Workshop on Building Capacities to take forward SDGs
Smart Village Movement
⚫ Dr. Solomon Darwin- American Professor of Business and the Executive
Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the Haas School
of Business at the University of California, Berkley.
• Known as the Father of the Smart Village Movement (SVM).
• Government of Arunachal Pradesh and Smart Village Movement signed an
MoU on 13th June 2018 to build scalable smart villages in the state.
• 100 villages in the State were taken up by the Smart Village Movement to
solve the pain points in the villages through technology driven development.
• SVM uses open innovation to connect rural communities to global markets
and, in the process create economic opportunities for both villagers and
corporations.
• Under SVM areas covered include Energy & ICT, Healthcare, Education,
Agriculture, Water & Sanitation, Livelihood, Transportation and Safety &
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