Digital Green

And also with us today is Mr. Rikin Gandhi.

And Rikhin is co-founder and executive director of Digital Green, which is a global development organization.

that is really aimed at empowering smallholder farmers to really get out of poverty by harnessing technology and also by doing grass-level partnerships.

He started his career at Oracle.

two levers that are very powerful in helping advance these goals, and one of them is social entrepreneurship.

Social entrepreneurs have actually been working for a long, long time on these goals.

People like Rickon and Ashoka Fellows, Echoing Green Fellows, they've been looking at the biggest challenges in society.

They've been tackling change and coming up with amazing innovations.

That's BaBa Job.

And finally, Digital Green.

So Digital Green is in the field of agriculture.

Uh, so the gentleman, uh, the founder, Rikin Gandhi, uh, he's actually an MIT alum who went back to India about four years ago, started this, uh, yeah, uh, venture.

And basically, what he does is he goes to a rural area and identifies a, within quotes, "successful farmer." And then videotapes the farmer as he's going about his business, the fertilizers that he uses, the seeds that he uses, the irrigation method that he uses, and so forth.

Sanjay, real quickly, you've given us four really interesting examples.

Are these organized as nonprofits, or are they organized as regular companies?

Uh, I know Digital Green is a not-for-profit organization.