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Created on 03/16/2013 by seattlekaranja
Popit4aprofit is a resource website that high school students or even any students could go to learn about programs and organizations they should be in. We try to help organizations be resourceful for students, and we link them to internships, college fairs, parties, and programs they should be in.
My Idea and Project is very secure, useful, systematic, friendly for the whole world of Present and Future. I am sure that the World will cooperate for this project and will like to contact me.
Created on 11/6/2012 by George Hashaka
Uganda Peace Foundation combines poverty eradication and peace building efforts for realization of sustainable peace in Uganda and the entire world.This strategy can be replicated in other countries in a similar situation.This strategy is referred to by Prof.Dave Ulrich as Big,Hairy,Audacious, Goal(BHAG).
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTell us about yourself/your team.
I am an entrepreneur right from my school days.While I was studying my Ordinary Level I traded in sugar,salt and soap to supplement on the families income.Later I taught but also established a boutique.In 1977 I joined the Uganda Army(UA) and shortly a war broke out between the 2nd Republic of Uganda and the Tanzania People's Defence Forces with the Uganda National Liberation Army.We were defeated and most of our officers and men were imprisoned,went in exile and others started armed rebellion.As for me because of my entrepreneurship spirit I started business of buying human medicine from pharmacys and selling them to private clinics.I was able to pay school fees for my sisters.When I retired from the National Resistance Army I established Uganda Peace Foundation.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
I am independent,creative,courageous,patient and believe in incessant learning. I think out of the box and venture out into the unknown,into the unfamiliar territory,into the uncomfortable zones and the uncharted waters.
When I started Uganda Peace Foundation I was offered jobs by the Jinja District Service Commission and the Government of Uganda,also my sisters in Sweden invited me to go and work there;I declined all these opportunities though I was living on a shoe string budget and at times just having hot water for a meal,failing to pay tuition for my children and paying house rent.One time one of my sons told me that I love Uganda than them.They are part of the Uganda that I love.I know what Uganda Peace Foundation means for Uganda and mankind in general.
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
Additional countries or regions
Can be replicated in other countries in a similar situation.
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
The most pressing challenge of the globe is conflicts coupled with terrorism.Most of the solutions are military approaches and other solutions are about conflict resolution and reconciliation,and post conflict rehabilitation.We need to tackle this problem by addressing the root causes of conflicts/insecurity.Close your eyes for ten minutes and examine the adverse effects of conflicts/insecurity.Women and girls have been raped,gun barrels have been forcefully inserted in their vaginas,they have been sold into sex slavery by warlords,great loss of human life,destruction of the infrastructure,depletion of natural resources,loss of economic opportunities,great injuries to fighting forces and civilians,and countries which were known to be economically strong have become weak economies after war
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Uganda Peace Foundation,an organization that I established when I retired from the National Resistance Army(NRA) now Uganda People's Defense Forces(UPDF) in 1994 having first joined the Uganda Army(UA) in 1977 is an upshot of a research that I undertook on the root causes of conflicts/insecurity.The research findings revealed poverty coupled with unemployment and other social ills to be major causes of conflicts/insecurity.Since it's now acknowledged globally that these are the root causes of conflicts/insecurity it becomes imperative to develop strategies of inhibiting conflicts/insecurity by tackling poverty coupled with unemployment and other social ills.We spend less in preventing conflicts/insecurity than controlling them once they have occurred.And the best strategy is when you combine poverty eradication with peace building efforts.So in Uganda Peace Foundation we have developed these strategy that will prevent conflicts in Uganda and the entire world.Can be replicated elsewhere
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
This solution is innovative in our company and industry because it's the first that is addressing prevention of conflicts by combating the root causes and combines poverty eradication with peace building efforts.And applies both a top down and bottom up strategy with great participation of the masses.Today we see advocates of this approach such as the United States Institute for Peace,Global Partnership for Prevention of Armed Conflict and the CICS, University of Bradford.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
This model of combining poverty eradication and peace building efforts makes a difference in preventing conflicts/insecurity as the poor people and the unemployed who are the raw material for armed conflicts/insecurity will be economically empowered by development programmes that we have initiated.These programmes include entrepreneurship training and having got skills to manage businesses we provide them with affordable micro finance capital.While we are doing this we also provide them with peace education.Another programme that will absorb the poor and the University graduates is the Village Earth Model which is intended to empower one million people in ten years.Other projects are for Human rights,Education,Environment,Hiv/Aids,Democracy and Good Governance,etc.Visit Uganda Peace Foundation website: https://sites.google.com/site/peacefoundationorgug.
Also visit the International Conference website for more on this model: http://regonline.activeeurope.com/internationalconferenceonpeacesecurity
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Our peers include the United Nations agencies,Center for International Cooperation on Security(CICS) of the University of Bradford,University of Peace at Costa Rica,The Global Partnership for Prevention of Armed Conflicts(GPPAC),A number of Universities including Makerere University,Kampala(Uganda),The African Union(AU),The East African Community(EAC),Inter Governmental organizations,Non Governmental Organizations,The Micro finance Summit Campaign, Inter Parliamentary Union,etc.This solution that have been crafted by Uganda Peace Foundation is new of its kind and once the stakeholders I have mentioned get together in the International Conference that we are organizing and they own the solution we shall fly beyond the sky.
Challenges from governments and other micro finance org.
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
I retired from the National Resistance Army(NRA) at a time of great political activities in our country and I had initially wanted to participate in the politics of Jinja District but somehow because of my military career with the Uganda ArmyI began receiving information on armed conflicts/insecurity in Uganda,this coupled with my military experience I started to do research on the root causes of conflicts/insecurity.After three years of research that led me to travel to the neighboring countries of Uganda in 1997 I concluded that poverty coupled with unemployment and other social ills were major causes of conflicts/insecurity.I abandoned the idea of joining politics and in 1998 I conceived the idea of starting Uganda Peace Foundation,as an organization to promote global peace/security by addressing the root causes.I started on the task of convincing the elite to join me and we form the Board of Trustees of the foundation.In September 1999 we registered this organization.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Stakeholders now including governments,local population, intergovernmental organizations,civil society organizations,the academia and the United Nations believe in addressing the root causes of conflicts/insecurity and some are advocating for our approach to conflict prevention.Peter Van Tuijl,Executive Director of Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflicts(GPPAC) says that, "The old state-centric,military-focused take on security falls short in addressing complex challenges,like transnational terrorist networks and the social inequalities conducive to conflict.We need a more holistic approach,carried out by different stakeholders,bases not only on national security considerations but on what it is that individuals and communities need in order to feel safe".
Local I have carried out sensitization on peace,trained people on entrepreneurship and the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) in 42 districts of all regions of Uganda to a number of seven thousand people.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
Our projected impact over the next 1-3 years will be great as this is the time that real economic benefits will be realized by the disadvantaged in Uganda as the Microfinance program and the Village Earth Model that was developed to empower one million people in a period of ten years will have been launched in the Karamoja Region of Uganda and will be rolled out in other regions of Uganda.We shall also market this idea in the neighboring countries that have also been entangled in armed conflicts.
Activities on Hiv/Aids prevention,care and support services,human rights,democracy and good governance,environment,education ,etc will all be implemented.Details of all activities that Uganda Peace Foundation will execute in the next years can be found out at our website.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Preparation for any development programme is essential for its success and I have invested in Uganda Peace Foundation fifteen years in terms of intellectual effort,time and money.The greatest barrier to the success of Uganda Peace Foundation is funding.I have done prospect research and donor relations that is why now having been in military trenches I am able to know funding opportunities like this one. We just need whole hearted cooperation of all stakeholders including funders for this idea to fly and be meaningful to the world.Though I was living on a shoe string budget at times taking hot water,unable to have fuel for cooking and lighting as well as paying school fees for my children and rent for accommodation I declined jobs and other opportunities.I knew what this idea meant.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
Uganda Peace Foundation is a membership based organization and is people oriented and most of the projects that we have carried out was out of membership fees.So far we have seven thousand members in 42 districts of all regions in Uganda organized in groups of twenties and we have now created a membership platform were people can become members from all over the world including Ugandans in the diaspora.The membership website is:
http://www.regonline.co.uk/ugandapeacefoundationmembershipformcopycopy
VALUE for the Foundation is SOCIAL CAPITAL
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
To support this initiative as I have alluded to is membership and then I have no other activity that I have time for other than Uganda Peace Foundation.That is why I declined job opportunities in the Uganda Government and Sweden so that I have time to develop Uganda Peace Foundation.I am married to the foundation.Many organizations fail because the authors fail to give 150 percent of their time and commitment to the organizations. One of the values of Uganda Peace Foundation is incessant learning and therefore explored all opportunities on the internet for knowledge generation.I believe in intellectual capital,social capital,reputational capital and emotional capital.That is the power of intangible assets.
Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.
Other than funding that will be generated from membership fees,we shall also raise operational funding from the micro finance programme,workshops/conferences,magazines,membership identity cards,t.shirts,etc.We shall also develop relationships with donors and other stakeholders.
Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
Yes,I am developing partnerships with the United Nations agencies,World Micro credit Summit Campaign,Intergovernmental Organizations,Civil Society Organizations,the Academia and Professional organizations that provide experts in different fields such as leadership,management,funding,membership mobilization,etc.
What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?
Ugandans are very enthusiastic about the idea that is why we got that big membership.Of course we had challenges especially from people who believe in the traditional military take on security.And also micro finance players who are threatened with our friendly micro finance programme.And powerful people who didn't understand the concept of combining poverty eradication with peace building efforts.Those opposed to the National Resistance Movement Government,want peace after
This solution created by Uganda Peace Foundation deserves the support of all stakeholders as without peace/security,we can't have any development whatsoever.Governments have their interests and approaches to global challenges,so the best allies in having this concrete practical solution to be meaningful to mankind for present and future generations should be the social entrepreneurs and I urge you to team up with us in this noble cause.It is the best that we can give our mother,planet.This is an idea that Professor Dave Ulrich refers to as a Big,Hairy,Audacious Goal (BHAG) and it is needed for
Created on 10/22/2012 by meetshamir
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مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTell us about yourself/your team.
I work as an Escalation Engineer at Microsoft Global Technical Support Center. I am a graduate in Computer Science and Engineering and have 10 years of experience out of which over 7 years have been at Microsoft. I am expert in several Microsoft products and also develop software. The latest being an app for the Windows 8 Store, called Trendz.
What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?
I am very good at thinking of solutions to real world problems. I always try to evaluate an opportunity and how we can make things better.
Primary country where this project is creating social impact
Additional countries or regions
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
فكرة (أنت متأهب للإطلاق)
The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?
Speeding, hit and run, accidents, carjacking, car chase, car bombs.. not the kind of words you want to read in a platform like this, for that matter anywhere. What if we can get in a system that will be able to curb some of these things if not all? Yes, this may be a very ambitious idea but then I think it’s worth giving it a shot.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Cloud Cops is my answer. What and how?
1. GPS
2. Smartcard
3. Integrated electronics
4. Embedded systems
5. And the Cloud!
Use of these technologies, collaboration with auto makers, support from the government and we will get what I call Cloud Cops and that this is something we can build with limited effort and use effectively towards a safer world.
Every vehicle will have a GPS system installed that will upload data to a secure cloud infrastructure. The system will make use of the smartcard to authenticate the driver (will use an existing system like social security number). The in vehicle embedded systems and integrated electronics will respond to commands from the cloud system.
The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?
There are disparate, unconnected, specific solutions to some of these problems. The solution I propose if implemented currently will be the first of the kind and will really help make the world a safer place
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
1. An accident takes place, and this integrated system will automatically alert the nearest hospital and rescue services.
2. No more carjacking, no need of installing LoJack and wait for the car to be robbed. The owner of the vehicle will have access to the cloud where he can configure which all users can drive his/her car. Since it is on the cloud it will be accessible from anywhere via the internet.
3. Speeding.. the driver will be warned by the system if he/she exceed speed limits that are determined by the ‘Cloud Cops’. The system will alert the ‘Cloud Cops’ about over speeding, auto tickets can be issued.
4. In needy circumstances the system will allow the ‘Cloud Cops’ to control the speed or get the vehicle to get to a standstill or invoke the immobilizer.
5. Hit and run.. ‘Cloud Cops’ would be able to figure out with the GPS data that which all vehicles were at the crime scene during the incident.
6. Parents can monitor their kids who are being transported by their drivers or school buses, monitor their teenage kids who drive.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
LoJack and a few others. Most of these solutions are reactive, the solution proposed here is proactive.
This Entry is about (Issues)
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
In my case, it is not a "aha" moment unfortunately, it is a "oh my god" moment. The n number of crimes that happen, the car bombs, the hit and runs, speed chase is what made me think of this
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Submitted a ThinkWeek paper at Microsoft which received 3 stars. Need support to give this idea life.
What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?
In countries like the United States, implementing something like this should be technically feasible already. And this will definitely help reduce the crime rates in this area hugely. In countries like India, we need something like Adhaar to be implemented before this solution can be implemented.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Government red tape. Privacy of citizens. Proper policy framework and maximum automation.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?
How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?
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Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.
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Created on 10/4/2012 by Lauren Diaz
This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Changeshop: Nueva Oportunidad a privados de libertad.
Created on 08/20/2012 by Lauren Diaz
- A Foundation which offers integral solutions to a social problem
- Empower the prisoners’ population.
- From employees to entrepreneurs.
- Solutions to excluded populations.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءالبلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
Gender of Innovator
Female
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اختار
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءName Your Entry
Nueva Oportunidad a privados de libertad
حدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
بدء (إصدار تجريبي قد بدأ تشغيله للتو)
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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
There are currently no integral re-socialization’s mechanisms for prisoners in Costa Rica. Existing work or educational programs within prisons, don’t guarantee reemployment. Therefore, when prisoners get out of jail, they face a second sentence: social rejection.
Unable to find a job, they reoffend as the only way to support their family. So they back to prison and collapse even further the prison system. By May 2010, the prison overcrowding, according to the Ombudsman, amounted to 31% and citizen insecurity had an accelerated growth rate.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Nueva Oportunidad aims to create a business incubator model adapted to a penal institution for prisoners close to serve sentence, incubate their business ideas and have a real job option when they serve their sentence. Encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit in penitentiary institutions, inmates are no longer conceived as criminals. They become entrepreneurs, breaking a social common paradigm about people in prison.
This model was developed in three stages: technical advice, funding and monitoring.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Nueva Oportunidad is an innovative project of social re-insertion that breaks the assistance culture to empower an excluded population, the prisoners, to be leaders in their own re-socialization process.
The process has the following stages:
1. Permissions and accreditations: we coordinate permissions and alliances with the Ministry of Justice and Peace.
2. Make the project suitable for the prison institution: we study the prison institution’s conditions to adjust the program to it.
3. Talks and workshops “Wakening up dreamers”: experiential courses for at least 20 people each, about motivation, leadership and values. Their goal is to create an idea incubator and “wake up dreamers”.
4. Reception of proposals of courses’ beneficiaries: we receive business ideas and select at least 20 of them to be incubated.
5. Incubation: we incubate business ideas, to study their viability and feasibility.
6. Link with investors: we connect the inmate, already out of prison, with banks, donors, investors and sponsors to get the first capital injection for his enterprise. This funding can be non-refundable.
7. Monitoring: we support the enterprise in its first managing steps.
All of this stages achieve social impact, breaks a violence circle and gives a solution to an excluded population.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
The official penal institution in Costa Rica is the Ministry of Justice and Peace, which through the Social Adjustment, is in charge of penal policy.
Partners:
Private companies: give jobs to prisoners inside the penal institution, for symbolic remuneration.
Ministry of Education: schools inside the penal institutions.
Distant National University: distant university careers for prisoners.
All of these programs are consideredpartners and not competitors. Nueva Oportunidad gives an innovative, practical and real solution to employment re-insertion.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)
Access to financing, Access to talent, Access to economic opportunity, Policy change/advocacy.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Motivation. We’ve achieved in giving a hope to hopeless people. We are currently working in a series of “Talks and Workshops: Waking up the dreamer”, in which we identified new prisoners’ initiatives and talents with strong possibilities of turning into micro-enterprises.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
We plan to get at least 50 enterprises conceived by prisoners in three years and at least 40 of them being able to stay in the market.
After their launch, los ex-prisoners will be able to hire people in jail living the same situation they did.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
- The lack of citizen awareness about this social problem: we can overcome this situation through media and rise awareness campaigns.
- Problems to assure resources: expanding the contact networks and improving the negotiation technics can fix this.
- A bad national criminal policy planning: we contribute to the criminal policy planning.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
المهمة الأولى
Concretar patrocinios por al menos $20000
المهمة الثانية
Realizar una campaña masiva de información audivisual en redes sociales, medios web y de comunicación
المهمة الثالثة
Realizar talleres cada 22 días, como mínimo, en el centro penal.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
المهمة الثانية
Source at least 70 business ideas for prisoners. Recibir al menos 70 ideas de empresa de privados de libertad
المهمة الثالثة
Incubate at least 20 enterproses started by prisoners.
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
Nueva Oportunidad arises in the context of UNA Entrepreneurs program, in the National University of Costa Rica. I took this “Entrepreneurs” course being Administration student.
As a Law student also, I have always been interested in Criminal Laws.
In this course I was asked to create a model of social, industry or services business. I wanted to stop being part of the population which only criticizes and provide solutions.
Visiting prisons I investigated about which was the major fear of the inmates. The answer was not being able to find a job. That’s how Nueva Oportunidad came up.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءPlease elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
New Opportunity requires support in all areas for growth, to become a replicable model. Our team can contribute with experience and expertise to contribuite to the growth of our model.
Created on 09/12/2012 by DaveJES
CyberSafeBC.ca will provide videod-based information for BC youth to help them learn about the dangers of being digitally active.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
Justice Education Society
Country where this solution is creating social impact
Region in BC where your solution creates social impact
Vancouver, Coast and Mountains, Vancouver Island, Thompson Okanagan, Northern British Columbia, Cariboo Chilcotin Coast, Kootenay Rockies, Columbia Basin.
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المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
فكرة (أنت متأهب للإطلاق)
كم مضى على عملك؟
لا تزال في مرحلة الفكرة، لكنك تتطلع لإطلاقها قريبًا
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Access.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
Digital technologies enable users to communicate and exchange information through many channels. Youth use these new technologies.
- 93% of teens use the Internet
- 80% + are online at least once a week
- 73% of teens have profiles on social networking sites
- 75% of teens own a cell phone
- 97% of teens play computer, web, portable, or console games.
Digital technologies provide countless opportunities for creativity, learning and sharing. Unfortunately, they are also the domain of phishers, scammers, hackers, bullies and sexual predators.
CyberSafeBC.ca will help youth be aware of the dangers when they share information and images via email, text, social media, online and through gaming systems. It will target youth through a video-based, certificate-granting course.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
CyberSafeBC will arm youth with information to help them be CyberSafe on the internet, on their phones and on gaming systems. Upon completion of a video-based training course, users will be able to take an exam to get certified by CyberSafeBC.
The training will deal with four areas:
• Online Safety-phishing (scammers of financial information) and money/security issues (visa and banking);
• Digital Footprint-Sharing text and images-once it is out there, it is impossible to get back;
• Online Ethics-what can be posted, cyber-bullying, uploads and downloads of intellectual property and best practices for email, texting and social media; and
• Online Criminality-luring, youth porn (sexting of images of youth under 16) and piracy (theft of copyrighted intellectual property).
This website will be unique because it is targeted to youth, includes a complete video-based curriculum, tests for knowledge competency and provides a certificate. Also applicable to parents & seniours.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
CyberSafeBC.ca will provide an online course that helps young people understand the dangers of being digitally active. The course will be hosted by two video facilitators who lead users through the video content. Upon completion, users can take a competency-based exam and with a passing score, receive a CyberSafeBC Certificate that confirms that they are aware of online dangers and know how to be cyber safe.
Case 1: A thirteen your girl wants to have a Facebook account – like ALL her friends, but Mom says “No, you’re too young. It’s dangers to post your personal information online”. Daughter agrees. But, she has taken the online course at CyberSafeBC,ca and she is now CyberSafe certified – she know the dangers and she talk to her Mom about what she will do to stay safe.
Case 2: A 10 year old boy wants his parents to buy him a cell phone – like ALL his friends, but Dad says “No way. You wouldn’t use it responsibly”. But the son has been CyberSafe certified and he tells his Dad about the steps he will take to be sure to stay safe when he calling or messaging his friends.
Case 3: Dad thinks he may they have infected their home computer with a virus. Mom says she received another email asking for her bank information and suggests maybe the virus came from there. Their child jumps into the conversation and says, “You guys need to get CyberSafe Certified so that you know how to stay safe online. The online video course will teach you about hackers, phishers, spammers, luring and a lot more. If you pass the test, it means you know what to do to stay safe”.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.
No other websites provide this solution. CybeSafeBC will be targetted at youth, will included a complete curriculum on online safety and will provide a certificate to confirm competency.
There are a number of terrific online resources that provide information in this area: BeWebAware.ca, MediaSmarts.ca, ProtectChildren.ca, Deal.org, TheDoorThatsNotLocked.ca, KidsintheKnow.ca, ZoeandMolly.ca, Cyberwise.org, Cybersmart.gov.au, Cybersafekids.com.au, InHope.org, etc. In addition, there are several YouTube channels that include excellent videos.
CyberSafeBC.ca will integrate the best of this content into a complete curriculum. All content will be introduced, presented and then discussed by facilitators.
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
The founders had their “Aha!” moment when developing the Online Safety section of www.LegalRightsForYouth.ca and looking at the information provided on other websites about cyber safety. There are some great resources mainly for educators and parents, but not many sites focus on the youth who need to be CyberSafe. JES wants to pull together these existing internet resources and create new resources that will become part of a youth focused online certificate training course.
JES is a curriculum specialist having developed thousands of pages over 20+ years so it is well positioned to consolidate resources and create a dynamic course for youth. The course will target youth ages 11-17 but the content will be useful also to older and younger youth - as well as teachers, parents, seniors and other members of the public.
Plus, beyond youth, the content is 100% applicable to adults as well. In this digital era, we all need to be aware of the online dangers - we all need to be Cybersafe.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
The goal of this initiative is to help British Columbians be more safe and confident when they use their phones, the internet and gaming systems. With funding success, the Justice Education Society would create a dynamic online certificate granting course on Cyber Safety - primarily for youth but also useful for parents, teachers, seniors and other members of the public.
The course would live online at www.CyberSafeBC.ca and it would combine a range of video modules that cover:
- Online Safety
- Digital Footprint
- Online Ethics
- Online Crime
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
This is a new initiative for JES which arises out of the work done in the past years. JES has delivered several workshops on Cyberbullying to teachers and has attended recent workshops on Sexual Luring and Social Media. We will be presenting a workshop in October on Social Media and the Law as well. Our staff are active within the online safety topic area, but the CbyerSafeBC course has not been developed and there is no impact to date.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
JES provides in-person instruction to over 18,000 students each year. Through websites like LegalRightsForYouth.ca, CourtsofBC.ca, and LawLessons.ca, we have an established audience of youth, teachers and students. We reach 20,000 students each year and we have strong community partners that can provide valuable resources. CyberSafeBC.ca will be promoted through all JES channels and the website maintenance and promotion will continue for at least 5 years. Within its first two years online, we anticipate the site will receive at least 50,000 unique visitors. With traction among youth, the site has the potential to attract over 100,000 visitors per year. This course has the potential to become national in scope as it could be easily adapted for different provinces.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
The first challenge will be to prevent as much as possible the “gaming” of the system. Clever youth could find a way to get a certificate even though they did not take the course. JES will require that they cover at least 90% of the pages of the course before they are able to take the exam and then we will auto-generate test questions so that they are randomized and different for every test.
The second challenge may be creating interest in the course among the target audience. We will use student-created videos on online safety. We will market the course to teachers who already use our programs. We will introduce the course to the 20,000 students we see each year. The course can also be promoted to parent advisory groups in schools and to seniors in community centres.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
المهمة الأولى
Create committee / Research and assess existing resources
المهمة الثانية
Content development and script writing
المهمة الثالثة
Online course development Website development
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
المهمة الأولى
Beta-testing of the online course and launch of CyberSafeBC.ca
المهمة الثانية
Promotion of CyberSafeBC.ca
المهمة الثالثة
Evaluation, on-going promotion and maintenance
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The Justice Education Society (JES) will engage community partners to help develop the course content. These partners will include representatives from: BC Ministry of Justice (Crime Prevention Division), Vancouver Police Department, RCMP, BC Teacher's Federation, Vancouver School Board, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection and other strategic partners.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
We will target youth ages 11-17 and teachers mainly through our orientations, newsletter and teacher professional development workshops. We will target parents and seniors through the school advisory committees and community centres respectively.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
JES legal education and information are used by over 350,000 British Columbians each year. JES facilitates professional development workshops for service providers and teachers, provides training for separating parents and delivers public seminars on a range of legal topics from cyberbullying to residential tenancy. The Society has published legal resource materials in print and online on over 30 websites and in 200+ videos.
JES objectives include:
• To continually identify new ways the justice system can be made more accessible to all.
• To provide hands-on educational programs and services to the general public.
JES is a leader in the development public legal education and information. For a detailed list of our programs and resources, please visit www.JusticeEducation.ca.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
JES is always open to collaborating and networking with others to produce excellent justice resources. We have an extensive networking of teachers, service providers and others which can be accessed to promote resources. Our web and communications team is young, talented and passionate.
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John Howard Society of the Lower Mainland
Country where this solution is creating social impact
Region in BC where your solution creates social impact
Vancouver.
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فكرة (أنت متأهب للإطلاق)
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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Cost.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
We know a man who was homeless, can be violent, has fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), and has been in prison. Would you rather this person was living in a homeless shelter in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, or back in prison? Either he is prone to a criminal lifestyle or is costing more around $100,000 a year in a correctional institution. Clearly, these are no options.
Individuals with multiple issues need agencies that can focus on more than one issue at a time, with wide training and experience. Someone who may have a criminal background can scare off health professionals, and people familiar with the criminal justice system do not always have sufficient training or experience in developmental disabilities or mental health concerns.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
A low barrier drop-in centre building positive relationships to produce change is what we’ve seen work: skill development, education, recreation and commitment without judgment through projects, programs, workshops, outings and one-on-one time with well-trained staff in a safe, accessible space.
Our attitude as service providers is everything. Commitment to people is what elicits change. Not reacting to the disability, mental health concern or other issues, means treating the person as a person, not a malady. It means not addressing one part of their life, but all aspects, and how those parts interact. It means firm boundaries and no judgment. It means there is no specific program of how to interact with people dealing with concurrent disorders since every single person is different and unique—programming could be anything from a group outing to the zoo, to a workshop on creating a resumé or a lesson on oral hygiene. It must meet the needs of the individuals who walk in the door.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
Our understanding of the many barriers and challenges—and their combination—faced by marginalized individuals with a developmental disability means that we know how to provide effective “wrap around” support.
One of our staff went to a housing facility to meet someone who had been referred to our organization. When she got there, a ruckus was being made by a very loud and verbally aggressive man, who turned out to be the person she was there to meet. He turned around and said “hi” and she smiled and said: “I’m very pleased to meet you.” She did not respond to, or acknowledge, his behaviour. He, in turn, since that day, treated her with respect. This foundation has enabled him to succeed in maintaining more permanent housing with us after living in the streets of the Downtown Eastside.
The primary activities involved in our project start with individual support plans (what assistance will be most effective?) and include career planning (using specialized training), employment preparation workshops (resumés, interviewing), life skills workshops (budgeting, hygiene), discussion groups, outings, art therapy, cooking classes, yoga and fitness, games, and music.
Inclusion, inclusion, inclusion; providing new opportunities, experiences, and choice to people who have gone without, finding something they’re interested in, is what weaves them into the neighbourhood and community fabric.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.
While many organizations work with marginalized individuals, we are unique. We cross diagnostic boundaries. Too many organizations and government agencies police those boundaries (“This is what we can’t do...”). No matter what is going on in a person’s life, they still have positive changes they can make. Our large training budget covers training requests from staff to cover the things they think they need, which means that as an organization, we have experience in everything from Non Violent Crisis Intervention and how to work with sexual offenders and the impacts of aging on someone with Down syndrome.
We believe in pulling people from the Downtown Eastside to get their life on a better track.
