadership Conference 2016 – Bangalore Edition

 

 

 

IT-BPM Industry Leaders, NGOs and Social Innovators come together to discuss the future of CSR in India at NASSCOM Foundation’s CSR Leadership Conference

 

NASSCOM Foundation exhibits the best of the Social Innovations at its Flagship CSR Leadership Conference 2016 – Bangalore Edition

Provides a platform to connect the 140+ CSR and Industry leads from across India to 150+ Innovating NGOs and Social Entrepreneurs

BANGALURU, (GNI):  NASSCOM Foundation, yesterday, hosted the Bangalore edition of its flagship event ‘CSR Leadership Conference’ (CLC). In its second year, the conference sought to find solutions on how can CSR meaningfully address the India development agenda and brought together a dynamic community of over 350 CSR leaders, Tech4Good champions, NGO practitioners, and Public Policy influencers under one roof.

While the world adopts the Sustainable Development Goals in 2016, to eradicate poverty, India has set its own ambitious targets, aligned to the Global Goals, in Digital India, Skills India and strong focus on Education, Health, Support for Girls: Beti Bhachao Beti Padao, Clean India: Swachh Bharat, Inclusive India, Innovation and Make in India amongst others. For CSR to meaningfully contribute to national goals and finance social development in India, companies would be required to build capacities to understand and prioritise the need areas and focus efforts to maximize long term sustainable impact. The CSR Leadership Conference, acts as a platform to inform and support CSR leaders, showcase best practices while encouraging collaborations towards solving problems in specific development areas like education, employability skills building, health and livelihood, and digital empowerment.

The conference was divided into various thematic sessions, showcasing innovative, impactful initiatives and discussing on challenges and the way forward. The CSR Leadership Conference also acted as a host to USAID, to call upon corporates in addressing the challenges of one of the deadliest diseases in the world- tuberculosis. The Conference further discussed on how CSR can support to scale innovative impact models, led by various social impact vehicles, including social enterprises and Non-Government Organizations to facilitate the last mile development.

Technology is being used in multitude ways- IT-BPM (Business Process Management) companies have led innovative thinking and practices in CSR, and are also increasingly finding ways to use technologies to manage, and monitor CSR initiatives- with cloud and mobile as most preferred platform.

The social enterprise sector, represented by both Not-for-Profit and For-Profit business are using Information and Communication Technologies to develop solutions that can address the development needs of the underserved communities across urban and rural parts of India. With the companies across the industry looking for high impact CSR initiatives, these innovations make for a brilliant opportunity. Through this conference, NASSCOM Foundation facilitated to connect the two, towards the larger goal of addressing India development goals through CSR.

Since the last eight years, NASSCOM Foundation through its program – NASSCOM Social Innovation Forum, has been recognizing, mentoring and giving the Tech for Good solutions a platform to further scale and succeed and the event saw the best of these projects showcased to over 140 Industry leaders attending the event. The attendees were also given a glimpse to Vodafone Foundation’s Social Apps Hub – A first of its kind App store being developed in collaboration with Nextgen and NASSCOM Foundation which will house social mobile apps providing solutions to the complete spectrum of the India Development agenda.

Speaking at the occasion, Dr. Ganesh Natarajan, Chairman, NASSCOM Foundation said, “The CSR Law has provided companies with a means to do social good, fueling a great opportunity for companies to support innovative initiatives and practices where technology is helping to expand reach, scale and impact. In the current scenario, NASSCOM Foundation finds itself in a unique position, wherein it is the creator, aggregator and disseminator of the CSR knowledge and envisions itself to play a pivotal role in making Corporate – NGO, Corporate – Corporate, NGO – NGO collaborations happen to complement the India development agenda.”

The CSR Leadership Conference, initiated by NASSCOM Foundation in 2015, has been able to create a remarkable degree of relevance for CSR leaders from the IT-BPM (Business Process Management) Industry, practitioner and policy makers. The 2016 Conference, with a curtain raiser in Bengaluru will be culminated with a mega event in Delhi on 9^th March 2016.end