Launched in 2016 with support from Big Ideas, Dost now has over 9000 subscribers and is looking to expand to other states in India as well as other countries.

Big Ideas is an early-stage, innovation contest that provides funding, support, and recognition to student teams who develop novel solutions to pressing social challenges. Teams selected for the final round will have access to skill-development workshops, advising sessions and industry mentors in order to refine their pre-proposals into 10 page “full proposals,” due in March 2018.

UC Berkeley alumna and 2016 Big Ideas Contest winner Skylar Economy and her film crew—consisting of co-producers Sheila Wagner, Tristan Caro, Christian Collins, and Clarence Ford—are adding a new perspective on how the country can address mass incarceration.

Big Ideas is an early-stage university-based innovation contest that connects students—the world’s next generation of social entrepreneurs—with the mentorship, training, and resources needed to successfully conceptualize, deploy, and scale social innovations. Big Ideas plugs student entrepreneurs into a robust innovation ecosystem of high-caliber mentors, academics, scientists, tech experts, industry leaders, and investors, enabling them to access the full spectrum of resources needed to bring their ideas to fruition.

Tabla – the Grand Prize winner of  last year’s Rudd Family Foundation Big Ideas Contest-- was announced today as one of fourteen winners to receive Fast Company’s 2017 Innovation by Design Awards from 2,500 submissions worldwide. The device, engineered to more affordably and easily diagnose pneumonia, was honored as one of the most innovative and disruptive design solutions created to solve today’s most challenging business issues.