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UP Startup Conclave 2018 – A Gig Perspective

21/09/2018

greenworkforce.in participated at http://upstartupconclave.com/, an opportunity to showcase one’s Business Plan in a national-level event organized by the Department of IT & Electronics, Government of Uttar Pradesh which was attended by top Leaders and Officials of the UP Government, Industry stalwarts, Entrepreneurs, Investors, Public and Private Incubators, Accelerators and Students.

Here is a Gig perspective! The events are an aggregation of multiple gigs coordinated between diverse skills and task execution capabilities. Hundreds of people come together at a common venue with their own individual or team responsibilities, expectations and takeaways. The event management is an on-demand activity to fulfill the requirements of each gig of a bigger plan. The organizers spend money on resources and for the time spent by the contributors of each gig, The outcome of each gig is a measure of success for such events, eventually, contribute to the experience of the participants and the stakeholders.

The full-time employees affiliated with different organizations taking gig roles in such events have different expectations and behavioral constraints than the gig professionals like photographers. To fill the gaps, normally, the organizers hunt for volunteers as a helping hand and delegate the tasks to them. In the process, there are chances of communication-based errors, quality issues, delivery mismatches and sometimes chaos. The answer to this problem is GigTeams – a group of GigWarriors working in a team navigated by a Gigleader. greenworkforce groom gig professionals to host such events in a better way! On the other side, each gig assignment add up to the professional value of the workforce.

GigLeaders

Community Contributions for Employability Problems

01/09/2018

The GigTeams are the smaller units built on a community approach to solve the youth career problems. The engagement of a small group of professionals say a size of 4 to 8 people, lead by a Gigleader as the unit to build its own economy in the Gig Economy marketplace can solve multiple issues in the society. We believe in the organic transformation of the individual’s attitude towards education and employment.

Here we have picked up certain indicators from the India Ministry for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. The state minister MSDE has tweeted “Every year 2 crore people reach the employment age. It’s our duty to ensure that they have a proper livelihood. With the latest technological advancements, we are trying to build a skilled workforce.” But, the global reports like the one from pwc highlights need for collaboration and engagement from governments, organisations and society at large. Further, Governments, organisations and society should work together to develop a responsible approach and policies that govern the impact of technology and automation on jobs – including a clear discussion on the ethics of AI. Governments should engage with organisations developing the use of robotics and AI at all stages of policy making, to create a pool of thought leaders with a deep understanding of the interplay between technology and its effect on society.

We are building hundreds of such GigTeams at Co-Working spaces, Campuses, District Places and the virtual groups to connect the work from professionals. This is a Social Entrepreneurship model for inclusive growth of aspiring entrepreneurs, independent professionals, employment seekers, and the fresh innovative minds.

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Transformation in the way we work

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I was reading a publication from PwC about ‘Workforce of the Future’ which is a research report looking at four possible Worlds of Work for 2030 to help professionals kick-start their thinking. The report says “We are living through a fundamental transformation in the way we work. Automation and ‘thinking machines’ are replacing human tasks, changing the skills that organisations are looking for in their people. But what will the future look like?

This isn’t a time to sit back and wait for events to unfold. To be prepared for the future, you have to understand it.”

Actually, we at greenworkforce are focusing precisely on this topic. We address the problem of employability with the combinations of lifelong learning, gig economy work practices and entrepreneurship. In a way, we are encouraging independent professionals opting for gig jobs and helping them to succeed in the global marketplace.

I liked the key report messages for leaders from this PwC study report; This isn’t about some ‘far future’ of work – change is already happening, and accelerating. Act Now: No regrets and bets | Make a bigger leap | Own the automation debate | People not jobs | Build a clear narrative

The study also states a critical number – 60% think ‘few people will have stable, long-term employment in the future’.

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Collaborative Startup Culture

25/08/2018

I am sharing my learning by doing things at Founder Institute for their local semesters at Delhi and Noida. Indeed, it is a unique value proposition Founder Institute offer to the local startup ecosystem helping the stakeholders in many ways.

The Founder Institute is the world’s premier pre-seed startup accelerator. Since 2009, we have helped over 3,100 companies raise over $700M and build some of the world’s fastest growing companies. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 60 countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to “Globalize Silicon Valley” and empower talented and motivated people to build impactful companies that create one million jobs. Thanks to Adeo and his team for the great work.

Let me pick up one element of the system. The Equity Collective is an interesting part of FI system fostering the collaborative startup culture. As you can read it on their web page starting a company can be a lonely journey. In addition, too many aspiring entrepreneurs never start, and too many pre-seed businesses fail, because they lack expert feedback and proper focus during the earliest stages. To help entrepreneurs in the earliest stages of a business establish a critical support network of both like-minded and successful local entrepreneurs, the Founder Institute developed a groundbreaking Equity Collective where everyone shares equity in the companies formed from each program cohort.

