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Travel with Love

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 ...

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

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, ...

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Seeing Me for Who I Am

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.

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Open Source Technology for Rural Hospitals in Thailand

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 ...

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

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 ...

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by Marie Lisa M. Dacanay
Creating A Space in the Market
For the past decade, social enterprise has been a buzzword in the arena of both business and philanthropy. But what does social enterprise actually mean for Asia and what is or was its impact on building a more equitable and sustainable marketplace?
Creating a Space in the [...]

 
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By Willie Cheng
Doing Good Well
As its name suggests, Doing Good Well urges its readers not to simply do good but also to do good well by offering a fresh perspective on how the social sector can capitalise business and management principles without compromising the social mission. Willie Cheng applies more than two decades of management [...]

 
Resources, Reviews / Posted: Friday, May 29th, 2009

The Power of Unreasonable People

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By Pamela Hartigan and John Elkingston
The Power of Unreasonable People
The idea of the unreasonable man came from renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw who said: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
Authors Pamela Hartigan and [...]