Previous Ventures challenges

What challenges have previous Ventures participant groups tackled?

The second group of Dishaa participants were asked: Unique carbon cutting measures are happening locally in India and the UK. How do we accelerate and multiply our actions to reduce carbon emissions by 50% in the next five years?

The first group of Dishaa participants were asked: Heart surgery at $1,000 (USD) - what has to change in how society operates and innovates to make this a reality?

Other challenges proposed by the Advisory Group:

Social balance

Facilitating balanced development and a fair society, achieving growth while preserving scarce resources, supporting innovation while regulating to ensure stability, and programmes for poverty alleviation.

Achieving growth with a reduced carbon footprint

Both India and the UK feature amongst the top ten nations by total CO2 emissions. India is ranked fourth and the UK eighth in the world. Global per capita emissions (tonnes per person) is highest at c.19.8 in the USA - the UK's levels are 9.66 and India's is 1.16. Dishaa future leaders group could work to identify schemes which could result in a substantially lower carbon footprint from a number of institutions in the two countries.

Events on a world stage

Dishaa participants could explore lessons from the recent Commonwealth Games in New Delhi that are relevant to the UK as it prepares to host the Olympics in 2012 in London and the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014.

Diversity in leadership

What steps do both India and the UK need to take to ensure that all organisations recognise the benefits of eliminating gender, race and religious discrimination?