Asia’s Young Changemakers: Melissa Yeung

Changing the world doesn’t always require bulging muscles, quick wit, or an affluent background. All that’s needed is an able body and a gargantuan heart. And with her big heart it was a natural development for Mel to set up the Got Heart Foundation. Got Heart Foundation helps uplift the lives of marginalized communities by [...]

Laura Parkin: on Entrepreneurship and the Indian Startup Ecosystem

Amit Singh, Paragon fellow 2009, interview Laura A Parkin for the Headstart network he is running. Laura is the Executive Director of the Wadhwani Foundation, whose mission is to help individuals achieve economic success. The foundation works in two areas: developing business entrepreneurs, and helping the disabled build livelihoods or achieve gainful employment. Amit Singh: [...]

Podcast interview with Naveed Ahmed, CEO and Founder of Mustakbil.Com

The annual Paragon Fellowship is a platform to provide young and inspiring entrepreneurs from Asia Pacific as role models to the youth to raise entrepreneurship awareness in Asia Pacific. 100 Young Entrepreneurs and Social Change makers under the age of 30 years are selected for a one- year fellowship and their stories serve as inspiration [...]

Asia’s Young Changemakers: Joshua Hishey – India

Design education in India is comparatively very expensive and out of reach for most people. While in a country as rich in diversity as India there is no dearth of creativity, it needs to be supported by education and training in various aspects of Design Strategy and Application. Joshua, turned his passion for design into [...]

Asia’s Social Changemakers: Faisal Islam – Bangladesh

In Bangladesh more then 70% rural farmers are illiterate and about 98% do not know any international language (like English). Beside that they have no access to ICT for fostering their entrepreneurship with better technology adaptation, building market channel and communication linkage. Inaccessibility to ICT and modern technology due to language and technical limitations are [...]