Go to Schwab Foundation website
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World Toilet Organization, WTO
Founded on 19 November 2001, World Toilet Organization (WTO)
is a global non-profit committed to improving toilet and sanitation conditions
worldwide. WTO empowers individuals through education, training and building
local marketplace opportunities to advocate for clean and safe sanitation
facilities in their communities.
Skoll Foundation
Jeff Skoll created The Skoll Foundation in 1999 to pursue
his vision of a sustainable world of peace and prosperity. The mission of Skoll
Foundation is to drive large scale change by investing in, connecting and
celebrating social entrepreneurs and the innovators who help them solve the
world’s most pressing problems. Social entrepreneurs are society’s change
agents, creators of innovations that disrupt the status quo and transform our
world for the better. By identifying the people and programs already bringing
positive change around the world, we empower them to extend their reach, deepen
their impact and fundamentally improve society.
2014年5月15日 星期四
PATH
PATH is an international nonprofit organization that transforms global health through innovation. Our approach blends the entrepreneurial spirit of business, the scientific expertise of a research institution, and the passion and on-the-ground experience of an international NGO.
Institute for OneWorld Health is now an affiliate of PATH. Youtube: Institute of OneWorld Health
2014年5月12日 星期一
國際透明組織 Transparency International
透明化不保證能改變制度，但往往是改變制度的重要第一步。國際透明組織(TransparencyInternational)的創辦人彼得.艾根(Peter
Eigen)原本任職於世界銀行，非常了解非洲與拉丁美洲事務，曾經建議世界銀行解決貪腐問題但未果。許多同事都認為他提議的計劃超出情理，因為此舉會影響許多人的既得利益。但艾根與幾位和他一樣有決心的同事表明他們的提議絕非兒戲。經過再三討論，創始成員認為他們的初期目標------出版刊物揭發某些特定企業的貪腐行為------可能無法產生預期的影響力，於是他們不直接攻擊政府或企業，因為他們認為建立聯盟才是成功的真正關鍵。國際透明組織不從外部批評，而是參與並找出解決問題的方法。今日，這個小型組織已擴展到全球，在世界各地設立分會。
創始成員都曾親眼目睹貪腐所帶來的毁滅效果------尤其是跨國性的貪腐行為。他們認為，世界上許多國家的制度都大有問題。他們亦知道，假如要改變制度，就必須擁有(或必須發展出)集體的力量。國際透明組織在1993年成立，他們的早期目標之一，是在大多數允許在國外進行賄賂收送的國家建立監督架構。雖然國際透明組織不揭發個人案例，但它將資訊視為對抗貪腐的重要武器。它每年都會依照國別公布一個清單，列出貪腐與清廉人士的名單。它所公布的貪腐印象指數(Corruption
Perception Index)，反映當地與外籍決策者或商界人士對某個國家貪腐程度的觀感。國際透明組織的網站表示：”那是一個重要指標，它反映出投資者與潛在企業夥伴對某個國家的印象。分數低就表示這個國家需要大幅改變，而且要讓別人看到它正在改變。”
撮錄自約翰.艾金頓(John Elkington)，潘蜜拉.哈提根(Pamela Hartigan)(2008)《1個理想 X 10種創新 = 社會企業是門好生意》，台北：天下遠見。
2014年4月28日 星期一
Barefoot College
Since its inception, the long term objective of the Barefoot College has been to work with marginalized, exploited and impoverished rural poor, living on less than $1 a day, and lift them over the poverty line with dignity and self respect. The dream was to establish a rural college in India that was built by and exclusively for the poor.
What the rural, impoverished and marginalized think important is reflected and internalized in the beliefs of the College. The Barefoot College is one of the few places in India where Mahatma Gandhi’s spirit of service and thoughts on sustainability, are still alive and respected.
Barefoot Approach:
Sophisticated technology be used in rural India
The Barefoot College has demystified technologies and decentralised their uses by transferring the access, control, management and ownership of sophisticated technologies to rural men and women, who can barely read and write. The College believes that even uneducated poor have the right to use technologies to improve their life and skills.
Difference between Literacy and Education
The Barefoot College believes that ‘literacy’ is what one acquires in school, but ‘education’ is what one gains from family, traditions, culture, environment and personal experiences. Both are important for individual growth. At the College, everyone is considered an education resource, the teacher as well as the student and the literate as well as illiterate. Therefore, the Barefoot College is a radical departure from the traditional concept of a ‘college’.
A Belief in the Equality of Women.
The Barefoot College has struggled to train village women, in areas that have traditionally been dominated by men. Since 1972, more than 6,525 unassuming housewives, mothers & grandmothers, midwives, farmers, daily wage labourers and small shopkeepers, who represent the profile of rural women from poor agricultural communities, have been trained as Barefoot midwives, handpump mechanics, solar engineers, artisans, weavers, balsevika (crèche teachers), parabolic solar cooker engineers, FM radio operators and fabricators, dentist, masons, and day and night school teachers. Women who are single mothers, middle-aged, divorced, physically challenged or illiterate are prioritised for training over others because they need the employment opportunity and income the most.
more: TED on barefoot movement
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