The Elizabeth Fry Society of does similar work to JHSLM, but focus on women.
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
John Howard, a prison reformer in 18th century England, was held prisoner in France. He was later in charge of a prison and was shocked to learn of its conditions, eventually traveling almost 70,000 km to fight against deplorable prison conditions elsewhere.
Reverend J.D. Hobden incorporated our organization in 1932. His life and considerable talents were dedicated to people who had made bad choices and were now making positive ones. He said in 1941: “It has long been held by enlightened statesmen and reformers that the methods of treatment of prisoners within a country is the index of standards of its civilization.” He suggested that Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin—all ex-prisoners—may have turned against society because of how they were treated.
The current staff have all had “Aha!” moments of greater or lesser impact. For one person, this was a relative committing suicide just before a law changed that would have permitted him more freedom—a senseless death.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
We are trying to achieve a few things at once: 1) a better life for people who face more or less severe challenges; 2) change perceptions about the capacity of people with those challenges; and 3) develop innovative ways to improve our communities, one person at a time.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Community Living British Columbia has increased the amount of contracts with us by almost 50% in the past year alone. Many individuals referred to us have health or mental health concerns, and may have been impacted by criminal justice in some way (other aspects of this organization deal more directly with people impacted by criminal justice). Our attitude, passionate staff, and thorough training have been making an impact recognized both by clients and their families and professionals in our field.
We deal in lives changed, one at a time. We work with individuals with extremely troubling pasts but who are proud to say that since they’ve been with us, they have been doing really well, despite lingering addictions and mental health issues. When people have crossed a line with us, we have remained firm on boundaries, while assisting them to figure out what they will do next—people we’ve had to evict have written us afterwards to tell us how good a job we’re doing.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
50 individuals with developmental disabilities being trained in Life’s Work Implicit Career Search (“an innovative, purposeful approach to career exploration and planning”) with half of them maintaining sustainable employment afterwards; 100 individuals in stable, safe, and secure housing; increased, measurable levels of independence, coping skills, and general life skills.
There will always be individuals marginalized by their barriers. The change we want to see is an attitude of inclusion so that we as a society, can say that we’ve done everything we could to enhance the lives of all of our citizens. We want to see the marked impact of our approach on all levels of government through the contracts we receive and the experience of our contacts of what we do.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
As with many, if not all, not-for-profit societies, the inconsistency of funding is the biggest threat to the continuity and stability of the people we support through our work. It is a continuous endeavour of general fundraising, applying to foundations and governments that will ensure the success of our project. A secondary barrier is remaining flexible to innovation while maintaining the most effective methods of support.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
المهمة الأولى
Have the reported independence and Adaptive Functioning Index of at least 10 individuals increase.
المهمة الثانية
Facilitate at least one workshop per month, on a variety of topics from employment to hygiene to something fun.
المهمة الثالثة
Ensure the regular and smooth operations of the facility to ensure best uses of all resources for sustainability.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
المهمة الأولى
New, sustainable employment for 5 individuals.
المهمة الثانية
A quantifiable increase both in reported levels of independence and functioning, and in referrals to our program.
المهمة الثالثة
Secured funding for the following year.
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Since 1932, JHSLM has worked in partnership with other organizations in the areas of cultural awareness, employment, education social skills, leisure activities, housing, vocational placements, volunteer work and life skills training. Our biggest supporters are the Correctional Service of Canada and Community Living British Columbia, though we are funded by other parts of tthe municipal, provincial and federal governments.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
While we do not have the capacity to implement this project idea across the country, we do have more than 60 affiliate John Howard Society organizations across the country each of which have their own list of distinct programs. There is certainly a great and widespread need to assist populations of individuals who have not reached their full potential and who are prey to their unaddressed barriers.
However, if we say we care about all people and all citizens are equal, then our approach can find traction anywhere current systems of managing marginalized people have proved inadequate.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Flexible, well-trained, and dedicated staff find themselves backed up in their day-to-day work with our clients by the organization. The cohesion of staff and senior management is uniquely harmonious. We all want to have an impact on peoples’ lives. The open dialogue and fruitful exchange among all staff translates into excellent communication and consistency of approach.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Created on 09/6/2012 by rogri
We help SME get better access to finance using the supply chain
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Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Winner G20 SME finance challenge
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
بدء (إصدار تجريبي قد بدأ تشغيله للتو)
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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Cost, Transparency, Quality.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Micro farmers need working capital to finance seeds, fertilizers and land preparation but do not have the funding.
Micro farmers are informal and as such difficulty to access finance.
Micro farmers only sell to limited buyers due to credit concerns with clients.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
We have developed a mobile farmer working capital solution integrated into the TREFI platform (see http://www.changemakers.com/SME-Finance/entries/trefi-scalable-sme-finan...).
The solution provides financing for
- purchases to improve productivity of the land
- the farmers invoices
- the invoices up the chain
without the risk and cost.
The credit risk is avoided by
- Synergies with the farmers suppliers to have better information and control on the farmers
- Ability to use the farmers sales to pay for purchases
- Approval of invoices by buyers through the mobile phone network
The security risk is avoided by
- Reducing the need for farmers to hold cash
The cost is avoided by synergies with the supply chain.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
The system works as follows:
At the start of the cycle
- Fertilizers, seeds, land preparation etc are invoiced to farmer by supplier connected to TREFI platform at the duration of the growing cycle
During harvest
- Buyer visits farm to buy harvest or farmer takes his product to sell in the market
- At transfer of the product the farmer sends SMS to system with following content
- id number buyer, amount, product code
- Buyer instantaneously receives SMS with request to approve invoice
- Replies to SMS with OK
- If OK is received
- System generates tax compliant confirmed invoice to buyer, accessible through web
- System pays the farmer the invoice in his account (net of VAT)
- if applicable system uses funds received to pay farmers suppliers
- System pays VAT to authorities
- Collection companies work on the platform to collect funds from the Buyers
- System prepares accounting report for farmer
The same process is applicable for the buyer. The buyer may finance his invoices to supermarkets etc.
The key advantages of this process are:
- Farmer can receive suitable finance from suppliers, enabling to increase productivity of his land
- Farmer and Buyer do not need to hold cash, improved security
- Farmer operates (partly) formal (while he only needs to be able to send an SMS)
- Farmer can sell to more Buyers as trust is brought to farmer by system for other buyers
- Farmer gets better credit standing at Micro Bank through the availability of credit history
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Peers are Micro Finance institutions and suppliers to farms.
Competition may come from a technology provider that combines:
- Strong development skills
- Risk technology
- Structured finance technology
- Collection tools
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
Formalisation should happen without the micro entrepreneur knowing he is formal.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
Increased productivity of farms
Improved sales prices of products
Safety for farmers
Which barrier(s) to financial inclusion does your solution seek to address? (select all applicable)
Physical and other accessibility obstacles that prevent communities from reaching financial services, The lack of affordable financial products tailored to the needs of underserved and excluded communities,, Other (Please describe below).
If you selected 'other' above, please specify which other barriers to financial inclusion you solution seeks to address:
Lack of ability in farmers to formalize
For which underserved or excluded communities will your solution create access to valuable, affordable, secure and comprehensive financial services?
Micro farmers in Peru, Indonesia
Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?
Yes. All emerging markets with mobile phone infrastructure, collection companies and appropriate legal framework.
If your solution is dramatically successful, how will things be different in 10 years?
Micro farmer land return rate up 300% and gross income of the farms up 500% due to better pricing on their sales.
What will have had to have changed to make this happen?
Funding available on the platform to use to finance invoices to and from farmers and funds to implement the solution.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
The solution is in development.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
At least 50,000 farmers with improved access to finance.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Barrier => solution
Ability to create confirmed invoices over the SMS network => work in jurisdictions that allow this
Need to set-up farmers on the platform needs farmer to visit branch or representative to visit farm => work in collaboration with microfinance institutions
Lack of mobile phone connectivity in rural areas => work in places with mobile phone coverage
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Pilot with a number of farmers
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
المهمة الأولى
Collaboration with micro finance institution
المهمة الثانية
Funding for financing the farmers
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World Bank collaboration to ensure local government approval and participation
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
We are interested in farmer communities / farmers micro banks to join the pilot.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
The operating environment preferably has
- strong mobile phone infrastructure
- ability to create a confirmed invoice through SMS
- mobile payments available
- partner micro bank focusing on micro farmers
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
We invite micro finance institution to participate
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Created on 07/17/2012 by Avantika
A form of non surreptitious surveillance consisting of an electronic device provided to potential victims ( women & girls), allowing direct assistance from the police for security against offenders.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
Birla Institute Of Technology, Mesra, Patna Campus, INDIA
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
Gender of Innovator
Female
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المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءName Your Entry
Safeguarding Device for Girls & Women (in India)
حدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
فكرة (أنت متأهب للإطلاق)
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لا تزال في مرحلة الفكرة، لكنك تتطلع لإطلاقها قريبًا
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Cost.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
In India, women form the most vulnerable section of the society as far as security is concerned. Indian societal psyche is marred with case of rape, molestation & female trafficking.
Through detailed surveys & keen observation we have concluded that there seem to be 2 reasons for the poor security scheme against exploitation of this vulnerable section of our society:
a)Lack of instant reporting of threats by the vulnerable individuals.
b)Lack of prompt response & rendering of effective help to the distressed.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
We propose to mitigate the threats as mentioned above by using a modified form of Electronic Tagging (a form of non-surreptitious surveillance)
Instead of implementing a device (that keeps track of the prisoners once they are freed from prison), India can look forward to utilize the same mechanism for providing protection to the most vulnerable sections of the society particularly those women who have no other alternative than to work at potentially dangerous places without any security
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
It is a form of non surreptitious surveillance consisting of an electronic device attached to the wrist of potential victims (particularly women & girls), allowing their whereabouts to be monitored. The devices locate themselves using a global positioning satellite and a tiny transmitter which sends a signal warning the nearest police station that the victim needs an immediate assistance. GPS receiver is used to monitor the location of the victim. It’s basically a step to combat the unreported crimes in context to women & girls taking place in India & can be very useful if implemented
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Since our model utilizes the concept of electronic tagging to a great extent; the current UK G4S administered ankle device poses a stiff competition. However, in India the use of such a device is severely limited & thus our innovation has immense market potential. Moreover, the tagging device is used to keep track of prisoners (potential offenders) whereas our device focuses on monitoring potential victims.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
What solution(s) does your initiative address to better the lives of girls and women by leveraging technology? (select all applicable)
Access to technology.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Through this proposal of our innovation we aim to reduce the unreported offense & put a check on women & child trafficking.
Impact cannot be described at this level of our innovation because it is currently in the Idea- phase
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
We hope to implement it in the most cost-effective manner & thus make it easily available for vulnerable groups (basically women)of all economic strata.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Being students of undergraduate course, the foremost barrier for the successful implementation of our project is lack of sufficient monetary funds to develop the prototype.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
المهمة الأولى
Concrete idea formulation
المهمة الثالثة
Launching it in a test market
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
المهمة الأولى
Modifying its features to make it self- reliant
المهمة الثانية
Making it accessible to the vulnerable section of women
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
This cannot be described as an "Aha" moment rather it was more of an introspection & deep realisation to think of something which could safeguard & secure women & girls from the potential offenders of the society.
It was literally disturbing for me to view the issues & consequences pertaining to the security of women & girls being dealt regularly on the front page of the daily newspapers in India. Some of the consequences described in these newspaper simply shook my inner self. And from then on I am striving hard to come up with something revolutionising that can aid to their (women & girls) safety & security for the entire 24 hrs. And my endeavours in this direction has resulted in the proposal for implementation of this standalone 'Safeguarding device'.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءأخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
At present we don't have any sponsoring partners for our innovation. It's only two of us; the innovators- AVANTIKA & JAYA
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Created on 06/19/2012 by MiCasa
A web application that makes it easy for strata residents, council groups and management to create a real, harmonious community in strata buildings.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءCountry where this solution is creating social impact
Region in BC where your solution creates social impact
Vancouver.
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تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
نمو (إصدارك التجريبي في حالة جيدة ويعمل ويبدأ في التوسع)
كم مضى على عملك؟
تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Transparency.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
Over the past 5 years throughout British Columbia, the popularity of high density strata living has collided with the rapid adoption of web and mobile technology. The result has been an increase in demand from B.C’s 700,000 (approx.) strata residents for technology that creates community, opens communication and provides operational transparency.
B.C’s Property Management companies cannot meet the evolving technology needs of strata residents due to limited technical capabilities.
We’ve discovered that dynamics such as age, computer literacy, language, access to technology and location exist in MiCasa’s target market (B.C. strata residents). We can always do a better job of understanding the effects of these dynamics on our target market.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
MiCasa fills the gap between the technology needs of B.C strata residents and the capabilities of Property Managers.
MiCasa is a web application specifically built for strata residents. We are focused on using technology to:
Build harmonious communities - get to know your neighbours, meet people with similar interests, improve strata security.
Improve communication - engage residents in discussion, access strata documents, paperless archives and instant correspondence.
Provide operational transparency - notify residents, understand what’s happening at the management/council level.
Property Managers can provide a whole new level of service, by providing instant access to strata information, approved tradespeople and FAQ’s.
We address some target market dynamics by providing exceptional customer support (via phone, email or directly through the MiCasa web application) and reducing the learning curve (keeping the user experience simple). We can always do better.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
MiCasa helps create harmonious communities - Use MiCasa to encourage discussion throughout the year so that by the time your Annual General Meeting rolls around, residents will be up-to-speed on strata issues requiring their attention.
Example - Landscaping: Landscaping is an important part of protecting property value in a strata building. Most landscaping project costs should be covered by the strata’s contingency fund; however, some details of a landscaping project may need to be voted on by residents during an Annual General Meeting (AGM).
The Property Manager (or landscaping committee) can upload the landscaping plan to MiCasa’s secure document storage area (instantly notifying residents), then start a landscaping discussion thread on the MiCasa Community Board.
After downloading and reading the landscaping plan, residents can choose to contribute their ideas on the Community Board thread. Some residents may prefer to just read through the comments posted by other residents.
The overall outcome is a more engaged, harmonious community, armed with enough information to make an educated decision at the AGM.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.
While MiCasa was one of the first companies to tackle the residential strata technology market, over the past 2 years competition has started to appear.
Here are a few of our competitors:
http://www.residentwebsite.com/
https://www.strataeus.com/
http://www.nexusonline.ca/
We set ourselves apart from our competition by choosing to champion B.C. Strata Residents rather than Property Management Companies. By meeting the technology needs of strata residents, we help them create harmonious communities and grow our business. By applying technology to solve real-world problems we help people live better in strata buildings.
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
MiCasa grew from my own needs as a strata resident.
I purchased my first apartment in North Vancouver around 5 years ago. While talking to some fellow residents at my first strata AGM I noted that the overall crowd feeling was confusion. Residents were concerned about casting votes on important issues that they did not fully understand.
After the meeting I approached the president of my strata council (a Property Manager himself) and asked if there was an email list that I could join to keep informed on strata related issues. I was informed that no such email list existed.
Aha!
The next morning at the office (at this time we owned a small web development company) I discussed the idea of creating a simple website for strata residents with my business partner Jonathan Hawkes. As a strata resident himself Jon loved the idea. We immediately set to work creating the first "pilot" application and eventually evolved it into the application that exists today.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
The goal of MiCasa is to redefine the way residential buildings currently operate in British Columbia. We aim to establish a new norm where owners, renters, council groups and management use technology to work together and develop a real, harmonious community. We are committed to improving the lives of people living in residential strata buildings.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Since launching the basic version MiCasa in Late 2011 we have recorded slower than expected growth. However, we have been working very closely with residents from the strata buildings that have adopted MiCasa and opinion is high.
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What is your projected impact over the next five years?
Five year projections
- reached 5% market traction in our Metro Vancouver sandbox.
- expanded throughout B.C.
- reached 2% market traction in Seattle or San Francisco.
- reached 2% market traction in Sydney, Australia.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Gaining entry into strata buildings is our largest barrier to success. Once established in a strata building MiCasa is welcomed by residents. Overcoming this barrier may mean establishing distribution agreements with Property Management Companies.
Strata Property Act and Privacy Act: To overcome this potential barrier we need to effectively communicate MiCasa's alignment with these act's. Strata Residents need to feel that they are dealing with an ethical company and that their rights and privacy are being protected in accordance with these act's.
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Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
المهمة الأولى
Refine our distribution model to generate more sales.
المهمة الثانية
Expand our customer service model so that we can more effectively listen to our users.
المهمة الثالثة
Increase production in the area of application development so that we can meet the needs of our users.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
المهمة الأولى
Ensure adequate access to capital. Perhaps seek outside investment or partner.
المهمة الثانية
Shift from working in business to working on business. Strategize entry into lateral markets.
المهمة الثالثة
Stay focussed. Keep listening and supporting our customers. Keep innovating our product.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءأخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
We have no partnerships with outside companies at this time. We are actively seeking distribution partners at the moment.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
No. At the moment we are focussing our limited resources on refining our business model in our Vancouver market. This gives us the ability to better understand the needs of local strata communities before rolling-out province or country wide.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
We are a B.C. company, but at the moment our 3 co-founders are located in Vancouver, Sydney and Vienna. We operate autonomously much of the time, so clearly defined rolls, goals and responsibilities are hugely important. We foster a business environment based on trust and mutual respect for each other. We encourage each other to excel in the areas of product and workflow innovation. Our business depends on it.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Nueva Oportunidad es un emprendimiento de innovación social. Se configura como una Fundación, que da soporte y acompañamiento a la población privada de libertad en su proceso de reinserción a la sociedad a través de desarrollo del espíritu emprendedor para generación de empleo digno, mediante la adaptación de un modelo de incubadora de empresas adaptado al centro penal.
Nueva Oportunidad es emprendimiento que se enfrentó a una realidad: el rechazo generalizado a la población privada de libertad. Para buscar una solución real y sostenible a esta problemática.
Created on 03/20/2012 by Richa Singh
Tribal Welfare Department is a government organization catering to STs.
We do developmental activities for tribal communities.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
Tribal Welfare Department, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
Your role in Education
Resource Officer, Social Worker.
The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with
Public (tuition-free)
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تعمل منذ ما يزيد عن 5 سنوات
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
بدء (إصدار تجريبي قد بدأ تشغيله للتو)
How long has your solution been in operation?
تعمل منذ أقل من سنة
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
The foundation of education in tribal children is very weak. Though efforts were provided to enhance education, but ground realities still reflect a sorry picture. We see that the problem revolves around the teachers who are the knowledge provider to students. Being their GURUS, they should be trained in the manner that they will be able to build a strong foundation for students. The problem remains in lack of support and training to teachers (no human resource development being provided to teachers. Teachers do not own the system and students thus become the major loosers of education.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Punadi is a telugu word meaning Foundation.It is a quality enhancement Programme initiated by Department of Tribal Welfare, Andhra Pradesh to achieve basic competencies among tribal children of all types of schools under the management of Tribal welfare department. We are focusing on children from 3rd to 9th class. The objective is to achieve basic competencies in the subjects of Telugu, mathematics,English and Life Skills; Improving quality of class room process so as to achieve the basic competencies. Through teaching lifeskills we will be able to advance empathy in education fields of tribal children.The Programme covers all the children studying from classes 3rd to 9th of all Government Primary School, Ashram Schools, Residential Schools, and Tribal Welfare Hostels etc. functioning under the management of department of Tribal Welfare. The purpose is Understanding the status of children learning performances in the basic competencies.Children are the basic stakeholder.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
We are still in pilot phase.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
We do not have any competitors. We, being Tribal Welfare Departmen, are focusing on Tribal Communities. I hope there will be no challenges as the message will be spread as knowledge enhancing programme of children and will be adopted by others too.
Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]
We,Tribal Welfare Department being a government entity caters to tribal communities(STs).
Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]
Providing a platform where teachers will own the system and consider for bright future of tribal childrens.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
The project is still in pilot phase
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
Building the competencies in tribal children. The project will be largest human development project catering to more than 13000 teachers and 3 lakhs students.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
The losing of confidence among teachers.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
المهمة الأولى
Making the teachers and district authority of tribal department to own the programme
المهمة الثانية
Finishing training to teachers and starting of classes for studnets
المهمة الثالثة
Getting timely reports on assessment done (*fortnight basis) and identifying gaps.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
المهمة الأولى
Completion of teaching to students on competencies, taking their tests and analyzing results.
المهمة الثانية
Analysing the before and after effects of Trainings and teaching on students and developing further plans
المهمة الثالثة
Doing efforts for bridging the gap in lagging districts.
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world [125 words]
The project is covering entire 23 district of Andhra Pradesh. Everyday our Commissioner tribal welfare, Mr. Somesh Kumar is monitoring the status through teleconferencing and over phone. We hear from students itself how they are feeling about the programme. The student sing the song and share happliy their feelings. It make us feel proud that we are building foundation of 3 lakh students and that too minorities.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءأخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
Partnership with Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, rashtriya Vidya Mission and SCERT.
What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]
Team withy members all of whom are confident enough to make change in society.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Created on 03/1/2012 by Mette Vestergaard
Getting homeless people of the streets.
Helping the weakest of those living on the edge of society.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThe competition is only open to people between 18-34 years-old and resident in UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark or the Netherlands. Does this apply to you
Yes.
Country of residence of entrepreneur
Denmark
Tell us about your personal background. Why are you passionate about this issue? Making an idea a reality takes innovation, dedication and strong leadership. Do you have the necessary entrepreneurial skills to realize your vision?
I am studying Industrial and furniture design at school of architecture in Aarhus.
I have worked whit sustainability on a few projects. I am specially interested in social sustainability and helping people to help them selves.
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThe Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
a lot of homeless people in Denmark are on the streets because of psychic problems, and a lot of these people are anti social, and cant cope with the night shelters where a lot of homeless people sleep.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
To make it easier for these people to get of the cold ground and under shelter i have designed small wooden shelters. The form of the shelters are proportioned for sitting, sleeping and standing outside. The crooked form is suppose to give awareness to the fact that homeless people are a part of our society.
To make this a social project, the houses are to be build by carpenter-students as a construction project.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Outdoor shelters, one person only, will make a differences for the homeless people who would otherwise sleep on the street ore on a bench. To me, sustainability is a lot about "the better choice" whether it is using fsc-wood instead of illegal wood, ore giving a homelessn person a better place to sleep.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
As my project is non-profit, the more the merrier.!
Select the stage that best applies to your business
Operating for 1-5 years
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مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat is the social impact you have had to date and how you measure it?
As the project is still on paper only, the project have only been used to start discussion about homeless people, why they are homeless and what kinde of problems they deal whit.
What barriers might hinder the success of your business? How do you plan to overcome them?
the problem might be an unwillingness to help these people, because op an opinion that they should just get of the streets. The problem is awareness, and the solution might be to tell more about the homeless lives.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow does your model address financial, social, and environmental sustainability?
The financial aspect of this project will be based on organisations only, it is not suppose to generate money for me ore anyone else, but to generate a better and more healthy alternative to the people who live on the edge of our society.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءHow do you see social entrepreneurship contributing to the improvement of developing countries?
What aspects of your stay in Uganda as part of the competition do you think you will find most challenging and rewarding?
Created on 12/21/2011 by eniware
Infection prevention and room-temperature, power-free gas sterilization for medical instruments in under-resourced health care settings.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءبلد المؤسسة
United States, DC, Washington
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
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Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
We're still too new, but "watch this space!".
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each
Dr. Daniel J. Carucci MD, MSc, PhD:
Dr. Carucci, is the President of Global Health Consulting, Inc. providing consulting services to for-profit and non-profit organizations, international NGOs, multilateral and service organizations who are working toward improving the impact of global health investments. As Vice President for Global Health at the United Nations Foundation, Dr. Carucci supported programs and fostered diverse partnerships to address the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, and as Director of the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative at the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, he oversaw a $200 million investment portfolio of research programs supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in cutting edge technologies directed at solving technical barriers to improved global health.
dan@globalhealthconsulting.com
Cell +1 (202) 607-7374
Dr. Linda Wright, MD, Deputy Director for Research for Mothers and Children; Director, Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Linda has been Deputy Director of the Center for Research for Mothers & Children (CRMC) since 2003, and between 1989 and 2003, she served as the Program Director of the Neonatal Research Network (NRN), a group of 16 academic medical centers that redefined neonatology as an evidence-based specialty. Dr. Wright provides a unique breadth and depth of expertise in the domestic and developing worlds and has strong ties to other NIH Institutes, funding agencies, non-governmental organizations, and industry.
Phone: 301-402-0830
E-mail: WrightL@mail.nih.gov
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
فكرة (أنت متأهب للإطلاق)
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تعمل منذ أقل من سنة
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Equity.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Infection and disease transmission in clinics and hospitals afflict millions in the developing world. Sterile medical equipment can mean the difference between life and death. Healthcare associated infection rates in developing countries range from 15% to 40% or more. With the expansion of basic surgery,the problem grows as access to healthcare grows. Potentially lifesaving procedures tragically cripple or kill millions of men,women and children due to lack of affordable,effective sterilization of medical equipment. Safe,effective surgical interventions lower maternal/child mortality and morbidity. Individual health gains benefit the health of society;1/3 of injury-related deaths in the developing world occur in the most economically productive segment of the population - working adults.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Eniware has licensed a proven, effective NO2 gas sterilization technology from Noxilizer, Inc. NO2 sterilization works at room temperature without electricity. It can sterilize temperature and vacuum sensitive items such as pre-filled syringes and complex or delicate diagnostic devices as well as basic medical supplies in a short period of time. A portable, small-scale sterilization chamber consisting of a plastic bag or box and a simple way to release a small capsule of NO2 would enable healthcare workers to safely sterilize vital supplies anywhere at any time. This approach is scalable, both in terms of unit size and production. The simplicity of the concept provides for minimal training requirements, widespread use, expanded access to safe and effective sterilization, and cost-efficient function at the point of care. The Eniware solution is designed for low- and no-resource settings including disaster areas, conflict zones and hospitals and clinics in the developing world.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
The sterilization challenge is best understood as an ever-expanding effort to provide low-cost infection prevention and safe, high quality healthcare in any setting. Affordable and effective sterilization of medical instruments and devices addresses three interrelated challenges in global health:
1) Healthcare associated infections (HCAI)
2) Expanding basic surgical care
3) Preventing disease transmission: HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, and other diseases
However, resource-limited settings with poor access to reliable electricity and/or clean water inhibit community health workers from effectively sterilizing medical instruments. Eniware's proven technology and cost-effective sterilization will close that gap. For example, WHO estimates that 50 - 100,000 women annually develop obstetrical fistulas, and more than 2M women worldwide live with this devastating condition caused by tissue death during obstructed labor. Low-cost, reliable Eniware sterilization would enable trained birth attendants and community health workers to safely prevent fistula through caesarian section, as well as repair existing fistulas, without fear of contracting life-threatening infection. The ability to efficiently and effectively sterilize medical instruments and thereby expand access to safe, basic surgery is key to restoring these hundreds of thousands of injured women to health and productivity in their families and communities.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
In resource-limited and remote environments NO2 sterilization provides the ability to truly sterilize instruments and equipment independent of electrical power or other fuel sources. The system is compatible with a wider array of medical equipment than traditional hi-temp, steam autoclaves. The characteristics of the NO2 gas also provide considerable benefits compared with other gas steriliants like H2O2 and EO: NO2 can penetrate packaging and complex devices,it does not leave residue,it is not explosive and it sterilizes completely even at low concentrations. These traits will allow for an affordable,effective and adaptable sterilization system that requires very little training and can be deployed anywhere from rural and community clinics to field hospitals and disaster relief teams.
