True power of social networks and dialogue

The success stories are there regarding jobs,startups and business arising out of contacts and further dialogue that happens due to the advent of blogs and Social Software startups.One just has to look hard enough and with a bit of luck one does find them and gets inspired to do something more and it is for the better of everyone in the neighbourhood and the world.
Today I read a story which narrated how social networks were helping to cure schizophrenia in developing and for the poor in developed countries.It just goes to show open dialogue almost always works when done sincerely and all concerned win-the care provider,the patient and the community win.
Even the conservative Business Week has started blogging and spreading hope and giving ideas and that goes to show what blogs and social networks can do-I found a tenant for a flat through a social network and made a commission so all can do it provided they access the net and use their initiative.
I also like http://blo.gs
It has been gobbled up by Yahoo and is reaching many web users right now too.

My gripes against the richest 1%

There are times when we need to act and this is because more the things change - the more similar they are:

1. It does not make any difference to the top 1% of the population globally as these people are really rich and most are cursed with a disease called INDIFFERENCE.The rich are not really bothered about how much some blokes down in the street pay for smallest of neccessities like food and water.All thee people care about is that is/are my interest(s) safe.
2. The really powerful are really headstrong and are seldom willing to listen to the voices of ordinary people.
3. Governments toe the dictats of such people 99 % of the time.

Today another fuel price hike is likely to happen in India and prices of all commodities are likely to increase and on the other hand the government is providing free power to farmers and the less said about the price of water for the rich and famous in India the better as the world will never see a more skewed picture of how pricing goes wrong and why nodoby is held accountable.Bureaucracy,police,politicians and judiciary are equally to blame for this sorry state of affairs and all forget the one basic fact of life-everybody dies and has to give an account of whatever one has done in life.

The rich and famous will not escape this accountability and neither will members of the oil cartel who are rolling on the floor and laughing at the ease with which they get higher oil prices never mind anything else in the world the rich people have to get more money and luxuries-the best you know-nothing short of it.

Maybe rarely these people act kindly and do something for satisfying their own guilty conscience but it is a very rare event!.if you feed a poor person once and insult that poor person everyday what is the really great thing that you have done?

I would openly appeal to people who read this blog to act on the opportunity to reduce energy prices in India once for all and change the dream called India-by actually making it come true!learn to accept people as they are and be ready to put your money where your mouth is or forever get used to being cheated by hypocrites.

This is why I appreciate companies like www.ebay.in - at least they really try to bridge the distance between a buyer and seller.

A few really good sources on info on energy are:

www.sunwindenergy.com
www.solarbuzz.com

Act to reduce the cost of energy before more people die and kill for energy and the right to live a decent life.

Developing science and Tech in India

We all should remember here that the ink of the scholar who does the best he can for common people is really better than the blood the martyrs for a cause.All R & D should benefit common people and not cartels that merely fix prices and indulge in favoritism and are least bothered about other people.Such people also exist and people from such cartels too have been known to change for the better when the realization comes.

It is essential to have an assured career in science for a certain number of high quality committed scientists with aptitude towards research. There should be a minimum annual intake of about 300-500 M.Sc., and 100-200 Ph.D. scientists with proper emoluments and assured career growth in the organisations such as ISRO, DRDO, Atomic Energy, CSIR, DST and the Universities. The private and government funded universities must be encouraged to appoint M.Sc., and Ph.D. who have been selected through a nationally coordinated competitive selection process.

I would love to see true fairness in recruitment here.When will the government deliver on promises made-speedy implementation is the key here.It has to be measured.

The experienced scientists and policy makers of the organisations must recognize the talents available in the organisation irrespective of the position and empower the young scientists to create state-of-the art laboratories once they have concrete thoughts and vision.

These people in power must be held accountable for the salaries drawn and the reporting has to be to a body of professionals who will act in the interests of society.

Kindly do your bit instead of playing with careers of students and faculty alike.Sincerity does make a difference and a single person can bring about change-the will has to be there.
Even a single person is able to bring change-what is needed is belief and conviction and most important of all support.

Universities and Research and Development institutions must encourage and facilitate the young scientists to write quality research papers in frontier areas and in prestigious journals. They should also facilitate the youth to present the papers in national and international seminars and symposiums which will enable them to assess their standard against international benchmarks.

Why publish and sell our ideas for free-I would love to see us making money from our ideas or do we need foreigners to tell us how to make money too.Surely we should extract our pound of flesh.

The youth must be made to understand the beauty of doing science, the pleasure of doing science and the ultimate bliss when the results of science make them understand the nature, master it, control it and finally make things that improve the quality of life of the human kind. Every one of us, scientists must pledge that we will at least spend sometime visiting the schools to ignite the young minds by recounting our own experiences.

Beauty does not feed hungry mouths-there is a need for jobs entrepreneurs and people with guts to follow through and go the whole 9 yards.Get prominent members from industry to drive our research and development and make these people accountable to tax payer with jail terms if needed.

Make sure the police do their jobs and so do the lawyers and policy makers.Reduce and later eliminate corruption.That is what will work. For a great example on how to reduce corruption and still get good work done from people look at the Indian Railways-it is continously minimizing corruption by reducing contact points between people and managing to increase technlogy usage in Indian Railways.

Another email that makes the info I give worthwhile

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This is from a PhD in US.For joining the Yahoogroup please send me an email and I will send you the link.

Books and magazines

Some of you may wonder just how do I get the ideas for articles and the website addresses I post over here and the secret is very simple-I read and surf a lot and subscribe to magazines like Business Week, Business2 and Technology Review.Just renewed the subscriptions today from www.readerspoint.com - I used to work there earlier and still have an excellent relation with the firm.

Presently I am reading 2 books-Google the Missing manual and Authentic Business.Why-Google for searching the net and Authentic Business for ideas on how to build an authentic business.

Will post more websites tomorrow.