DREAM:IN

A global movement, with significant local players and action; to create lasting socio-economic change, DREAM:IN is an ‘inside-out’ process, methodology and system to change the basis of impact investing and value creation from needs to dreams, from systems to self. Initially launched in 2011 as a design thinking experiment, DREAM:IN is now a start up which is an attempt to shift focus from needs to dreams, transform the youth of India from being mere consumers of income and employment to becoming creators of income and employment. It has been prototyped as an academic intervention in higher education in the US, Brazil and India in 2012 (also in China in the spring of 2013), besides being used as a consulting tool. DREAM:IN , besides many other features, is also being prototyped as a model of bottom up development through the adoption of a district called Tumkur on the outskirts of Bangalore. The aim is to mentor a large agrarian community and help create systems that can transform farmers into agripreneurs. DREAM:IN is a global network and organization headquartered in Bangalore, India that is at one level, developing on ground and online systems and networks to understand the aspirations of the youth, to create a core of qualitative and quantitative data and at another level, is a super incubator of imaginative new ideas, providing resources and inputs to shape and scale them.