This Entry is about (Issues)
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFounding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
Eniware's founder,Dr. James Bernstein,instantly recognized the potential for Noxilizer's patented ground-breaking gas sterilant technology to become a game-changer in under-resourced health care settings. When he learned that Noxilizer's business plan focused exclusively on sales to North American/European medical manufacturers and hospitals, Dr. Bernstein licensed the proven patented process for healthcare settings in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and for military and humanitarian uses worldwide. Originally developed by Noxilizer to sterilize heat- and water-sensitive high tech medical devices (such as endoscopes) in first world tertiary care hospitals,Eniware's room-temperature,power-independent adaptation of Noxilizer's NO2 sterilization has the potential to prove an unprecedented boon to community health workers,military first responders and disaster relief professionals,enabling fast,safe and cost-effective sterilization of medical instruments any time, anywhere.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
We are trying to improve health equity worldwide by improving access to basic surgery through infection protection and low-cost, power independent sterilization of medical equipment. We are particularly committed to reducing maternal and child morbidity and mortality, to reducing the spread of infectious blood-borne diseases including HIV/AID and hepatitis, and protecting the lives, well-being and productivity of injured people everywhere.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Dr. Bernstein began building the Eniware team in November 2011. Currently we are working with Dr. Linda Wright of NIH's Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research toward clinical field trials of prototype models (one portable plastic bag, one tabletop hard case)in the NICHD settings in India, Kenya, Pakistan and Zambia. We will be partnering with university-based teams to develop the prototypes and with Noxilizer to lab test them for safety and effectiveness. Our integrated development model is designed to develop client streams and distribution/training partners as we develop and field test our prototype models. We are working with Dr. Dan Carucci and other experienced global health professionals to identify and build these partners. Right now we are at the "idea, about to launch" stage. Check back with us in a year and two years for evidence-based data on our impacts!
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
Marketing and distribution will be achieved through a phased strategy. Initial penetration will be through key partnerships with established humanitarian and global health programs such as Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF),the International Committee of the Red Cross(ICRC),UNICEF,Mercy Corps,Partners in Health(Harvard),the Dartmouth Global Health Initiative(GHI) and Gates Foundation HIV prevention grantees. Project partners acquire products for their own use and for local distribution, and train humanitarian responders and local healthcare providers in product use/maintenance. Here are 3 statistics we hope to positively impact: 350,000 maternal deaths from pregnancy complications, 2M women living with fistula, and neonatal infections 20x the rate of the developed world.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
FDA approval of Noxilizer's patented technology is in process. Our device(s) using their licensed technology will be tested and verified by Noxilizer and certified under their approval. We will also seek CE certification for Eniware products manufactured for use in the developing world. We do not anticipate any high regulatory barriers to certification due to our partnership Eniware. Currently, the only critical obstacles to success would be loss of any key personnel before Year Two.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
المهمة الأولى
Establish academic partner(s) for prototype design
المهمة الثانية
Test and verify prototypes in partnership with Noxilizer
المهمة الثالثة
Identify and build partnerships for distribution and training
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
المهمة الأولى
Clinical field trials of device(s) in partnership with NIH and CDC
المهمة الثانية
Finalize partner agreements to use and distribute device(s)
المهمة الثالثة
Develop and coordinate field training protocols and supports
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءأخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
We are currently partnered with Noxilizer and NICHD. In the coming months we will hope to formally partner with an academic institution and the CDC for prototype development and a clinical trial. Next we will build out our partnerships to global health organizations, global health funders and disaster response/humanitarian relief organizations. Finally, we will partner with government/inter-governmental agencies including USAID, UNICEF and Ministries of Health.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
Our license is for health care settings in the developing world including Africa, Asia (except Japan)and the Middle East, and for military and disaster/humanitarian relief worldwide. Our first locations will be those for the clinical trials at Global Network sites in India, Kenya, Pakistan and Zambia. These sites have a particular commitment to data-driven, evidence-based practice. Plus they are incredibly open to working with us.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
We operate a lean and mean, high function fast-track team in our virtual office and on site in Washington, DC. We are highly collaborative with just enough ego to think we can pull this off, but not so much that we get in our own way. We are entrepreneurial in temperament with diverse and complementary skill sets. We are all committed to a shared vision of health equity and "doing good, better."
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
A new program for those in the Montessori Movement who are actively involved, or interested, in working to create more harmonious neighbourhoods, communities, regions, countries, and the world through new forms of collaboration and innovation, both small and large.
Dr Montessori's work can be applied in a wide variety of ways that can benefit the cause of the child beyond the school and the home. . . . in any place, within all social strata, through public or private agencies, in settings rural, urban and remote.
Created on 11/15/2011 by nditada
كل فرد يلعب دور فى خلق مجال من التحقق من صحة و توسيع القصة الكبرى بالمعلومات التى يعرفها.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
InSTEDD iLab América Latina
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
n/a
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءتسمية مشاركتك
اكتشف و شارك قصة حقيقية فى و قت واحد , الارجنتين
حدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
فكرة (أنت متأهب للإطلاق)
كم مضى على عملك؟
لا تزال في مرحلة الفكرة، لكنك تتطلع لإطلاقها قريبًا
الحاجة: تصف الحاجة إلى الحل الذي ابتكرته وحجم/ديناميكية المجتمعات التي سيكون لك تأثير فيها.
The true story of any social event is a complex and changing network of information bites. These include events, people, places, reasons why things happen, dates and times, etc. Putting this together collaboratevely today takes time and happens away from where things are happening. Each person can share or validate little bits of the story but nowadays there is no way to do this collaboratively and in real time. The real problem is that the story closest to the reality lies in the hands of a distributed group of people that may or may not know each other without a way to converge or revolve around the truth.
الحل: الرجاء شرح ما يقدمه الحل ووجه الابتكار به. كيف ستضع الحل في أيدي المستخدمين أو المستفيدين؟ كن أكثر تحديدًا!
Our solution offers a way for everyone, anywhere, to send a short message relevant to what's going on around them. This information bites are collected and curated into a structured "mini-wikipedia" of places, events, causalities, and consequences. Anybody can act both as a journalist or as a curator, by expanding, complementing or contradicting each bite of information. People can also confirm or deny information pieces based on their observation or beliefs.
النموذج: اعرض لنا مثالاً محددًا عن كيفية إحداث الحل الذي تقدمه فارقًا من خلال استخدام تقنية المعلومات والوسائط.
Citizens in the field would interact with the system through SMS, Twitter, email or even voice calls. A dialog between citizens and the system would go like this.
A Citizen in Libya starts by sending a text message to a local phone number with "NATO is bombing civilian buildings". The system will reply with a message confirming the reception and will ask for more information about when, why, what happened before or after in short, individual messages. The citizen could also add additional bites of information at his own will.
In parallel the system would send this new information bite to other users in Libya asking "Is it true that NATO is bombing civilian buildings?". People can then confirm or deny the information and can also contribute with additional bites, like exact date, place, consequences or reasons.
The result is a web of information bites, validated or refuted individually by the community. This allows a more nuanced understanding and exploration of the situation. This information can be queried by the citizens themselves through text messages, etc. or could also be navigated via the web and also used by mainstream journalists to understand and influence the information requests.
السوق: من هم نظراؤك ومنافسوك؟ حدد الآخرين ممن يعملون أيضًا على تلبية الاحتياجات التي تسعى أيضًا لتلبيتها ووضح ما يميزك عنهم. ما التحديات التي قد يمثلها هؤلاء المنافسون بالنسبة إلى نجاحك أو تقدمك؟
This is a new kind of service that could built upon the collective experience of social interactions that have happened are evolving around things like Wikipedia, Twitter, Ushahidi, SwiftRiver, etc.
As far as we know there is no way right now to evolve a picture of the truth made of bites of information contributed and validated by a distributed group of citizens and journalists. This idea combines the notion of a Wiki (crowdsourced knowledge), the network model of Twitter (people contributing information, others subscribed to topics/people) with a novel concept of validation and extension of information by citizens themselves.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
قصة التأسيس: نود السماع عن اللحظة التي حققت فيها ما تصبو إليه. شارك قصة المكان والزمان الذي رأي فيه المؤسسون القدرات الكامنة في هذا الحل والتي تؤهله لتغيير العالم.
While working in crowd sourcing information in Haiti, we realized that the picture of the situation does not lie in the hands of any individual. We were helping thousands of citizens get information based on data from journalist stringers, who went at great pains in understanding the situation in port au prince and missed nuances that were only apparent after the fact. The citizens knew these aspects all along and if we only had had a better way to have people collaboratively build the picture of the situation in the camps, the journalists would have had better information and events like the rapid spread of cholera could have been mitigated better.
Seeing the use of social media tools in the recent events in Middle East, was a confirmation that a tool like this was worth exploring.
حدد كلاً من عمق التأثير الاجتماعي للحل وحجمه إلى اليوم.
This idea is new, but our experience in Haiti shows that information in the hand of citizens causes up to 85% behavior change.
ما هو التأثير المخطط له في المستقبل خلال 1-5 سنوات؟ هل فكرتك قابلة لإعادة التنفيذ؟ إذا كان الأمر كذلك، فكيف؟
Our idea is global in scale and tools exist to create channels (text messages, voice, twitter, etc.) in different countries in easy and fast ways. The impact in each instance will depend on the situation, but will generally consist of a better collective knowledge of a story as it unfolds - including seeing divergent opinions, misinformation and gaps.
تقدم المشاركات الفائزة خطة قوية عن الطريقة التي سيحققون بها النمو ويضعون بصمتهم عليه. حدد المرحلة المنشودة على مدار ستة أشهر لإنماء تأثيرك.
Have a prototype validated in a community setting
المهمة الأولى
Design and prototype including field user experience tests
المهمة الثانية
Prioritize and integrate communication channels such as twitter, voice, sms, etc.
المهمة الثالثة
Run a pilot in 2 communities where filling knowledge gaps can have an impact
والآن فكر بتوسع أكبر! حدد مرحلة التأثير على مدار 12 شهرًا.
Have this tool in the hands of anybody that wants to use it and have active usage in 3 countries
المهمة الأولى
Release a stable and usable version of the tool. Define impact metrics.
المهمة الثانية
Create a communications and "marketing" plan for journalists and social media
المهمة الثالثة
Support a community of users and interested parties and evolve the tool in agile ways.
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
أقل من 100
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
أكثر من 10000
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاشرح كيفية تنظيم شركتك أو برنامجك أو خدمتك أو منتجك.
غير ربحي
ما العوائق التي حالت دون نجاح مشروعك حتى اليوم؟ كيف تخطط للتغلب عليها وعلى التحديات الأخرى في طريقك لتنمية الحل الذي تسعى إليه؟
We are still in the idea stage. We don't foresee any infrastructure issues. We think the biggest challenge is creating a good user experience and this can be mitigated by interaction design and rapid prototyping processes.
كيف ترى التحول في قطاعات تقنية المعلومات والوسائط خلال العقد التالي؟ كيف سيتم تكييف الحل لعكس البيئة المتغيرة؟ كيف يمكن أن يكون الحل الذي توفره دافعًا
We see that the trends in the media sector have gone from centralized generated and mainstream distributed knowledge to a model where citizens are contributors of the journalistic process but the information is still built and curated by centralized entities. This next step we propose, involves a complete de-centralized process where each citizen can play any role ranging from reporting, validated and extending shared knowledge which can then be shared with the rest of the world.
لا يعد الإخفاق دومًا نهاية المطاف. في حال إخفاق الحل الذي توفره في اكتساب وضع قوي في
We fail fast. We would not go on for 2 years before realizing that the idea needs adjustments and by having a constant presence in the field we expect to learn patterns and pitfalls to help us evolve the concept.
توسع في اختياراتك، شارحًا كيف ستستمر في الحصول على التمويل.
We believe we would create a valuable source of information that could tap into media revenue streams. We would have to do the market analysis, but one could imagine paid subscriptions by mainstream media who want to ask specific questions or validate facts.
ما نوع الفريق (موظفون، متطوعون، وما إلى ذلك) الذي سيضمن تحقيقك لمراحل النمو المحددة في القسم التأثير الاجتماعي؟
يعد منتدى Changemakers مكانًا تعاونيًا ومساندًا. الرجاء تحديد أي موارد للمجتمع ستحتاجها لإنماء مبادرتك ودعمها. [حدد جميع ما ينطبق]
حدد أي موارد ربما تقدمها لدعم مبادرات أخرى. [حدد جميع ما ينطبق]
الرجاء شرح أي متطلبات أو عروض ذكرتها سابقًا بالتفصيل و/أو اقتراح فئات الدعم التي لم يتم تحديدها ضمن القائمة.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءعرف شركتك أو برنامجك أو خدمتك أو منتجك في جملة أو جملتين باختصار.
Discover and share the true story one bite at a time. Everyone helps create, extend and validate the story.
حدد وجه الابتكار في الحل الذي تقدمه في جملة أو جملتين باختصار.
كل فرد يلعب دور فى خلق مجال من التحقق من صحة و توسيع القصة الكبرى بالمعلومات التى يعرفها.
Citizen media is growing by the day. Under-served communities need access to internet services, and the use of the latest technology, enabling people to participate in social and community engagement. The proposed Changeshop is a spin-off from the Ethical Citizen Media entry in the Google Citizen Media contest. This project incorporates STEM principles, as a way to promote STEM projects in urban America, and on a global scale.
Created on 10/5/2011 by Vivir Saludable
The project “Healthy Living” is a long term initiative aimed at providing socio economic development of the rural communities affected by the Chagas disease (ECh) in the province of Loja in Southern Ecuador. With an integral approach, this public health strategy is intended to prevent the transmission of ECh and other diseases related to poverty, by facilitating human sustainable and continued participation process of human development for the involved populations.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءTwitter
http://twitter.com/#!/tdiohiou
اسم المؤسسة
Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas de la Pontificia Universdad Católica del Ecuador
عنوان المؤسسة
Av. 12 de Octubre 1076 y Roca
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
تعمل منذ ما يزيد عن 5 سنوات
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءتسمية مشاركتك
Vivir Saludable / Healthy Living
What change do you want to bring to the world?
The project “Healthy Living” is a long term initiative aimed at providing socio economic development of the rural communities affected by the Chagas disease (ECh) in the province of Loja in Southern Ecuador. With an integral approach, this public health strategy is intended to prevent the transmission of ECh and other diseases related to poverty, by facilitating human sustainable and continued participation process of human development for the involved populations. This project is based on the information gather throughout ten years of biologic, epidemiologic and social research on ECh in Southern Ecuador.
What are the primary activities of your project?
The five action lines of “Healthy Living” are based on the priorities defined by the communities and these are: 1) improve the access to healthcare, 2) infrastructure development (roads, water supply, housing) 3) increase employment and economic resources opportunities 4) training to the financially active population and 5) strengthen the safety within the households and the community.
Among its main activities we find:
• Consultation processes to establish intervention priorities and organizational models appropriate to the context.
• Education on health addressed to different actors within the community and based on clinic activities (Physical and laboratory tests).
• Environmental education aimed at recognizing and maintaining local resources such as drinkable water and biodiversity; a combination of academic knowledge with local stories.
• Generation of economic activities that allow generating income to local inhabitants (commercialization of products, crafts production, ecotourism, among others)
• Housing improvements by means of research processes that enable the design of healthy housing adapted to the needs, possibilities and wishes of the community.
• Accompaniment to organization activities and decision making and local resources management processes.
• Strict documentation of all the activities and processes so that these can be replicated in other communities within the region.
• Permanent assessment of activities’' effects.
What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?
Chagas disease is caused by the Trypanosome cruzi parasite, transmitted by the stool of insects of the subfamily Triatominae. These insects proliferate in precarious rural houses. This disease has become into a worldwide concern since the incidence of the disease stop being restricted to endemic countries within America due to the high rte of migration of Latin American people to northern hemisphere countries. The Healthy Living initiative is developed within this context and its main challenge is to understand the interaction and dynamics among the communities, the socio economic systems and the ecosystems. We believe that our mission as healthcare professionals, development and academics, is to support, guide and channel the community strengths towards a “healthy life” that promotes social change through the integral improvement of the life conditions of the communities involved. In order to achieve these goals we must understand and improve the interactions among community members and the environment, so that communities achieve integral benefits with benefits that promote the control of the Chagas disease in southern Ecuador. Likewise, we promote the government involvement and strengthening and the collaboration among non government organization working in the area. We base our intervention in data obtained Turing the last 10 years of multidisciplinary research in southern Ecuador.
What stage is your project in?
تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.
Guara, Bella María and Chaquizhca communities were affected in the province due to the presence of insects within the households. Speedy social, clinic, economic, political and ecological test under an environmental impact analysis framework enabled us to learn about the context in which the intervention would be initiated. In brief, the life conditions within the area are linked to poverty traps which hinder the construction of healthy environments: lack of employment, weak family economies, limited access to basic services (drinkable water, sanitation, healthcare providers etc.). Main community strengths include a favorable environment to agriculture production, the biodiversity of the area, indigenous practices and traditional farming, networks of local regional and national organizations that work in the development of the area and an active communication network (schools, local radio and mobile phone). On the other hand, the challenges that the community will have to face are mainly the lack of social cohesion, the weakness of the local response to the needs of the community and the urgent challenges regarding the areas’ infrastructure (roads, water supply and sewerage). The communities have actively worked as the managers of the initiative.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
Mario J. Grijalva studied biology in Ecuador 1992 and obtained a doctorate degree in United States in 1997. As from 2000 he works as Director in the Infectious diseases Research Center of the Ecuador’s’ Catholic University as well as professor in the Faculty of Medicine of the Ohio University USA. As from 1992 Mario has done research on the Chagas disease in Ecuador and has published 27 scientific studies at international level. As from 1999 he has been working in the development of the research capacity in Ecuador through the creation of infrastructure and education of professionals at local level. Although broad scientific information has been generated, the conditions of the population in the areas affected by Chagas disease has been slightly modified during the last decade. The Healthy Living initiative is developed due to the need of creating a long-term demonstrative control model on ECh in Ecuador, which based on the application of scientific knowledge and the participation of the communities, manages to be replicable and sustainable. By means of the hard work and the dedication devoted by a team of young Ecuadorian scientist, Mario achieved that government and non government organizations within the area support his initiative. His trajectory is acknowledged at national and international level and this guarantees the projects.
http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-grijalva/
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured
A scientific experiment is reliable only to the extent that the obtained measures can be reproduced, that is to say it lacks random measurement error. The project includes a consistent system to gather data in the field which enables the development of research that supports the formulation of a model of eradication of the Chagas disease in Ecuador. All data collected, within the field and the laboratory, are stored in data bases that allow the registration of the present situation and monitoring to possible changes in the behavior of the disease. Eventually the knowledge generated will be shared with the scientific community, organizations focused on healthcare and the community in general. A consistent, reliable and reproducible data Collection allow the reliable assessment of the Chagas disease in Ecuador and in the rest of the globe. Probably the most important parameter of project’s evaluation is the receptivity of local residents upon the arrival of different intervention groups and the horizontality of the relationships built among all stakeholders.
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
101-1,000
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
أكثر من 10000
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Support the creation of community scenarios for decision making; facilitate the access to government instances aimed at resource management and strengthen the skills of the community.
المهمة الأولى
Generation of organization skills through communitarian meetings using shared need as axis. The implementation of drinkable water system is being used as a basis to this purpose.
المهمة الثانية
Permanent accompaniment, support and advice to community leaders and the community in general aimed at solving their needs. Rights and obligation of residents are acknowledged.
المهمة الثالثة
Provide community residents with training on several issues of interest that promote human and economic development.
Identify your 12-month impact milestone
1.Promote the access to the basic infrastructure required to improve the life conditions of the population.
2.Generate an integral Communications strategy.
3 Funds management.
المهمة الأولى
Accompaniment in the process of management and implementation of drinkable water system which will be provided by Ayuda en Acción.
المهمة الثانية
Provide support to improve the access of the communities through "Participative budgets, implemented meeting in local governments.
المهمة الثالثة
Improve healthcare through training to community health care providers.
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
Over the upcoming eight years the Healthy Living initiative must evolve in the design of a housing model that hinders insects’ infections which can be implemented, replicable and extendable, socially equitable, ecologically sustainable and adapted to the cultural and social reality of the communities. This housing model must be created, installed and assessed to allow it replicability within other Cantón Calvas areas and then in the whole province of Loja. In this regard, the project will carry out a strict documentation of the process and will mainly work on the strengthening of the social and local government organizations. Likewise it will promote the initiative at national and international level to gather resources for its implementation.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?
The Healthy Living initiative does not intend to change people’s behavior, on the contrary it aims at stimulating people’s critical and creative thinking so that they manage to administer their lives and take the responsibility of maintaining the initiative in an autonomous manner. The hugest challenge for this intervention is to understand the interactions and dynamics between communities, socio political and economic systems and the eco-systems. Many development and healthcare professionals support the idea that the intervention must provide communities with support to solve their problems in contrast with public health inflexible traditional models. Thus, the Healthy Living initiative is based on the acceptance that the each the uniqueness of each community defines the development and undertakes more healthy lifestyles.
On the other hand, there are certain barriers that have been identified as from execution in the field. It is about the lack of social cohesion within communities and the lack of action in the agreed commitments by the local government. Instead of considering these obstacles to the success of the initiative we might think about these as issues that may delay the achievement of goals.
أخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
Te intervention aims at joining the efforts carried out by local, national and international organizations present in La Loja province by integrating their own activities with government initiatives such as Participative Budgets and the Good Living Plan (Sumac Kasey). Likewise the project is interested in working jointly with civil organizations, leaded by the decentralized Cantón Calvas Autonomous Government and the Ministry of Public Health, to support inclusion and participation of families in finding their own solution applying a critical and reflexive analysis from their own reality,
Te initiatives technical direction is in charge of Dr. Mario J. Grijalva, Director of the Tropical Disease Institute within Ohio University and the Tropical Diseases’ Research Center in Pontifical Catholic University in Ecuador. Also, the project has a Coordinating Committee composed by representatives from the following institutions: Guara,s communitarian development committee, Luranda, Chaquizhca and Bella María (CODECOM) GADCC) decentralized Cantón Calvas Autonomous Government, The Minister of Public Health, Plan Internacional (PLAN) Ayuda en Acción Foundation, Ohio University Pontifical Catholic University in Ecuador (PUCE). This committee is responsible for supporting the formulation of an action plant, provide support for the execution of specific activities and assess the progress of the initiative. Lastly, the Ministry of Health facilitates insects’ controls within communities and support the communitarian healthcare work
Current annual budget of project, in US dollars
10001 دولار أمريكي إلى 50000 دولار أمريكي
Explain your selections
AS from 2008, the year when we carried out the first visit to the communities that are now part of the study, inhabitants have always showed interest in the interventions performed by our team. The interest expressed by the community the support provided by Plan Internacional who has been working in the field and providing support to our interventions as from 2003, allowed us to think ahead, Healthy Living, an integral strategy to control de Chagas disease in Ecuador applying a perspective focused on the people and the environment .Within this context, individuals, government and non government organizations and universities became into the actors in the development scenario. The combination of knowledge and capacities turned this initiative into a challenge that had to be taken and achievable.
The initiative promotes a financial co-participation of benefited individuals. In this manner the economic effort made by families, as well as their contribution in terms of work or local materials, make them value the achievements and contribute to improve the population’s moral and self esteem. Also, the resident’s management before the government and non government organizations is facilitated and technical support to them is supported so that at national level they administer the resources which enable them to meet the needs of the population. These efforts are supplemented by the management of international of financial support to document the process and assess the effectiveness of the activities.
How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?
Local NGOs, Ayuda en Acción and Plan Internacional have been enthusticic about the identification of investors interested in the initiative. The trajectory of both institutions makes this process potentially favorable to the project. On the other hand, Ohio University (OU) Pontifical Catholic University in Ecuador (PUCE) are constantly looking for opportunities that generate sustainability to the project at short an long term. This initiative is designed in such manner that to the extent the project moves forward the results obtained feedback the huge possibilities of receiving local and international funds. The direct relationship between PUE and OU favors ad facilitated the scenario for this purpose.
In addition the project emphasizes the development of the local government capacity to manage funds and implement actions that meet the needs of the community. The progressive strengthening of the local capacities will translate into the strengthening of the project.
Last, the design f integral communication campaign will allow strengthening the participation and commitment of benefited individuals at community level, it will facilitate the fulfillment of commitments by local and national organizations and will facilitate fund raising and will set the pattern for replicating the initiative in other communities in the region, province and country.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhich barriers to health and well-being does your innovation address?
Please select up to three in order of relevancy to your project.
PRIMARY
Incentives for unhealthy living
SECONDARY
Limited access to preventative tools or resources
TERTIARY
Lack of access to targeted health information and education
Please describe how your innovation specifically tackles the barriers listed above.
Community participation is the key fundamental of the Healthy Living initiative. By means of the promotion of a genuine and participative leadership within the communities, decisions will be taken in a consensus of opinion to improve the life conditions of the community. Training process addressed to members of the community and the strengthening institutions at local level will allow the mobilization of resources that improve the access to tools that improve wellbeing and promote the prevention of diseases and improve people’s safety and properties. Finally, the communication campaign will help to enlarge the knowledge about the problems and their solutions, as well as the promotion of constructive and healthy habits.
How are you growing the impact of your organization or initiative?
Please select up to three potential pathways in order of relevancy to you.
PRIMARY
Repurposed your model for other sectors/development needs
SECONDARY
Enhanced existing impact through addition of complementary services
TERTIARY
Influenced other organizations and institutions through the spread of best practices
Please describe which of your growth activities are current or planned for the immediate future.
At present the initiative is ending the formative research phase, during which information on the present situation of the community, local and national stakeholders were gathered. We are now strengthening local leadership within communities. The next step is to make use of said information to design the concrete interventions to be carried out. This is a participative process where beneficiaries will be supported to analyze the gather information and propose specific actions. These actions will be converted into financing proposals at local, national and international level, which will be followed by management and implementation.
Do you collaborate with any of the following: (Check all that apply)
كيان حكومي , NGOs/Nonprofits, Academia/universities.
If yes, how have these collaborations helped your innovation to succeed?
The Academy is where the initiative is originated. Data gathered by the scientific research in the Pontifical Catholic University and the Ohio University support the project. Research has been carried out in cooperation with the Ecuadorian Ministry of Public Health local councils and NGOs working in the field. The serious trajectory, clear funds management and production of products have provided the group leading the project with high credibility. All these activities leaded to developing functional collaborative relationships among all organizations involved which translate into huge public response at local, national and international level.
Created on 09/21/2011 by epoquioma
Mejorar la salud de la población mediante el uso de espacios de esparcimiento y recreación públicos (parques) en las ciudades.
Estos lugares deben tener la conservación y seguridad adecuadas para que los ciudadanos practiquen actividad física de forma agradable y segura.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءالبلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
n/a
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
اختار
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءتسمية مشاركتك
Esparcimiento y Recreación para mejorar la Salud
What change do you want to bring to the world?
Mejorar la salud de la población mediante el uso de espacios de esparcimiento y recreación públicos (parques) en las ciudades.
Estos lugares deben tener la conservación y seguridad adecuadas para que los ciudadanos practiquen actividad física de forma agradable y segura.
What are the primary activities of your project?
Generar el diseño arquitectónico de centros de esparcimiento urbanos, comprometiendo a las autoridades locales (municipios) y regionales.
Promocionar la actividad física en todas las edades
Comprometer la seguridad (policía) como resguardo (en zonas pobres los parques son tomados por mendigos, delincuentes, drogadicción).
What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?
La innovación está en facilitar espacios seguros y confortables para la práctica de actividad física.
What stage is your project in?
Idea phase
Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.
Beneficiará a las poblaciones de zonas pobres, que se inhiben de hacer actividad física fuera de la casa porque no hay espacios adecuados.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured
En los últimos 10 años la ciudad de Lima ha tenido mejoras en parques y ciclovías; sin embargo falta el componente de mantenimiento y seguridad.
Los resultados se medirán a mediano plazo en el incremento de la actividad física y la reducción de obesidad ; y a largo plazo en la disminución de la incidencia y mortalidad por enfermedades crónicas (diabetes, hipertensión arterial, infarto al miocardio, cáncer, accidente vascular cerebral).
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
أكثر من 10000
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
أكثر من 10000
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Compromiso de los gobiernos locales y regionales.
المهمة الأولى
Proporcionar el diseño de parques y elegir el lugar
المهمة الثانية
Coordinar el financiamiento para estas obras
المهمة الثالثة
Comprometer la participación de Municipio, Policía y Sector Salud
Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Incremento de la población haciendo actividad física y disminución de la obesidad
المهمة الأولى
Los gobiernos locales asumen el mantenimiento de los nuevos parques
المهمة الثانية
La Policía cubre y resguarda los parques 18 horas al día
المهمة الثالثة
Mayor Promoción de la actividad física
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
Contar con un parque agradable y seguro por cada 10,000 personas; la población haciendo actividad física
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?
