How to pronounce “ashok” in English

Ashoka, if you don't know, was founded in 1980, and they support about 3,000 leading social entrepreneurs around the world and have the mission to make everybody

Ashoka is a social entrepreneurship prize that's offered every year that comes with a certain amount of money to help that social entrepreneur achieve things.

Krish Ashok is the global head of the digital workplace for TCS, Tata Consultancy Services, helping Fortune 1,000

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from Ashoka Fellows to exemplify these characteristics.

history repurposing ashoka's Stone as the base for their own

A film like "Ashoka." I think a film like -- and they all flopped miserably.

of global marketing for Ashoka, where she currently leads a program and a partnership with The MasterCard Foundation to help fund innovative solutions

So another thing about Ashoka that you should know, because it'll come up later, is I describe Ashoka as a mini MacArthur grant to people.

to make change within Ashoka.

edicts of the third Century Emperor Ashoka the famous follower of the Buddha who ruled over much of

And she is starting an Ashoka chapter in Silicon Valley so that we sort of can have people connected

So that when I found out about Ashoka, I thought, wow, here are people that go out of the norm.

to elect her as an Ashoka Fellow.

And what we do with an Ashoka Fellow is we give them three years of a living wage stipend

We do this all the time with Ashoka Fellows.

So one of the visions of Ashoka is that everybody has the power to be a changemaker

She has gotten totally immersed in the Ashoka culture and got excited about it.

It's really exciting to host Bev and Ashoka at Google, because we've had a long-standing relationship with Ashoka.

a changemaker. Google supported Ashoka in 2010 with a $1 million grant to help support their News & Knowledge programs.

And this is the joy that I get from working at Ashoka.

It's one of the reasons I was attracted to Ashoka.

There has been a leap in the number of-- in the output from women weaving ashoke in southwest Nigeria.

There's Brahmi numerals, and Ashoka was a Buddhist king in India, first few centuries.

I don't think I ever would have written my book without having worked at Ashoka.

And we are looking at the ways of them getting deeply with Ashoka Fellows doing amazing stuff based on whichever cause you care about,

I cannot tell you how exciting it is when we elect somebody as an Ashoka Fellow.

So with that, I would like to welcome Krish Ashok.

So you can go to GooglersGive, and you can actually volunteer your time to work with Ashoka.

As we talk about the rest of the world changing, Ashoka doesn't hire people that they don't think are changemakers.

that we call branding and other rules like that, that if you're an entrepreneur at Ashoka, a changemaker,

Can you tell more about what are some of the efforts that you have right now to expand the reach of Ashoka?

It's very funny, a lot of people that really have an affinity for Ashoka are technology entrepreneurs.

Google's very interested in. He's also both an Ashoka and a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation fellow. He's also been formally recognized as a leading social innovator by the Aspen

many titles and awards from being a, a Rhodes Scholar to an Ashoka Fellow to a, a member of the, the National Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation.

Welcome, folks, for this talk with Krish Ashok.

And then we realized, well, we have Alan Alda, and Arleen Alda, and we have Ashok Amritraj, and Ahmed Ahmed.

That is what stood out to me when I read about how you were also very influenced and in awe of the Buddhist emperor Ashoka,

First, I really want to thank you for coming, but also Kat Welch, who is a Google volunteer that has chosen Ashoka as her organization of choice.

Actually, I have to say, I'm a little bit in awe of being here, not because it's a well-known place but because you actually live very close to the Ashoka

In Ciudad Saludable, we can use the slogan, we learning from Ashoka, everyone can change the world.

Stuart is an amazing speaker, as you'll see in a few minutes, and also is proud to be a Ashoka fellow.

So you get that but gradually the empires come to a crisis, they start crumbling, they adopt the world religions, Confucianism in China, Ashoka adopts Buddhism, Constantine