by Durdana Prado | Nov 25, 2020 | Social Innovation Academy, Social Innovation Interview
Enrique Lomnitz is the CEO and founder of Isla Urbana, a social enterprise based in Mexico City, who together with a multidisciplinary team has created and installed rainwater harvesting systems to provide low-income and water scarce populations in urban and rural...
by Lyubomyr Matsekh-Ukrayinskyy | Nov 17, 2020 | Social Innovation Academy, Social Innovation Interview
In this interview, Met Ciftci of Freewill and Taras Tovstyak of ELEKS speak about the origins, development, and evolution of a crowdfunding platform, SPIN, that verifies the feasibility of using blockchain for social impact projects. They reveal the profound motives...
by JoAnna Haugen | Nov 3, 2020 | Social Innovation Academy, Social Innovation Interview
The tourism industry accounts for approximately 10 percent of the world’s workforce, and the ripple effects felt by other industries are profound. Tourism can be an incredible force for good but implemented improperly, it can also do a lot of damage. One of the most...
by Mireia Muruamendiaraz | Oct 26, 2020 | Social Innovation Academy, Social Innovation Interview
Arizmendi Ikastola is a non-profit cooperative school in the Basque Country that is highly committed to social innovation. The aim of the school goes far beyond the curricular contents and focuses on the development of the person. A model of a person...
by Renelyn Lastimosa | Oct 26, 2020 | Social Innovation Academy
Did you know that the Philippines has created approximately 30,000 social enterprises since 2007?According to the British Council report A Review of Social Enterprise Activity in the Philippines, the country has a strong entrepreneurial culture, with one million...
by Sanjay Banka | Oct 20, 2020 | Social Innovation Academy
Before the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission), sanitation facilities in India were scarce, with over 600 million people (half of India’s population) having no access to toilets, particularly in rural areas. People were forced to defecate in the open, which...
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