Media

The Role of Design Thinking in India’s Innovation Century – Pool Feature

January 07, 2011
Pool, India’s First International Design Magazine features Dr. Aditya Dev Sood’s thoughts on Innovation, India and Design Thinking. The article intends to redirect the existing Indian course of creativity to a more constructive and responsible level. His opinion of expecting design thinking to go mainstream and cross-disciplines to merge with core design, together hopes to establish a progressive value-based innovation system in the country.

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DNA India Accounts the Pecha Kecha Bengaluru

It’s called Pecha Kucha Night and it happens all across the world from San Francisco to Bangalore.

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CKS Field Team With Per Helmersen, a Research Scientist From Telenor in Tamil Nadu

Telenor’s own cultural explorer, Per Helmersen, spent three weeks in India to learn more about the financial needs of women in Tamil Nadu.
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Designed to Succeed – Economic Times Feature

(August 02, 2010)
Business of Brands, Economic Times quotes Dr. Aditya Dev Sood in “Designed to Succeed”.

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India’s Design Mavericks- Live Mint Feature

(June 01, 2010)
As a second in the five-part series on ‘Design and Business’ – Dr. Aditya Dev Sood featured in Mint, the Indian arm of the Wall Street Journal.
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You Have 20 seconds to Present Your Idea

(March 21, 2010)

DNA Features Pecha Kucha Night Bangalore in its space reserved for exciting ideas and new experiences.
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Speedy Ticket – Time Out Bengaluru Feature

(February 19, 2010)

Time Out Bengaluru, an entertainment and lifestyle magazine previewed Pecha Kucha Night Bangalore, scheduled for the 26th, in its February issue.

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Culture : The KISS Principle – Live Mint Feature

(January 16,2010)

The PechaKucha presentation format asks you to Keep It Short and Simple, and creatives love it….
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Mobile Development Report

(July 18, 2008)

I recently came across this report titled “The Mobile Development Report“, published by CKS on a research commissioned by Nokia for developmental use of mobile networks in emerging economies. The report focuses on social transformations around a new technology and its adoption. The report beautifully documents lives and ways Indians in tier 2 cities and towns use mobile phones. One of the best reports….

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Emerging Economy Report

(May 18, 2008)

Our friends at CKS in Bangalore have published a hefty research document called Emerging Economy Report. Key regions of the world, the report states, are being transformed by the phenomenon whereby soft infrastructure – such as, especially, mobile phone networks – is installed despite the absence of hard infrastructure (such as roads, or nation-spanning power grids)….

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Mobilising Growth in Rural India

(September 03, 2007)

The power of mobile telephony is redefining the economic and social fabric of rural India.The country adds six million new mobile subscriptions each month. The teledensity has increased to 20.52% in July 2007 from 19.86% in June 2007, according to the telecom regulatory authority of india(TRAI). One in every five persons now own a telephone as the total number of subscribers reached 232.87 million by July.

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Mobiles Will Revolutionise Seven Sectors in Rural India -Nokia,CKS

(January 30, 2007)

Mobile, India: Mobile communication is revolutionising economic and social life in rural India, spawning a wave of local entrepreneurs and creating greater access to social services, according to a new study by The Centre for Knowledge Societies (CKS) commissioned by Nokia. The research identifies seven major service sectors – including transport, finance and healthcare – that could be radically transformed through mobile technologies…

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Everything… as it is: Infinite

(March 13, 2005)

What’s common to a Bangalore-based design hot-shop, an exhibition of unique media devise used in India, and the desire of every company to use technology in such a way to create products and services that can be used by people who aren’t conversant with technology? The answer is Doors of Perception 8, a conference that will be held in Delhi in the third week of March.

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In Your Face, In Your Space – Business Today Feature

(June 29, 04)

Indian companies are straddling up close to consumers in their natural habitat – at work, play and home – in their bid to tailor-make products and services for them. Their cool new tool: Ethnographic Research. CKS was featured prominently in this article as the only research company conducting ethnographic research in the ICT space.

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Auto Drivers Turn Richer With Mobiles: A CIOL Web Feature

(Nov 29, 03)
While mobile penetration continues to increase, a research amongst auto drivers reveals that unless products are designed for specific targets, mobiles for all may just remain a dream.

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