Falta de interés de las autoridades locales; a quienes se les tiene que explicar la importancia de este proyecto
أخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
Municipios
Policía
Autoridades de Salud
Empresa privada (publicidad)
Current annual budget of project, in US dollars
10001 دولار أمريكي إلى 50000 دولار أمريكي
Explain your selections
Promover actividad física es tarea de varios socios: los municipios y policía por su responsabilidad ante la población; la empresa privada por la responsabilidad social y marketing
How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?
Creando espacios donde sean necesarios, con mantenimiento (conservación) y seguridad adecuados.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhich barriers to health and well-being does your innovation address?
Please select up to three in order of relevancy to your project.
PRIMARY
Limited access to preventative tools or resources
SECONDARY
Health behavior change
TERTIARY
Incentives for unhealthy living
Please describe how your innovation specifically tackles the barriers listed above.
Mediante confort y seguridad para realizar actividad física en parques, dismunyendo la obesidad y evitando las enfermedades no transmisibles
How are you growing the impact of your organization or initiative?
Please select up to three potential pathways in order of relevancy to you.
PRIMARY
Grown geographic reach: Within host country
SECONDARY
Enhanced existing impact through addition of complementary services
TERTIARY
Leveraged technology
Please describe which of your growth activities are current or planned for the immediate future.
La organización está creciendo en actividades porque se está enfocando en métodos de prevenir las Enfermedades No Transmisibles.
Do you collaborate with any of the following: (Check all that apply)
كيان حكومي , Technology providers, NGOs/Nonprofits, Academia/universities.
If yes, how have these collaborations helped your innovation to succeed?
Actualmente, en el Perú se está sensibilizando a muchos sectores para contribuir en reducir la carga de enfermedades crónicas
Changemakers recently sat down with
Naveen Naqvi, co-founder and executive director of
Gawaahi, to discuss her work in Pakistan’s turbulent and often violent environment, where she uses citizen media as a tool for political engagement and raising public awareness.
Gawaahi, which means “witnessing” in Urdu, is a Pakistan-based citizen-sector organization that produces digital stories of survival and resistance. Through its online platform, Gawaahi shares stories about women's human rights, child sex abuse, unfair labor practices, and religious persecution.
With a background in journalism, Naqvi was previously the senior anchor and morning news presenter at DawnNews, Pakistan's first English-language channel. Before that, she was a producer for NBC News and online contributor for MSNBC.com. Naqvi is serving as an expert commentator for the
Citizen Media competition.
Created on 09/14/2011 by abbasadel
People are doing the change or at least contributing largely to it. It’s the power of people.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءالبلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
تعمل منذ أقل من سنة
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءتسمية مشاركتك
Zabatak: the anti-crime, anti-corruption initiative
حدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
نمو (إصدارك التجريبي في حالة جيدة ويعمل ويبدأ في التوسع)
كم مضى على عملك؟
تعمل منذ أقل من سنة
الحاجة: تصف الحاجة إلى الحل الذي ابتكرته وحجم/ديناميكية المجتمعات التي سيكون لك تأثير فيها.
After the events of Egypt 25th of Jan revolution, it has become normal to witness crime incidents on daily basis. Some were rumors and some were true. The people perception of their country has improved and it’s only through collective work that we are able to achieve the desired change. Our country still suffers from corruption that’s spreading likee cancer. We believe that if we worked together as we did in the revolution days we can change everything. The collaborative efforts and the accumulating change is the key. Everybody contributes to the bigger picture of change
Currently we are targeting people with mobile/Internet connections but soon enough we will enable the service for every average citizen.
الحل: الرجاء شرح ما يقدمه الحل ووجه الابتكار به. كيف ستضع الحل في أيدي المستخدمين أو المستفيدين؟ كن أكثر تحديدًا!
We as a group of youth started this project to collect information form people in the streets. Our main focus is to provide a tool and an easy method for positive people to reports incidents that happens everywhere and these incidents are neglected all over the time. The aim of this initiative is to empower the average citizen through the usage of technology namely crowdsource reporting and interactive mapping.
The solution offers reporting crimes from any place in Egypt using PC or a mobile device, the user needs to enter a title, location on map, description of what happened, time, date and any other resources such as photos of videos which raises the credibility of the report.
On the other side users can view reported crimes, description and ranked on map view or list view to get enough information about how and when this crime happened.
Users can also specify a location to get alerts from such as their city or neighborhood. Recently we launched a blog in which we give people advices in how to protect themselves depending on data from analysed reports.
النموذج: اعرض لنا مثالاً محددًا عن كيفية إحداث الحل الذي تقدمه فارقًا من خلال استخدام تقنية المعلومات والوسائط.
In a regular street, a lady is walking and suddenly a thief with a motorcycle took here bag and number of people are present on the same location. A man was able to see the criminal face features and another one was able to memorize this motorcycle number. A smart-phone holder was able to take his picture and maybe another one was able to film the whole accident. Each one holds a piece of information which is very important for the lady and for the police. The first person who saw the criminal face maybe late for work and can't give the lady the information he knows. The one who has the criminal picture maybe in a moving car and he will late post it on facebook to share with friends. Every witness will use the information he holds in not a proper way. If we were able to collect these pieces of information in one place, we will be able to create a useful information that will help us bringing the lady's bag and catch the thief. And this is what Zabatak aims at. We provide online and mobile service to collect information about crime and corruption from people and locate the information on Egypt Map.
With these information we can warn each other and locate crimes spots on the map.
Zabatak is not only asking people to report anything wrong they see but we want people to help fixing what annoys them too. They can propose solution and vote on it and we as Zabatak team take these solution and give it to people on charge to apply them.
السوق: من هم نظراؤك ومنافسوك؟ حدد الآخرين ممن يعملون أيضًا على تلبية الاحتياجات التي تسعى أيضًا لتلبيتها ووضح ما يميزك عنهم. ما التحديات التي قد يمثلها هؤلاء المنافسون بالنسبة إلى نجاحك أو تقدمك؟
So far we have no competitors. Moreover, we are cooperating with any entity interested in fighting crime and corruption.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
قصة التأسيس: نود السماع عن اللحظة التي حققت فيها ما تصبو إليه. شارك قصة المكان والزمان الذي رأي فيه المؤسسون القدرات الكامنة في هذا الحل والتي تؤهله لتغيير العالم.
During the revolution, the police existence became virtually non-existent and people had to defend their own properties and also the public properties as well. And to make things even worse, Egypt suffered from high crime rate after the mass escape of prisoners during the 25 of jan Revolution so we decided to help people by assisting them in reporting crimes easily using new technologies such as mobile phones and Internet applications we established Zabatak website and developed mobile applications to allow reporting from any place. Zabatak is now working as a website to raise awareness against different forms of crimes and corruption, and to warn people from visiting suspicious places.
حدد كلاً من عمق التأثير الاجتماعي للحل وحجمه إلى اليوم.
Our social impact and theory of change model are based on these assumptions:
We believe If people have more info about corruption and crime where they live or work, it will lead to better measurements for lessen exposure
We believe If people could report anything they see wrong and find something in return, they will feel safer and have better sense of security
We believe If people report everything wrong they see, it will be easier to generate transparent statistics and the governments wont be able to claim something that’s not happening or vice verse.
We provide a service for people to report anything wrong they see ranging from organized crimes, bribe to normal day-to-day issues like street and transportation problems.
Many people are using our services mostly for viewing reports near where they live or work. We only have 2 reported cases that the lost items where recovered using our website.
We are measuring our success with number of website visits, number of reports and Facebook likes. After 6 months of operation we achieved 60,000 visit, 600 reports and 5 likes.
ما هو التأثير المخطط له في المستقبل خلال 1-5 سنوات؟ هل فكرتك قابلة لإعادة التنفيذ؟ إذا كان الأمر كذلك، فكيف؟
The ideal way we think about this is that we shall be able to detect problems by people through their reports, monitor the resolution through analysis of the flow and actually trying to prevent it from happening again through cooperation and integration with government, NGOs, Media and Companies and through forming social pressure.
We believe that when people work together they can make a difference and that’s what we are trying to educate the people. Corrupted people will have less better chances to operate since everybody is watching. Drivers on streets will follow driving rules for fear that they might be caught on camera.
We believe that in 1-5 years we will be able to eliminate corruption and crime to a non-noticeable level and replicate our idea in neighbour couturiers
تقدم المشاركات الفائزة خطة قوية عن الطريقة التي سيحققون بها النمو ويضعون بصمتهم عليه. حدد المرحلة المنشودة على مدار ستة أشهر لإنماء تأثيرك.
Provide a channel from people-to-government and people-to-people to report instantly and anonymously.
المهمة الثالثة
Co-operate with government
والآن فكر بتوسع أكبر! حدد مرحلة التأثير على مدار 12 شهرًا.
المهمة الثانية
Create a free standalone solution
المهمة الثالثة
Replicate to neighbour couturiers
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
أكثر من 10000
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
أكثر من 10000
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاشرح كيفية تنظيم شركتك أو برنامجك أو خدمتك أو منتجك.
غير ربحي
ما العوائق التي حالت دون نجاح مشروعك حتى اليوم؟ كيف تخطط للتغلب عليها وعلى التحديات الأخرى في طريقك لتنمية الحل الذي تسعى إليه؟
We are a group of youth with limited financial resources and experience. However some individuals and NGOs believes in our cause and supporting us to drive the change.
كيف ترى التحول في قطاعات تقنية المعلومات والوسائط خلال العقد التالي؟ كيف سيتم تكييف الحل لعكس البيئة المتغيرة؟ كيف يمكن أن يكون الحل الذي توفره دافعًا
While the previous regime has put massive restrictions upon information, we embody the value of democratization of information; the right of people to know what’s happening, when and where. Zabatak is motivated by the same concept; provide people with the right tools and they will make the change.
Also, Social media is changing the way we work and communicate and as of 25th of Jan revolution. Some call it Facebook revolution but we prefer IT revolution because IT enable people to cross the barriers that the governments draw around themselves.
لا يعد الإخفاق دومًا نهاية المطاف. في حال إخفاق الحل الذي توفره في اكتساب وضع قوي في
what other applications of the idea could you explore? :
Our main idea it to fight crime and corruption by providing a channel from people-to-people and people-to-government. It we failed to make the government cooperate, we will stick with people-to-people and maybe people-to-NOGs to fix people needs.
توسع في اختياراتك، شارحًا كيف ستستمر في الحصول على التمويل.
We will use many business models to sustain our project:
-Google Ads model
-Subscription model for people interested in specific information, and people who want information on the go.
-Selling statistical data to media while maintaining user privacy
أخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
Incubator: Tahrir2 is all about doubling the energy of the youth and getting their ideas to the second step.. We try to lower the risk on entrepreneurs while offering an environment for them to interact with each others and get tutored by top notch mentors, and yah.. we keep it fun while they build their Empire.
Media Sponsor: Age of Science Society is a non-partisan, non-religious, non-political, non-profit civil association aimed at better areas of knowledge, culture and modern science.
ما نوع الفريق (موظفون، متطوعون، وما إلى ذلك) الذي سيضمن تحقيقك لمراحل النمو المحددة في القسم التأثير الاجتماعي؟
We all part-timers and university students volunteers. We are currently 15 members but we are planning to grow to 30 after 2 quarters. Every member contributes with 1-2 hours a day.
يعد منتدى Changemakers مكانًا تعاونيًا ومساندًا. الرجاء تحديد أي موارد للمجتمع ستحتاجها لإنماء مبادرتك ودعمها. [حدد جميع ما ينطبق]
الاستثمار, الموارد البشرية/المواهب, التسويق/وسائل الإعلام, برنامج مساعدة Pro-bono (قانوني، مالي، وما إلى ذلك)., التعليم الخاص.
حدد أي موارد ربما تقدمها لدعم مبادرات أخرى. [حدد جميع ما ينطبق]
الموارد البشرية/المواهب, البحث/المعلومات, التعاون/الشبكات, الابتكار/الأفكار.
الرجاء شرح أي متطلبات أو عروض ذكرتها سابقًا بالتفصيل و/أو اقتراح فئات الدعم التي لم يتم تحديدها ضمن القائمة.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءعرف شركتك أو برنامجك أو خدمتك أو منتجك في جملة أو جملتين باختصار.
Zabatak is an initiative aims at fighting corruption and seeking to empower average citizen through sharing information.
حدد وجه الابتكار في الحل الذي تقدمه في جملة أو جملتين باختصار.
People are doing the change or at least contributing largely to it. It’s the power of people.
Created on 09/8/2011 by jongos
Using SIM cards to transfer information without communication networks. The crowd becomes the carrier.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءالبلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
n/a
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءتسمية مشاركتك
Abayima: A Communication Sneakernet
حدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
ثابت (لقد أظهرت نجاحًا)
كم مضى على عملك؟
تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
الحاجة: تصف الحاجة إلى الحل الذي ابتكرته وحجم/ديناميكية المجتمعات التي سيكون لك تأثير فيها.
Abayima targets anyone living in oppressive, restrictive, societies around the globe. It was inspired by the information networks during the most recent Uganda elections and the Arab Spring -- both situations where electronic communication networks were compromised (or complete shutdown) by authorities.
It will work in any country where there are low-end mobile phones which are the most accesible communication technology on the planet.
الحل: الرجاء شرح ما يقدمه الحل ووجه الابتكار به. كيف ستضع الحل في أيدي المستخدمين أو المستفيدين؟ كن أكثر تحديدًا!
Abayima applies cold war tactics to mobile data storage and distribution.
Two events inspired the development of Abayima. In 2011 the internet in Egypt was shut off, preventing activists and dissidents from communicating with each other or the outside world. In the 2011 Uganda, during the reelection campaign of President Yoweri Museveni took control of the country's mobile carriers and had them monitor the mobile networks. This allowed him to filter out SMS communication that was disparaging to him or his supporters, while spreading electronic propaganda in the form of SMS and MMS messages to the public.
This type of conversation shaping using communication technologies echoes the intimidation and propaganda techniques used by the German and Soviet governments during World War 2 and by many other oppressive governments since.
Abayima is a communication toolkit that assumes electronic communication via internet or mobile has been compromised completely and allows activists and journalists to use SIM cards themselves to publish and distribute information freely during times of crisis. Rather than rely upon high-tech infrastructure, it relies upon centuries old information networks inspired by the Jewish resistance in WWII, the underground slave escape routes in the United States, Navajo code talkers, the war scouts of Sparta etc. There is a long lineage of using non-technical means of encryption to protect sensitive information.
In short, Abayima is a way of storing information on SIM chips which can then be put in any low end mobile phone to be read.
النموذج: اعرض لنا مثالاً محددًا عن كيفية إحداث الحل الذي تقدمه فارقًا من خلال استخدام تقنية المعلومات والوسائط.
Assuming the worst case scenario of the internet being shut down, the mobile networks being compromised, and that other information sources (like the media) are being controlled, Abayima mixes traditional activist techniques with technology to spread messages.
Examples:
- A journalists writes several sensitive details and stores them to an SMS that they don't use for texting, but to share the message with only a designated part whom they would hand it to. Because the SIM isn't used for calls, the only way to intercept the message is physically.
- A group of activists could send messages between two locations using a 'runner'. When the runner arrives he hands off the SIM which will contain messages.
- SIM cards are as ubiquitous as mobile phones and its generally understood how to use them across most populations. Thus, the SIM card it self could be a publishing/distribution mechanism for messages of all types.
- For advanced users with access to computers, messages could be written on computer, encrypted with software, and stored on the SIM. The receiver would need a key to decrypt the message.
السوق: من هم نظراؤك ومنافسوك؟ حدد الآخرين ممن يعملون أيضًا على تلبية الاحتياجات التي تسعى أيضًا لتلبيتها ووضح ما يميزك عنهم. ما التحديات التي قد يمثلها هؤلاء المنافسون بالنسبة إلى نجاحك أو تقدمك؟
Most contemporary liberation technologies are so overly complex they are useless (or just not used) to the people whom they are intended to help. They also assume a lot - like the fact that internet or mobile will always be available.
Abayima assumes the worst. That information needs to be distributed across distances great or small with virtually no external network.
I do not know of any direct competitors but Abayima could be used as an add on to FrontlineSMS and Ushahidi -- to spread information of both without the communication infrastructure they both require to function.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
قصة التأسيس: نود السماع عن اللحظة التي حققت فيها ما تصبو إليه. شارك قصة المكان والزمان الذي رأي فيه المؤسسون القدرات الكامنة في هذا الحل والتي تؤهله لتغيير العالم.
During the 2011 Presidential elections in Uganda, the mobile networks were compromised and data mining technologies were used against social activists who sought to use liberation technologies. While observing how people in-country used this as an opportunity to come up with innovative workarounds, I noticed there was an opportunity to use nascent human social networks and human interaction as a tool to spread electronic communication (rather than using electronic communication networks to spread the human tool of language).
حدد كلاً من عمق التأثير الاجتماعي للحل وحجمه إلى اليوم.
Following the 2011 elections in Uganda, we surveyed participants of the network activity that sought to subvert the techniques the Ugandan government was using the monitor and control the public. The paper "Uganda 2011 Elections: Abiyama Post-Election Assessment" analyzed the behavior patterns of these activists and later informed our development of the Abayima product.
So in speaking of how it's been used, there is little evidence. However we believe the impact can be extremely high. In Libya, in Tunisia, in Bahrain, Syria and so many other countries, the need for communication technologies that can't be easily monitored has been demonstrated time and time again. Abayima aims to be one of many solutions available for such movements.
ما هو التأثير المخطط له في المستقبل خلال 1-5 سنوات؟ هل فكرتك قابلة لإعادة التنفيذ؟ إذا كان الأمر كذلك، فكيف؟
In countries where SIM cards can be freely interchanged, we'd like to deploy instructions and tools that would demonstrate the possibilities and needs for a product like Abayima. The most basic form of this method of communication simply requires a phone and a SIM card, however we are building software products for encryption and 'hashing' messages which can be used in addition to the non-technical products.
تقدم المشاركات الفائزة خطة قوية عن الطريقة التي سيحققون بها النمو ويضعون بصمتهم عليه. حدد المرحلة المنشودة على مدار ستة أشهر لإنماء تأثيرك.
In six months we hope to reach 10,000 users.
المهمة الأولى
Demonstrate Abayima techniques in countries outside of Uganda.
المهمة الثانية
Identify pilot partners and begin working with them.
المهمة الثالثة
Refine product and roll out new technologies.
والآن فكر بتوسع أكبر! حدد مرحلة التأثير على مدار 12 شهرًا.
In twelve months we hope to reach 100,000 users.
المهمة الأولى
Market products and techniques.
المهمة الثانية
Work across sectors to on specific needs and uses.
المهمة الثالثة
Work with partners in oppressive countries.
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
101-1000
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
أكثر من 10000
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاشرح كيفية تنظيم شركتك أو برنامجك أو خدمتك أو منتجك.
أعمال
ما العوائق التي حالت دون نجاح مشروعك حتى اليوم؟ كيف تخطط للتغلب عليها وعلى التحديات الأخرى في طريقك لتنمية الحل الذي تسعى إليه؟
The Appfrica team has developed these products and techniques in direct response to the oppressive techniques used by the government there during the elections. For the past year, we've kept this project a secret to anyone (other than our funder Indigo Trust) to protect our sources from retaliation.
With additional funding, we would be able to scale up to properly protect people's identities, as well as begin working in other countries to spread Abayima.
كيف ترى التحول في قطاعات تقنية المعلومات والوسائط خلال العقد التالي؟ كيف سيتم تكييف الحل لعكس البيئة المتغيرة؟ كيف يمكن أن يكون الحل الذي توفره دافعًا
The more communication technologies spread, unfortunately, the more they're abused. With Abayima, we want to anticipate a scenario where all advanced communication networks (internet, telephone, and text messaging) have been crippled or compromised to empower humans to do what they do best - spread information.
لا يعد الإخفاق دومًا نهاية المطاف. في حال إخفاق الحل الذي توفره في اكتساب وضع قوي في
In addition to the open-source 'framework' for using SIM cards as non-transmitting ways to store information, we would develop new products however, our core mission will remain supporting offline information networks.
توسع في اختياراتك، شارحًا كيف ستستمر في الحصول على التمويل.
Appfrica is a sustainable organization with offices in Washington, DC and Kampala, Uganda. We supplement our open-source and philanthropic initiatives with our consulting work for other organizations. We have launched and scaled entirely on revenue earned with minor grants for projects in the past.
أخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
Jon Gosier is a TED Fellow but has never received direct funding from TED. Appfrica has received grants in the past from Harvard Initiative for Global Health ($5,000) and Indigo Trust ($10,000).
ما نوع الفريق (موظفون، متطوعون، وما إلى ذلك) الذي سيضمن تحقيقك لمراحل النمو المحددة في القسم التأثير الاجتماعي؟
Abayima is more of an anthropological experiment than a techie one, and thus the types of people we'd like to engage and hire to work on this project are journalists and activists, in addition to software developers.
يعد منتدى Changemakers مكانًا تعاونيًا ومساندًا. الرجاء تحديد أي موارد للمجتمع ستحتاجها لإنماء مبادرتك ودعمها. [حدد جميع ما ينطبق]
الاستثمار, الموارد البشرية/المواهب, التسويق/وسائل الإعلام, التعاون/الشبكات, برنامج مساعدة Pro-bono (قانوني، مالي، وما إلى ذلك)..
حدد أي موارد ربما تقدمها لدعم مبادرات أخرى. [حدد جميع ما ينطبق]
التعاون/الشبكات, الابتكار/الأفكار, التعليم الخاص.
الرجاء شرح أي متطلبات أو عروض ذكرتها سابقًا بالتفصيل و/أو اقتراح فئات الدعم التي لم يتم تحديدها ضمن القائمة.
We could use help forming partnerships with human rights organizations that have experience deploying such tools and protecting users of them.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءعرف شركتك أو برنامجك أو خدمتك أو منتجك في جملة أو جملتين باختصار.
Abayima is a communication sneakernet for oppressed journalists and activists.
حدد وجه الابتكار في الحل الذي تقدمه في جملة أو جملتين باختصار.
Using SIM cards to transfer information without communication networks. The crowd becomes the carrier.
Created on 09/3/2011 by realmed
Our aim is to standardize high quality medical aid for all members of the society, including the needy and deprived. It will result in making more health in the society and improve the quality of life.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
The independent noncommercial organisation «Medical union «Realmed»
عنوان المؤسسة
614107 Russia, Perm, Tsiolkovskogo Street, 4
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
تعمل منذ ما يزيد عن 5 سنوات
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءتسمية مشاركتك
Improvement of quality of free medical aid in private clinic by application of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC).
What change do you want to bring to the world?
Our aim is to standardize high quality medical aid for all members of the society, including the needy and deprived. It will result in making more health in the society and improve the quality of life.
What are the primary activities of your project?
Creation and introduction of BSC in clinic. Creation of the basis for BSC system of motivation of the personnel. It is necessary that the clinic should work under the Program of the state guarantees of rendering of free medical aid to the population.
What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?
BBSC is an innovative system of the organization management. It is not used in Russian clinics.
This system allows to allign personal objectives of each employee with the organization objectives. In the medical organization the ultimate goals are qualitative health restoration and preservation. To reach them it is necessary to ensure that that these objectives of the organization become personal objectives of the employees. Such way of goals setting is especially important in the work under the Program of the state guarantees of rendering free medical aid to the population where the lack of resources is quite dramatic.
Now the state undertakes efforts for more quality standardization of medical aid. However, the state decisions in this direction are less effective, than BSC. On an example of our clinic we will show effectiveness BSC. Then we will suggest the state to duplicate our experience.
What stage is your project in?
تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.
For the last five years the state has been undertaking efforts to develop qualitative public health services in Russia. One of the ways is involvement of the private medical organizations to work under the Program of the state guarantees of free medical aid to the population.
The Medical Union "Realmed" is the first private clinic in Russia which has started to work under the Program of the state guarantees of rendering free medical aid in the area of emergency medicine.
Opinion of experts of our branch: the private-state partnership is a necessary condition of development of qualitative traditional medicine.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
The founders are heads of clinics, medical doctors: a therapist, a surgeon and a traumatologist. Our love for people and our profession gives us inspiration in this project. We know how to give benefit to the society and we are able to do it and we do it. Balanced Scorecard is a tool for global improvement of quality of public health services in Russia or maybe and all over the world.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured
When we started to realize the project, our clinic performed the task under the Program of the state guarantees in 2 (two) out-patient medical areas – neurology and traumatology-orthopedy. The project realization resulted in expansion of the areas up to 19 (nineteen): gastroenterology, cardiology, otorhinolaryngology, pediatrics, pulmonology, rheumatology, therapy, urology, physiotherapy, functional diagnostics, ultrasonic diagnostics, obstetrics and gynecology, dermathology-venerology, neurosurgery, oncology, neurology, traumatology-orthopedy, surgery. The clinic acquired additional medical equipment and an ambulance. The clinic capacity grew from 24 000 to 94 000 visits per year under the Program of the state guarantees of rendering free medical aid to the population. It became possible to reduce sick leave peiods by 30-50 %. Additional 40 (forty) workplaces for doctors, nurses and hospital attendances were created. We got the possibility to render qualitative medical aid to the poors (about 5000 visits per year).
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
1,001- 10,000
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
أكثر من 10000
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
1. Realization of medical aid under the Program of the state guarantees – 5 800 visits per month.
2. The amount of the budget profitable part– 2,0 million roubles a month.
المهمة الأولى
1. To continue work on BSC introduction top-level, at level of managing branches, at level of doctors.
المهمة الثانية
2. Active search of financial resources and acquisition of the medical equipment, licensing, personnel hiring.
المهمة الثالثة
3. To have more people registered in our clinic within the framework of the Program of state guarantees.
Identify your 12-month impact milestone
1. Volume of realization of free medical aid - 6 100 visits a month.
2. The amount of the budget profitable part– 2,6 million roubles a month.
المهمة الأولى
1. To start motivation system creationon the basis of BSC
المهمة الثانية
2. To make active search of money resources and acquisition of the medical equipment, licensing, hiring of the personnel for the "Emergency medical aid» crew.
المهمة الثالثة
3. Active cooperation with Perm city administration on development of the project “City children rehabilitation center».
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
The BSC will develop, the conformity rate of the employees personal objectives to the clinic’ objectives is expected to approximate 100 %.
The main strategic target of the clinic – creation of a network of processes for qualitative medical aid - will continue to be realized. «The city children's rehabilitation center», under the concession agreement with the city administration will be already estableished.190 workplaces for doctors, the average and younger medical personnel, teachers and attendants will be created.
Capacity of this center – 50 000 visitings in a year, more than 1000 hi-tech operations in a year.Profitable part of the budget – 50 million roubles a year.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?
1. Lack of financial resources.
We plan to overcome this barrier working with the Fund of regional social programs «Our future». Besides, the way the RF legislation is developing gives hope that the support of the private noncommercial medical organizations will increase.
2. Low state tariffs for medical aid.
We overcome this barrier with the help of Balanced Scorecard (BSC). Under the conditions of financial deficiency the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) allows to use the mode of strict economy (strategy «leadership on costs") and to motivate the personnel to render qualitative medical aid.
أخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
We work in cooperation with our state under the Program of the state guarantees. Our strategic partners are the Fund «Our future» and the government of the Perm city.
Current annual budget of project, in US dollars
100001 دولار أمريكي إلى 250000 دولار أمريكي
Explain your selections
Rendering of qualitative traditional medical aid to various strata of society – the state problem. The solution of this problem demands joint efforts of all interested parties. Therefore we actively cooperate with the state and Fund «Our future».
How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?
Further development of the network of processes for rendering qualitative medical l help. Further development of Balanced Scorecard (BSC).
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhich barriers to health and well-being does your innovation address?
Please select up to three in order of relevancy to your project.
PRIMARY
Lack of insurance/financing options for healthcare
SECONDARY
Lack of physical access to care/lack of facilities
TERTIARY
Lack of affordable care
Please describe how your innovation specifically tackles the barriers listed above.
It is obvious that state financing is not enough for rendering up-to-date medical aid to all citizens. Additional sources of financing are necessary for bringing Russian medical care in conformity with the world standards. Private means of citizens can be one of the additional sources. A medical organization which works under the Program of the state guarantees, should give possibility to the citizen to receive medical aid in accordance with the modern world standards (which are higher than those in the Program of the state guarantees. The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) allows to bridge this gap at the limited financial resources. The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) allows to render qualitative medical aid at the price affordable for various strata of the population.
