Category archives: Social innovation

History’s social entrepreneurs - By Kerryn Krige

14 days ago
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GIBS
Kerryn Krige
Network of Social Entrepreneurs
social entrepreneurs

Entreprenerial Innovation
Entrepreneurs
SAINe Thought Leaders
Social innovation

History’s social entrepreneurs - By Kerryn Krige "Identifying social problems and finding innovative, progressive solutions is at the heart of social progress. Instead of being a new buzzword, social entrepreneurship should be understood as an age-old concept that is an enormous driver of human ...

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SAINe Breakfast Event,17 May 2013 The Social Innovation Imperative

21 days ago
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Futuresharp
Hub Johannesburg
Irma Wilson
Lesley Donna Williams
Maximilian Pichulik
Mediology
Michel Bauwens
social entrepreneurs
Social Innovation

Events
For inventors and innovators
Innovation
SAINe Events
SAINe Thought Leaders
Social innovation
South Africa

A Breakfast Event for Innovators and System Thinkers. 17 May 2013. Johannesburg.

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10 Ideas Driving The Future Of Social Entrepreneurship

24 days ago
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innovation
Irma Wilson
Lesley Donna Williams
Michel Bauwens
Peer-to-Peer foundation
SAINE
SAINe Breakfast
Skoll World Forum
social entrepreneurship
Social Innovation
The Hub Johannesburg

Entrepreneurs
For inventors and innovators
Innovation
Social innovation

With the upcoming SAINe Breakfast Event on Social Innovation, I thought it would be a good idea to share this article from Fast.Co Exist on the future of Social Entrepreneurship. The SAINe Breakfast Event on 17 May at The Hub Johannesburg we will explore the social innovation imperative with ...

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The Impumelelo Awards: People who improve the lives of South Africans

43 days ago
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Impumelelo
Impumelelo Award
Social Innovation

Innovation
Social innovation

The Impumelelo Social Innovations Centre (formerly known as the Impumelelo Innovations Award Trust) is a South African non-profit organization founded in 1999, to reward innovative projects which improve the quality of life of the poor. Initially, just as an awards programme, Impumelelo has ...

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Supporting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurial Spirit

79 days ago
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charles maisel
Justin Groep
Justus Luttig
Matt Pretorius
Mike Smit
PitchIN
Shaun Lindbergh
Stellenbosch University

For inventors and innovators
Start-ups
Western Cape
Youth

Friday, 22 February, saw a total of 13 Stellenbosch University (SU) students pitch their innovative entrepreneurial ideas at PitchIN. What might you ask is PitchIN? It’s a platform for students to pitch their innovative and entrepreneurial business ideas. Another Dragons Den perhaps? This ...

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Empowering South Africa's Youth to Challenge Unemployment

105 days ago
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Empowering youth
KPMG
Project Hands
SA The Good News

Innovation in Africa
Youth

Article Via SA - the Good News Constructively addressing the challenges of youth unemployment in South African is one of the golden threads to our future. The problem is well known and it presents an altogether different challenge. Focusing in particular on unemployed graduates, KPMG has ...

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Making Smarter Cities By Making Smarter Systems

162 days ago
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smart cities

Social innovation

A city is really just made up of a myriad of micro-cities. To make an entire city smarter, you have to start on these smaller systems first.

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Innovation for Local Economic Development by Jeanette Morwane

400 days ago
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innovation ecosystem
Jeanette Morwane

For inventors and innovators
SAINe Thought Leaders
Social innovation

Innovative cities or municipalities are essential for economic growth and development of countries, however social and environmental challenges related to city growth present serious threats to the full realization of economic growth they can contribute. This article aims to introduce the ...

Crowdsourcing for Innovation, Market Research and Brand Loyalty

605 days ago
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brand loyalty
crowd sourcing
market research

Open Innovation
Social innovation

Ever considered how your company can benefit from the inputs of a crowd?? This article gives an overview on - the process, models and outputs of crowdsourcing. ~Please give us feedback.

WHO uses Mxit, JamiiX to tackle disasters

820 days ago
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Jamiix
Marlon Parker
MXit
RLabs
WHO
World Health Organisation

Innovation in the media
International Innovation
Social innovation

Source: SA Info The World Health Organisation's (WHO's) South-East Asia regional office has teamed up with popular mobile social networks MXit and JamiiX – both developed in South Africa – to bring emergency preparedness information to chat users in disaster-prone Indonesia. This new ...

LESSONS FROM SOCIAL NETWORKS IN AFRICA AND CHINA TO ENHANCE INNOVATION

844 days ago
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Guanxi
innovation
Rene Pellissier
SA Innovation Network
SAINE
social networks
Thought Leader
Ubuntu
UNISA

SAINe Thought Leaders
Social innovation

by Prof. Rene Pellisier Department of Business Management, University of South Africa Preamble I am aware that some, in reading this, may feel that I am nuts. I certainly am, but I believe that we are ignoring specific social patterns in our society that can bring huge benefit in terms of ...

On the Appropriateness of Incident Management Systems in Developing Countries: A Case from the UAE

875 days ago
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Faouzi Kamoun
IMS
Incident Management Systems
Mohamed Al Blushi
Naoufel Werghi

International Innovation
Social innovation

Source: Kamoun Article by: Faouzi Kamoun, Naoufel Werghi, Mohamed Al Blushi Abstract Road traffic incidents are eliciting growing public concerns due to their devastating social, economical, and environmental impacts. The severity of these random events is particularly alarming in ...

Quick Takes: Testing Your Gut, Language of Pictures, Systems Thinking Conference Recap

897 days ago
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innovation
systems thinking
testing your gut

Social innovation

Source: www.innovationafrica.org Quick Takes is our summary of news and readings in management, sustainability and intelligent enterprise. Is your gut leading you astray? We’re new fans of the website Anne Holland’s Which Test Won? It allows you to test your gut instincts about ...

Hand-washing device to combat disease

898 days ago
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CSIR
innovation
SA Innovation news
South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
South African Innovation news

Social innovation

Source: www.southafrica.info South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has developed an innovative, affordable hand-washing device to enable poor communities to combat life-threatening water-borne diseases with minimal water usage. According to the CSIR's Ester ...

Welcome to My Taxi - Let´s Do Business With My Cell Phone

903 days ago
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Adele Botha
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
CSIR
innovation in Africa
mobile phone innovation
mobile technology

Information Technology & ICT
Social innovation

Source: AllAfrica.com | Aug 31, 2010 In cities across Africa, being an entrepreneur requires no office, business card or investors. All it takes is a cell phone, according to Adele Botha, a researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa. More than ...

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