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While there is a plethora of literature regarding functioning of NGO’s, not much has been studied about various student led initiatives outside the country. Being such an initiative itself, [[http://floatingsun.net/udai/node/40|Udai is trying to put together a report]], in which we hope to answer fundamental questions like:

* What are the different models of such organizations?
* What are the important factors for them to be effective?
* What has been the impact of their work?
* How this information can help new organizations better position themselves to create a positive impact?

So if you are are/were involved in any such student organization, I’d love to hear from you. Please email me at diwaker.at.floatingsun.net or leave a comment below.

The speech was good, so was the analysis. But there was nothing new in there. Well known problems, well known solutions (or ideas for solutions). The usual rants, the usual suggestions, the usual (common-sensical) insights. In that sense, I didn’t get much out of reading the whole thing (and combined with the analysis, it makes for fairly voluminous reading).

But I did catch some minor points here and there that I found interesting. Like I didn’t know that Nehru had been offered to make India a member of the UN Security Council //way// back, and he declined. Or that the IT sector makes up for **only around 2-3% of India’s GDP**. And lots more like that. Its fairly good reading though, for a saturday morning :-)

And we did have some good discussion afterwards, so it was worth it. I haven’t been able to do much of book reading though lately, and haven’t even been able to catch up with all the magazines yet :-(

Some of the things I liked:

* The turnout was actually quite good. Though it would have been nice to have some more Indians around, considering that Udai is an Indian student organization
* The speakers were all so experienced and had considerable depth in their fields. They had a lot of interesting anecdotes and numbers to share with us
* I was really inspired by the passion of the panelists — they were all so motivated, had such strong feelings towards their respective causes that one could not help but feel a little motivated too
* The dinner afterwards was also quite nice (barring the fact that almost all the speakers got parking tickets)

If you’re interested, you can check out the [[http://floatingsun.net/udai/node/37|slides of the talks]]

Saurabh recently visited Jagruthi, a small NGO in Bangalore, for whom we recently did a fund raiser back in San Diego. He has written a small article on his experience, which can be [[http://floatingsun.net/udai/node/30|found here]].

The website is still under contstruction and will probably always remain so :-) But so long as it serves the purpose and can attract some more people interested in this kind of work, I’m ok with it.