How are you growing the impact of your organization or initiative?
Please select up to three potential pathways in order of relevancy to you.
PRIMARY
Influenced other organizations and institutions through the spread of best practices
SECONDARY
Enhanced existing impact through addition of complementary services
TERTIARY
Grown geographic reach: Within host country
Please describe which of your growth activities are current or planned for the immediate future.
Now we introduce Balanced Scorecard (BSC) in our clinic. Then we suggest to duplicate our experience in other medical institutions of Russia, can be in other countries as well.
Do you collaborate with any of the following: (Check all that apply)
كيان حكومي , NGOs/Nonprofits, Academia/universities.
If yes, how have these collaborations helped your innovation to succeed?
The RF Government initiative of private clinics admission to the Program of the state guarantees. It will give the possibility for various strata of society to receive qualitative medical aid.
Thanks to our cooperation with the Fund «Our future» allows us to reach our purposes. The fund «Our future» also helps us to solve problems on financing our initiatives.
The invaluable contribution to our ideas realization was made by the training «The President’s program of preparation of administrative shots for the enterprises of a national economy of the Russian Federation», founded by President B.N.Yeltsin. 2008-2009 There we have got acquainted with BSC and have begun its introduction in our clinic.
Del Mar, CA 92014 United States
The field of "war-fighting" games is well advanced. The field of "peacebuilding" games is just beginning. To help leverage technology better, and to make simulation training easily accessible to all educators and trainers, The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has created the Open Simulation Platform (OSP).
Inspires and supports journalists to use their right to freedom of information as a journalistic tool. Built a network throughout Europe where journalists can meet and exchange experience and tactics on using freedom of information legislation. Watches developments in the field in order to further strong legislation useful for fact based journalism.
Mamfakinch.com is a platform run by moroccan bloguers and activits. It was launched few days before the February 20th demonstrations, claiming political, economical and social reforms in Morocco.
Mamfakinch is not a newspaper, but is a citizen media, that allows people to access to free information, often ignored by other media.
Created on 08/1/2011 by melissareinke
The Frontlines streamlines resource processes by providing direct communication between the veteran and resource agencies.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءعنوان URL لـ Twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/thefrontlines_
بلد المؤسسة
United States, TN, Davidson County
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
تعمل منذ أقل من سنة
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءحدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
نمو (إصدارك التجريبي في حالة جيدة ويعمل ويبدأ في التوسع)
كم مضى على عملك؟
تعمل منذ أقل من سنة
الحاجة: تصف الحاجة إلى الحل الذي ابتكرته وحجم/ديناميكية المجتمعات التي سيكون لك تأثير فيها.
Veterans and their descendants represent nearly 1/3 of the total U.S. population, and yet only 8 million veterans currently access their benefits (Department of Veterans Affairs, 2010). At least 400,000 uniform record locators providing support and services are listed on the National Resource Directory. Veterans have a lot of information and services available, but no integration, and little consistency amongst them.
Moreover, since 1973, the policy of not drafting civilians contributes to a lack of national focus, and as a result, fewer Americans are taking an interest in our nation's safety. During World War II, 12% of the population fought in the war; 2% in Vietnam, and now less than 1% of Americans fight in today’s wars. (Harvard University, 2007). This lack of personal connection contributes to the overall problems our country faces.
View this video to see why The Frontlines is needed. [video:http://vimeo.com/22499479]
الحل: الرجاء شرح ما يقدمه الحل ووجه الابتكار به. كيف ستضع الحل في أيدي المستخدمين أو المستفيدين؟ كن أكثر تحديدًا!
Veterans have a lot of information and services available, but no integration, and little consistency amongst them. The Frontlines (TF) filters these resources and tailors them to the individual needing assistance through use of a comprehensive database and our software. TF is the only dedicated social utility network that enhances communication and information for veterans by uniting these 400,000 record locators and organizations under one common operating system.
In addition, TF is building customized, state-approved, veteran-oriented history lessons for schools across America. Each lesson plan will entail each of our nation's wars and the overall concept that selfless service to nation is also service to oneself. These lessons will not glorify war, but instead focus on the personal stories of service, sacrifice, and commitment to one another. By bringing the stories and veterans to the classroom we seek not to promote military service, but rather make a personal connection with our nation’s youths that inspires selfless service in whatever avenue it manifests.
النموذج: اعرض لنا مثالاً محددًا عن كيفية إحداث الحل الذي تقدمه فارقًا من خلال استخدام تقنية المعلومات والوسائط.
The Frontlines (TF) accomplishes our mission by providing customized resources, blog, forum, and personalized social networks so that users can interact with one another, and possibly connect with former service members. Additionally, TF encompasses all forms of storytelling by utilizing social media in order to allow individuals to share their stories through videos, pictures, letters, art, or songs. There is also the ability to post book, movie, and gear reviews of items of interest by those affiliated with the military.
The disconnect between resources and veterans prohibits those in need from gaining valuable information. “Today due in part to the surge in claims from Iraq/Afghan wars, VBA has a backlog of 400,000 claims. VBA now takes an average of 177 days (six months) to process an original claim, and an average of 657 days (nearly two years) to process an appeal” (The Long-term Costs of Providing Medical and Disability Benefits, 2007).
A mobile device application will extend the communications methods beyond The Frontlines website and allow veterans to access information from anywhere.
السوق: من هم نظراؤك ومنافسوك؟ حدد الآخرين ممن يعملون أيضًا على تلبية الاحتياجات التي تسعى أيضًا لتلبيتها ووضح ما يميزك عنهم. ما التحديات التي قد يمثلها هؤلاء المنافسون بالنسبة إلى نجاحك أو تقدمك؟
Nearly 400,000 resources are listed on the National Resource Directory, however, none of them are found and accessed under one umbrella until now. The Frontlines is the only dedicated social utility network that enhances communication and information for veterans by uniting the over 400,000 uniform record locators and organizations that support veterans under one common operating system.
In an effort to increase our services, we are grateful to Warrior Gateway who has given us 44,000 services and organizations as part of our growing database.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
قصة التأسيس: نود السماع عن اللحظة التي حققت فيها ما تصبو إليه. شارك قصة المكان والزمان الذي رأي فيه المؤسسون القدرات الكامنة في هذا الحل والتي تؤهله لتغيير العالم.
Serving our country for over 17 years has solidified my unwavering belief in selfless service. In addition, it has provided me insight between military and civilian cultural divides. I am continually reminded of our civic duty to care for those who have selflessly sacrificed for our country. Recently diagnosed with a recurrent medical condition, I have confronted the associated stigma of serving my nation within an altered capacity. I frequently travel to Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital. During one of these visits, I witnessed a soldier struggling to adjust his camouflaged backpack. This individual battled silently, without assistance, but instead with stares as he exited the medical hospital. This young soldier was a dual amputee, facing a military discharge, and forced to re-learn life without legs. This soldier inspired me to launch The Frontlines (TF) website.
حدد كلاً من عمق التأثير الاجتماعي للحل وحجمه إلى اليوم.
Since our November 11, 2010 launch, within the first 90 days I personally collected over 1,000 videos, art, audio, pictures and songs from a wide variety of sources and individuals, and posted them on The Frontlines website. My personal expenses to create, launch, and collect veteran and their family's stories has been $16,861 (as of February 26, 2011). In comparison, the Library of Congress which has an FY 2010 of $699.4 million (increase of $52.6 million, or 8.1% above FY 2009, p. b) and their Veteran History Project has “amassed approximately 60,000 collections” since October 27, 2000 but “with approximately 10 percent of collections digitized’ (Library of Congress, p. 210). While I applaud their efforts, it is my firm belief that in an era of fiscal responsibility we can do better.
ما هو التأثير المخطط له في المستقبل خلال 1-5 سنوات؟ هل فكرتك قابلة لإعادة التنفيذ؟ إذا كان الأمر كذلك، فكيف؟
By expanding the networking capability of the website to better facilitate communications between all veteran-related organizations at the federal, state, and local level, we plan to increase by 75% the number of veterans and their families that access the services of our website and the number of veteran “dossiers” by 90% by January 1, 2012. We also plan to partner with nonprofit organizations specifically serving the veteran community by 50% within two years, 75% within three years, and 90% within five years. Moreover, we plan to increase our web traffic steadily throughout the next five years eventually reaching at least 12,500,000 hits monthly by 2016.
تقدم المشاركات الفائزة خطة قوية عن الطريقة التي سيحققون بها النمو ويضعون بصمتهم عليه. حدد المرحلة المنشودة على مدار ستة أشهر لإنماء تأثيرك.
To increase number of veteran and family access by 75% and veteran dossiers by 90%
المهمة الأولى
Expanding the networking capability of the website to better facilitate communications between all veteran-related organizations
المهمة الثانية
Expand Search Engine Optimization to better reach targeted online populations as well as build a mobile application
المهمة الثالثة
Partner with nonprofit organizations specifically serving the veteran community in order to spread news about TF
والآن فكر بتوسع أكبر! حدد مرحلة التأثير على مدار 12 شهرًا.
Creation of Korean War, Vietnam, Gulf War, Iraq, and Afghanistan history lesson plans to promote selfless service in America
المهمة الأولى
Hire program administrators to write plans utilizing gathered veteran dossiers
المهمة الثانية
Identify schools willing to implement TF lesson plans
المهمة الثالثة
Fund lesson plans in schools
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
1001-10000
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
أكثر من 10000
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاشرح كيفية تنظيم شركتك أو برنامجك أو خدمتك أو منتجك.
Hybrid model
ما العوائق التي حالت دون نجاح مشروعك حتى اليوم؟ كيف تخطط للتغلب عليها وعلى التحديات الأخرى في طريقك لتنمية الحل الذي تسعى إليه؟
In an effort to keep the service free to veterans and their families, The Frontlines has, thus far, been self-sustained by founder Nathan Tierney. As a community-oriented business, and not a non-profit, funding has been difficult to come by in the form of grants. Nathan is looking into either becoming a non-profit or selling the company if funding does not come through soon.
كيف ترى التحول في قطاعات تقنية المعلومات والوسائط خلال العقد التالي؟ كيف سيتم تكييف الحل لعكس البيئة المتغيرة؟ كيف يمكن أن يكون الحل الذي توفره دافعًا
The Frontlines will not only offer a convenient location for veterans and their families, it will create an online marketplace of ideas, fellowship, and propriety for generations new and old.
لا يعد الإخفاق دومًا نهاية المطاف. في حال إخفاق الحل الذي توفره في اكتساب وضع قوي في
Nathan Tierney's passion for increasing civil activism and ownership will not be bound strictly to The Frontlines. The creation and maintenance of The Frontlines has only increased his fervor. The Frontlines may soon seek non-profit status or corporate buy-out. No matter what the form, The Frontlines is destined to meet the needs of veterans and their families for free for years down the road.
توسع في اختياراتك، شارحًا كيف ستستمر في الحصول على التمويل.
The Frontlines seeks to not be a mere tool or application but an ideal and a symbol from which others may be inspired toward selfless service. Expanding the role of The Frontlines beyond a content based storytelling website into a platform that provides resources and education is dependent upon our ability to develop innovative ways of empowering veterans and their families. To sustain the website we rely on Google Adsense and our affiliate with Amazon. These are influenced by the amount of traffic to The Frontlines.
أخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
Storytellers receive no money for their efforts. However, 100% of all donations made on The Frontlines is given directly to the nonprofit organizations Wounded Warrior Project, or The Fisher House. Future plans are to expand the choices of vetted nonprofits that support veterans and military families. Giving individuals the freedom to choose and donate to vetted nonprofits is essential in creating self governance.
ما نوع الفريق (موظفون، متطوعون، وما إلى ذلك) الذي سيضمن تحقيقك لمراحل النمو المحددة في القسم التأثير الاجتماعي؟
Presently, we have interns and volunteers from Georgetown, Iowa, California, Tennessee, South Korea, Kentucky and elsewhere helping to spread the word about The Frontlines. These dedicated men and women are imprinted with a spirit of selfless service, leaders in encouraging active citizenship, community development, and are building social capital through their efforts on behalf of active duty, veterans, and military families. Through volunteer efforts we serve to enhance engagement and confidence between government, organizations and citizens.
يعد منتدى Changemakers مكانًا تعاونيًا ومساندًا. الرجاء تحديد أي موارد للمجتمع ستحتاجها لإنماء مبادرتك ودعمها. [حدد جميع ما ينطبق]
الاستثمار, الموارد البشرية/المواهب, التسويق/وسائل الإعلام, البحث/المعلومات, التعاون/الشبكات, برنامج مساعدة Pro-bono (قانوني، مالي، وما إلى ذلك)., الابتكار/الأفكار, التعليم الخاص.
حدد أي موارد ربما تقدمها لدعم مبادرات أخرى. [حدد جميع ما ينطبق]
الموارد البشرية/المواهب, التسويق/وسائل الإعلام, البحث/المعلومات, التعاون/الشبكات, الابتكار/الأفكار, التعليم الخاص.
الرجاء شرح أي متطلبات أو عروض ذكرتها سابقًا بالتفصيل و/أو اقتراح فئات الدعم التي لم يتم تحديدها ضمن القائمة.
Spreading awareness about our existence and generating a national/international traction is perhaps the most difficult endeavor of any new idea or movement. While we have been innovative in our methods, new ways of spreading awareness are always of interest.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءعرف شركتك أو برنامجك أو خدمتك أو منتجك في جملة أو جملتين باختصار.
The Frontlines is the first social network designed to empower all members of the armed forces through resources and education.
حدد وجه الابتكار في الحل الذي تقدمه في جملة أو جملتين باختصار.
The Frontlines streamlines resource processes by providing direct communication between the veteran and resource agencies.
Created on 07/27/2011 by LADY MECHANIC
LMI IS COMMITTED TO ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILL BUILDING AS PANACEA FOR NIGERIA AND INDEED, AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT.To this end, we mobilize broad spectrum of this poor and vulnerable groups especially people in hard to reach communities to initiate, design and implement programmes (special poverty alleviation programmes) that results in sustainable improvement in their well-being as well as facilitates their reintegration into the mainstream society.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
LADY MECHANIC INITIATIVE (LMI)
هاتف المؤسسة
+234 8033045202, +234 7025483731, +234-1-8750386
عنوان المؤسسة
15, SAMUEL MANUWA STREET, BESIDE 1004 ESTATE, 2ND GATE VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS-NIGERIA.
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
تعمل منذ ما يزيد عن 5 سنوات
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءتسمية مشاركتك
EMPOWERING YOUNG WOMEN AND GIRLS THROUGH AUTO-MECHANIC PROFESSION FOR A SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD
What change do you want to bring to the world?
LMI IS COMMITTED TO ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILL BUILDING AS PANACEA FOR NIGERIA AND INDEED, AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT.To this end, we mobilize broad spectrum of this poor and vulnerable groups especially people in hard to reach communities to initiate, design and implement programmes (special poverty alleviation programmes) that results in sustainable improvement in their well-being as well as facilitates their reintegration into the mainstream society.
What are the primary activities of your project?
The program is a three year course. Also, the trainees are sent to our partners (such as Peugeot Automobile Nigeria in Kaduna), where they receive other high class training programme on fault finding, repairs, installation, dismantling and assembly etcetera. This specific programme is usually 3 months in each. Examinations are conducted to assess the trainee; it will help to measure the capacity of a trainee, know the trainee weakness and strength; this aids improvement both in practical and theory.
Apart from the technical training the ladies follow monthly lectures. This monthly meeting is important for the trainees because it is part of the process preparing them for business as a small-scale enterprise involved in motor mechanical repairs. The meeting will also help to maintain that the trainees remain proud ambassadors of the initiative at all times. The three year training programme is summarized as follows;
Year One:
The trainees become involved in the rudiments of the programme through active direct repairs, thus removing the normal style of mechanical training usually associated with other unorganized mechanical workshops. Because the training officers are educated, focused and follow the timetable of the programme, the trainees begin to know how to fix a car from the first year, and also go through a spare parts training for two months.
Year Two:
The trainees are sent to our partners, Peugeot Automobile Nigeria in Kaduna, Coscharis Motors Lagos, where they receive other high class training programme on fault finding, repairs, installation, dismantling and assembly etc. The programme is usually 3 months in each. Trade test exam is also carried out.
Year three (Entrepreneurship and Business Start-up Phase)
The purpose of the Start-up Programme in the 3rd and final year is to help facilitate and secure livelihood for the graduating trainee. This is the ultimate goal of Lady Mechanic Initiative, partner and trainee. The trainee will undergo three months driving school (practical and tutorials). Through the knowledge and skills gained over the initial 2 years, the empowered female can now move forward and utilize these skills by being employed in a reputable company/partner (as internship), where the trainee will work for three months and if company sees her capable, retain her. LMI will guide and support the trainee both from a business management and financial perspective. The initiative and partner will help advice the individual to obtain the funds to Start-up their own SME.
What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?
To dispel the notion that women cannot succeed in traditionally male jobs, we train a proud troop of female auto mechanics in a program that offers a three -year course to women of all backgrounds,
We offer course that teaches the fundamental skills of diagnosis and repair, and teaches students to build customer loyalty through friendly and efficient service.
We also emphasize ethics in trainings, uniting trainees in the mission to establish a reputation of fairness for women mechanics. Where male mechanics have earned a reputation for inflated prices and shoddy workmanship, our trainees maintain an image of professionalism and customer care.
It is a new contribution to the field as it is the first of its kind in which young women/girls are empowered in this skill for a sustainable livelihood.
What stage is your project in?
تعمل منذ ما يزيد عن 5 سنوات
Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.
LMI Target areas and communities in which we engage are: Densely populated areas,Dropouts from schools or involved in illicit trade (i.e. ex-commercial sex workers, street hawkers, Orphans, widows, single parents etc),Had experiences of one form of abuse or the other as well as young women and girls who have lost hope of a better life and a career.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
A devout Christian, she says that God spoke to her through series of childhood dreams and told her that she should become a mechanic. With no other mechanics in the family, her father initially scoffed at the idea, until he traveled to the US in the 1980s and saw women working in positions considered "men only" in Nigeria. Back in Nigeria, he gave her his full support, but her mother was not in support, because she was afraid of the physical challenges associated with the profession. Nevertheless, she forged ahead with her dream at the age of Fourteen years. Although her first "garage" was a patch of land covered with cardboard for shade, which was demolished by authority that did not deter her. Today she is a brewing success.igeShe has gone ahead to impact on the lives of over 70 young women and girls, who are currently working in reputable auto-mobile companies across Nigeria. She has always aimed high. An avid reader of self-help books, Aguebor encourages her girls to think big – and they do.
Sandra Aguebor- Ekperuoh, is the Initiator,Founder/CEO, Lady Mechanic Initiative, (a not-for profit organization set up to train and empower young ladies through auto mechanic profession and wealth creation for a sustainalbe livelihood.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured
LMI’s Picture of Success: Fast Facts
-Through funding from Coca-Cola Nigeria Ltd/Nigerian Bottling Company 100 girls will be trained in Edo state by 2015
-Over 200 girls have been trained by LMI
-80% programme completion rate
-100% of trainees either gain employment or start their own businesses
-Partnership developed with all the multinational car companies in Nigeria
-Partnership developed with 30 pay and train centers in Lagos and Edo State
-Established a partnership with Citi Serve Micro Finance Bank in collaboration with VIGEO to train three young girls
-LMI has received various awards locally and international
-LMI is a strategic partnership with Lagos State’s Ministry of Women Affairs & Poverty Alleviation
-LMI has featured on local and international media
LMI success has been measured so far from the above facts. We have also been able to measure our success by the number of people who commend the work we have been doing as well as the number of calls that come in and enquiries on a daily basis.
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
101-1,000
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
1,001-10,000
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
Over the next three years, the project will have evolved and gone on a larger scale reaching more young vulnerable women and girls across states in Nigeria where we are yet to reach as well as moving into neighbouring African countries.
With the building of the Lady Mechanic Permanent site in Lagos and Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, which we plan on holding a fundraising event to raise funds for the building of the sites. This will comprise of an Ultra Modern garage, training centres, hostels for trainees form across and outside the country, Administrative blocks, A gas station for sustainability.With these,we plan to be able to reach a larger number of vulnerable young women/girls.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?
The barriers that might hinder the sucess of our project is inadequate funding. We plan on overcoming it by the way we always do by making do with our sustainability, which is the Auto-Garage.Sandex Car Care Limited also know as the Lady Mechanic garage provides sustainability for the Initiative. To this, service charge gotten from the servicing and repairs of clients and companies vehicles keeps the project running in the absence of funding.
أخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
We have had partnership with MTN Foundation,which sponsored 50 vulnerable young women and girls.EAF in the Netherlands, 15 trainees, Coca-Cola/ Nigerian Bottling Comapany, 100 Vulnerable young women/girls, Inspire Africa Foundation as well as individual as well as religious partnerships.
Current annual budget of project, in US dollars
100001 دولار أمريكي إلى 250000 دولار أمريكي
Explain your selections
Family and friends who come to the garage to service and fix their vehicle give back to the Initiative, Individaul donors sponsor the trainings of the trainees, Corporate organizations , customers that is clients who come for repairs as well as Businesses and Foundations.
How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?
We plan on strengthening our project in the next three years by taking the Initiative to a wider public. To this end, with the building of the Lady Mechanic Permanent Center, we plan on training more young women from within and outside the country, with this we will branch in to states in which we are yet to reach thereby empowering and training more vulnerable young ladies.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءPlease tell us more about how your partnership was formed and how it functions. What specific role does each partner play? What unique resources does each partner bring to the initiative?
Partnerships was formed by most corporate organizations as well as foundations and donor organization and also individuals seeing the work we do and inviting us the bring in our proposals although we also send out proposals as well. Most Partners we have Provide the funds in which we use for the training of the young ladies, we support the young ladies with a little stipend which aids in their transportation and little basic needs to prevent them from falling back on their social vices.
How are you building in accountability for students' successful STEM learning outcomes? Please provide a summary and examples.
We plan on encouraging more young people to develop their talents and use their hands to work and to make them realize there is dignity in hardwork.
To this end, we plan on working with the young ones by giving career talks to schools and to encourage more females to go into the Auto-mobile engineering sector as well as other professions that were once seen as male dominated.
Needs
الاستثمار, Human Resources/Talent, Marketing/Media, Research/Information, برنامج مساعدة Pro-bono (قانوني، مالي، وما إلى ذلك)., Innovation/Ideas, التعليم الخاص.
Please use this space to elaborate on your selection above and/or to add needs that may not be listed.
We need Investors to come into the building project, banks, companies, organizations to build up and name the structures after their companies. For Human Resources and talent, we will need the human resources and more talents to aid in Innovations and ideas, because we strive on new ideas to move forward. With the marketing and media, we will need more media insight on the work we do and marketing of the whole garage project to prospective funders and investors. For the legal angle we will need legal assistance as well as the financial support to assit most of the women we work with will need legal aid and assistance in case they fall into the hands of the law. Mentorship will also be necessary for the young ladies to have someone to look up to as a role model.
Offers
Marketing/Media, Collaboration/Networking, Innovation/Ideas, التعليم الخاص.
Please use this space to elaborate on your selection above and/or to add offers that may not be listed.
LMI can offer the above ticked to support other initiatives. To this end, we offer technical support to other organizations as well as help expose young school students to the practical sspect of Auto-mobile engineering.
Created on 07/25/2011 by SisiNiAmani
SNA-K re-imagines the role of mobile technology by providing information & civic engagement to marginalized communities in Kenya
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءعنوان URL لـ Twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/sisiniamani
عنوان URL لـ Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Sisi-Ni-Amani/306679305151
اسم المؤسسة
Sisi ni Amani - Kenya (SNA-K)
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءتسمية مشاركتك
Using Mobile Technology for Civic Participation & Peace in Kenya
حدد الهدف الذي ينطبق بشكل مثالي على الحل الذي تقدمه:
ثابت (لقد أظهرت نجاحًا)
كم مضى على عملك؟
تعمل منذ أقل من سنة
الحاجة: تصف الحاجة إلى الحل الذي ابتكرته وحجم/ديناميكية المجتمعات التي سيكون لك تأثير فيها.
Following Kenya’s 2007 election, misinformation and hate speech were used to incite violence. Without trusted information sources, rumours spread quickly, aided by SMS technology. Manipulation leading to violence is preventable, but individuals must have access to reliable information from trusted sources.
As Kenya’s 2012 general elections approach, underlying causes of violence remain. Grassroots actors lack opportunities to make their voices heard peacefully. Politicians, not communities, dictate politics. Civic education and engagement are needed to create a foundation of policy-oriented politics that encourages unity. There is a need to tap into the same communication channels, particularly mobile phones, that were used to incite violence to promote positive civic engagement and peace.
SNA-K targets 10% of the population (606,000 individuals) of six Kenyan constituencies at risk of violence. SNA-K more broadly targets marginalized communities in developing democracies: a toolkit and support system for our model will enable replication in other countries.
الحل: الرجاء شرح ما يقدمه الحل ووجه الابتكار به. كيف ستضع الحل في أيدي المستخدمين أو المستفيدين؟ كن أكثر تحديدًا!
SNA-K has built a model that harnesses mobile technology to inform and educate communities, while connecting disenfranchised populations to the democratic political process.
SNA-K re-imagines the role of mobile communication technologies as a tool for civic education and engagement in the most marginalized communities. SNA-K provides each Chapter, comprised of community leaders with demonstrated commitments to peace and civic education, with a platform that enables them to send and receive mass SMS. Community members subscribe to the system through localized outreach and, once subscribed, receive SMS from their SNA-K Chapter.
SNA-K joins the power of mobile technologies with the expertise and social capital of community leaders in a highly replicable model. Chapters identify community needs, and create and implement SMS-based programming. Chapters educate their communities on their rights, survey the community on critical issues, create collaborative visions for community improvement, bring their needs to political aspirants and the media, and prevent and correct harmful misinformation and rumours.
SNA-K builds on existing information flows. Unlike other mediums, SMS messages are a cheap way for individuals to voice their opinions and can be aggregated, recorded, and shared to enable widespread participation and add leverage to gathered information through large numbers of participants.
النموذج: اعرض لنا مثالاً محددًا عن كيفية إحداث الحل الذي تقدمه فارقًا من خلال استخدام تقنية المعلومات والوسائط.
SNA-K provides a community-based information source with locally relevant content, managed and directed by community leaders, which goes directly to individuals’ mobile phones. This means information goes directly to each individual subscriber, and, unlike television or radio, comes in a form that can be targeted and is easily saved and shared.
SNA-K's SMS system has a proven ability to influence individual perceptions and opinions. By using SMS as a communication medium, SNA-K taps into existing communication channels to get important information to communities. In the lead-up to a by-election in Nairobi, SNA-K conducted ongoing civic education on the qualities of a good leader according to the new Constitution, which was passed in 2010 and changes the political structure while increasing opportunities for community involvement in the political process. Ninety percent of subscriber respondents to an SNA-K survey said that SNA-K's SMS changed their perceptions of a good leader, and SNA-K members reported seeing subscribers forwarding and sharing messages. Similar education on the new constitution will enable communities to understand the new rules governing their democratic process and government.
SNA-K provides an outlet for individuals to make their needs known within political structures and the media. During the same by-election, SNA-K gave 5,000 individuals the opportunity to participate in a survey on community needs which was then used to shape questions for a political debate between candidates.
السوق: من هم نظراؤك ومنافسوك؟ حدد الآخرين ممن يعملون أيضًا على تلبية الاحتياجات التي تسعى أيضًا لتلبيتها ووضح ما يميزك عنهم. ما التحديات التي قد يمثلها هؤلاء المنافسون بالنسبة إلى نجاحك أو تقدمك؟
SNA-K knows of no similar technology-based initiative to create dialogue at the local level. SNA-K creates local ownership of its programs, working directly with community peace activists to build on local knowledge and create sustainability, thus ensuring that it does not compete with but instead enhances and supports local initiatives.
