1. Sankalp Livelihoods Projects
We provide a platform for rural entrepreneurs and anybody else to develop their ideas and translate
their projects into reality. At present, we have developed linkages with external bodies in the following areas:
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VSBK: Partner Development Alternatives in the
dissemination of VSBK technology
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Pot-in-Pot Project: Disseminate our proprietary
‘Pot-in-pot’ pottery project for rural refrigeration technologies, that do not
consume electricity or conventional fuels for refrigeration of food products
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MCR Tiles: Partner Development Alternatives in
the dissemination of MCR technology
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Solar Energy: Partner TATA BP Solar for the
dissemination of a wide range of Solar Photovoltaics and solar thermal products
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Handmade Paper Products: Disseminate our
proprietary handmade paper products manufacturing technology
2. Consultancy Services
Our livelihoods consultancy services promote the free and fair dissemination of information for a wide variety of subjects that impact livelihoods in particular, and rural development in general.
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Quality Management Systems: ISO 9000 Standards, Statistical Process Control, Quality Function Deployment, KAIZEN
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Documentation Services: Content management, design and implementation
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Imaging Services: Design and implementation of imaging products and services
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Engineering Technology: Research and Development, design, engineering technology management.
3. The Digital Advantage
Sankalpa Technical Services (STC) focuses on digital technologies to maximize its reach and to provide the highest level of technical and consultancy services.
Most of the compass of human experiences - voices, images and even smells - can be captured in various degrees of verisimilitude in object media: all representations can be reduced ultimately to the esperanto of 1s and 0s. Once digitized, information acquires the digital advantage: a universal rendering that is resource conservative, cheap to store and transport, and easy to copy, meter and manipulate. Digital rendering thus liberates information from the constraints of any particular medium and raises the possibility of the liberation of 'information' from the constraints of scarcity and rationing by price: easy and cheap replicability means that whatever can be digitally rendered can be made universally available ...
Although digital technology is expensive to install - usually requiring the complete replacement of previous-generation technologies - digital storage and distribution costs are qualitatively different. Unlike traditional transport and communications, a digital infrastructure consumes relatively little in the way of energy, resources or labour, regardless of the load. As in the past, contemporary industry is both shaping and being shaped by transportation and communications systems. And new systems of production organization, enabled by recent developments in communications, are continuously emerging
A primary objective of STC is to provide a platform for rural people to engage the world in these fast moving and critically important technologies.
Livelihoods Technical Services
