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SOCIAL INNOVATION TRENDS LIBRARY

Giving access to essential health care, education, and economic opportunities by building 250 footbridges over impassable rivers and served over 1 Million communities around the world, insightful interview with Avery Bang the President & CEO of Bridges to Prosperity.

    Almost 1 billion people around the world don't have safe access to critical resources like health care, education, or employment due to an impassable river. With a single innovation, Bridges to Prosperity can impact households across multiple...

Youth and social entrepreneurship in Mexico Interview with Jorge Meléndez and Cecilia Cárdenas, co-founders of Emprendimiento Social México (ESMEX)

Social entrepreneurship in Mexico, as elsewhere, has become a source of innovative solutions to most pressing problems our society. These solutions have been created by social entrepreneurs, and have led to new ways of citizen participation, new business models with...

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...

FUTURE PROOFING STUDENTS

School of Future is creating a scalable enterprise that is powered by technology to help change this dynamic to "future proof" students. Future proof as they define it as: You truly feel ready to take on the evolving world. You know exactly who you are, you know the...

Gyöngyvér Balog from Impact.Design about good prototyping in social innovation

In this video Gyöngyvér Balog from Impact.Design talks about the importance of good prototyping in social innovation.Photo credit: https://medium.com/@gbalog   Would you like to learn more from other inspiring social innovators?   Check out the  Social Innovation...

How to open a government: Insight from LAAAB founder, Raúl Oliván

LAAAB is a Trojan device that enables open government innovation from within. Civic participation, new technologies & public sector and social innovation.

How to use an online platform to help young people with recording knowledge, skills and competences developed through different activities: insights from the manager of Nefiks

Nefiks is a project that has been promoting the values of volunteering and non-formal education. Read an interview with Alenka Blazinšek to get inspired.

Youth and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Mexico

Interview with Karol Arambula, CEO, and founder of MY World Mexico MY World Mexico is a social business and national movement established in 2014 aiming at promoting the understanding towards the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and its...

Social Innovation in the garment industry to improve workers’ long-term financial security

Clothing brand Progoti introduced a new model of social innovation to the garment industry by connecting customers to workers’ futures in a unique way.

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.

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