SNA-K also actively partners with local, regional and national organizations working on civic education and engagement from community groups and civil society, to large NGOs and relevant government institutions, including the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) and National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC). Because SNA-K is collaborating with other organizations, potential challenges such as competition for resources or conflicting messaging, are mitigated.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
قصة التأسيس: نود السماع عن اللحظة التي حققت فيها ما تصبو إليه. شارك قصة المكان والزمان الذي رأي فيه المؤسسون القدرات الكامنة في هذا الحل والتي تؤهله لتغيير العالم.
SNA-K’s founder, Rachel Brown, came to Kenya in July 2010 to support grassroots leaders working to promote peace and political accountability in Kenya. Rachel was inspired by courageous community leaders, many of whom had risked their lives to prevent violence and create positive change. Many of these leaders worked towards the same goals, but their efforts were isolated from one another and they struggled to engage the community rapidly, efficiently, and in large numbers. Rachel realized if these groups as well as their communities could be connected through one communication channel to educate people and give them a voice, the leaders would be able to efficiently collaborate for their communities with more leverage to impact policy. Noting the excitement of local leaders at the idea of utilizing technology, specifically SMS, she worked with together with SNA-K’s first local chapter in Nairobi's Baba Dogo slum to create SNA-K's grassroots-driven model.
حدد كلاً من عمق التأثير الاجتماعي للحل وحجمه إلى اليوم.
SNA-K reaches over 10,000 subscribers in three constituencies in Kenya. SNA-K has impacted subscriber perceptions of good leadership. When subscribers were asked whether SNA-K civic education SMS changed their perception of good leadership, 90% of respondents answered yes. Many explained that their perception changed from someone who bribes or campaigns well to one who brings development and works for his/her constituents.
SNA-K has created opportunities for marginalized communities to shape political dialogue. Over 5,000 individuals were given the opportunity to answer an SMS-based survey of community needs before a by-election for a Member of Parliament. The survey results were used to create questions for a political debate between the candidates.
In addition to changing perceptions and increasing community engagement, SNA-K has relieved tensions in a potentially volatile situation. When the same by-election was postponed, SNA-K sent messages providing accurate information and encouraging patience. Volunteers and subscribers reported that the messages helped maintain calm when there could have been violence, demonstrating the potential for SMS to de-escalate tensions.
ما هو التأثير المخطط له في المستقبل خلال 1-5 سنوات؟ هل فكرتك قابلة لإعادة التنفيذ؟ إذا كان الأمر كذلك، فكيف؟
Before the August 2012 elections, SNA-K aims to engage 50,000 individual subscribers in six communities at risk of violence, while supporting 200 community leaders to leverage mobile technologies to communicate and bring information from communities into political and media dialogue. SNA-K’s model equips and facilitates individuals who are already leaders to collaborate and use new tools, and is replicable in any country with community leaders and mobile phone accessibility as a method to empower them to leverage grassroots voices and educate communities. Within 5 years, SNA-K aims to create a toolkit and mentorship program to facilitate replication of its model in additional developing democracies.
تقدم المشاركات الفائزة خطة قوية عن الطريقة التي سيحققون بها النمو ويضعون بصمتهم عليه. حدد المرحلة المنشودة على مدار ستة أشهر لإنماء تأثيرك.
25,000 subscribers educated on Kenya’s new Constitution and are empowered to become involved in the democratic process
المهمة الأولى
Continued community outreach to reach 15,000 additional subscribers in existing and new Chapters (carried out by local chapters)
المهمة الثانية
Conduct six civic education workshops with SNA-K chapters to create locally relevant SMS content on the new Constitution
المهمة الثالثة
15,000 subscribers receive 1-3 SMS per week educating them on the new Constitution and opportunities for civic participation
والآن فكر بتوسع أكبر! حدد مرحلة التأثير على مدار 12 شهرًا.
50,000 subscribers empowered to participate in policy discussions & ensure that their voices are brought into political dialogue
المهمة الأولى
Community outreach to reach 25,000 additional subscribers in three new constituencies (carried out by local chapters)
المهمة الثانية
Conduct SMS survey on community needs and solutions sent to 50,000 subscribers
المهمة الثالثة
PublishSMS survey results in a Community Needs Assessment document that is presented to political aspirants and media partners
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
أكثر من 10000
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
أكثر من 10000
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاشرح كيفية تنظيم شركتك أو برنامجك أو خدمتك أو منتجك.
غير ربحي
ما العوائق التي حالت دون نجاح مشروعك حتى اليوم؟ كيف تخطط للتغلب عليها وعلى التحديات الأخرى في طريقك لتنمية الحل الذي تسعى إليه؟
In Kenya, many local groups are suspicious of NGOs. SNA-K has overcome this barrier by building trust through connections with local organizations. As a result we are regularly invited by community leaders to implement programs in new communities. Additionally, funding has been a barrier to our success. Because of this, SNA-K is exploring an innovative model to ensure financial sustainability. SNA-K’s extensive local databases present the opportunity for vetted NGOs and social enterprises to send educational messages or promote products via SNA-K Chapters. Local chapters will be able to sell messages to the database to subsidize their own messages and activities.
كيف ترى التحول في قطاعات تقنية المعلومات والوسائط خلال العقد التالي؟ كيف سيتم تكييف الحل لعكس البيئة المتغيرة؟ كيف يمكن أن يكون الحل الذي توفره دافعًا
Individuals are interacting more and more through mobile phones. In Africa specifically, the proliferation of and access to mobile phones has increased while mobile technologies continue to adapt to be affordable and useful to this population. SNA-K leverages this new communication channel to create new methods for distribution of critical information and opportunities for communities to participate in democratic processes, thus driving information access and contribution in marginalized communities.
لا يعد الإخفاق دومًا نهاية المطاف. في حال إخفاق الحل الذي توفره في اكتساب وضع قوي في
If civic education and surveying via mobile phones fails to gain traction, SNA-K can use existing databases and community relationships to create community information services, such that individuals access information about their communities, event updates, etc. via their mobile phones. This would be financially sustainable as the service could also sell messages to businesses seeking to advertise new products to bottom of the pyramid markets to cover its costs.
توسع في اختياراتك، شارحًا كيف ستستمر في الحصول على التمويل.
SNA-K will pursue diverse avenues of funding and will continue to raise money through private donations and grant support from foundations and government agencies such as USAID. We will continue to seek monetary and in-kind donations of goods and services within Kenya. SNA-K’s SMS system was built by a Kenyan company as an in-kind contribution, and we have received contributions in the form of space and equipment. This serves both to raise funds and increase local commitment to sustain SNA-K’s work. Finally, SNA-K plans to subsidize funding through selling SMS to NGOs and social enterprises interested in sending educational or promotional messages. Any use of the database will be approved through an application process to ensure that it is non-partisan and helpful to the community.
أخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
SNA-K partners with 5+ vetted local leaders and organizations in each community via its local chapters. SNA-K has partnered with and will continue to collaborate with Kenya’s Interim Independent Electoral Commission to conduct voter education, and is partnering with Kenya’s National Cohesion and Integration Commission to monitor and respond to hate speech. SNA-K also partners with Inuka Kenya Trust, a movement promoting unity, and collaborates with Kenya’s National Steering Committee on Peacebuilding and Conflict Management.
ما نوع الفريق (موظفون، متطوعون، وما إلى ذلك) الذي سيضمن تحقيقك لمراحل النمو المحددة في القسم التأثير الاجتماعي؟
SNA-K works with three local chapters of 5 to 15 peace leaders who direct programming on the ground and involve their communities. SNA-K’s CEO and Project Manager guide overall programming and manage local chapters, consultants, and additional staff and volunteers, while three SNA-K Board and Advisory Group members offer strategic guidance and support in research, partnerships, and fundraising. SNA-K has an accountant, media manager, and consistently has 1-2 part-time volunteers working to monitor and document progress.
يعد منتدى Changemakers مكانًا تعاونيًا ومساندًا. الرجاء تحديد أي موارد للمجتمع ستحتاجها لإنماء مبادرتك ودعمها. [حدد جميع ما ينطبق]
الاستثمار, الموارد البشرية/المواهب, التسويق/وسائل الإعلام, البحث/المعلومات, التعاون/الشبكات, برنامج مساعدة Pro-bono (قانوني، مالي، وما إلى ذلك)., الابتكار/الأفكار, التعليم الخاص.
حدد أي موارد ربما تقدمها لدعم مبادرات أخرى. [حدد جميع ما ينطبق]
الموارد البشرية/المواهب, البحث/المعلومات, التعاون/الشبكات, الابتكار/الأفكار, التعليم الخاص.
الرجاء شرح أي متطلبات أو عروض ذكرتها سابقًا بالتفصيل و/أو اقتراح فئات الدعم التي لم يتم تحديدها ضمن القائمة.
SNA-K welcomes support from individuals with expertise in relevant areas, who can provide trainings and materials to support our local chapters. SNA-K constantly looks for ways to collaborate with similar organizations and to share ideas and information with other innovative programs and individuals, especially in understanding how SNA-K’s model may or may not be applicable in different settings and be adapted to support work in other countries. SNA-K is especially open to sharing its own research, experiences, and areas of expertise with others working to increase grassroots civic engagement and voice through new technologies.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءعرف شركتك أو برنامجك أو خدمتك أو منتجك في جملة أو جملتين باختصار.
SNA-K combines local capacity & mobile technology to empower communities to become civically engaged & make their voices heard.
حدد وجه الابتكار في الحل الذي تقدمه في جملة أو جملتين باختصار.
SNA-K re-imagines the role of mobile technology by providing information & civic engagement to marginalized communities in Kenya
Colorado Springs, CO United States
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What is CyberPatriot?
THE END OR THE BEGINNING? 2010 National School Board Association T+L Conference
While 2010 was the last year of the T+L Conference, the National School Boards Association is pleased to announce that technology programming will be enhanced at our Annual Conference so that a larger number of school board members and education leaders can gain the knowledge they need to establish policies and align resources for an increasingly digital world.
Created on 07/14/2011 by VIDTEL
Public school design and methods were born during the Industrial Revolution. Working with students as if to be assembled in a uniformed process with little chance for customization. This factory design was to manufacture cars for the open road, in the classroom a potential for scrap.
This brought about private schools and drop out rate. In this model there is much to learn about the Single Passenger Vehicle & the Open Road. For 21st Century learner Single Passenger Vehicle = Mobile Technologies & Open Road = a FREE education repository of interactive materials.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءبلد المؤسسة
United States, MI, Oakland County
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
United States, MI, Oakland County
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
تعمل منذ ما يزيد عن 5 سنوات
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat change do you want to bring to the world?
Public school design and methods were born during the Industrial Revolution. Working with students as if to be assembled in a uniformed process with little chance for customization. This factory design was to manufacture cars for the open road, in the classroom a potential for scrap.
This brought about private schools and drop out rate. In this model there is much to learn about the Single Passenger Vehicle & the Open Road. For 21st Century learner Single Passenger Vehicle = Mobile Technologies & Open Road = a FREE education repository of interactive materials.
I want to begin to create an education material repository of interactive STEM curriculum aligned to Common Core Standards preparing students to innovate, solve, and evolve our adaptation to world sustainability
What are the primary activities of your project?
The repository is already here with APPLE's iTune U, however the State of Michigan has launched MI Learning that host the 16 States' Clusters including the STEM cluster just waiting to be populated.
The primary activity is to continue the work already begun called the Workforce and Career Development section on MI Learning on iTune U, the only section of its kind on iTunes U. This request is to fund the STEM curriculum design called AFTERSHOCK.
AFTERSHOCK models the Southeastern Michigan community working with a large number education, industry, and government organizations to achieve STEM goals to better prepare middle and high schools students with mathematics and science in order to place in high tech jobs required by TARDEC and other engineering research, design and manufacturing in demand
The primary activity is to development STEM related content using podcasts, interactive PDF Portfolios, professional development for teachers supporting classroom deployment, and local robotic and science competitions.
We are requesting 30K of funding to create ten fully functional instructional unit plans with video media and interactive PDF Portfolios and use them to pilot the materials on MI Learning on iTunes U for in the classroom teacher led guided instruction as well as for those who are independent learners. With these results we will encourage TRADEC, the developer of the AFTERSHOCK trigger video to continue to support further development of instructional materials starting some time in 2012
Or 10K to accept and manage all other STEM instructional material formatted for iTunes to be locate in the STEM Career Cluster on
http://videos.wallstreetproductions.com/aftershock.html
watch the video for the story on the complete effort of many in Michigan
What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?
The innovation comes in the form of creating a FREE repository of interactive STEM curriculum aligned to Common Core Standards as they become implemented nationally.
Mathematics is the first of STEM to be applied via the AFTERSHOCK model. The model is using the dramatics media clip that later is deconstructed to reveal the STEM content that is everywhere. These trigger segment engage students and bring to life actual story problems that become the foundation of each learning event.
The instructional design targets mobile learning. The materials will make use of portable audio and video, as well as the text, graphic, 3D modeling environments, and assessments activities that can be delivered in a PFD format.
These materials will be designed to be used in the classroom to support instructor led activities or for student to download them for self study.
http://videos.wallstreetproductions.com/aftershock_adoption.html
watch the video for the story on the complete effort of many in Michigan
What stage is your project in?
تعمل منذ أقل من سنة
Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.
The Workforce and Career Development section on MI Learning on iTune U is now going into it 3rd year. The Workforce & Career Development averages 60-70% of the over 196,000 downloads each month based on Apple's June 11.
These results are due to the popular collection are created by that instructor and were designed to be used in their own classroom as assigned student activities. Base on the work being done by TARDEC and the STEM Community Outreach Programming to attract young creative engineering students the project will development STEM related content. These materials will be hosted of MI Learning on iTunes U from the STEM Career Clusters Icon.
This last year was spent on the coordination of the broader community’s involvement and in kind contributions to the project in the form of time and expertise to validate academic content.
http://videos.wallstreetproductions.com/aftershock_adoption.html
Watch the video for the story on the multi point alignment and cooperation of the State of Michigan, and local County Intermediate Schools Districts, and organization readied to implement the material once they of developed by the executive production organization
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
TARDEC was doing field trips for middle and high school students to inspire them to acquire skills in robotic and STEM technologies. When TARDEC wanted to expand its three day field trip event to other schools outside of Macomb County. There was no money for buses, substitute teachers, fuel etc. to do anything. The whole outreach effort of TARDEC stopped other than attending robotic events with booth space, I am the developer of the Workforce and Career Development section on MI Learning on iTunes and felt there was a eLearning solution. Using the STEM Career Cluster location was a prime location to populate with quality STEM content.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured
Success will be tracked by the number of downloads for the AFTERSHOCK STEM collection on MI Learning on iTunes U. Further we will cross reference student achievement from both the data TARDEC collects and the public school records.
http://videos.wallstreetproductions.com/aftershock_roi.html
watch the video to learn how we would determine ROI
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
أقل من 100
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
أكثر من 10000
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?
Even the ARMY has lost the funding it has to support educational outreach.
Think about that! (the ARMY lost the funding to support education)
APPLE's iTunes data can show a greater interest. We will then go to other $upport for funding. To build on a good instructional design, repository for distribution, and support from teacher in the classroom via the STEM push.
أخبرنا عن شراكاتك:
Automation Alley
Ideation International
Macomb County Intermediate School District
Office of Career and Technical Education, MI Dept. of Ed
TARDEC & the U.S. Army
Lawrence Technological University
The Engineering Society of Detroit Institute
Michigan Production Alliance
Wall Street Productions
The Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning
Current annual budget of project, in US dollars
10001 دولار أمريكي إلى 50000 دولار أمريكي
Explain your selections
Only in interest in their support of time and in-kind service to design and promote the idea of this way to delivery STEM curriculum. We need to funding to do the media production work. The educators are aligned to support the project for curricular standards and classroom implementation.
http://videos.wallstreetproductions.com/aftershock_adoption.html
watch the video
How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?
Once the effort of a curriculum collective on MI Learning on iTunes U to support STEM Common Core Standards begins. I would think critical mass would kick in. Large-scale expansion will demonstrate a substantial difference from other projects in the field. This will be design as a national STEM content repository. Even if AFTERSHOCK 10 lesson pilot is not funded. Rather all other STEM content and programs get posted to the MI Learning STEM icon will ease the "discoverability" of the materials.
If AFTERSHOCK is funded will encourage TARDEC to be more involved in the STEM content development and this entry point of 10 sample mathematics lessons is to move ahead with materials to be used in and out of classroom focus groups to improve on the STEM deliverables.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءPlease tell us more about how your partnership was formed and how it functions. What specific role does each partner play? What unique resources does each partner bring to the initiative?
How are you building in accountability for students' successful STEM learning outcomes? Please provide a summary and examples.
Needs
الاستثمار, Innovation/Ideas.
Please use this space to elaborate on your selection above and/or to add needs that may not be listed.
It is hard to imagine our Nation's congress contemplating default on the debt we've run up in the past 10 years. Especially after so many working Americans were forced into default on their homes with no choice but foreclosure.
That social funding forums like this have a community of educators and charity organizations working to find ways to fill the gap of innovation.
Innovation should be a practice built in to our doing. Instead we observer political opposition, & dead lock. Not the teaching moment.
In a way I am thankful for the opportunity to share the work I am doing and hope, while the effort called AFTERSHOCK is stalled due to the lack of funding, that I have the chance to share.
Moreover Changemakers is able to answers the question ..........
Where's the will?
Offers
Collaboration/Networking, Innovation/Ideas.
Please use this space to elaborate on your selection above and/or to add offers that may not be listed.
HELP - Kick Start this AFTERSHOCK, Prime the pump to pilot this instructional design and have AFTERSHOCK create a paradigm shift in learning
or Please Target MI Learning on iTunes U
http://itunes.apple.com/us/institution/michigans-mi-learning/id394006439
and the STEM Cluster in the Workforce and Career Development Section for all other winning STEM content and program developer where media assets and PDF materials can be used by all.
for 10K
Roswell, NM United States
The six-year learning sequence at NMMI is an example of this transformation. As previously indicated, it recognizes that not all students learn the same way, the same material, at the same time. Advocates of home schooling maintain that one of its advantages is the ability to tailor the learning to the student, that one size does not fit all. This is a fundamental tenet of a military school such as NMMI.
Fredericksberg, TX United States
http://www.systemsgo.org/
http://www.ignitelearning.com/
High School on the news
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFQfaAc__yE
In the Texas Hill Country, Fredericksburg High School students are launching rockets at twice the speed of sound (Mach 2). The 22-foot tall Red Bird 12 was designed and developed to produce 2,200 pounds of thrust for 23.5 seconds, producing a lift-off acceleration of 5gs[1]. The fuel grain and nozzle were designed and developed entirely by high school students.
Overall Vision: The emphasis here is to build on the past breadth of applications for the discipline of mechanical engineering, develop a completely modern science base for intelligent machines (assembled on demand) in order to create a new wave of technology building on the success of the last wave associated with computers (see chart below).
Created on 06/17/2011 by arbindsingh
Nidan sensed immense opportunity for the waste pickers because of inefficient handling of waste by the local bodies leading to filth and squalor. At the same time ,the waste pickers were treated like criminals and thieves.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءالبلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
تعمل منذ ما يزيد عن 5 سنوات
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءتسمية مشاركتك
livelihood of wastepicker through sustainable environment
What change do you want to bring to the world?
Nidan sensed immense opportunity for the waste pickers because of inefficient handling of waste by the local bodies leading to filth and squalor. At the same time ,the waste pickers were treated like criminals and thieves.
Nidan started a program called ‘Chakachak Patna’ with support from Unicef and UNDP. The program grew into a company called Nidan SwachhDhara Pvt Limited ( NSPL) which is a for profit company of Sweepers and Rag-pickers working for waste management services in Urban Localities. NSPL clients are Public limited companies , Muncipal Bodies ,households, Households and Institutions.
Core Values:
1. To strengthen the livelihood of rag pickers ( waste Pickers) and sweepers to access financial resources for them to set up enterprises and restoring their dignity.
What are the primary activities of your project?
Approximately 200 3. To increase participation of women in their homes in matters of expenditure on children’s education, marriage and other social obligations.
4. To establish institutions owned and controlled by rag pickers and sweepers and to advocate and provide legal aid.
5. To promote and popularize social security among the member and their children.
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What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?
This initative turns the waste pikcers into waste managers .The programs trains them into door to door garbage collection, segregation of recyclables, production of compost and so on. The comprehensive nature of the project deals very well the livelihood of waste pickers as well as keeping the neighbourhood clean. The program along with securing a dignified livelihood for street vendors also helps to keep the city clean which in turn generates more revenue to the Municipal Body moving it towards sustainability .The program also has strong advocacy element :Advocacy for decentralised waste, management:, Advocacy for clean technology and Priority to waste pickers’ organization:
NSPL has able to organize waste pickers in manner that waste services in the city, professionalized with keeping waste pickers at the centre. The vulnerability and uncertainty that waste pickers were experiencing in the past has significantly reduced among the benefited waste pickers. The problem of waste management is effectively addressed by organizing waste pickers and believing and building their capacities without replacing the local municipal corporation responsibility. The unique part of the approach was that this demonstration was carried out by partnering with local Municipal Corporation. The approach was also able find an acceptance among the residents and government.
What stage is your project in?
تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.
ApproximatUrban India is growing very fast .Waste is a major major concern. There are large number of waste pickers in every city .They are at the lowest ladder in social and economic hierarchy of the city . They are the erstwhile untouchables and continue to suffer from harassment as their role is not recognised in the society .
NSPL links up the waste generators with the waste pickers in a way that not only secures their livelihood but also provide dignity with good regular income.For the residents or users ,the process helps keep the area clean and because waste is recycled ,it adds to the income and helps promote clean environment and also can earn carbon credit. The process also helps to improve the Municipal Governance and Municipal functioning
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Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
The Founder,Mr Arbind Singh ,is a Sociologist by training and has always been moved by the plight of the informal workers who despite their hard labour and immense contribution in running of the society and economy suffer from abject poverty and deprivation. He founded Nidan in 1996 .Nidan began to collectivise these informal workers based on their trades. And so many organsiations of informal workers have been promoted by Nidan. For example Street Vendors have been organised under the banner of National Association of Street Vendors of India .NSPL is an effort in that direction where the leadership and control is in the hands of the workers themselves.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured
Approximately 200 words left (1600 characters).
The success of NSPL is measured by the number of livelihoods created, the number of household that get the service of NSPL , the amount of revenue collected by sale of recyclables and compost. NSPL has been successful in raising the profile of the waste pickers and bringing in many advocacy results like integration of street vendors .As mentioned above , more than 800 waste pickers have been directly employed getting not only regular and assured income bit also security of employment as well as social security benefits. As a result of this, they now send their children to schools, alcoholism have been drastically reduced and they are saving for their future. For the residents ,it is a good feeling living in a clean and healthy environment. For the climate , the program leads to production of compost and bring back in use recyclables. Result of these have encouraged many other Municipal Bodies to experiment with such examples.
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
101-1,000
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
1,001-10,000
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
With a Private Corporation agreeing to invest as much as will be needed, NSPL is poised for a robust growth . The main hindrance for a company owned by the waste pickers was to mobilise finance to set up new projects. Now with SS Company stepping in ,this problem appears to be solved.
In every city second line and third line leadership exist within NSPL who take up new assignments after a year of experience .So expansion will not suffer due to lack of trained staff.
NSPL plans to expand in 6 cities of Bihar. The details have been given above. Bihar is the most backward state of the country. And the filth in Urban Bihar makes living unhygienic and unpleasant. .
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?
Approximately 200 wofrom the Municpal Bodies and the fiscal management of the Municipal Bodies itself is not very sound. However, of late the Govt of India along with agencies like DFID is investing heavily in improving Municipal Governance along with boosting sustainability of the Municipal Governments. Through Nidan,we are also advocating at various levels the Municipal Governanace.rds left (1600 characters)
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ApproxiOur partnerships involve various stakeholders at different levels- Government at all levels, NGOs, Private Corporations ,Residents, Universities and so on . The partnership has been wide involving multiple stakeholders while keeping the waste pickers in the centre and ever since formation of Nidan ,the revenue has been broad based and that obviously involves multiple partnership .Thus partnership have been with multilateral agencies like UNICEF and UNDP ,foreign donors like Ford Foundation, American Indian Foundation, Oxfam, Plan International and Indian donors like Dorabji Tata Trust and Governemnt at all levels –National ,State and local Governmentsmately 200 words left (1600 characters)
Current annual budget of project, in US dollars
50001 دولار أمريكي إلى 100000 دولار أمريكي
Explain your selections
Nidan has received fund from American India Foundation to start the organisation called NSPL.As the program took off ,NSPL has been broadening revenue base and today despite withdrawal of support from American India Foundation,the company is running successfully in many cities.In the process of broadening its revenue base, Nidan/NSPL started building good customer base and began taking Municipal Contracts along with involving Private Businesses as customers and revenue providers. NSPL also received funding from JSL Foundation for waste management.NSPL also moved to academic institutions and involved them in its programs.
How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?
With a Private Corporation agreeing to invest as much as will be needed, NSPL is poised for a robust growth . The main hindrance for a company owned by the waste pickers was to mobilise finance to set up new projects. Now with SS Company stepping in ,this problem appears to be solved.
In every city second line and third line leadership exist within NSPL who take up new assignments .
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhich barriers to employment does your innovation address?
Please select up to three in order of relevancy to your project.
PRIMARY
Lack of skills/training
SECONDARY
Restrictive cultural norms
TERTIARY
Lack of visibility and investment
Please describe how your innovation specifically tackles the barriers listed above.
NSPL provides training to the waste pickers in waste handling and composting as well as sale of recycables
We organsie interaction programs and many other activities to ensure that waste pickers are respected and not lowly looked at .
We have collaborated with many organsiations to raise the visibility of the waste pickers and now have secured Private funding for expansion
Are you trying to scale your organization or initiative?
If yes, please check up to three potential pathways in order of relevancy to you.
PRIMARY
Grown geographic reach: Within host country
SECONDARY
Enhanced existing impact through addition of complementary services
TERTIARY
Leveraged technology
Please describe which of your growth activities are current or planned for the immediate future.
We plan to expand to more pockets in India and even neighbor countries , specially focus in places with large no of waste pickers. we plan to reach and tie up with muncipal corporations and others agencies.
Do you collaborate with any of the following: (Check all that apply)
Technology providers, NGOs/Nonprofits, For profit companies.
If yes, how have these collaborations helped your innovation to succeed?
We have been accessing Govt funds and Policy decisions to increase our area of work as well as the impact.We have also used Technology Providers for better use of waste and to increase the income from waste.We have used non profits to support our initiative in a new city or place.We have roped in Private sector to be part of our program to give waste as well as the user charges.Some private sector players have also provided funds to us, Since we were not able to participate in big Govt contracts,we have now collaborated with a Pvt sector company called SS Company to provide us fianace so that we can bid for large contracts and the sharing of profit is 50:50 while all the investments are of the SS CompanyWe have also used the academia to support our cause and we also do waste management
Created on 06/2/2011 by Cynthia Blandford Nash
We develop and implement new strategies to reduce poverty, promote education, and increase jobs in the emerging economy of post-war Liberia.
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Global Strategies for Good
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءتسمية مشاركتك
Global Strategies for Good (GSG) – Changing the World One Strategy at a Time
What change do you want to bring to the world?
We develop and implement new strategies to reduce poverty, promote education, and increase jobs in the emerging economy of post-war Liberia.
What are the primary activities of your project?
Primary activities include: Renewable Energy (1), Travel and Tourism (2) and Education (3).
1.) Due to the civil conflict, Liberia’s energy grid was totally destroyed. GSG is currently working with the private sector and academic institutions to develop renewable energy solutions. Working with local market women, students and farmers, job opportunities and entrepreneurship will be developed for local Liberians and business concerns that are developing these new technologies.
2.) Liberia was established by freed black slaves in 1822 as the first Republic on the Continent of Africa where there were 10 African-American Presidents. Using travel and tourism as a vehicle to tell the story, GSG launched a travel and tourism program and has positioned itself to generate long-term employment through tours of their 500 km of beautiful beaches (where Liberia has been deemed the top surfing capital of the world); and the Sapo National Park, the country’s largest protected rainforest and most intact forest ecosystem in the nation, a biodiverse region hosting the highest mammal species diversity of any region in the world and its only national park where extinct pigmy hippos still roam. GSG has conducted 10 successful travel and tourism trips to Liberia where approximately 200 participated - stimulating approximately $6 million in support of the hospitality industry providing hundreds jobs and training opportunities. GSG is expanding their offices in Liberia this year.
