Archive for May, 2010
Weekly Twitter Roundup
5 insights about Chinese startups from former Google #China president Kai-Fu Lee http://bit.ly/a3wSNr by @camillericketts #entrepreneurship # Exciting event happening next Friday, 4/6 = TEDxKarachi: "What Pakistan needs now" http://bit.ly/9iUcCK @tedx @tedtalks via @acumenfund # Check out the finalists of the 11th Start-Up@Singapore and attend final on 29/5 http://www.startup.org.sg/ #Singapore @entrepreneurship # Pretty and Empowering: [...]
Paragon Fellowship
“I am an entrepreneur because I saw a social need that had to be addressed immediately and I felt that I could adequately address it by taking it up institutionally.?”, Piyush Tewari, Paragon fellow 2009 and Founder of the Save Life Foundation India.
Weekly Twitter Roundup
May 22nd RT @Social_Innovate : Meguru Japanese Electric Vehicle is made out of Bamboo & Wood Pulp Paper http://bit.ly/d0bjtV #SocEnt #Japan MicroCapital PlaNet Finance #China Reports 1/3 of Chinese have no access to financial services http://bit.ly/9JxFgV via @MicroCapital Must read: Central Asia Institute annual Journey of Hope III publication online http://bit.ly/aqpns3 @gregmortenson #Asia #socent #nonprofit [...]
BoP Opportunities in China
Recent interesting post on the NextBillion Blog: What are some BoP ventures and issues in the world’s most populous nation? China’s extreme income inequality, rich heritage and diverse geographies make for intriguing social venture opportunities during its time of neck-breaking economic growth. While China has become the world’s third-largest economy, 627 million Chinese still lived [...]
mBillionth Award South Asia
mBillionth Award South Asia: Apply if you use mobiles for environment, governance, health, education etc. Application deadline: 31/5 http://mbillionth.in/ Mint newspaper has started a weekly series on mBillionth Award featuring about the award, its nominations and also featuring selected innovative nominations: one could be seen here today at http://epaper.livemint.com/artMailDisp.aspx?article=17_05_2010_010_006&typ=1&pub=422
Watch Banking On Change: An inspirational short film
Two-thirds of India’s population of a billion people live in the nation’s 600,000 villages. Despite India’s economic growth, the disparities between wealth and poverty are enormous. Many villagers migrate to the cities in search of work and end up begging on the streets. South Indian bank manager J S Parthiban set out to do something [...]
Weekly Twitter Round-Up
May 16th Startup Digest Launches in Shanghai – Thomas Crampton http://bit.ly/baF9iq via @CoolStartups #china #entrepreneurship Cambodian knitters help build sustainable social enterprise http://ow.ly/17dt5R via @SocialEarth #socent #Cambodia May 14th The oft unspoken dark side of rise in philanthropic giving/foundations in China (@cmphku) http://is.gd/c6SkF via @cnphilanthropy Great webinar on #Socent in #India Thanks @beyondprofit May 13th [...]
Cambodian knitters help build sustainable social enterprise
Social Earth posted this great story about a social enterprise in Cambodia: Knitting is often associated with grandmas, not social enterprise. However, Cambodian Knits founder and social entrepreneur Monika Nowaczyk makes the connection. At six years old Monika fled Communist Poland to live a better life in Canada. As a child she didn’t fully understand [...]
Qifang: College Loans for the Chinese Masses
By Jennifer L. Schenker published on Business Week Fifty million: That’s how many young Chinese cannot afford to go to college, a huge underclass that risks being locked out of the economic boom transforming China. Qifang—which means “bloom” in Chinese—aims to help. The Shanghai company is developing microfinance, China-style. Qifang has launched an online, person-to-person [...]
Ashoka seeks Country Representative for China and Japan
Ashoka (www.ashoka.org) is the world’s largest association of social entrepreneurs — men and women who are creating new institutions and system-changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1980, Ashoka has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, electing and connecting more than 2,000 individuals with system-changing ideas in over 70 countries. China For [...]
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