Tag: philanthropy
What is a Social Entrepreneur?
This week I’m attending the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. Thanks to their kind invitation, I’ll be blogging this week about my experiences here. Having recently left my fellowship at the Shuttleworth Foundation and embraced the world of social...
Using Constraint to Design for Innovation
Ethan Zuckerman has been writing about Innovating from Constraint in which he offers seven rules that “appear to help explain how (some) developing world innovation proceeds”. This post was riffed on beautifully by Design in Africa prompting Ethan to produce...
The Risky Philanthropist
Last week I attended the MobileActive08 conference in Johannesburg which I have to say is one of the better conferences I have attended in a while. Partly because of the turn-out of remarkable people, partly because of the non-talking-heads format...
Dabba wins Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Last week in Berlin at a Forum on Social Entrepreneurship hosted by German venture capital company Hasso Plattner Ventures, Rael Lissoos and Dabba won the Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 award. The event, sponsored by Deutsches Bank and MAN...