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With Info, LaborVoices Aims to Revolutionize Migrant Labor Markets
Global labor markets are complex and rife with power imbalances: dangerous working conditions, difficult hours, abusive employers, human trafficking and even slavery. How does one create a more humane and fair scenario? LaborVoices, a new startup social enterprise, aims to place power back into the hands of the worker, starting with information.
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From Unite For Sight 2011: Community Level Approaches to Health
As a seasoned (as in, once-before) Global Health and Innovation Conference attendee, I knew I was in for a weekend of astonishment, passion and creativity - but also one of perplexity and frustration. As the speakers noted, past problems will continue to be future problems if enterprises do not address social impact - and vice versa.
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Charting the Future at Women’s World Banking
In the final post of a wide-ranging interview, Mary Ellen Iskenderian, president and CEO of Women’s World Banking, discusses expansion at the organization to include multi-product servcies to individuals and explains why consolidation in would benefit the microfinance sector in the long term.
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Notes from the Vision Summit in Germany
"People who have a vision should go see a doctor." - Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Around 1,000 of his fellow countrymen and several social visionaries from abroad duly ignored this recommendation, once formulated by the pragmatist leader as the German social entrepreneurship community gathered for the fourth Vision Summit.
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Africa Election Watch 2011: Nigeria
The most significant presidential election this year in sub-Saharan Africa occurred this past weekend. Nigeria already has so many pieces of the puzzle: bountiful resources, auspicious geography, a famously entrepreneurial and optimistic population. But it will take an exceptionally shrewd and courageous leader to fit the pieces together.
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New Lessons and Other Thoughts on the Presentation of the Last Book of SEKN
I recently attended a presentation in Buenos Aires on the book ’Inclusive Businesses: Market Initiatives with the Poor in Latin America.’ It’s the third book written via the collaborative efforts of academics and researchers in the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network. Among the book’s findings are six factors that shed light on inclusive business.
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Can Microfinance Ignite a Good Governance Epidemic?
By serving as examples of effective corporate governance, microfinance providers could succeed where so many financial institutions have failed and in ’infect’ their client and community networks with the ’disease’ of strong corporate governance. With almost 3 billion unbanked people still to reach, those are huge potential networks to infect.
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Countdown to SOCAP/Europe Begins
From Amsterdam, Malmo, London, Zurich, to Paris, the SOCAP team asked key stakeholders what they want to see and hear at SOCAP/Europe. What innovations and entrepreneurs should be presented, and what social problems should be addressed? The output is a schedule with 70 panels, plenary, keynote and workshop sessions organized along seven tracks.
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