Here’s how it works – each Founder Institute Graduate contributes 4% of their company equity in Warrants to a fifteen-year Bonus Pool with other peers from the current cohort. When a liquidity event occurs, the Pool returns are then distributed in parts to a) Founder Institute b) Local Leaders c) Mentors d) Cohort Participants almost equally.
3/4 of the Pool Returns come back to the Local Community
1/4 goes right back to the program Graduates, split evenly.
1/4 goes to the program Mentors, and each Mentor’s individual share is based solely on anonymous ratings received from the Graduates. This incentivizes Mentors to take an active role in each cohort’s success.
1/4 of the Pool Returns go to the Local Program Directors, where I belong to, for their efforts in organizing, building, and running the local cohort.
1/4 of the Pool Returns go to the Founder Institute, which provides operating capital for the business.

When one Graduate company succeeds, every participant from that program cohort receives a financial upside.

This is really fascinating to me to associate with Founder Institute. The thoughts are aligned with greenworkforce business model.

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Presentation at MGIEP UNESCO TECH 2017

21/08/2018

UNESCO MGIEP’s projects are designed to mainstream socio-emotional learning in education systems, innovate digital pedagogies and to put youth as global citizens at the centre of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development in order to achieve SDG 4.7. More details are available in their website I did participate in one of their international conferences during 2017 at Visakhapatnam presenting my paper on AI powered Lifelong Learning Exploration to spread the awareness about Artificial Intelligence.

Prof M M Pant has inspired me to initiate this project. AI2AI – The project is driven by two very powerful ideas. One is the observation by the subject authority Andrew Ng that ‘Artificial Intelligence is the new electricity’. And the other is the belief that ‘Teaching is the mother of all professions’. So, if we want to align all the existing professions in the emerging 4th Industrial Age to the era of ‘Artificial Intelligence’, then a suitable educational model is the answer. This project is about conceptualizing, designing, developing and delivering the new model invoking AI to deliver courses on AI awareness as a first step. We introduce Co-Learning spaces and TeacherPreneurs powered by utilities of AI. Artificial Intelligence was the favourite subject of Shashidhar during his final year of engineering studies at Mysore, way back in 1991. The sudden rise of AI in recent 3 years and its push by industry majors have fueled his interest to take up such projects.

Fortune Magazine asked all the CEOs of the Fortune 500 what they believed the biggest challenge facing their companies was. Their biggest concern for 2017: “The rapid pace of technological change” said 73% of those polled, up from 64% in 2016. Cyber security came in only a far second, at 61%, even after all the mega-hacks of the past year.
So, what does “technological change” entail? For almost all Fortune 500 CEOs, it means, in part, artificial intelligence. “Forget The Hype: What Every Business Leader Needs To Know About Artificial Intelligence Now,” AI is on the lips of almost every global CEO and Board of Directors.

A Lifelong Learning – Mobile First Approach: The marriage of Learning and Mobility has worked indeed! The simplest case, we have delivered more than 30 courses on WhatsApp with an audience more than 5000 from 20 countries on the topics like Computational Thinking, AI & ML, Learn How To Learn, Become a TeacherPreneur, Become a Lifelong Learner etc.
The proposed AI2AI is the Heutagogy based revised version of these courses to improve the delivery, impact and the credentials. In fact, we intend to pick the tools like IBM Watson and Microsoft QnA maker along with few AI startups from our network to enhance the learning experience. We are evaluating BlockChain technology for certification. We break the barriers for a seamless transformation in education as a preparation for the 4th Industrial Age!

GigTeams

Gig Model in Education – A great value add

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It gives an immense pleasure to engage students in a remote village 2000 miles away every week to teach them English. eVidyaloka is doing a great job by roping in thousands of volunteer teachers residing in different continents to teach Science, Mathematics and English to Government school students in rural area across Karnataka Tamilnadu, Jharkhand, and other states. I am one such teacher engaged for two years now. We use Skype to teach students remotely. We are assisted by a local class administrator as well. Beyond the system expectations, I had decided to visit my students personally during my trip to Karnataka. Thanks to Shripati, the local co-ordinator who took me to the two schools, one at Mugad village and the other at Uppina Betgeri in Dharwad district.

It is about solving a problem! Venkat and his team at eVidyaloka realized the need for supplementing the education at higher primary level in schools, specifically at rural area. They have developed an efficient workflow powered by web application to integrate the components of educational resources, curriculum, operations and the human network. The entire business model is designed for Gig jobs by the respective stakeholders to perform better. Of course, the activities at various levels generate metrics for monitoring and evaluations.

The impact is huge! As you can see it in their website the year on year growth is very significant to prove that there exists an alternate model to the conventional education system. Why not extend the practice to a wider discipline? We at greenworkforce advocate for such practical changes to face the emerging 4th industrial age.

