The panel day started with a briefing for the 20 panelists who were with us for the 2 days of panel discussions. Each panel comprised of 3 panelists and we had 6 panels running simultaneously. The panelists comprised of Ashoka fellows and professionals from the academic, business and ciitizen sector in Mumbai. Each team got 15 minutes to present their ideas, followed by 10 minutes for the panel to raise questions which was follwed by 20 minutes of panel debrief of the venture team.
There seems to be two kinds of people in this world... the ones who complain on how things are not working and the one's who dont have the time to complain because they are too busy doing something about the things which are not working. YV brought two 'generations' of the latter together ....one group who have begun the journey and travelled the path of leading social change and the next generation who through signing up at the YV Challenge are about to start on that journey!