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Developing a Social Entrepreneurial Idea from concept to social impact ^ Home Activities Resources Community Links

Ideally, structure the resources to match and thereby support the Activities, but include some designed to spark new ideas (perhaps by topic).

Background Reading and Links

• Share Ideas (mostly using mobile communications).
• Appropedia - many ideas for improving quality of life ...
  • and a Social Entrepreneurship portal
• Entrepreneurship in Africa - a discussion from entrepreneurship to social entrepreneurship in Africa.

Processes

• w:Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis
• Appreciative inquiry
• Positive Deviance

General

• Open Content for Development and wiki

Water

• H₂O Africa Foundation
• Working for Water

Food and Agriculture

• w:Permaculture - see also: topic/department
• Bio-intensive method

Technology for Development

Check out the work being done in the following and think about how some of the technologies may be used for social upliftment. Most of the software produced is FLOSS.

• Information and communication technologies for development
• Meraka Institute
• Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT

Campaigns

The entire idea might be a campaign (e.g.) concerning one of the issues above, or a campaign might be part of a wider initiative. Social software mentioned under Resources in module Putting it all Together might be useful (e.g. CRM software).

See Also

• Sharing Ideas
• Ideas (from Networking page)