AIM

Karaikudi

Background

Economy

• Began with choosing accounting, commerce in college

• Continued with CA

Media

• Early experiments

• Mainstream media

• Online media

20-year rewind

1993-2013

What has changed?

• Information variety, quantity

• Options

What has not changed?

• Attitude

• First principles

Next 10 years

Begin with - SWOTStrength• We have survived!Weakness• We still have big problems to solve.Opportunity• DemographicsThreat• Missing the goals

Goal

Inclusion

Indicators of inclusion– Identity– Education– Financial– Contribution

Key

Ownership

Time to try out

• Many models of development

• Newer businesses

• Innovative collaborations

Responsibility of the educated

• Map out what is known

• Identify the knowledge gaps

• Explore ways to fill the gaps

Responsibility of the enlightened

• Link up the silos

Proposal

Linkages

• Academia – Media – Business – Society – Government – World

Projects

Simple

• 5 students of AIM attending a conference in Madurai and creating content on social media

Bigger

• 2 students of AIM presenting a paper at an international conference

AIM

AIM - Always Innovation Matters

Sangamam 2013 – Convergence of great minds

Thanks

• dmurali@outlook.com