Here's a story about how members of the Changemakers community are working with businesses to help people in poor communities invest in building or expanding their homes:
For thousands of Mexicans like Rosa Magaña, the dream of living in a home large enough to humanely accommodate her family hovered far on the horizon. Then an initiative by a local building supply company in Guadalajara gave her the tools to make her dream come true. “Now I have a house in which my family lives a much better and more dignified life,” she said.
The company, cement manufacturer Cemex, found a way to address the numerous barriers to home building and home expansion for the millions of families living in single room shacks of corrugated metal or cardboard.
Read more about this solution, or discuss this topic below.
O último painel do Fórum de Empreendedorismo Social na Nova Economia, “Cidades Sustentáveis – Oportunidades para Empreendedores Sociais”, reuniu pessoas incríveis para discutir o papel e a importância das cidades no desenvolvimento sustentável, e como cada um de nós pode se mobilizar para contribuir com ele.
Criado: 03/24/11 por Anonymous
Albina Ruiz foi homenageada como uma agente de mudança na campanha ChangemakeHERS, uma celebração as mulheres mais influentes e inspiradoras do mundo. Convidamos você a conhecer aqui outras empreendedoras sociais em destaque<www.changemakers.com/blog/pt-br...>.
Escrito por Lorena López
Tudo começou com a criação de um sistema de micro-empresas responsável pela coleta e tratamento de resíduos urbanos visando cidades mais limpas e saudáveis no Peru. O maior êxito imediato foi a dignidade dada ao trabalho dos catadores de resíduos sólidos que passaram a pertencer a um sistema de emprego formal, digno e com acesso a contribuições sociais e aposentadoria. Albina Ruiz, fundadora da Ciudadsaludable.org, fala sobre sua experiência como empreendedora e as conquistas alcançadas que refletem em uma melhoria na vida das pessoas.
Qual é o seu superpoder?
Acredito no que eu faço. Amo meu trabalho. Já me ofereceram outras posições com mais dinheiro e sempre digo que não porque eu sou feliz fazendo isso.
Criado em 06/19/2013 por Danny Rivera
To provide a place (cafe) for young kids to have a safe, relaxing, social experience to help assist with homework help and to have a place where they can share their skills and talents. This would also be a place to make new friends and also to learn a better alternative way to eat smart.
Organização: El Puente Taylor-Wythe Leadership Center
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El Puente Taylor-Wythe Leadership Center
Página da organização na internet
Borough(s) where you are creating or plan on creating impact
Brooklyn.
País da organização
Estados Unidos , NY, Brooklyn, Kings County
Country where your solution is creating social impact
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each. These can be personal references (teachers, coaches, mentors, etc.). If you are entering a solution on behalf of an established organization please list references that can speak to your organization's work.
Rosa Scott - (C)646-257-0326 (W)718-782-5553
Theresa Doherty - 718-387-0404
Frances Lucerna - 718-387-0404
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Ideia (você está para lançar)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Ainda na fase de ideia, mas você deseja lançá-lo em breve
The Need for your solution: What problem or challenge are you trying to solve?
Libraries in NYC need a major make-over. There are not many places for young people to go study besides out dated libraries. Students need a place they can relate to, a place that they can relax and do their homework and study. Many times it is hard to do that when it is too noisy or hard to focus in our own home.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
we feel having a café for
children and young adults would make a big difference in our communities. These
generations of kids grow up learning that having drinks with lots of sugar and
easting fast food is normal. Well, unfortunately it is because its everywhere in and
out of our communities. Finally a place where you can eat and drink healthy while
you study, help someone study or even volunteer. Our idea is that there can be a
cafe in at least one community center per neighborhood.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities that are involved in your solution. Consider telling us a story about the solution in action and how it creates impact. For idea-stage pitches, consider providing a hypothetical example
Our ideas for sparking an urban cafe trend.
• Having access to read books and use the internet while still monitoring
the youth through supervision & restrictions to certain websites.
• Having a juice bar and snacks that can be tasty and nutritional
• Students can instruct their own workshops on many different topics
• There can be open mics at least once a month (dance, poems, songs, drama etc.)
• Tutors can be provided by organizations who hire and send tutors to help
• Have special guest speakers to help motivate the youth
• Have a safe and relaxing environment for students to feel welcomed and
want to work on their school work or art. There will be a schedule set for every activity starting at 3pm on weekdays and a few hours on Saturday.
Committees will form for specific duties in order for the cafe to run smoothly. This has the possibility to help create a positive culture in a community.
This is an example of how a weekday schedule for our cafe.
Mon.
