Archive for Fellowship

WANTED: The World’s Most Unreasonable Entrepreneurs

Convinced you have the entrepreneurial mettle to improve the lives of millions of people around the world? Accelerate your venture with mentorship from 50 seasoned entrepreneurs and practitioners, ranging from a Time Magazine Hero of the Planet, to the CTO of HP, to an entrepreneur who’s lifted over 19 million farmers out of poverty. In [...]

In the Bangladesh slums, building leaders not extremists

We had previously reported about FYSE’s Paragon fellow Ejaj Ahmad, a young social entrepreneur who founded the Bangladesh Youth Leadership Centre. Alaka Dhara Halder, a graduate of the Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center and now a member of Princeton University’s Class of 2014, recently wrote about her experience in The Washington Post: The young rickshaw-puller had [...]

Change the World for the price of a few coffee drinks

3 amazing young social entrepreneurs and FYSE Paragon fellows from Asia Pacific have been selected to attend the upcoming Unreasonable Institute and you can help them to impact millions of lives! The Unreasonable Institute is a social entrepreneurship incubator created to host summer institutes where a confluence of young, brilliant, social entrepreneurs undergo rigorous and [...]

Asia’s Young Changemakers: Ketan Deshpante

A student finds the entrance test to an engineering college a never-to-be-forgotten struggle. Most others would simply grumble. Not Kedar Deshpande. He turned the problem into an opportunity, producing a primer for fellow sufferers — a sort of “all you want to know about…” booklet containing the low-down on engineering colleges and their entrance tests. [...]

India China Institute announces Third Fellowship in Social Innovation for Sustainable Environments 2010-2012

The India China Institute Fellowship 2010-12 aims to address the complex and interconnected problems associated with climate changes and environmental sustainability. Fellows are expected to critically examine definitions and parameters of both social innovation and sustainability in India and China by ways of collaborative research and debates and trigger a three way dialogue from the [...]

Application deadline Asia Pacific Future 100!

7 days to go! Just a quick reminder that the application deadline for the Asia Pacific Future 100 program is approaching! 31st August 2009 Apply now and join the most outstanding community of young entrepreneurs and social Changemakers in Asia ! For info and applications: future100@fyse.org www.fyse.org

Asia Pacific Future 100: Inspiring young entrepreneurs

More often than not, names of prominent entrepreneurs that roll off our tongues belong to our Western counterparts. The Foundation of Youth Social Entrepreneurship (FYSE) sees the problem that young people in Asia lack role models from their societies and aims to change that with the Asia Pacific Future 100 project. The Asia Pacific Future [...]

eHealth in Asia Pacific

the utilization of innovative technologies is becoming more and more widespread in Asia, as many new initiatives has been launched in the past couple of month: Bhutan: telemedicine for remote areas The health ministry’s new telemedicine projects will help Bhutanese patients access medical advice from experts in India via the internet and through real-time videoconferencing. [...]

Sandbox Fellowship – Vidya Poshak (India)

This year-long fellowship program by Vidya Poshak for dynamic professionals or post-graduate school candidates who have experience working in on- the-ground development and/or social entrepreneurship and are seeking an extended experience working on these issues. The Fellows work to address challenges at NGOs working the in the fields of Agriculture, Livelihood, Education and Health. Ideal [...]

Green Design in China

I just found an innovative, beautifully designed idea developed by Frog design, which I really wanna see being implemented in China soon: Positive Energy Park This really excites you when you know a bit about China: I often watched people doing their little daily exercise in the park, and discussed with friends how one could [...]