Minutes: Targeting the Meet - 2

Attendees: Jagan, Krishnakanth, Shashi, Badhri

Agenda:

1. New member intro

Krishnakanth (KK): Chartered accountant, Pricewaterhousecoopers, UK

2. Have you thought about factors affection Standard of Living?

(KK)

• Concern: Members @ different countries, busy work life, how to sustain initiative?
• On SOL:
  
• SOL is generic term. Need to choose our focus. (eg. under-privileged, children etc)
  
• Western lifestyle at UK, lack of traditional values (like family living) affects quality of living, India getting there. Can work on retaining "non-westernised" living as a preventive measure in India
  

(Badhri)

• KK's concern:
  
  
• Meet on a regular basis, update the groups without fail if
  unavailable for meeting. Feel answerable to the rest of the team, the
  momentum will be automatically maintained
  
  
• On SOL:
  
• Awareness! (again! :) )

(Shashi)

• On SOL:
• Concentrate on children. Changing one generation is all it takes!
• Climate-change, global warming related awareness
• Also endorse Aish's idea of improving youth-related affairs (interview skills, choosing career path etc)
  

(Jagan)

• Interested as much in spreading awareness to literate people

3. Why not start with a social ill?

• Filing RTI:
  
• Members may read up, understand RTI and should discuss when more members are around, take a decision
• Seeking the help of someone experienced:
• (Badhri): May contact owners of http://fightcorruption.wikidot.com/start
• (Jagan) : Hold on. May have to discuss with the larger team. *will send a mail to the group on this*
  

4. Next fortnight goals!

(Badhri)

• Find out issues for which RTI can be filed
• Procedure of filing RTI petition
  

(Shashi, KK)

• Read up more on RTI for next week's discussion

(Jagan)

• Read up more about RTI
• Send mail about contacting/not contacting owners of fightcorruption initiative
  

5. Wrap

Wrap! :)