3:30pm to 4:30pm-Homework/Tutoring/Research
4:30pm to 5:15pm-Read News 15Min/ Share News 15Min/ Debrief 15Min
5:15pm to 6pm-Work on your Art!
6pm to- 7:30pm-Mentoring
7:30pm to 9pm- Evening Cafe/ College Prep
The Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem that you are addressing with your solution. And how does your proposed solution differ from or build on these approaches?
We havent heard of any places within communities that have cafes for the youth.
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leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarFounding Story: Share a story about the “Aha!” moment that led you or the person who came up with your proposed solution to get started and/or to see the potential for it to succeed.
We have spoken about this a couple of months ago. We usually sell drinks and snack to fundraise at our center. My mentees, mentors and myself came up with an idea to have a urban cafe in our site and maybe in different communities. We thought we could use our liberation hall room which has nice color paint, sofas, rugs, beanbags, tables and computer stations.
Impact: What is the impact of your solution to date? Also describe the projected future impact. (If your solution is an idea you can just describe projected future impact.)
Many New York City neighborhoods develop a bad reputation due to crime or lack of organizations who target youth at risk. Community leaders have the opportunity to help change their environment. If adults don't have anything productive for the youth to do then the youth will find something to do among themselves. The outcome is not always pleasing.
We think it would make a great impact on youth because it would be a safe and positive place for young people to do homework, study, eat, drink, relax, chat with friends and also get tutored by a volunteer. They can also share and teach their skills and talents. We even feel this ideas can be a start to a trend for all communities to have cafes.
Full Impact Potential: How do you plan on spreading your solution moving forward? (Please consider spread within New York City or beyond, policy reform, how you might get others to replicate/adopt your solution or other mechanisms)
We know this idea have a lot of potential to be big and we feel it can start in NYC but other cities can use urban cafes for young people. We would like to start our cafe and work through trial and error and have different projects and can help build our very own cafe.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarCurrent annual budget, in US dollars (if your solution is an idea please estimate what your budget will need to be in order to carry out your solution)
$10.001‐50.000
Tell us about your partnerships. If your solution is an idea tell us about who you would partner or plan on partnering with in order to make your solution a success.
We have been in communication with other mentoring sites and we feel that we can get the support from them as well as give support to them. Also the staff and other community centers would be informed about our plan. Also our site is also part of the El Puente organization for Peace and Justice and they are a great resource to help support our idea.
World hunger and Slum management have always been pressing issues in developing countries, hampering public sanitation and causing food scarcity. We created a solution which not only provides food to slum dwellers but also gets them employment and also generates profit to sustain the organization.
The project is designed with a purpose of enhancing the physiological nourishment of the urban farmers, their households and communities without compromising but enriching the environment. It is also aimed at empowering the urban poor-youth and women with capacities and abilities to generate income.
Criado em 06/17/2013 por gunteitb
PWSS (Paguyuban Warga Strenkali Surabaya, Association of Strenkali Residents in Surabaya) fought to promote participatory and self-reliant villages development. Therefore the concept Promotion of Urban 2-Stories Vertical Agriculture Small-Scale Testing is proposed.
Organização: Petra Christian University
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome da Organização
Petra Christian University
Página da organização na internet
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
A organização recebeu algum prêmio ou reconhecimento público? Por favor, conte-nos mais detalhes
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PROMOTING URBAN 2-STORIES VERTICAL FARMING IN THE RIVERSIDE AREAS
Estágio
Ideia (pronto pra lançar)
Temas relacionados à inscrição
Elevator Pitch
PWSS (Paguyuban Warga Strenkali Surabaya, Association of Strenkali Residents in Surabaya) fought to promote participatory and self-reliant villages development. Therefore the concept Promotion of Urban 2-Stories Vertical Agriculture Small-Scale Testing is proposed.
Problema
- The vertical urban agriculture was needed for the PWSS community for producing the vegetables for daily consumption and prevent the economical impact from expensive vegetables.
- The compost produced with Takakura methods and river water supply could support the vegetables production,
- The greenery of area could reduce the local urban heat island,
- The vertical urban agriculture can generate the local income for the PWSS women member,
Solução
Therefore the program concept proposed is the Promotion of Urban Vertical Farming but for 1-2 stories building in the Surabaya Riverside Villages. The Promotion will involve the Architect, Planner, Agriculture Expert and Social Organiser. And the community would be involved to participate in the Focus Group Discussion to plan, organise and try the Urban 2-Stories Vertical Farming. Later on, a guideline Urban 2 stories Vertical Farming would be developed for other Riverside areas in Surabaya. Small-scale testing is to be implemented in the form of experiments using 3 different media composition for amaranth (Amaranthus hybridus), mustard (Brassica few), tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), pepper (Capsicum annuum) and leek (Allium fistulosum).
