3 of my favorite things slash blogs about my job...

Below are a few recent blog posts I've written that describe what I've been up to in the past 3.5 months...(btw, all come with the right amount of gloss, positivity and importance that any "professional" blog entry ought to convey).


Blog entry #3. Using fancy Apple software and new media to put a communications spin on unresolved (and slightly boring) issues that have been at the forefront of health and environmental issues in the developing world.

Blog entry #2. Conducting "Design for Social Impact" workshops at a design school and IIT conference in South India.

Blog Entry #1. Writing (and ranting) about Indian culture, development issues and some things in between.


I know, I know. I don't talk about work often (or usually, at all), but I figured I should (probably) try and change that. Also, I thought this might be a perfect time for a shameless plug for my recently completed project and newly written blog entry (see #3).

As a research consultant for the Rural Market Insight team at the Centre for Development Finance my work is to look at renewable energy sources and access to clean drinking water through products and services that are being developed for those living at the "bottom-of-the-pyramid" aka the BoP* in rural India. I tend to come at this from the point-of-view of the user – emphasizing the importance of understanding user-behavior and pushing user-centered design to help socially oriented businesses, investors and NGO's serve this population more effectively and treat them as consumers should be treated.


*In general, I feel the term, "BoP" is fairly derogatory and basically pretty offensive while at the same time describing a really really large percent of the global population. Regardless, I use it here to exemplify the "lingo" that many market-based solution advocates are taking (RIP CKP) and to connect what I do with how many international social entrepreneurs and investors talk about and refer to this cross-section between business and development.