GigTeams

Workshop on Micro Entrepreneurship

19/08/2018

I am thankful to Prof. S S Hegde, Principal at SDM Honnavar and Dr. Shivaram S Shastri, Director at Dr. M P Karki Institute of Excellence and Research for arranging a workshop on Micro Entrepreneurship addressing their pre-final year students. The focus was on the digital age opportunities for the young as an alternate path in their professional career.

Freelancing provides the crucial experience you need to become an entrepreneur. Lack of experience is the key factor preventing many people from making the break from their nine to five jobs and setting up on their own. However, there is a straightforward solution to help people like these gain experience, contacts and confidence: freelancing! With reference to the college students, I stressed on the topic encouraging them to make attempts to become a freelancer even before they graduate from the campus actually.

I did demonstrate how curated Open Education Resources are handy in preparation for their future as a lifelong learner. We referred nano courses from http://www.life-global.org/ which has more than 30 topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small business. These simple but, complete package of learning contents of global standards are easy to access, learn and practice at their own pace. In fact, the audience like it very much.

The work practices as a freelancer were demonstrated live with reference to popular global online marketplaces like UpWork and Guru. The complete cycle is explained to them – how to setup an account, complete the profile with relevant information, how to find jobs, apply, earn money and gain online reputation with great feedbacks.

Freelancers are Solopreneurs or micro entrepreneurs. One has to manage everything that a startup demands at an individual level. We at greenworkforce are on a mission to groom such micro entrepreneurs everywhere.

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Women in Tech – a content session at Delhi

18/08/2018

It was a surprise opportunity for me to moderate a session on ‘Women in Tech: How to Keep Up With Generation Y Women in Tech’ at Delhi during 2016. We did conduct around six such content sessions on various topics related to entrepreneurship as part of the assignment from Founder Institute, USA, for their New Delhi chapter. The experience of organizing such events targeting the professionals and aspiring founders from Delhi – National Capital Region was an immense pleasure.

We used Meetup platform https://www.meetup.com/Delhi-Startup-Founder-101/events/236095998/ primarily to mobilize the participants. In fact, the startup ecosystem partners helped us to reach a wider audience to make it happen on every schedule with decent numbers. We acknowledge the higher quality of the interactive event and its credits to those women leaders as speakers who made it there. Of course, the diverse background of the audience was critical to bring in various topics for discussion on the same theme.

A full session of about 3 hours was well appreciated for the purpose we had gathered. The session was followed by a networking opportunity for aspirants over coffee.

GigTeams

A session on GigEconomy@B-School

18/08/201818/08/2018

I was invited to deliver a session on Gig Economy as part of the student academic activities at Apeejay School of Business Management, New Delhi. It was a small batch of students and the faculties there for an interactive discussion on the topic. Indeed, me along with the other two speakers enjoyed delivering contents on the respective topics scheduled for the day.

The adaptation of ICT in businesses has lead to the break down of business functions into component operations that can
be managed without incurring any increase in coordination cost. The digital transformation of the business models further increased the ability to look at the activities in a different approach both within and outside the organisation and to redistribute which of these component activities should be done within and outside the organisation.

I took a reference of a published case study from https://www.ibm.com/blogs/internet-of-things/iot-fsm-and-gig-economy/ which states how the gig economy will transform field service management. Another article on Performance Management in the Gig Economy at https://hbr.org/2016/01/performance-management-in-the-gig-economy was also discussed briefly.

We at greenworkforce educate the prospect companies to evaluate the Gig Economy models as an alternate way of working to improve the business parameters, especially in relevance with Industry 4.0 practices.

GigWarriors

Rising Small Town Aspirations

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It is very much true that aspirations of small-town youth are no lesser than their counterparts from metros like Delhi or Bengaluru. I did speak to the students and staff of few colleges engaging them with a detailed conversation on the changing workplace landscape. I did conduct workshops demonstrating them how the digital world is an enabler of their career by the time they graduate from their colleges. Some are ignorant, some do not have enough resources, but, few of them are really catching up with the new age ecosystem in spite of the odd situation they have back at home.

The internet penetration is gradually increasing though local BSNL officer said it was only 20% of the district exchange capacity is utilized. The Government is upgrading the infrastructure with fiber connectivity irrespective of the demand and the actual usage. The local population is adapting the digital lifestyle unknowingly to a certain extent. So is the impact on education, healthcare, transport and the youth career.

I have spotted few bright minds among the youth from smaller towns. All they need is a good mentor and access to a dependable digital infrastructure. We at greenworkforce are making attempts to channelize resources to help these aspiring global professionals.

UP Startup Conclave 2018 – A Gig Perspective

Community Contributions for Employability Problems

Transformation in the way we work

Collaborative Startup Culture

Presentation at MGIEP UNESCO TECH 2017

Gig Model in Education – A great value add

Workshop on Micro Entrepreneurship

Women in Tech – a content session at Delhi

A session on GigEconomy@B-School

Rising Small Town Aspirations

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