Sidney | March 17, 2009
Last Friday I attended my second excellent day-long conference at The Ohio State University within four weeks. Although the Alleviating Poverty through Entrepreneurship was a tough act to follow, the Mashup/Remix Conference 2009 was equally as inspirational and thought-provoking. Since I couldn’t make it to SXSW, Mashup/Remix was an apt new media filler for the [...]
Sidney | March 16, 2009
What happens when a group of MBA students in an Emerging Markets class take a trip to Bolivia to apply their newly acquired business acumen? What started out as a group project to fulfill requirements for a class has (within one year) blossomed into the International Development Collaborative (IDC); a social enterprise led by co-founder [...]
Social Innovation ChatterThis blog covers the issues of our world community and the people whose innovative ideas will bring about sustainable solutions for the good of all. The word “Uplift” is used as a metaphor for “sustainable” social change. Uplift was borrowed from the ideology of “racial uplift” espoused by twentieth century civil rights leaders that sought new approaches to social change in their pursuit of racial equality. Similarly, today's innovators seek new approaches to social change that will uplift the human race.
