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Genre Of Impact
Civic Capital & Govt.
Nagaland is one of India’s most vibrant states with 17 indigenous tribes that have their own traditions. While the state is blessed with natural bounties, there is a tremendous amount of cultural, social, talent and civic capital that can be unlocked using a system design approach. This can help Nagaland position itself right as also enable its youth to harness civic capital.
PROBLEM
Building entrepreneurial capabilities and infrastructure for musicians, youth and artists in Nagaland, which had been a challenge. This is also an opportunity for the state to unlock soft capital.
INSIGHT
Skilling, professional exposure, business exposure can upgrade professional capabilities and community engagement. This can include key industry partnerships, business & brand linkages, design thinking, and industry participation helps augment this.
ACTION
- Putting together a strategic framework and plan. This included 4 levers – knowledge, access, business linkages and commercial understanding.
- Built physical infrastructure like studio spaces, art gallery, upgradation of auditorium facilities for better performances and events which circled back as higher revenue contribution.
- Business and industry linkages through MoUs with government bodies, brands, corporate sponsors and service providers for music distribution. This also included performance contracts / tie-ups across the country, cultural exchange programs enabling artists to perform at other state festivals and in return hosting artists from other states at Hornbill Festival.
- Conceptualised and created the Thinkfest IP around the Business of Music. This included an interactive format where diverse professionals from the field of music and arts imparted practical , professional and business education to artists in Nagaland.
- Helped facilitate collaborative opportunities with Nagaland artists and A-list producers
RESULTS
The government, when it works in partnership with industry professionals, design thinkers and with a strategic plan at hand, can be a powerful force of change. This can help communities unlock soft capital and grow business opportunities.
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Swamy has conducted numerous workshops around the revival of organic practices and indigenous cotton, held several lectures apart from being a core participant in impactful programs. These include “Reviving community based indigenous seed systems” funded by SWISS-AID India, exploring linkages between weather parameters, paddy cultivation and adaptation activities in collaboration with Earthnet Foundation, Thailand, state coordination of “Save our rice campaign” in Karnataka and the “Community biodiversity management and conservation programme” funded by GGF.
Creative. Honest. Relevant. Be it a campaign, product design or a whitepaper,
Aakanksha’s mantra has never failed her. An alumna from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts – Singapore, specialised in design, media and animation, Aakanksha is first and foremost a storyteller, with a decade of experience developing brands across industries through consumer insights, advertising, marketing, branding, and content strategy. Conscientious and driven, Aakanksha prefers to use her creativity and understanding of human behaviour to craft impactful deliverables that do good. This has proven particularly beneficial for impact projects like Domex’s #ToiletForBabli and India’s Darwaza Band (Swachh Bharat campaign). She has worked with Lowe Lintas and The Glitch, with a portfolio comprising Flipkart, Tanishq, Carlsberg, Mumbai City FC, World Bank, Magnum Ice-cream, Arrow, and more. She has also worked on the Taj, Betterplace Safety Solutions, Nestaway, Botbot.al, and 2359Media.
Having spent over 25 years curating and designing high-end experiences and advising sustainable ventures, Philippa is passionate about discovering stories, culture and people and uses her empathy and passion to manifest unboxed ideas. Shuttling between Yorkshire and India, she helps clients reimagine the possible. A destination development specialist and, having worked on both sides of the industry, a consultant both to leading tour operators as well as DMCs, she is also the author of Escape to India, a columnist and advisor to charities and NGOs. Her adventures are literally a novel – skiing, trekking, white-water rafting, riding priceless Marwari horses, fine-dining with Maharajas, driving vintage cars, sleeping under the stars, discovering new-to-her wildlife species & being off the beaten track. Think Lara Croft, out of the box.
We call him our IP man. Having worked on building brand platforms for iconic brands like Harley Davidson, Ray Ban, Jack Daniel’s, Hard Rock Cafe, Raymond & Taj, Arpito’s body of work has been versatile and at scale. With a long foundational strategy stint, early in his career, with the Times Group in the President’s office, Arpito went on to become the Group Director at Rolling Stone and Man’s World India, launching and giving the cult brand legs in the brand activations and IP space. A Times School of Marketing alumnus, he is a hodophile, music connoisseur and possesses an uncanny knack for creative brand solutions. He revels in his understanding of community platforms, across scale, having engineered and conceived several initiatives for leading global brands. He is also the chief consultant to the Ministry of Music & Arts, Govt. of Nagaland, a consultant with Drishti and has led several initiatives with government bodies and social organisations.
Narrative could well be Anil’s middle name, which expresses itself to telling effect across his diverse roles as an entrepreneur, impact specialist, director-filmmaker, IP producer, business manager, festival director and Corp. communication. His earlier stint as the Editorial Director at Going to School Fund, a creative not-for-profit education trust, saw him ideate and design impact programs, content around sustainability, seeding entrepreneurial skills amongst young students in government schools. His work is powered by his extremely diverse life experiences. As a journalist storyteller with Times of India, HT, DNA and Mid-day, learning filmmaking at UCLA, as an assistant director on the National Award-winning film Fashion, writing a coffee table book with India’s first Oscar-winner, the late Bhanu Athaiya, titled The Art of Costume Design, published by Harper Collins with a foreword by Lord Richard Attenborough, being the India director of the Manhattan Short Film Festival, the world’s first global short film festival, co-creating the VOTE FOR INDIA platform and more. A polymath experience and perspectives are what he brings to venture design.
