Call for submissions – Student social entrepreneurs

Dell and the University of Texas at Austin will host the annual 2011 Dell Social Innovation Competition. The competition honors college students with new ideas to improve areas of critical human need. Read more

Inaugural FedEx and Junior Achievement Company of the Year Competition launches in Asia Pacific

The first Asia Pacific Junior Achievement Company of the Year Competition (COY) will be held in Hong Kong, 17-19 January 2011. The Competition helps young people understand the role of business in the global economy by allowing students to organize and operate an actual business enterprise, and market and sell a product in the real world. The inaugural COY Asia Pacific will include 65 participants from 13 teams representing 10 markets including Guam (a U.S. territory), Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Turkmenistan. Read more

New Exchange for Social Enterprises

Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX) recently came into being in Singapore. Its mission? To provide social enterprises in Asia with greater access to capital, allowing them to more rapidly expand the impact of their activities. Read more

Grameen Foundation, Qualcomm & Bakrie Telecom Announce Application Laboratory in Indonesia

Grameen Foundation, together with Qualcomm Incorporated, through its Wireless Reach™ initiative, and Bakrie Telecom, recently announced the launch of the Application Laboratory in Indonesia (AppLab Indonesia). Building on Grameen Foundation’s pioneering AppLab initiative in Uganda, AppLab Indonesia delivers new and innovative products, information services and business opportunities tailored to the needs of the poor and specifically designed to increase their incomes. Read more

The World That Changes The World

By Alan Wong

Thanks to modern technology, bad news are delivered with great speed and in huge amounts. We are barraged by “Have you heard?”, “OMG!”, and of course, “Look at this!”, which is often followed by “Spread the word!” or, if you’re on Facebook, “Please ‘Like’ This.” So far, over 200,000 Malaysian Facebook users have stated their objection to the latest addition to the KL skyline, and possible white elephant: a 100-storey steel, glass and concrete masterpiece. Read more

Infrastructure development company launched in Asia

InfraCo Asia to bridge critical development gap across South and Southeast Asia by providing development expertise and early stage capital to kick start infrastructure development.

In the presence of His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, KG, and the British High Commissioner to Singapore, His Excellency Paul Madden, InfraCo Asia was officially launched today at the British High Commissioner’s Residence (Eden Hall). InfraCo Asia was founded on the premise that the provision of infrastructure is central to economic growth and poverty reduction. Read more

Greening the web with Greenscroll

Webmasters and web publishers, you now have the option to go green! Greenscroll is new a nonprofit seeking to fight climate change in the real world by greening the virtual one. Its mission is to power the Internet by green renewable energy and help save the Earth. On behalf of anyone having a website, Greenscroll will pump green energy into the grid to power clients’ websites and, therefore, the Internet. Read more

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