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Travel with Love

When she was a little girl, Zheng Chu Yun loved to watch airplanes flying across the sky and she even chased after them. Though she could no longer do that post diagnosis with muscular dystrophy, she made a vow that one day she would sit on the plane and let ...

Green School Bali: An ode to bamboo, the world’s future

Located 20 minutes North of Denpasar and 15 minutes South of Ubud, Green School’s eight-hectare campus sits among lush vegetation, divided by the Ayung River. It looks more like a serene, though rustic, holiday resort than a school. The school’s tagline is “Equipping Children For 2025”. By that, the Hardys want, ...

Seeing Me for Who I Am

You may have heard the expression “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”, but is that really true? What comes to mind when you see a blind person walking down the street? According to most people I ask, they tell me they either feel pity or admiration.

Open Source Technology for Rural Hospitals in Thailand

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 ...

A look at Thailand’s young fleet of “ICT4D” social entrepreneurs

Internet cafes and computer gaming centers line every major street in Bangkok. With that, Thailand’s new generation of innovators are no strangers to Information & Communication Technology (ICT). But what's more, they are not satisfied in using these important ICT skills for just pursuing monetary returns. Thailand is fast becoming a ...

Smooth Slider

Conversation, Food For Thought / Posted: Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Conversation with KK Tse, Chair of HK Social Entrepreneurship Forum

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 / Posted: Saturday, October 10th, 2009

YES – Transforming Youths

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.

Conversation / Posted: Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Anil Chitrakar

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 [...]