Dr Kongkiat Kespechara, a self-taught computer programmer, medical doctor and social entrepreneur from Thailand, shares his experience setting up and running Hospital OS with SEforum. Hospital OS is an open-source software that enables small rural hospitals to more effective employ their resources to serve and to address the health issues of disadvantaged groups. In the course of the past seven years, Hospital OS has been adopted by about 100 healthcare centres in Thailand and adapted by countless to benefit an underserved population.

SEforum chats with Shiao Yin, one of three founders of social enterprise Food For Thought (FFT), for the new happenings and vision of the newly launched FFT @8Q.

Mr K K Tse, Chair of the Hong Kong Social Entrepreneurship Forum, was in Singapore to attend the inaugural Social iCon 2009; a one-day conference organized by the Lien Centre for Social Innovation at the Singapore Management University.

Conversation with Mr Ali Raza Khan who shares his experiences running the Youth Engagement Services (YES) network in Pakistan. Khan is the Founder and Director of YES Network Pakistan and is also an Ashoka Fellow. YES pioneered the concept of youth service and youth social entrepreneurship in the country, in which youths are trained to lead service projects and micro social enterprises.

Anil Chitrakar is an Ashoka Fellow and our invited speaker at SEforum 2005. He was trained in the United States as an engineer and energy planner. He believes that the business and social worlds can be bridged by finding a middle ground between the two.
He received an Ashoka Fellowship for launching Environmental Camps for [...]