Young entrepreneurs still left behind in Indonesia
by Wahyoe Boediwardhana, The Jakarta Post Indonesia is still behind other Asian countries in term of entrepreneurship, and requires an aggressive move by the government to help shape up the country’s economy, a dialogue has concluded. The dialogue, organized by state lender Bank Mandiri and attended by 660 prospective young entrepreneurs from 11 state and [...]
RealAcad Venture Management Program Singapore now open for application!
RealAcad Venture Management Program – Where the best get so much better! The Foundation for Youth Social Entrepreneurship (FYSE) has partnered with a top-level venture management program RealAcad to provide an opportunity for young people in Asia Pacific to pursue their entrepreneurial ventures beyond just ideas. RealAcad grooms talents all over the world hosting a [...]
YES Network Pakistan Youth Social Entrepreneurship activities
After last years inaugural success, YES Network Pakistan in cooperation with the British Council and NAVTEC joined hands and launched the Youth Social Entrepreneurship Competition 2009 in Pakistan. The winning team of the competition will be given an amount of Rs. 250,000 (interest free) to launch and implement their idea of change in their community. [...]
Microsoft Design for Development Award
Its great to finally see an global business plan competition being dominated by Asians! While I am certainly not a fan of another business plan competition without more support than just prize money being provided this competition is exciting not only on its focus on making a change through technology but also because its attracted [...]
Barclays and Junior Achievement partner to empower Youth in India
Barclays Global Retail & Commercial Bank (GRCB) across its Emerging Market entities has partnered with US based Junior Achievement (JA) to implement 2 programs, B-INSPIRED for students in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kanchipuram and Junagadh and B-SMART for students in Mumbai and New Delhi, benefiting over 500 children across the country. Through the B – INSPIRED [...]
For Young Japanese, It’s Back to the Farm
By Hiroko Tabuchia, New York Times As the Japanese recession has worsened, younger workers have taken the brunt of wage cuts and layoffs, especially in manufacturing. Now the government views the slump — Japanese exports fell almost 50 percent year-to-year in February — as a chance to divert idle labor to sectors that have long [...]
Join the APYN Discussion Forum on Youth Enterprise
The Asia-Pacific Knowledge Network on Youth Employment (APYouth Net) is a community of practice established by ILO that aims to connect youth employment experts from across the Asia Pacific region. APYouth Net aims to bring together individuals engaged in designing and implementing policies and programmes which promote decent and productive work for young women and [...]
Back to School 3: Ashoka’s Youth Venture
Ashoka launched Youth Venture in 1996 in the U.S. with the vision that everyone in society could take initiative and address social needs, rather than looking to the elite few who lead today. Youth Venture is now operating in India, Indonesia and the Philippines. Ashoka Youth Venture India first launched in Mumbai in 2007 with [...]
Asia’s Social Action Hero’s: Andrew Yu and 1kg More
Travel changes the world: Andrew Yu and his 1kg More “1KG More” is a charity which encourages people to participate in service projects in creative ways, with the goal of bringing sustainable improvements to education in China’s less-developed areas. It was found in 2004, when Andrew was 31 and an ordinary staff of an IT [...]
Motivational factors of chinese students to become entrepreneurs
My research in summer 2008 about “The intentions of Chinese undergraduate students towards entrepreneurship as a career choice” has revealed some interesting facts about Chinese students and their perception of entrepreneurship. If it comes to making a career choice Lau, Shaffer and Au (2007) refer to the content of career success criterion as a critical [...]
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