Vinod Subramaniam

More than 20 years of hands-on experience in taking ICT & other technologies to the grass-roots level. Instrumental in setting up Projects like Akshaya, Insight-ICT centre for the visually challenged, She Taxi, INE, eToilet, Sandesh one, Rapid Steamer .

All the projects together have won more than 50 International and National awards, grants and recognitions. Major awards are Gates Foundation RTTC (Reinvent the Toilet Challenge) Grant for eToilet, Manufacturing Excellence for eToilet, Nasscom for INE, Sankalp for eToilet, Computer Society of India award for e toilet, Fast Company Award for eToilet, Prime Minister's Swatch Bharath Award for eToilet, Ministry's of Commerce Award for Best Innovation for e Toilet, National Water & Sanitation Award for eToilet, IIM Ahmadabad Best Business Plan award for Video Analytics Solution, Best Innovative Entrepreneur by India Chamber of Commerce in the year 2012 etc. Akshaya also won several awards including Stock Holm Challenge, Golden Nica, National eGovernance Award etc.

Impact Work So far,

· 1500 + e toilets installed all over India

· 3000 + Akshaya Centres in all the villages of Kerala

· 50 + She Taxis running in the state

· 1000s of perennial vegetables planted

· Redefined the traditional backyard live stock systems with modern technologies

· Developed a cooking device that can cook a meal with just .60 cent per meal

· Developing a Highly empowered women network for promoting innovations to Grassroots called Sandesh One