2. WHAT IS SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Social entrepreneurship means identifying or recognizing a social
problem and using entrepreneurial principles to organize,
create, and manage a social venture to achieve a desired
social change.
Business entrepreneurs typically measure performance in profit
and return, but social entrepreneurs also take into account a
positive return to society.
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3. WHAT IS SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
“Social entrepreneurs are not content just to
give a fish, or teach how to fish. They will not
rest until they have revolutionized the fishing
industry”. --Bill Drayton of Ashoka
5. LETS MEET SOME SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
Kwaku Kyei Recycle Not Waste Initiative (Ghana)
The project is contributing to the fight against the plastic waste
menace in Ghana by up-cycling waste into high fashion goods
whiles creating employment opportunities for street youth and
unemployed artisans.
Bright Simmons MPedigree (Ghana)
MPedigree is a non-profit based in Ghana that advocates for
the development of strategies to fight counterfeiting. We work
with technology providers worldwide to bring relief to patients at
risk of counterfeit medication in developing nations, where the
WHO estimates that up to 30% of drugs could lead to the horrid
healthcare crises that fake drugs often unleash.
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6. LETS MEET SOME SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
Anne Githuku-Shongwe Afroes Transformational Games (South Africa)
Afroes partners with governments and social agencies to
design innovative responses to social challenges using mobile
gaming as the primary new media tool complemented by SMS
technology
Njideka Harry Youth for Technology (Nigeria)
Njideka is using the Owerri Digital Village, a community
technology and learning center for expanding the horizons of
rural youth and their mothers who are farmers. Njideka does
this by providing access to information and resources across
the value chain, helping them to create more sustainable
livelihoods in agriculture.
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7. LETS MEET SOME SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
Regina Agyare Growing STEMS (Ghana)
Growing STEMS is product from Soronko Solutions that aims at
developing the next generation of innovators and problem
solvers in the area of Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics. There is a mobile learning center which is solar
powered and the mode of instruction is web and mobile
applications. Actually experiments are conducted with local
resources to solve a local problem and the children are trained
by peer educators. Scholarships are given to deserving
students
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10. SOME STATS
There are around 55,000 social enterprises in the UK right now,
according to government figures. They’re turning over £27bn and
employing half a million
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11. HOW TO GET STARTED
A SOCIAL PROBLEM AND
A BRILLIANT SOLUTION
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12. TECHNOLOGIES AVAILABLE
• Mobile Solutions
• Web Solutions
• Crowd Sourcing
• Social Media
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