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The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Human Development
Given enabling environments for social entrepreneurship, both individuals and institutions will have similar incentives (beyond their social motivation) to innovate, explore, pursue and develop solutions, goods and services for their local communities and global markets.
Identifying, selecting and managing partners and consultants
The first step would be to understand the local ecosystem and its stakeholders and to become familiar with existing and similar experiences, their successes and failures, both at a local level and in other places. This would keep us from duplicating efforts, repeating mistakes and would allow us to learn from such experiences and to identify local partners and others with relevant experience.
How new business models will drive innovation!
From a recent Fortune magazine that I read that most companies in S&P have been rated as risky. This represents a huge challenge for companies as new emerging economies such as India, China or other countries mean new business models which have to be sustainable and scalable and I do not think that there are in most text books or case studies of today.
Community Engagement: Volunteerism or Remuneration?
It is not volunteerism that we need. Not even social responsibility.
What we need is community engagement and tangible benefits for each and every party involved. Only then can a project prosper in the long term, long after the unique champions who push them are gone.
A Mobile, Integrated Disease Surveillance System
Disease surveillance is an important aspect of any public health-care programme that serves two
essential purposes, one of which is monitoring the progress of ongoing medical interventions for
disease reduction, and the other is for the early detection of outbreaks to initiate investigative and
control measures. Disease Surveillance is also a basic tool for the field epidemiologist as surveillance
data provide a scientific basis for implementation of an appropriate health-care policy, disease control
decisions, the evaluation of the efficacy of surveillance initiatives, and for the allocation of resources in
the primary health-care system.
Megachurch Megatech
An interesting kind of church it is.
About 20,000 people attend Willow Creek every week, making it one of the largest churches in the nation. And like other so-called "megachurches"—defined by average weekly attendance of more than 2,000 people—technology is essential to almost every phase of its mission. There are perhaps 1,800 megachurches in the U.S., including a subset of truly gargantuan institutions whose attendance can approach 20,000, or more. And the bigger they are, the more they tend to rely on technology.
SIFT: Social Impact from Technology
Methodology for the formulation and deployment of Information Technology Strategies that generate an impact on Human Development and close the gap between stakeholders (beneficiaries), developers and management. Built on the lessons learned through 9 years of developing IT strategies, projects, social networks and virtual environments, from best practices to unexpected complications.
CODE3: Collaborative Project Development through Continuous Community Direct Engagement.
Why do some collaborations work and others fall apart? Collaborations are the activities of cohesive communities working toward common goals. Yet, so often, a host of issues, cultural, technical, style of communication, thwart the best intended, well resourced efforts. Carlos Miranda Levy, drawing on 10 years of experience building, working with and in community will highlight some of the essential elements of what works, what doesn't and why. He will use examples from the open source movement such as PHPNuke, PostNuke, Drupal, Civicspace and the Digital Vision Collaboration Framework at Stanford to illustrate his case.
Social Impact from Technology
The Illusion and Negative Effect of Social Impact from Information and Communication Technologies
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are wonderful tools with an enormous potential for Social Impact, Human Development and improving the lives of the people they serve.
Diaspora, a blessing in disguise
I reacted to the article and resonated with the last Nita Goyal's post on Brain Drain at the Digital Vision program. Let me convey my vision on the topic of the diaspora starting with three very close stories:
