SOCIAL INNOVATION INTERVIEWS

Interview with Cristina Yoshida and Diego del Moral, co-founders of Collective of Disruptive Design.At the intersection of systems thinking and design thinking, Collective of Disruptive Design (Colectivo de Diseño Disruptivo in Spanish) seeks out collaborative...

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...

Interview with Alhassan Baba Muniru, Co-founder of Recycle Up! Ghana  Recycle Up! Ghana is a social enterprise focused on youth entrepreneurial education and the co-creation of solutions to waste in Ghana; one of the biggest challenges in the country. This social...

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...

Students4Change was an extraordinary project that combined the knowledge and experience of different people and backgrounds in one specific goal: to promote competencies in social innovation and social entrepreneurship among the Latin American students of higher...

INSIGHTS FROM GABRIELA CARRASCO AND WALDO SOTO, CO-FOUNDERS OF 2811  Co-authors:  Malu Landaberea Waldo Soto and Gabriela Carrasco are the co-founders of 2811, a platform for social and ecological change that is currently in various continents but has a special impact...

PCDN Global is a platform that provides skills, career, and community building opportunities to aspiring changemakers around the world. Their work spans from curating the latest information on jobs and opportunities for students and professionals who are in the social...

RECOSI (Regional and European Co-Operative for Social Industry) is a social franchise operating in IT reuse. It was formed in Ireland in early 2014 by a group of like-minded individuals who sought to help develop social enterprises that operate mainly in the area of...

Did you know that washing your clothes is causing microplastics pollution? Tiny plastic particles are polluting our oceans, where they can stay for centuries, harming sea life and making their way into the human food chain. These microplastics -- fragments of plastic...

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...

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...

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...

    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...

    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...

Ashoka identifies and supports the world's leading social entrepreneurs, learns from the patterns in their innovations, and mobilizes a global community that embraces these new frameworks to build an "everyone a changemaker world."[1] To date, Ashoka has selected more...

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...

  The Centre for Executive Education is located within the University of Peace in Costa Rica, established by the General Assembly of the United Nations (UPEACE), the UPEACE Centre for Executive Education delivers dynamic courses to leaders from around the world....

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...

Cherie White is the founder of Think for the Future, a social enterprise that was established in 2012 to use a data-driven approach to tackle social and emotional barriers to learning. They work in partnership with national organisations to provide schools with...

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...