Every week, we roundup the conversation surrounding the news in the world of social innovation. Global Fund Takes a Hit The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria will not be funding grants till 2014 due to limited resources. The Guardian reports ...
Global Entrepreneurship Week Invokes the Startup Spirit “New firms are indeed the greatest source of new wealth for struggling economies and a powerful weapon against poverty.” - Jonathan Ortmans, president of Global Entrepreneurship Week With events in the UK, US, Chile, India, Pakistan, ...
Our sputtering economy needs workers with more of that entrepreneurial spirit. Think tank Civic Ventures suggests they might come from an unexpected demographic: workers who are approaching middle age or their retirement years. The group found that one in four Americans between 44 ...
G-20: Fury with International Leaders This past week, the world’s leaders convened for the annual G-20 summit in France titled “New World, New Ideas.” The hottest topic of discussion? The crumbling global economy and the contentious economics of Europe. Would the Euro survive? ...
Population Hits 7 Billion On Monday this week, the world population ballooned to 7 billion people. News agencies clambered to find that 7 billionth child, finding him again and again in the Philippines, India, Lebanon, UK, the US, and beyond. A Spanish design ...
Heard of cloud computing? Probably, yes. Heard of the cloud phone? Similar idea, different medium. Despite the growing number of mobile users worldwide, many still have to borrow phones to make a call. Such calls can be accompanied with “borrowing premiums,” escalating costs ...
Ashoka’s Founder and CEO Bill Drayton recently spoke to Dowser about a new approach to problem solving - collaborative entrepreneurship. By pooling together hundreds of entrepreneurs (and their passion, innovation, and zeal) who are working on issues pertaining to young people and children, ...
So you’ve got the next Great Idea to solve a social or environmental problem; or the beginnings of the next Great Idea -- where do you go from here? How do you manifest your idea into something tangible, an organization, enterprise or product? ...
Go spend time with your new market. Understand their needs. Do not presuppose that you know the answer. Multinationals can play a role in this. It's about collaborating. They can contribute to the development of millions of people's lives by offering them goods ...
This is part of a series highlighting innovations and possibilities for action for the famine in Somalia. Most news stories frame the famine and political conflict as near unsolvable; we're examining the on-the-ground measures that can help - from the large scale and political ...