3.) The University Consortium for Liberia (UCL), established by GSG, a framework through which colleges, universities, and other organizations with an educational, research, or service interest in Liberia can streamline their work and pool various resources, GSG will continue to provide economic opportunities to help position Georgia academic institutions to leverage their resources and support of universities in Liberia for training and development through faculty and student exchange programs, joint research and study abroad programs.
What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?
GSG is collaborating with Clark Atlanta University, the Ministry of Energy, EPA Liberia and United Negro College Fund to launch Georgia-Liberia Sustainable Campus and Communities Summit in Monrovia in August 2011 seeking renewable energy solutions. UCL members will also be engaged to provide best-practices in the industry and a Memorandum of Understanding is an outcome.
Travel and tourism currently operates at a very low level in Liberia due to the civil war. Under the leadership of President Sirleaf, who is laying the much needed structured groundwork (governance and the rule of law; peace and security; infrastructure & basic services; and economic development) to support long- term economic growth, Liberia is on the radar screen for international investors & the development community for its natural resources and fertile, coastal lands. Although Liberia currently generates the majority of its revenue from large concession agreements, it is in an ideal position, much like South Africa was at the end of apartheid, to become the jewel of West Africa. GSG’s innovation is simply in recognizing this fact, so that it assists the country in developing a long- term economic revenue stream that celebrates its natural diversity through ecologically sound development and local economic sustainability. GSG is working closely with the Government of Liberia (GOL) to generate opportunities for small to medium sized businesses (SMEs). Travel & tourism is one of the world's largest industries, supporting more than 258 million jobs worldwide and generating some 9.1% of global GDP.
What stage is your project in?
تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.
Liberia is emerging from a 14 year civil war where it is estimated that over 250,000 were killed between 1990 and 2003. Buildings were either destroyed or severely damaged, power grids and communication systems in all Liberian cities were destroyed, roads were ruined and the airport, seaports and government buildings were devastated. The quality of life of everyday Liberian’s has improved with the election of the first African female Head of State on the Continent of Africa, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as President, significant debt has been reduced and signs of progress have been made. However, there is still much to do.
While Liberia has remained secure and stable since 2003, and confidence increases little by little, the standard ‘development statistics’ underscore the difficulty that its citizens face. The average annual income is only $290 (World Bank PPP GNI, 2007), life expectancy is 45 years and imports are three times as great as exports (World Bank, 2007). Maternal mortality rates are close to the highest in the world. Reports of widespread gender-based violence persist. The adult literacy rate is 62% and relatively few girls complete elementary school. Security is maintained by the United Nations. The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 is a significant impediment to growth and job creation. The country suffers from 80% unemployment.
International donor assistance, such as CARE, Peace Corps and others have returned demonstrating confidence in the current government system and longer term development projects are beginning to replace the largely humanitarian projects. Delta Air Lines launched direct flights to Liberia in September 2011 with two flights per week leaving from Atlanta, Georgia to Monrovia, increasing business access and potential for trade and investment, jobs and economic growth for the country.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
In 1974, the founder, Cynthia Blandford Nash, at the age of 18, received a 1-year Rotary Scholarship to live in Liberia with a vision of wanting to change the world. While in Liberia, Cynthia taught elementary school and attended the University of Liberia developing life-long relationships. In 2007, Cynthia began to work with the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Atlanta Rotary Club and Delta Air Lines to spearhead mission trips to Liberia, sending medical supplies, working with investors and facilitating training programs for women. Cynthia also co-chaired the first Head of State dinner for the President of Liberia in Atlanta, Georgia where more than 1,000 people were in attendance. Cynthia’s good works quickly brought her into the spotlight where President Sirleaf began to notice Cynthia’s heart for the people of Liberia and the positive outcomes she delivered, including Delta Air Lines direct flights and a Consortium of Universities, to name a few. With President Sirleaf’s leadership, Cynthia was inspired to launch GSG in 2008, with the vision of providing new models of social entrepreneurship, economic development, job training and education that were in line with the GOL’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. In 2009, the Liberian President appointed Cynthia as the first African-American female Honorary Consul General. Now, with the ability to use the platform of the Consulate office to provide guidance and direction, Cynthia has the unique opportunity to leverage resources and support at the highest levels and has committed her life’s work in doing so.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured
Renewable Energy: In 2009, GSG teamed-up with the Mayor of Monrovia, the National Coalition of 100 Black Women (NCBW-MAC) and members of the local community to clean-up a local dump in the heart of Monrovia where hundreds participated. Recognizing that Liberia does not have a comprehensive waste management system, dumpsters or recycling in place, the output of this project provided hands-on and service learning activities for the local Liberian community and business partners. It also presented engagement with local leaders to discuss future partnerships in energy solutions that could impact more than 3.5 million Liberians.
Travel and Tourism: GSG conducted 10 successful mission trips to Liberia in partnership with Delta Air Lines and NCBW-MAC where approximately 200 business men and women participated, including educators, clergy, and students. Mission trips included investment and trade workshops to broker new business ventures; medical missions in collaboration with doctors, nurses and the John F. Kennedy Hospital in Liberia; faculty exchange allowing faculty to teach at the University of Liberia and Monrovia Bible College; and agribusiness collaborations with CARE Liberia and the University of Liberia creating a new vegetable garden on the campus. Thousands of women and children received medical supplies; hundreds of books and bibles were donated to help increase teaching and learning levels of thousands of students and teachers. Delta Air Lines direct flights to Liberia is a direct result of GSG’s work in travel and tourism.
In April 2011, under GSG’s leadership with the UCL, student leaders from the University of Liberia participated in a 2-week development program at Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Savannah State, Georgia State University, and the University of Georgia to learn best-practices on student governance.
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
1,001- 10,000
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
أكثر من 10000
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
GSG is evolving and expanding with the establishment of 2 new entities:
1.) CYV International, a Liberian based business, will work with GSG to launch Travel and Tourism Liberia (TTL) with a focus on, Ecotourism, EduTourism, and Gospel/Cultural Fests. In collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism, we will increase jobs, internships, and training opportunities where travel and tourism in Africa increased by 3% in 2009. GSG will broker business relationships that encompass a training headquarters to facilitate much needed training in hospitality administration.
2.) “Georgia First for Liberia” (GFL), a 501c3 non-profit is being established as a market based strategy to position the State of Georgia as a leading force in Liberian agricultural development, in partnership with GSG.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?
Funding is always a challenge for small and emerging businesses. Currently, GSG receives funding through contract work and other consultancies. These consultancies include developing comprehensive fundraising and strategic plans with faith-based organizations; developing core competencies and relationship management approaches for non-profit organizations; and working with corporate giants to provide diversity leadership and support in the African context. The challenge and the opportunity is to develop new funding approaches that will allow GSG to scale-up and expand into new and emerging markets that demonstrate future growth and unique potential for branding.
Looking at the long-view, GSG has developed a financial model that we believe will help the company expand and diversify overtime for sustainable growth. For example, GSG, in collaboration with CYV International, is currently applying for funding through the Liberian Enterprise Development Finance Corporation (LEDFC), co-sponsored by RLJ Companies, OPIC and CHF International that will support travel and tourism in Liberia. A 5-year business plan has been prepared to support this work. Travel and Tourism Liberia – TTL customers will pay for travel and tour packages and through relationships already established with Delta Air Lines and local hotels, comprehensive packages will be developed allowing GSG and CYV to scale-up efforts to provide additional jobs for local Liberians and to expand staff support in both office locations.
GSG is teaming-up with colleges and universities and other partners to seek funding for Renewable Energy from entities including the EPA, the Department of Energy, United Negro College Fund, USAID and others to support various program efforts and have secured a pro-bono grant writer to assist.
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GSG has been very strategic in forging partnerships that have yielded positive and long-lasting results. Training, jobs and internships will be outgrowths of these partnerships.
NGO’s - GSG has established relationships with NCBW-MAC and the Atlanta West End Rotary Club to support the donation of over $10,000 worth of medical supplies to the John F. Kennedy Hospital in Monrovia to support women who have fistula. Improving the quality of life for women and girls is critical to the economic growth of the Liberian society ensuring an educated workforce.
Business: GSG has been able to leverage Delta Air Lines discount airline tickets for various mission trips to Liberia and waived costs of cargo shipping. GSG has been successful in developing relationships with the African Travel Association (ATA) and has landed the 2012 Eco-Tourism Symposia in Liberia bringing hundreds from around the globe to the country; creating jobs and economic stimulus.
Academia: Under the auspices of the UCL umbrella, relationships have been established with Clark Atlanta University, Emory University, Georgia Tech, Morehouse College, the University of Georgia, Georgia State University and others to help further the vision of expanding educational resources, faculty and student exchange programs, joint research and publications at various academic institutions in Liberia.
Government: A recently established partnership with the Georgia Department of Agriculture will enable GSG to further its mission of international business to business matchmaking for companies interested in doing business in Liberia. GSG was instrumental in ushering through a Sister Port Agreement between the Georgia Port Authority and the Port Authority of Liberia in 2010 to increase trade. Jobs for Georgia and jobs for Liberia are expected outcomes.
Current annual budget of project, in US dollars
50001 دولار أمريكي إلى 100000 دولار أمريكي
Explain your selections
Friends and Family have donated time and resources to GSG.
Individuals: GSG has 4 professionals including a Chief of Staff, Government Affairs Officer, Technology Coordinator, and a Media Relations and Communications Manager. An Advisory Group has also been established. These advisors include an Endowed Chair at Georgia Tech in City Planning, a renowned Economist, and a Georgia State University Gender and African American Studies Associate faculty and former Fulbright Fellow at the University of Liberia. Valued at $500,000.
Foundations: The Atlanta West End Rotary Club is supporting GSG through the donation of medical supplies to the JFK Hospital in Monrovia to support women who have fistula valued at $10,000. A $30,000 grant is in the pipeline for funding.
NGOs: The NCBW is supporting GSG by providing discount airline tickets & other resources valued at $50,000.
Businesses: GSG is currently in negotiations with Liberian hotels and Delta Air Lines to promote travel and tourism in Liberia. Conversations have begun with solar panel companies, renewable energy and bio-mass firms.
Regional Government: GSG helped to negotiate a Sister City Agreement between Liberia and Greenville, Mississippi to expand trade and investment. The Mayor of Greenville, Mississippi hosted a trade summit on May 13th for local businesses.
Customers: Over 200 participated in GSG’s travel and tourism efforts over the past few years, including business men and women, educators, clergy, and students bringing over $6million in jobs, training and service activities.
How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?
GSG will strengthen its work over the next three years by shoring up its administrative structure, developing operational systems and processes and preparing a comprehensive financial framework.
GSG is currently negotiating space to house all of its offices including GSG, the Consulate Office, Georgia First and CYV. It will be important to have a strong and visible presence in the community demonstrating leadership and vision as well as stability. As the financial resources are established, staff will be hired to help accomplish the goals and objectives of the operations.
Developing operational systems and processes is fundamental to the growth and sustainability of any company. Within the next year, operational manuals, standard business blueprints including Contracts, Memorandums of Agreement, Letters of Interest, and other Business Documents will be developed as boilerplates to help streamline operations and to help expedite work flows. A secure and reliable technology system will be put forth to capture data allowing for accurate tracking and reporting.
In order to ensure future growth and sustainability, additional comprehensive financial platforms will need to be created and put in place.
GSG will work with investors, financial institutions and resource and development and management strategy teams, to develop and implement appropriate frameworks for long-term success.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhich barriers to employment does your innovation address?
Please select up to three in order of relevancy to your project.
PRIMARY
Lack of efficiency
SECONDARY
Lack of skills/training
TERTIARY
Lack of visibility and investment
Please describe how your innovation specifically tackles the barriers listed above.
GSG is co-hosting a Sustainable Communities/Campus Summit in August 2011 in Liberia to help build capacity, training and lifting-up renewable energy opportunities.
GSG is providing technical assistance to the Ministry of Tourism to help ensure efficiency in travel packages, customer service, and ground transportation. GSG will also assist in training a skilled workforce through job shadowing, internships and mentorships. GSG will promote Liberia through radio, print, television and other strategies highlighting new standards in the industry and opportunities for investment.
On June 9th, a “Tax Commissioner Road Show” will take place in Atlanta, Georgia. Training will include how to open a business, regulations and incentives, encouraging investment in the country.
Are you trying to scale your organization or initiative?
If yes, please check up to three potential pathways in order of relevancy to you.
PRIMARY
Repurposed your model for other sectors/development needs
SECONDARY
Influenced other organizations and institutions through the spread of best practices
TERTIARY
Grown geographic reach: Within host country
Please describe which of your growth activities are current or planned for the immediate future.
GSG is already repurposing its model for other sectors/development needs by having discussions with the Minister of Post and Telecommunications, where there is no formal mail system in Liberia - looking at ways to leapfrog current technologies and seeking best practices in mail delivery systems within Georgia to provide technical assistance and support for both rural and city mail delivery systems.
GSG, in conjunction with Georgia First, is establishing a Blue Ribbon Committee with the Georgia Department of Agriculture developing new strategies and approaches in renewable energy, aquaponics, farming and feedstock solutions for Liberia. UCL and the private sector will be cultivated seeking best-practices in the industry that can be replicated throughout the Sub-Region.
Do you collaborate with any of the following: (Check all that apply)
كيان حكومي , Technology providers, NGOs/Nonprofits, For profit companies, Academia/universities.
If yes, how have these collaborations helped your innovation to succeed?
Created on 05/6/2011 by creativecommunications
Emergency services training. Also working with innovation/ startup support with http://groups.to/startuptwincities
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
Community Safety Programs (international emergency response)
بلد المؤسسة
United States, MN, Anoka County
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
United States, CA, Santa Clara County
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءتسمية مشاركتك
Community Safety Programs (international emergency response)
What change do you want to bring to the world?
What are the primary activities of your project?
Community outreach, training, emergency response
What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?
What stage is your project in?
تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.
Working with community response teams in MN and CA. http://citizencorps.gov
Worked on Haiti and Japanese earthquake response, proposal in for NZ.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
أقل من 100
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
101- 1,000
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?
Approximately 200 words left (1600 characters)
Current annual budget of project, in US dollars
1000 دولار أمريكي إلى 10000 دولار أمريكي
How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhich barriers to employment does your innovation address?
Please select up to three in order of relevancy to your project.
PRIMARY
Lack of skills/training
SECONDARY
Lack of access to information and networks
TERTIARY
Lack of visibility and investment
Please describe how your innovation specifically tackles the barriers listed above.
Are you trying to scale your organization or initiative?
If yes, please check up to three potential pathways in order of relevancy to you.
PRIMARY
Influenced other organizations and institutions through the spread of best practices
SECONDARY
Repurposed your model for other sectors/development needs
TERTIARY
Leveraged technology
Please describe which of your growth activities are current or planned for the immediate future.
Do you collaborate with any of the following: (Check all that apply)
كيان حكومي , Technology providers, NGOs/Nonprofits, For profit companies, Academia/universities.
If yes, how have these collaborations helped your innovation to succeed?
Created on 02/21/2011 by haidyduque
We develop processes within the framework of inclusive businesses, for the development of sustainable housing, thus meeting the needs of a number of families in urban marginal communities which - in view of their urgency to ensure a home - build precarious houses which constitutes a dormant risk to their lives. Within this perspective we develop integral solutions with the active participation of the families organized in community networks, articulating the private undertaking, financing companies and the public sector.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءالبلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءتسمية مشاركتك
CITIES IN TRANSFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT FROM SUSTAINABLE HOUSING: A COMMITMENT TOWARDS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Describe your project
We develop processes within the framework of inclusive businesses, for the development of sustainable housing, thus meeting the needs of a number of families in urban marginal communities which - in view of their urgency to ensure a home - build precarious houses which constitutes a dormant risk to their lives. Within this perspective we develop integral solutions with the active participation of the families organized in community networks, articulating the private undertaking, financing companies and the public sector. In this way, the development of sustainable processes is achieved starting from the generation of hybrid value chains which make it possible to live in houses that may ensure dignity and social inclusion within the framework of alternative economic circuits.
What stage is your project in?
تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
What makes your project unique as it relates to the theme of this competition?
In Colombia, over 24,610,844 persons are below the poverty line and around 9.654.722 persons are considered to be destitute. They are precisely the population groups that are in urgent need to ensure minimum conditions for their lives. They build up in marginal sectors - both legally and illegally - without contemplating the minimum required safety conditions. Furthermore, we have checked out that there are –average - 2.520.298 homes with qualitative deficit. Houses present deficiencies in their structure, public services and overcrowding. We work to try and obtain innovative answers from an inclusive business pattern, articulating community dynamics with private undertakings which manufacture construction materials, with the support of the finance sector and the national government, succeeding in the development of sustainable housing solutions. This whole process allows the private undertaking to rapidly and efficiently penetrate a massive market, increasing its profitability levels, and reducing costs, for the benefit of communities and families with poor income.
Families improve their houses and their life quality; have access to construction materials, finance services and high-quality technical advice, at competitive prices, in accordance with government standards and regulations. Furthermore, income is generated; productive circuits are activated thus achieving organization and strength as communities through their participation and development.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
Haidy Duque Cuesta, is a woman from a province, who loves nature and spaces which allow her to provide serenity and peace to her soul. From the titles obtained she better identifies herself as social entrepreneur (Ashoka fellow).
She defines herself as a pacifist and she endeavors to lead a life consistent with this statement.
Haidy is convinced of the revolution of the small, making significant changes at a small scale, because it is necessary to leave testimony and knowledge of the micro, to then be able to take it to a larger scale.
She is a woman who knows about knitting at a slow pace, with the perseverance that is inherent to her gender, and with the certainty that when she commits herself to making her dream come true with determination and passion, magic happens.
She has proved with facts that utopia is possible. An example of this is the inclusive business pattern for the improvement of housing in Colombia’s popular sectors, managing to articulate a variety of players such as social organizations, private undertakings, government and communities, in an actual Hybrid Value Chain. She started up in a 700.000 habitant town in Bogotá and today the success in this small town is being replicated throughout the country.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
Who or what (i.e. youth, women, environment, etc.) benefits from your project, and why is your project critical?
This inclusive business initiative benefits women who are heads of household, who are trained and become community consultants in matters relating to house improvements and who act as agents making their contribution towards the development and strengthening of social networks in their communities. They used to be outside the labor market and they now develop a productive activity which allows them to generate a decent income and achieve life quality improvement for themselves and their children.
Men and women who work on house building and manage to organize themselves and who have been trained and have been able to strengthen their technical knowledge, are also benefited by obtaining a larger income for their own benefit and for the benefit of their families.
Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured.
We have established indicators of the project development success which prove on the one hand the articulation processes in different stages of private undertakings with government entities through organized procedures in the communities where the project is developing, making it possible that from the beginning of the activities onwards two financial entities, five construction material undertakings, six social organizations and government entities, such as the Housing Funds, remain linked by business bonds.
On the other hand, success is measured in terms of ensuring that the project benefits will grow constantly to include further women-beneficiaries. So far 300 heads-of-household women and 50 men working in the construction field have been benefited; thirty thousand houses have been improved at national level in five cities. It is worthwhile mentioning the high level of compliance with the payment of loans: 85% loans are being duly collected, as per the corresponding agreements.
Furthermore, human development has been achieved in connection with social inclusion and community empowerment, and female participation and leadership show a 70% increase, promoting the development of satisfiers -such as savings which did not exist before and now reach more than 60% - and also changes in view of the compliance with credit payment.
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
1001-10000
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
أكثر من 10000
What barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?
A barrier which may hinder the project is represented by the finance entities which generate criteria that make access to credit difficult. To face this, together with Ashoka and the Hilty Foundation, we have invited businesses, finance entities and social organizations to form a financing entity, which may facilitate the granting of credits.
Another aspect to be considered is the requirement of permits for structural reinforcement of houses in zones which demand special treatment from local authorities. We have designed a plan which is in progress to strengthen the relationship with curators and local authorities, to ensure their participation in the project and to obtain their economic support as well as the adequacy of current regulations.
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
We expect that the project will expand its scope within the next three years exceeding 10,000 direct beneficiaries, and that it will obtain structural improvement for more than 10,000 houses, will duplicate the current number of women beneficiaries who work as consultants for housing improvement with an income of more than USD 500 and it will be expanded to at least 10 new cities in the country, articulating 17 social organizations.
Within this period the project will reach its balance point and it will generate the income to repay the working capital loan, and it will obtain income to ensure sustainability for the Corporation and its outreach.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFor each selection, please explain the financial and non-financial support from each
The foundation of Hilti and Ashoka for the development of corporate plans, ensure the first three years of project development and the granting of loans for working capital.
We perform a task of openness and development of new markets, and we ensure to construction companies a significant possibility to access a new market, as a consequence of the task that we develop, generating in the communities a feasible social scenario to bring up their products. We negotiate a profit margin over the sales volume for the relevant sectors.
We have the support of universities, SENA and public entities. We also have the support of a communication company to develop communication strategies and the advice of experts in the business and finance fields. We are also supported by government entities, in charge of housing for popular sectors and entities working in the integral assistance of these sectors.
Different community organizations participate in the program to allow an agile management for the benefit of clients.
Our clients are the owners of houses in basic income sectors, who do not have access to credit or to the necessary advisory services to realize their dreams of having a decent house.
How do you plan to grow and/or diversify your base of support in the next three years?
By showing results, within the framework of a win-win business exercise for all players.
By carrying out a continued communication strategy for a larger spread of the model.
Through the development of relationships with new undertakings and the public sector in programs relating to the improvement of houses for popular sectors.
Through awareness tasks and through training in the academic field and through the involvement of students in the practice of the model development.
By implementing the model in new cities and countries undergoing the same problems.
By introducing technological development and information technology into the model operation.
By consolidating the financing entity arising from the joint work with Ashoka, the Hilti Foundation and construction companies, in order to cover the population’s credit needs aiming at housing improvement.
By generating initiatives of political incidence for the development and strengthening of community processes, consolidation of participation scenarios for women in order that a larger number joins in, ensuring a decent income.
Furthermore, through the inclusion of the new organizations that work to ensure houses for the most vulnerable families and through continuously working together thus consolidating an appropriate legal scenario for the access to credit and the definition of urban regulations.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءPlease select your areas of intervention in the home improvement market
Financing, التصميم, Technology, Technical assistance, Labor, Property rights, Sanitation, Infrastructure, Green housing, Environment, Income generation, Urban development, Public policy.
Is your innovation addressing barriers in the home improvement/progressive housing market? If so, please describe in detail your mechanisms of intervention
Awareness and training processes in the communities and the need to make improvements in their houses, with technical support.
Training and educating building workers located in the relevant communities.
The relationship of women in the community as community consultants in the subject of housing improvement, ensures the fact that these women may enter the different houses and evaluate their condition and in a reliability framework they may relate families to perform improvements.
The making of forums at local and national levels to place the subject of improvement in the public agenda, because attention is oriented to new houses of social interest and this attention is rather low in view of the needs and the impact in the built-up cities.
To grant quality technical assistance at community affordable prices.
Significant contribution in micro and macro economies generating sustainable solutions to poverty in Colombia.
The development pattern has shown that this type of houses may be safely intervened, that it is a large market and that it is worthwhile to make commitments in favor of this sector.
Are you currently collaborating with private companies, or have you partnered with private companies in the past? With which companies?
Yes, work is made with the cooperation and association with the following undertakings: Corona, Eternit, Hilti, Corpoacero, Acceso, Compas Gruop, Ladillera Santafé. Finamerica, Eclof.
Please describe in detail the nature of the partnership(s)
Cooperation lies in the framework of the inclusive business pattern, by making strategic alliances with a variety of players aiming at offering integral products, in accordance with family needs for the improvement of their houses through credit; ensuring attractive volumes in terms of profitability and a win-win relationship for all players within a framework which fosters economic and social impact and the development and social inclusion of a number of population levels in the country.
Select the unit(s) with which the partnership was formed
Corporate social responsibility department, Marketing department, Sales department.
Created on 02/1/2011 by raokolluri
Innovative approach to Urban housing using economical and durable materials from local resources , keeping in mind Country’s need of the urban poor, associating with the Government, industrial and commercial establishments, Habitat and other donors / service associations while the recipients of urban housing contributing based on earnings in association with social security funds and an insurance cover, to alleviate the suffering of the Urban poor and provide them with hygienic and usable housing and improve the social and economic fabric of the community.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءهاتف المؤسسة
+91 40 6456 7469,+91 998 925 7469, +1 410 998 2366
عنوان المؤسسة
6-3-595/63 /PADMAWATHI NAGAR, KHAIRATABAD, HYDERABAD, INDIA
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
تعمل منذ ما يزيد عن 5 سنوات
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءتسمية مشاركتك
Innovative approach to Urban housing using economic,durbale materials supported by Government,industry and social bodies
Describe your project
Innovative approach to Urban housing using economical and durable materials from local resources , keeping in mind Country’s need of the urban poor, associating with the Government, industrial and commercial establishments, Habitat and other donors / service associations while the recipients of urban housing contributing based on earnings in association with social security funds and an insurance cover, to alleviate the suffering of the Urban poor and provide them with hygienic and usable housing and improve the social and economic fabric of the community.
What stage is your project in?
Idea phase
What makes your project unique as it relates to the theme of this competition?
Unique since it improves the living conditions of Urban poor by implementation of this innovative idea. Houses are to be built with economical, strong, eco friendly material Materials used are C class Fly ash bricks confirming to standard ASTM C 216, Roof sheets made of organic fiber or wood chips and bonded/ waterproofed with asphalt. Light weight, durable, economical, using local waste. Rafters are pine and flooring cement or tiles. Water and sanitary. 500 sft house costing $ 30000. project implemented by cooperation between Government, donors, service organizations and the beneficiary himself and protected through an insurance policy. Governments to provide land and infra structural facilities and possible financial assistance. To be built in groups and can be repeated.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
L am an advocate, Chartered Accountant and a Company Secretary with over 50 years of Industrial and management experience. More than that I a social worker being a Lion member and past District Governor of the LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL. I am interested in the social welfare.
This entry is focused on a USA and PAN AMERICAN COUNTRIES, USA is a rich country , still poverty is rampant in many states like Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland More than 750000 Americans are homeless on any night Problem is much worse in Pan American countries. 46 million live in Urban slums.No land title. Houses are built in steep slopes, swamps and floodable areas with average loss of 8000 lives per year.They shout no one to hear, sleep outside no one sees them They ask for opportunities no one to answer they are called “Poor” live in slums. Slums are products of failed policies, inappropriate regulation Lack of Land and lack of political will. They need to be uplifted
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
Who or what (i.e. youth, women, environment, etc.) benefits from your project, and why is your project critical?
Project benefits youth and women and entire family. Slums lack basic facilities like water, sanitation, drainage .Poor housing structure, Unhealthy /undeveloped land with no title.
By construction of houses in a developed land with ash bricks , light strong roofing , economical and provision of water , drainage, sanitation , as per standards , shall ensure healthy improved life and shall be a socio economic uplift of community Proje3ct shall be environmental friendly. Group living in good neighborhood shall develop the community to become a developed society. .Project can be repeated at several locations
Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured.
This is an idea. If implemented shall provide the basic need of the community. This a responsibility of the Governments and also the social responsibility of industries and commercial establishments. There are several donors and service organizations like LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL prepares serve through their clubs. If a group of 40 to 50 units are developed as a group, they could be repeated. Two houses to be one block
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
أقل من 100
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
101-1000
What barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?
Project might get hindered in following cases:
1. Slums are products of failed policies , bad governance,
inappropriate regulations, lack of economic land and political
will.
2. Non cooperation by government due to policies,
3. Non coordination with donors
4. Inability of beneficiary to contribute even the minimal
5. Non availability of Insurance
6. Non acceptance to use economical fly ash bricks or light roofing or
the extruded plastic tiles or the red mud bricks even though they
confirm to standard strengths. And
7. Public cooperation
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
Project can be completed within 6 months from approval and finalization of permissions and finance commitments and Insurance. When one colony is completed successfully ( Total cost $ 2,000,000 + Land and infrastructural support)
50 families could be settled in comfortable , yet economical and environmental friendly, clean, neat and hygienic houses. Same can be repeated by several towns in association with state governments. the government policy can be favorable and donor/public participation can be sympathetic several colonies can come up successfully not only in USA but also in Pan American Countries
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFor each selection, please explain the financial and non-financial support from each
1. Government to provide land and infra structural facilities and
subsidies 25% i.e $ 10000 per house X 50 = $ 500000.
