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How to come up with a social invention for more than 285 million people: insights from Wayfindr’s Head of Communications

Wayfindr social innovation wants to empower vision impaired people to overcome isolation, through audio based navigation. Let’s have a look.

Performing in social innovation – does it matter?

Fabienne Colling is the founder of Touchpoints, an NGO helping refugees in Luxembourg to pave their way to employment. I met her during the course on social innovation and sustainability at the University of Luxembourg. She is a very bright, impressively skilled and...

How to reach over 60,000 users worldwide with social innovation in eye health: insights from a chief Executive Officer at Smart Optometry

Over 150 million children worldwide suffer from lazy eye, strabismus, or convergence insufficiency. These issues significantly impact the quality of life – if nothing else, our school system delivers 80% of all knowledge through vision and if we don’t see well, we...

How Radical Social Innovation can accelerate growth and development in Africa: Insights from Hopefield Network Founder

At Social Innovation Academy we provide an inspiring interview with the Co-founder and Executive Director of Hopefield Network, Adetunji Adeniran.

Scaling up social innovation in Africa: interview with SINA’s Etienne Salborn

In this video Etienne Salborn from Ugandan SINA talks about scaling up social innovation.  Would you like to learn more from other inspiring social innovators?   Check out the  Social Innovation Academy  – the first fully online management training programme...

How to engage social innovators, heritage experts and local communities in bringing cultural heritage in new digital and modern contexts: insights from the president of Idrija 2020 Association

HeritageLab project was a 2018 Winner of the European Social Innovation Competition. Below you can watch a very inspiring video interview with Matevž Straus.

What it takes to start and grow as a social entrepreneur

There are many ways to understand social impact, social innovation, social entrepreneurship and scaling systemic change. Are you with us?

Fighting digital exclusion in Spain: Cibervoluntarios´ cybervolunteering and cyberoptimism

Yolanda Rueda, founder and president of the Cibervoluntarios Foundation, speaks to the Social Innovation Academy about fighting digital exlusion in Spain.

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