Chennai-based business school launches online course -Governance Now

Chennai-based business school launches online course

Course to be delivered in collaboration with Cognizant Technology

PTI | September 8, 2010

A leading business school, Centre for Social Initiative and Management (CSIM) today launched a online course on Social Entrepreneurship to encourage entrepreneurs.

The Chennai based school has tied-up with leading IT company Cognizant Technology Solutions for offering this new course, CSIM Founder P N Devarajan said.

'This course aims to promote Social entrepreneurship across India in an easy and accessible method' he said at a function here.

He said they have received about 150 applications for the four month course.

Stating that they have developed the application for offering this online course, Cognizant Technology Solutions Vice-Chairman Lakshmi Narayanan said in future they would constantly update the software for offering this service.

The online course was formally launched by IIT Madras Director M S Ananth.

CSIM currently has four centres in the country. They aimed to reach 100 centres by 2015, CSIM Director Latha Suresh said.

Comments

Other News

Mofussils: Musings from the Margins

Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries By Sumana Roy Aleph Book Company, 320 pages, Rs 899 Sumana Roy’s latest work, like its p

How to promote local participation in knowledge sharing

Knowledge is a powerful weapon to help people and improve their lives. Knowledge provides the tools to understand society, solve problems, and empower people to overcome challenges and experience personal growth. Limited sources were available to attain information on the events in and arou

‘The Civil Servant and Super Cop: Modesty, Security and the State in Punjab’

Punjabi Centuries: Tracing Histories of Punjab Edited by Anshu Malhotra Orient BlackSwan, 404 pages, Rs. 2,150

What really happened in ‘The Scam That Shook a Nation’?

The Scam That Shook a Nation By Prakash Patra and Rasheed Kidwai HarperCollins, 276 pages, Rs 399 The 1970s were a

Report of India’s G20 Task Force on Digital Public Infrastructure released

The final ‘Report of India’s G20 Task Force on Digital Public Infrastructure’ by ‘India’s G20 Task Force on Digital Public Infrastructure for Economic Transformation, Financial Inclusion and Development’ was released in New Delhi on Monday. The Task Force was led by the