2. Beneficiary by himself or through Loans /Insurance/Social funds
support 25$ i.e $10000 per house. Total $ 500000/-.
3. Habitat or Service organization/Donors 25% i.e $ 10000 per house.
Total $500000/-.
4. Foundations, industries ,business and others 25% i.e $ 10000 per
house Total $ 500000
We can also solicit donations of social service by offering community labor
How do you plan to grow and/or diversify your base of support in the next three years?
In addition to the original plan of implementation, the following had to be worked out:
a. Life insurance coupled housing loans
b. Soft micro finance loans with extended credit may be with a
guarantee support from local government
c. Extended public collections as a support for social obligation
d Encouraging self help groups
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءPlease select your areas of intervention in the home improvement market
التصميم, Technical assistance, Other (please specify).
Is your innovation addressing barriers in the home improvement/progressive housing market? If so, please describe in detail your mechanisms of intervention
We can work out details of the plan and technical requirements for making fly ash bricks with standard strengths, Can finalize the type of tiles to be used and also organize people to do the job at an economical cost. Coordinate with Lions Clubs International through our club.
Are you currently collaborating with private companies, or have you partnered with private companies in the past? With which companies?
Please describe in detail the nature of the partnership(s)
Select the unit(s) with which the partnership was formed
Created on 01/24/2011 by sahu.dr
Accessed housing rights by slum communities through women’s lead role, self built housing rather than contractor built, use of local upgraded skill and technique in a Government subsidy housing scheme, Bank loan in a lowest rate of interest leads to informed choice of the urban poor in housing sector.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
Development Alternatives for Wider Network (DAWN)
عنوان المؤسسة
M-5/6, Arya Vihar, Sailashree Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Orissa.
البلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
تعمل منذ أقل من سنة
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءتسمية مشاركتك
Community Managed Women focus housing rights by the Slum dwellers of Orissa
Describe your project
Accessed housing rights by slum communities through women’s lead role, self built housing rather than contractor built, use of local upgraded skill and technique in a Government subsidy housing scheme, Bank loan in a lowest rate of interest leads to informed choice of the urban poor in housing sector.
What stage is your project in?
What makes your project unique as it relates to the theme of this competition?
Our idea is unique that there is a paradigm shift in the approach for the shelter development programme from contractor built to people built. In case of Government of Orissa, all construction activities are done through tendering process of the contractors. In this case, the slum communities accessed their housing rights to build their own houses.
The well known and understood logic behind our community led (women and men) approaches that federation of slum communities acted as a pressure group for channeling housing assistance directly to the poor, allowed communities led by women to take an active part in their own housing development, use of upgraded skill of local masons which is seen empowering in terms of allowing them an opportunity to make choices in shelter development.
Availed bank loan of Rs.17,000/- (10% contribution for Government 90% subsidy housing scheme ) at a lowest rate of interest @.4% per year under Differential Rate of Interest from Punjab National Bank and community as the co-lateral is the unique feature of this shelter development programme.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
In 1998, a major demolition in the city of Bhubaneshwar forced thousands of poor slum dwellers to suddenly become homeless. It was at this time Mr. R. K. Parida, Secretary of the organization is the social motivator began working with urban communities and has been organizing the urban poor around issues of secure land tenure, housing and sanitation. At the core this intervention was that communities of the poor came together, organize themselves, managerial capacities, and led negotiations with the state for secure land tenure, housing and basic amenities. This experience built the confidence of community initiatives change process and the activities of DAWN spread to four cities in Orissa and Kolkata in West Bengal.
The focus of the activities based on capacity building and institution building through own resource building whether money or information or human capacity. This meets daily emergency needs to income generation to placing foundation stone for going ahead for secure land tenure, housing, facilitating community sanitation and infrastructure. This practice of daily savings and repayment gives rise to the building up of the federation at neighborhood to city to state level to be equipped to handle the issues of the city, organizing, federating poor to provide solutions to the city authorities, establishing a relationship of partnership- equation of equality, as the primary partners. A change in attitude- that the poor are always understood as problem, which needs to be dealt by making the poor to provide solutions to traditional decision makers.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
Who or what (i.e. youth, women, environment, etc.) benefits from your project, and why is your project critical?
Construction of house in leased land built the confidence of the slumdwellers for security and released the stress of slum demolition in future. The process of construction activities enhanced the social cohesion of the community which paved the way to combat the threat of outsiders for a secured life. It has provided opportunities for women entrepreneurs to start small business at their door step and access loan from financial institutions for livelihood promotion. The children got a space in their houses to study and better performance of the children is noticed in their school. Health hazards started decreasing due to better housing condition of the slum dwellers.
The partnership model among Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), NGO DAWN and Slum community in shelter developmen
Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured.
First Year: 565 houses in Bharatpur Slum and 110 houses in Dumduma Slum were constructed in Bhubaneswar, the Capital City of Orissa.
Second Year: Construction of another 1200 houses under progress and to include another Slum, namely, Nayapalli Sabar Sahi, Bhubaneswar.
Third Year: Planning for replicating to other slums of the City.
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
101-1000
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
اختار
What barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?
Non-participation of bidders for Low cost housing in Slums:
Based on the guidelines of Basic Services for Urban Poor (BSUP) under JNNURM scheme, the Govt. of India approved Detailed Project Reports for three Slums, submitted by Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation & sanctioned funds out of which the 1st installment of funds was received by BMC from the Govt. in the end of March, 2008. The slum communities who have been displaced since two decades have been pressing hard to the Municipal authorities & Commissioner-cum- Secretary to Govt. H & UD Deptt. , Orissa to provide them their housing rights which have been sanctioned by Govt. of India. They have also expressed their preparedness to built their own houses.After reviewing the non-participation of bidders in BSUP, the Commissioner-cum-Se
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFor each selection, please explain the financial and non-financial support from each
How do you plan to grow and/or diversify your base of support in the next three years?
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءPlease select your areas of intervention in the home improvement market
Is your innovation addressing barriers in the home improvement/progressive housing market? If so, please describe in detail your mechanisms of intervention
Are you currently collaborating with private companies, or have you partnered with private companies in the past? With which companies?
Please describe in detail the nature of the partnership(s)
Select the unit(s) with which the partnership was formed
Created on 01/20/2011 by nuevaarquitectura
Este es un proyecto integral donde la familia es el centro, en torno al que se desarrollan las siguientes actividades: construcción de la vivienda sustentable; cultivos, cuidado del medio ambiente y aprovechamiento de energías alternativas de acuerdo a los códigos de permacultura; oportunidades laborales dentro y fuera del vecindario, para lograr la autosuficiencia y el buen vivir.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءالبلد الذي تعمل به هذه المؤسسة على إنشاء تأثير اجتماعي
كم مضى على عمل مؤسستك؟
تعمل منذ ما يزيد عن 5 سنوات
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءDescribe your project
Este es un proyecto integral donde la familia es el centro, en torno al que se desarrollan las siguientes actividades: construcción de la vivienda sustentable; cultivos, cuidado del medio ambiente y aprovechamiento de energías alternativas de acuerdo a los códigos de permacultura; oportunidades laborales dentro y fuera del vecindario, para lograr la autosuficiencia y el buen vivir.
Se seleccionará el barrio en el cual se va a aplicar el proyecto. Se creará un Cluster Integrado, compuesto por : todas las familias y profesionales y organizaciones gubernamentales y privadas afines al proyecto. Se creará y realizará un de Plan de trabajo. Se aspira a una asistencia permanente de parte de los profesionales competentes.
What stage is your project in?
تعمل منذ ما يزيد عن 5 سنوات
What makes your project unique as it relates to the theme of this competition?
Nuestro proyecto está basado en experiencia propia (bioconstrucción, reciclaje, permacultura) a pesar de que no somos una organización registrada.
Pretendemos formar un Cluster Integrado compuesto por : las familias del barrio, los profesionales afines a la Bioarquitectura, Permacultura, Sociología, Ingeniería, Salud, Educación, Organizaciones Gubernamentales, Privadas y Financieras, a fin de colaborar con el proyecto. Las familias son las protagonistas del proyecto, definirán, administrarán, y llevarán a cabo el mismo. Los profesionales respetarán sus intereses y cultura.
Se crearán comisiones responsables de cada uno de los ítems del proyecto, incluso un centro de búsqueda de empleo.
Éste vecindario será sustentable económicamente por sí mismo si atiende a las propuestas del proyecto: autoconstrucción con materiales biocompatibles, plan comercial: huertas familiares y todos los árboles que se planten sean productores de fruto, venta de manufactura de reciclaje, venta de excedentes de energía alternativa y la comercialización de la visita de turistas al “barrio viviente”. Esto también será la base para poder devolver los préstamos reembolsables.
Los niños y jóvenes sacarán provecho de éstas actividades que los motivará a definir su vocación del futuro.
Se sugiere que estudiantes universitarios y jubilados colaboren en el desarrollo del vecindario en forma permanente.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
Luego que dejé la Universidad, comencé por mi mismo a estudiar y trabajar en Bioarquitectura.
He trabajado, estudiado y enseñado en España, Argentina, USA, Perú, Nueva Zelanda, Suiza en Bioarquitectura. Comencé en Uruguay construyendo viviendas de tierra para clientes particulares. En Uruguay poco a poco la sociedad está aceptando la vivienda de tierra como una solución económica y sana.
En Perú hice trabajos voluntarios para el Departamento de Investigación y Desarrollo de Sensico (Escuela de la Construcción). Enseñé a familias del Altiplano de Titicaca como obtener calor desde sus paredes de adobe, ya que a esas alturas no hay madera suficiente y tampoco energía eléctrica. También les enseñé estructuras livianas de cañas para techos con la forma de domo.
En Nueva Zelanda compartí clases de Construcciones de Tierra en la Universidad de Auckland y participé de trabajos privados en el mejoramiento de revoques finales de tierra (con agregado de papel).
He observado que en los barrios marginales se padecen los efectos negativos de la falta de poder económico, pero al mismo tiempo creo que tienen un alto potencial para lograr sustentabilidad económica, solo hay que organizarlos y darles esa oportunidad, eso fue lo que me inspiró a formar este proyecto.
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Who or what (i.e. youth, women, environment, etc.) benefits from your project, and why is your project critical?
Este proyecto beneficia a toda la familia: bebes, niños, jóvenes, adultos y ancianos. También beneficia al entorno donde el proyecto va a estar desarrollándose, y a los organismos del Estado por ser un ejemplo a tomar.
Nosotros pensamos que nuestro proyecto es crítico porque estamos respondiendo a las necesidades básicas de miles de personas en una forma integradora, la acción familiar junto a los profesionales y los organismos.
Estamos respondiendo con planes de acción que pueden ser imitados por otras familias en las mismas circunstancias en cualquier parte del mundo. Queremos cuidar el medio ambiente y sacar provecho de él en forma responsable sin contaminar ni explotar. También enseñarle a la gente modales del buen vivir con el prójimo y la madre tierra.
Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured.
En forma indirecta al proyecto, hemos tenido experiencias directas en bioconstrucción, energías alternativas y agricultura las cuales han beneficiado a las familias en extrema necesidad.
Algunos organismos del Estado han tomado ejemplo de nuestros trabajos y lo han aplicado hoy en día. Por ejemplo, fui a Perú a trabajar voluntariamente para SENCICO (Escuela de Construcción) y entre todos los trabajos que hice uno de ellos fue enseñar a familias del altiplano (arriba de los 4 000m) como obtener calor de las paredes de adobe para calefaccionar sus viviendas. SENCICO me informó que el Ministerio de Vivienda está tomando ejemplo de ese sistema y aplicándolo en nuevas viviendas.
Otros integrantes del equipo tienen experiencia también en bioarquitectura, y agricultura.
A medida que el proyecto se va llevando a cabo, el Cluster Integrado evaluará las acciones realizadas para asegurar el cumplimiento de los objetivos planteados en el plan de trabajo.
El éxito se alcanzará una vez que las familias hayan logrado :
vivienda propia, uso y aprovechamiento de las energías alternativas, sustentabilidad económica, educación a todas las edades, integración social, disponibilidad de atención médica, seguridad.
La autosuficiencia económica será el resultado de las metas alcanzadas, si las familias integrantes resuelven sus problemas económicos a través de las oportunidades laborales que se van a presentar dentro y fuera del vecindario.
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
101-1000
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
101-1000
What barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?
Primeramente la falta de voluntad de parte de las familias para llevar a cabo los planes de sustentabilidad. Y segundo el no conseguir apoyo financiero.
Para sobreponernos a ellos debemos presentarnos a todos los organismos posibles para que sepan que necesitamos la ayuda buscada, incluso presentarnos al plan de “bonos verdes”.
Consideramos muy importante educar a la gente con profesionales competentes para prepararlos para sus nuevas responsabilidades.
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
Los primeros seis meses serán dedicados a organizar todo el proyecto, desarrollar el plan de trabajo, formar las comisiones, y conseguir financiamiento. En el segundo semestre se construirán las viviendas
En el segundo año se comenzarán a desarrollar las huertas familiares y se plantarán los árboles frutales. Se reciclarán papel, plástico, y vidrio, y se comenzará con la fabricación y venta de los productos reciclados. Uso de energías alternativas y venta del exceso. Desarrollo de electrodomésticos mecánicos. Formación Técnica y Profesional orientada a la creación de empresas propias.
En el tercer año estará todo marchando en forma ideal. Seguridad, Higiene y salud, Educación (ejemplo: formación de biblioteca) . Promoción turística como base de ingresos.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFor each selection, please explain the financial and non-financial support from each
Apoyo financiero: será destinado para comprar los materiales de la construcción de las viviendas que no se puedan fabricar por las mismas familias. También se financiará la dirección profesional para arquitectura y permacultura, el tratamiento de las tierras para cultivo, las semillas, árboles frutales, los abonos orgánicos, las medicinas para las plantas, la compra de los sistemas de energía alternativa, la maquinaria para la fábrica de productos reciclados. Creemos que podemos conseguir apoyo de organizaciones que den préstamos no reembolsables y en casos de préstamos reembolsables se pagarán con las ganancias de la producción de los materiales reciclables.
No financiero: la mano de obra para construir las casas será donada por las mismas familias, la propiedad de la tierra será donada por el mismo gobierno. La maquinaria para la infraestructura de las calles, la aportará el Municipio. Se le planteará al Estado que la contribución inmobiliaria sea pagada durante el resto de los años con mano de obra directa en los casos en el que las familias no cuenten con el dinero necesario para hacerlo, una opción no muy usada en éste mundo moderno que para nosotros es clave en el proyecto.
How do you plan to grow and/or diversify your base of support in the next three years?
A través de la comercialización de los productos derivados del reciclaje, la venta de exceso de las energías alternativas y productos agrícolas, y cualquier otro negocio que surja de las mismas familias.
1. Tomando en cuenta que la recolección de residuos reciclables es el trabajo que por lo general realizan las personas de los barrios marginales en Uruguay, Argentina y Brasil, consideramos oportuno la creación de una fábrica que elabore esos residuos a fin de que adquieran valor agregado. Se orientará a producir materiales útiles para la construcción (aislación, cielorasos, etc ) y a comercializar. Todas las familias del barrio entregarán los residuos a las personas que se dediquen a esa tarea.
2. Creación de micro empresas compuestas por individuos del vecindario. Las mismas surgirán de acuerdo a las habilidades, experiencia y cultura de los participantes y posibilidades de mercado. Ejemplo: creemos que surgirá Empresa Constructora especializada en Bioconstrucción, la cual podrá ofrecer sus servicios a nivel nacional.
3. Creación de oficina de búsqueda de empleo: cuando no hayan vacantes dentro del barrio, la comisión encargada tendrá disponibles ofertas de trabajo más allá del barrio.
4. Ahorro de dinero a través del uso de energías alternativas (solar, eólica y mecánica). Se sugiere el uso de energía mecánica para hacer funcionar electrodomésticos: bicicleta multiuso.
5. Venta de excedentes de la huerta familiar, árboles frutales y energías alternativas.
6. Comercialización turística: se promocionará la visita de turistas.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءPlease select your areas of intervention in the home improvement market
التصميم, Technology, Technical assistance, Labor, Sanitation, Water, Infrastructure, Energy conservation, Renewable energy, Green housing, Environment, Income generation, Urban development, Citizen/community participation.
Is your innovation addressing barriers in the home improvement/progressive housing market? If so, please describe in detail your mechanisms of intervention
Si,
1. Los materiales a usar serán baratos por ser materiales ecológicos extraídos del lugar, por ejemplo la tierra para hacer los adobes.
2. Las familias construirán por si mismas, lo cual significará un ahorro muy importante de dinero
3. Habrá un ahorro significativo de energía
4. Pensamos que una ciudad planeada de antemano ayuda a enfrentar barreras o problemas que se presentan cuando no se planea nada.
5. Diseñar una vivienda pensada en que en el futuro se debe ampliar y preveer todos sus sistemas sanitarios y eléctricos y espacios verdes, a fin de que en su futura ampliación no tenga problemas.
6. Mantener una relación constante con los profesionales de Bioarquitectura ayuda a prever problemas, y a que el proyecto siga avanzando.
Are you currently collaborating with private companies, or have you partnered with private companies in the past? With which companies?
Geoabitar, Chile. Robert Campbell and associates (USA), SENCICO, Perú
Please describe in detail the nature of the partnership(s)
Geoabitar: estudio de bioarquitecutra y de geobillogía, he sido asesor.
Robert Campbell and associates: como socio en una empresa constructora.
SENCICO: voluntariado
Select the unit(s) with which the partnership was formed
Sales department, R&D department.
Created on 11/15/2010 by rajnishdhall
The informal sector, estimated at 90% of the working population, cannot access finance from banks due to a lack of documentation (IT returns, salary certificates, etc) due to which they cannot prove incomes. Many earn a decent income and can afford a housing loan of upto Rs 5-6 lakhs but since financially excluded, have to continue to stay (and mostly rent) in slums where the conditions are terrible.
مزيد من المعلومات ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءاسم المؤسسة
Micro Housing Finance Corporation ("MHFC")
عنوان المؤسسة
3, Victoria Building, S A Brelvi Road, off Horniman Circle, Fort, Mumbai - 400001
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تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
المعلومات التي تقدمها هنا ستُستخدم لملء أي جزء من أجزاء ملفك الشخصي التي تم تركها فارغة، مثل الاهتمامات ومعلومات المؤسسة وموقع الويب. لن تتاح أية معلومات اتصال بشكل عام. الرجاء إلغاء تحديد المربع هنا إذا كنت لا تريد حدوث هذا..
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءتسمية مشاركتك
Housing Finance for urban financially excluded families (typically lower income and from the informal sector)
Describe your project
The informal sector, estimated at 90% of the working population, cannot access finance from banks due to a lack of documentation (IT returns, salary certificates, etc) due to which they cannot prove incomes. Many earn a decent income and can afford a housing loan of upto Rs 5-6 lakhs but since financially excluded, have to continue to stay (and mostly rent) in slums where the conditions are terrible. MHFC is the first housing finance company in India solely focussed on this segment and takes a microfinance style approach - of getting to know the customers closely - and through a combination of personal interviews and verifications, and income bechmarking surveys, is able to assess incomes of customers like taxi drivers, maids, vendors, carpenters, mechanics, plumbers, tradesmen, etc.
What stage is your project in?
تعمل منذ 1-5 سنوات
What makes your project unique as it relates to the theme of this competition?
MHFC is the first and currently only organisation which is focussed on helping urban lower income families (esp those who lack documentation) own a home by helping with financing. It is a completely unique model and completely necessary if the eco system of lower income housing needs to be built (latest govt of India figures peg the shortfall at 25 Million homes and this is deemed to be understated heavily). There is no denying the massive demand but developers state that even if they came forward and built for lower income families - in the price range of less than 10 lakhs, lower income families do not get financing. As a result, developers will not even build unless they believe that aspiration to own a home is backed by real purchasing power. Hence, for the eco system (of providing affordable housing for urban lower income families) to be built, financing is a crucial part of the equation. Unfortunately, as on date, families are excluded because they lack documentation - and in India, almost 90% of the workforce is from the informal sector and lacks paperwork. Thus, an organisation like MHFC (and many more such MHFCs) is imperative to try and help solve the housing problem. Regarding the theme, in order for housing for lower income urban families to be sustainable, we believe it must be a market based solution and this is not possible unless there is financing the same way that there is financing for urban middle and upper income families.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
The housing problem is easily visible in a city like Mumbai - over 60% of the 20 Million population live in slums in very poor living conditions. This is despite the fact that many dwellers pay rents which could be used to buy one's own home. But homes are not being built because builders do not believe (and they are right in this) that this segment will get housing loans. This is what MHFC would like to change. The company was founded because the driver of one of the founders asked for a housing loan - which he could easily service and pay over 7 years - but no mainstream bank would be willing to support. It made us realise that there is a large market firstly but more than that this is a social issue (lack of housing) that could be solved (at least partially) if there were financiers for this segment of the population.
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Who or what (i.e. youth, women, environment, etc.) benefits from your project, and why is your project critical?
Our customers currently live in slums (generally in a 150 sq ft room) in very poor living conditions (lack of sanitation / water / electricity / light etc). Generally, they also pay a high cost - rents are going up almost every year - and also there is an inconvenience factor of having to move every 11 months (as the landlord is wary of tenancy rights). We are giving an opportunity - through financial inclusion - of home ownership (generally about 350 sq ft flats which have clear title and decent quality with access to municipal sanitation / water / electricity). This is a massive instrument of change - both in terms of improvement in quality of life and also in terms of savings (to own an asset over say 15 years and which generally increases tremendously in value).
Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured.
About 400 families have already been given loans and have moved into / will be moving into homes which are very similar to that of middle income home quality - only difference being a smaller size home - of say 350 sq ft - but this is still bigger than current home size in the slums (about 150 to 200 sq ft). Furthermore, what is inspiring is that all our loans (approx Rs 15 crores or $ 3 MM) are being repaid on time - we have no past dues. As a result, MHFC is all set to scale and we expect to sanction loans (aggregating $ 12 MM or Rs 60 cr) to 1500 families by the end of FYE 3/2011 - and within 5 years, we expect to reach at least 50,000 families - and sanction an amount of $ 400 MM or Rs 2000 cr. This is still only scratching the surface of the problem but at least its a start and if we are succcessful, we expect several more MHFCs catering to urban lower income families to come up, and provide the eco system a bigger fillip. There is no reason why there cannot be a construction industry built on sustainable grounds aimed at lower income families - just like it has been succcessful for middle and upper income families.
كم عدد الأشخاص الذين تأثروا بمشروعك؟ لن يؤثر هذا العدد في مشاركتك، ولكننا نريد منك فقط معرفة النقطة التي وصل إليها ابتكارك في مرحلته الحالية.
1001-10000
وبعد ذلك، كم عدد الأشخاص الذينربما يتأثرون بمشروعك في الثلاث سنوات القادمة؟ كن واقعيًا، لكن كن طموحًا!
أكثر من 10000
What barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?
We have strong govt and regulatory support. But we need builders - as till date there has been no construction aimed at lower income families - there is huge unmet demand in middle and upper income segments and builders have also felt (correctly) that there is a financing problem for lower income families. MHFC spends a lot of time stimulating builders with the thought that this segment is fairly recession proof as there is unmet demand of over 20 Million families - and now MHFC is also there to support the financing requirements. But yes, there are barriers for the builders - in that land is not cheap and so they would rather use the land to build more expensive properties. The govt must step in and help incentivise the builders to build more for the poor.
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
As stated above, MHFC expects to sanction loans (aggregating $ 12 MM or Rs 60 cr) to 1500 families by the end of FYE 3/2011 - and within 3 years, we expect to reach at least 10,000 families - and sanction an amount of $ 80 MM or Rs 400 cr. We expect to be in at least 10 to 12 Indian cities - curently we are in Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad and Kolkatta.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءFor each selection, please explain the financial and non-financial support from each
Current equity base approx $ 6 MM - of which about $ 1 MM from friends and family and $ 5 MM approx from the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation and the India Financial Inclusion Fund.
How do you plan to grow and/or diversify your base of support in the next three years?
We are a for profit and expect to grow in a sustainable manner. If there is reasonable proof of concept, we expect to be able to raise commercial debt and also equity from commercial investors.
We also expect to have several partnerships with NGOs / MFIs / institutions that have employees in our customer base (like taxi companies / cable TV companies) - so that we can bridge the information gap and spread awareness on projects and financing that is available.
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءPlease select your areas of intervention in the home improvement market
Financing, Property rights.
Is your innovation addressing barriers in the home improvement/progressive housing market? If so, please describe in detail your mechanisms of intervention
Not really - we are focussed on helping individuals buy their first home - for use as primary residence.
Are you currently collaborating with private companies, or have you partnered with private companies in the past? With which companies?
Please describe in detail the nature of the partnership(s)
We encourage builders to aim their projects at lower income families and assure them that the aspiration will be converted to real demand with our financing. We think that we are valuable partners for builders in that we are adding to their potential demand by focussing on a completely excluded segment.
Select the unit(s) with which the partnership was formed
Marketing department, Sales department.
Created on 11/3/2010 by sahu.dr
Accessed housing rights by slum communities through women’s lead role, self built housing rather than contractor built, use of local upgraded skill and technique in a Government subsidy housing scheme, Bank loan in a lowest rate of interest leads to informed choice of the urban poor in housing sector.
Visit websitemore ↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءIs your initiative connected to an established organization?
اسم المؤسسة
Development Alternatives for Wider Network (DAWN)
عنوان المؤسسة
M-5/6, Arya Vihar, Sailashree Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Orissa.
How long has this organization been operating?
تعمل منذ ما يزيد عن 5 سنوات
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءName your project.
Community Managed Women focus housing rights by the Slum dwellers of Orissa
Describe Your Idea
Accessed housing rights by slum communities through women’s lead role, self built housing rather than contractor built, use of local upgraded skill and technique in a Government subsidy housing scheme, Bank loan in a lowest rate of interest leads to informed choice of the urban poor in housing sector.
Country your work focuses on
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءWhat makes your idea unique?
Our idea is unique that there is a paradigm shift in the approach for the shelter development programme from contractor built to people built. In case of Government of Orissa, all construction activities are done through tendering process of the contractors. In this case, the slum communities accessed their housing rights to build their own houses.
The well known and understood logic behind our community led (women and men) approaches that federation of slum communities acted as a pressure group for channeling housing assistance directly to the poor, allowed communities led by women to take an active part in their own housing development, use of upgraded skill of local masons which is seen empowering in terms of allowing them an opportunity to make choices in shelter development.
Availed bank loan of Rs.17,000/- (10% contribution for Government 90% subsidy housing scheme ) at a lowest rate of interest @.4% per year under Differential Rate of Interest from Punjab National Bank and community as the co-lateral is the unique feature of this shelter development programme.
Do you have a patent for this idea?
مزيد من المعلومات↓↑ إخفاء↑ إخفاءThis Entry is about (Issues)
Tell us about the social impact of your innovation. Please include both numbers and stories as evidence of this impact
Construction of house in leased land built the confidence of the slumdwellers for security and released the stress of slum demolition in future. The process of construction activities enhanced the social cohesion of the community which paved the way to combat the threat of outsiders for a secured life. It has provided opportunities for women entrepreneurs to start small business at their door step and access loan from financial institutions for livelihood promotion. The children got a space in their houses to study and better performance of the children is noticed in their school. Health hazards started decreasing due to better housing condition of the slum dwellers.
The partnership model among Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), NGO DAWN and Slum community in shelter development has explored the strength and roles of each partner and worked together through bridging the divide of hostility, resentment and suspicion for a successful shelter development in Bhubaneswar. It provides a new perspective and new vision to acknowledge that partnership is a new way in the development process for accepting each other’s complementary strengths.
Problem
Non-participation of bidders for Low cost housing in Slums:
Based on the guidelines of Basic Services for Urban Poor (BSUP) under JNNURM scheme, the Govt. of India approved Detailed Project Reports for three Slums, submitted by Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation & sanctioned funds out of which the 1st installment of funds was received by BMC from the Govt. in the end of March, 2008. The slum communities who h
