3 entrepreneurs sociaux qui transforment le paysage médiatique
Les médias comme levier de changement sociétal
Waiting to Take Off
It’s been 5 months into the Young Champions program, and it’s difficult to believe I’m more than halfway to the end of a journey which seems like it just started. January has been a month of exploration for me, as I work on creating a model of sustainability for the community resource centers. I’m...
Ashoka’s Globalizers are Scaling-up Mobile Technology Solutions to Reach 7 Billion
There is nothing more powerful than pattern-changing ideas in the hands of leading social entrepreneurs (as Ashoka CEO Bill Drayton reminds us). The greatest challenge in today’s rapidly changing world is figuring out how to scale-up these good ideas. To discover disruptive innovations with great...
MILLEE: Education and Mobile Phone Games
Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies (MILLEE), a non-profit organization uses mobile phone games to improve literacy skills in emerging countries. Founded in 2004, MILLEE develops human-centred, immersive and enjoyable language learning mobile games which are modelled...
Movirtu and frog design team up to create "telecom cloud"
MOVIRTU COLLABORATES WITH FROG DESIGN ON USER INTERFACE INNOVATION Global innovation firm frog design will assist Movirtu to ensure quick navigation and ease of use of their MX series of products for a population in need Movirtu, a supplier of innovative network infrastructure solutions for mobile...
New video: Mobile Technology Inventions in Rural India: The Case for Building Business-Social Bridges
A great new video out of the Ashoka-Lemelson partnership. Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow Hilmi Quraishi and Microsoft partner to exchange knowledge, scale Hilmi's mobile inventions, and demonstrate the power of collaboration between the private and citizen sectors: