A new innovation by Indian social enterprise VNL is giving rural India access to mobile technology – quickly, sustainably and at low cost. Comparing it to microfinancing, they call this new approach microtelecom.

In an interesting article in the New York Times , Lydia Polgren reports on India’s new Right to Information law , which is increasingly being used by the otherwise so powerless poor to gain leverage on government bureaucrats and force them to do their jobs.

Each of the garments from fashion label Satara comes with a paper tag attached, bearing a sign in Hindi. The tags represent the women who have produced the garments, and on the Satara website, you can click on the matching signs and learn about the life and dreams of each of these women, such as [...]