The Skoll World Forum is fast approaching and now is the time to look into important issues that will be addressed in Oxford later this month.
Our pre-Forum coverage started last week with Tom Watson’s vibrant discussion around Open Source Giving, in which he wonders: How can open source philanthropy buy Veronica Guerin support social entrepreneurs?
This week, Edith Asibey helps us understand how to navigate traditional power structures to strengthen economic and societal rights of women. In Women in Power
, she asks: over the next five years, what major milestone could be achieved that would signify a major advance in women’s political, economic and societal rights?
Join her in the conversation then check our new blog, Samasourcing
. Social entrepreneur Leila Chirayath Janah is a self-proclaimed “junkie for instant gratification” who finds the lag time between a large infrastructure project and increased income for poor people quite unbearable.
She launched Samasource to help small entrepreneurs find global clients. Check her dispatch from “The Most Dangerous Place on Earth” (Pakistan according to The Economist) where she met a woman who balances the demands of a conservative family with a desire to work by finding small assignments on the Internet.
Part of a new tribe of “pink-collar global she-lancers,” this Islamabad mother is becoming a woman in power thanks to technology. And thanks to social entrepreneurs like Leila Chirayath Janah.
Business Models (and what’s missing)
Charles “hipbone” Cameron explores business models for social entrepreneurship and emerging innovations.
