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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

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.

Well several years on from the launch of the Philippines 1st Telecentre (GLOW) by our non profit OrphanIT.com we’re now ready to launch the first jobs platform for small businesses wanting to outsource to telecentres (like computer schools) in developing nations. The new platform will be hosted at www.SolvePoverty.com

I gave a presentation to about 200 people at the GK3 explaining Social Outsourcing and ways it can be better utilised. The PowerPoint on social outsourcing is here.

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

Kuala Lumpur, 14 December 2007: Well we’ve just wrapped up 5 days of non-stop activities at one of the world’s largest ICT 4 development conferences here in KL, Malaysia. It’s been a whirlwind of a week.

This was the 3rd Global Knowledge Conference I’ve been to over the last 5 years and probably the best in terms of outcomes as we raised over USD$400,000 for our Youth Entrepreneurship Initiative www.YSEI.org

The Global Knowledge Partnership’s Event on the Future, the Third Global Knowledge Conference (GK3), was opened on the 11th of December in Kuala Lumpur by Deputy Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak, and addressed the challenges of sustainable and equitable development through Knowledge and Information and Communications Technology (ICT).

In 2000 we started a unique website called SolvePoverty.com and its sub branch - OrphanIT.com created in 2003. It’s been quite a journey and we’re now about to take it to the next level.

Here’s a bit of background:

2000 - Launched education media company – (See HyperStudy.com)
2000 - Launched SolvePoverty.com fundraiser at Oxford University
2001 - Built 1st Pilot ICT Telecentre school in Philippines
2002 - OrphanIT launched as social outsourcing service.
2003 - Partner with Global eInclusion Movement.
2004 - 100+ web development jobs completed in 12 countries
2006 - OrphanIT helps create Youth Social Entrepreneurship Initiative
2007 - “SolvePoverty.com - 1001 Ways to Help SolvePoverty” relaunch

For over two years now I’ve been involved in the creation and deployment of a fund that helps youth social entrepreneurs get kick started. It’s called YSEI - Youth Social Enterprise Initiative. YSEI is a high-engagement social venture program for emerging young social entrepreneurs in developing countries and there are several ways you can get involved. Through the Emergence Fellowship , YSEI aims to invest in young visionaries who have big ideas and who need crucial startup support to turn their ideas into action.

The start-up support includes:

• Startup financing up to USD$15,000
• Essential development knowledge & tools on social entrepreneurship