Five days after the unconference ended I’m still feeling the effects. Every person that attended, I met. And not only met, but had a quality conversation with. And not only had a quality conversation with, but formed a relationship and friendship. It was like a people high. A happy hour of humanity. It was [...]
Road to Hyderabad: #14 On the Calm before the Storm
As the people who receive an ever increasing number of emails from me at 6am can attest to, our time on the Road to Hyderabad is rapidly winding down.
We are just 9 weeks and change from our February 11-13 event in Hyderabad, 9 weeks away [...]
If you’ve been following the news over on SocialEarth and Ashoka Tech, you know that we are running a blogger’s competition to find our official blogger for the Ashoka Tech 4 Society event happening in Hyderabad, India, February 11-13, 2010. You should also know you have only 7 DAYS LEFT to enter the competition.
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As the news profession increasingly (and justifiably) frets about its future, the blogosphere/Tweetdom/listserve conversation typically boils down to this question: How will we save newspapers? (Often, more specifically, it’s How will we save The New York Times?) That’s a myopic and typically self-serving question, but it implies a bigger one: How will we sustain [...]
This post is the first in what will become a weekly series of posts from the team of bloggers at Ashoka. On Mondays, look for tech news and innovation from the bloggers behind Ashoka Tech. On Wednesdays, read about the latest in peace and conflict resolution from Ashoka Peace and on Fridays [...]
You blog because you have a voice. You blog because your passion to write. You blog because you want to change the world. Now you can blog to win a once-in-a-lifetime chance to attend and cover the Tech 4 Society conference in Hyderabad, India.
Exclusively from Ashoka and the Lemelson Foundation, the Blog your way [...]
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was in Northern Ireland this week – an old stomping ground of the United States and for the Clintons in particular. The former Clinton administration has been given much credit for acting as an effective mediator in the peace negotiations between Northern Ireland and Great Britain and Hillary did [...]
Jina Moore, a correspondent for Christian Science Monitor, recently crawled inside the brain of five social entrepreneurs in hopes of figuring out what makes them tick. Her quest was similar in some respects to the research of Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Outliers, where he looks into the indicators behind individual success. Both seem to involve a fair [...]
This week Ashoka announced their new fellows elected during the December 2008 — April 2009 session. I am especially excited to read about the system-changing work that these social entrepreneurs are doing after reading David Bornstein’s book, How to Change the World. As I profiled in an earlier post, How to Change the World [...]
My predilection for the occasional cigarette has more to do with the rules of engagement than any kind of nicotine craving. Mom, I know you’re rolling your eyes and muttering, “you have an answer for everything”, but hear me out. I’m an extremely gregarious person – I carry on chatting with strangers at bus [...]
Recently, we had the opportunity to interview Melissa Richer, founder of Ayllu, a new organization whose purpose is to “integrate social enterprise into low-income economies.” Ayllu is currently developing a model to enable social enterprises to franchise their models and microcredit banks to extend financial services to the newly franchised micro enterprises.
Melissa’s Background
After graduating [...]
Recently I highlighted the Top 5 Finalists of Staples/Ashoka Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition. Now, here is the winner!
Team Pachamama of Tepeolulco, Mexico took home the $5,000 grand prize for their innovative social change ideas.
Juan Carlos Luna Hernandez and Mary Cruz Romero Gudiño are the faces behind Pachamama, an organization that develops and teaches environmentally [...]
The following is a guest post by Tom Dawkins, Digital Marketing Strategist of Ashoka.
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Twitter is proving to be an incredibly powerful tool for entrepreneurs, activists and researchers to share their stories, ideas and causes, building tribes of followers who can help them in their missions. #SocEntChat uses twitter as a platform to bring these [...]
