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Details about the Phase 2 Launch of YSEI (Youth Social Entrepreneurship Fund) and the associated forum on social entrepreneurship.

Title: GKP forum on Social Entrepreneurship: Empowering Youth through Entrepreneurship

Date: 22 April 2008

Description: Attend the GKP FORUM on Social Entrepreneurship to learn how Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is championing social innovation and entrepreneurship as powerful means to achieve equitable and sustainable socio-economic development through its Youth Social Enterprise Initiative (YSEI).

YSEI, a GKP Global Partnership Programme, helps combat youth unemployment and poverty by inspiring them to realise their entrepreneurial initiatives while simultaneously benefiting their communities.

We’ve finally launched the BETA version of our social outsourcing platform on www.SolvePoverty.com

You can still keep clicking freely and Euro .5 cents is donated every time (paid for by our sponsor UNISYS). You can now also outsource work to ICT ventures in developing communities. This is called social outsourcing.

What is Social Outsourcing?

Summary. Social outsourcing and Fair Trade in IT, by Dr. Richard Heeks

OK we’re now calling for the final proposals for YSEI competition. You can complete the application online here

20 workshop finalists will be selected to attend the upcoming YSEI Capacity Building workshop scheduled for May 2008 in Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok (we’re not sure yet). The deadline for submission is the 24th of Mar 2008.

The purpose of the Capacity Building workshop is to both identify the batch of YSEI Fellows 2008 and provide capacity building support to all the finalists participating. This would entail refining the workshop finalists business plans, conducting further due diligence and nurturing a network of young social entrepreneurs and mentors.

I’ve just got back from our meeting in Bangkok where we organised the activities for our 2008 YSEI Youth Social Entrepreneurship Fund program.

If you’ve been following our progress you may be aware that we successfully launched our social venture capital fund last year and provided the following start-up support for young social entrepreneurs to develop and test their innovative ideas.

Last year we supported 7 Youth Social Entrepreneur Projects across Asia with:

• Startup financing of USD$15,000
• Essential development knowledge & tools on social entrepreneurship
• Technical consulting through mentorship
• Access to diverse networks

One of our 1st graduates from the GLOW telecentre project in Manila won an award at the GK3 Knowledge event held in Malaysia in early Dec 07. Christine Lopez of the Phillippines - MobileTelecenters.com became the 1st 2008 inductee into the the Young Social Entrepreneurs program with her Mobile Telecentre project. Christine and her team will receive up to USD$15,000 in grant financing and 12 months of mentoring as part of the YSEI Innovators 2008 program.

Here is Tim Ferris talking about the “Low-Information Diet” at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Other keynoters included Eric Schmidt of Google and Jeff Bezos of Amazon. He was invited to speak after winning an audience vote at the “Ignite” competition a few nights earlier. The rules? The presentation had to be 5 minutes long, and you needed to have exactly 20 slides, which advanced automatically every 15 seconds. That explains why he’s speaking so quickly. Ferris is the author of the 4 hour work week.

I’ve just read a cool blog about a guy called Gary Scott, who’s also in the trading and investment game and travels a lot like I do. I get the feeling he owns a little more than me but hey he’s got 20 + years of experience on me as well. He has a farm in Virginia USA and a hotel in Equador. I have a farm in Byron Bay and I’m looking for a hotel in Siargao (Cloud Nine, Philippines). I’m finding getting the hotel on Siargao Island is still a little way off but it’s not going anywhere.