Exemplo
Fraser, Evan D.G. (2002) described two lessons learned from the Bangkok Urban Farming Project. First, the community participation was a viable way of meeting both community needs and environmental goals. Both communities were engaged and excited to improve their environment translated in the communities’ green plans .
In Bangkok Noi, residents decided that they wanted their site to (1) improve local ecology, (2) create recreational areas, (3) provide an ecological demonstration area for local school children, (4) improve community relations, and (5) provide a source of vegetables and other foodstuffs. In addition, as the project unfolded, the communities became more and more excited to improve their neighbourhoods.
Impacto
The urban environment became a lens through which communities re-evaluated their own relationship with the city, the impact of urbanization in a global context, and how small groups can exert some control over the shape of their neighbourhoods. In 2001, inspired by the work done in these two communities, the BMA decided to provide funding to replicate this process in one community from each of Bangkok's fifty Kehts. The BMA convened an initial meeting with community leaders and distributed the booklet describing this process that was produced by TEI. It is unlikely that this project would have had this scope if TEI and ICSC had merely hired a landscaping company to establish parks. Instead, by working with communities, and providing a basic framework that any group could follow, this project has been able to grow far beyond its original scope.
Mercado
They sold the products to surrounding market and use the vegetable themselves
Plano de Sustentabilidade
The PWSS supported the greening by collecting funding from themselves and some from the local government. Further vegetable sales also will support them.
Histório de Fundação
We met a year ago discussing the possibility of urban farming. And we just met the community willing to implement them. Therefore, we tried to implement this program this year!
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Ambientes saudáveis, Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Se você tivesse uma capacidade maior, quais funções adicionais você gostaria que sua solução abordasse – por meio de expansão, parcerias, ou intercâmbio de ideias?
Ambientes saudáveis, Agricultura rica em nutrientes, Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Como, especificamente, esta capacidade adicional ajudaria a melhorar a qualidade, eficiência, ou sustentabilidade do seu produto ou serviço?
Hampwaye, G.; Nel, E. and Ingombe, L. (2009) study showed that urban agriculture contributed significantly towards household total income and access to cheap food, and consequently to poverty reduction. Our Program also would contributed to urban agriculture towards poverty alleviation and also to the nutrient provision for low income people in the urban villages.
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Pessoas precisam de nutrientes apropriados para crescer, aprender, e evitar doenças. Como você mede e segue níveis ou usa informações sobre nutrientes no seu trabalho?
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Considerando o fluxos dos nutrientes dos ecossistemas para o solo, para fazendas, para alimentos, para comunidades, quais são as barreiras para atingir vitalide para as pessoas e o planeta?
Outras barreiras identificadas
Na sua opinião, que desenvolvimentos precisam acontecer para ajudar a superar essas barreiras e produzir pessoas e um planeta mais rico em nutrientes e vitalidade?
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Você conhece alguma tendência promissora atual ou evidências que indicam que o desenvolvimento que você descreveu está surgindo? Por favor explique.
Approximately 100 words left (800 characters).
PWSS (Paguyuban Warga Strenkali Surabaya, Association of Strenkali Residents in Surabaya) fought to promote participatory and self-reliant villages development. Therefore the concept Promotion of Urban 2-Stories Vertical Agriculture Small-Scale Testing is proposed.
Criado em 06/10/2013 por tsipi
CITYarts brings young people and professional artists together to create Public Art. Through this creative process, CITYarts empowers youth and encourages children to become active participants in transforming communities. We move kids' energies away from trouble and into creative thinking.
Organização: CITYarts
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPágina da organização na internet
Borough(s) where you are creating or plan on creating impact
Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island.
País da organização
Estados Unidos , NY, New York, New York County
Country where your solution is creating social impact
Estados Unidos , NY, New York
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each. These can be personal references (teachers, coaches, mentors, etc.). If you are entering a solution on behalf of an established organization please list references that can speak to your organization's work.
Vera Sung is an Attorney at Law and has been on our Board for ten years. She can be reached at 212-964-8366 and VeraSung@aol.com
Carrie Cohen is the Chair of our Board and is also an Attorney at Law. She can be reached at 212-637-2264 and Carrie.Cohen@usdoj.gov
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CITYarts Community Identity
Selecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Estabelecido (estágios anteriores completos e com sucesso comprovado)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Em execução por mais de 5 anos
The Need for your solution: What problem or challenge are you trying to solve?
At-risk NYC youth in under-served communities are continuing to fall to the wayside of society; young black and Latino men growing up in under-served areas are particularly vulnerable to being pinned as “troubled youth”. These individuals get pushed onto paths in life that may not be a reflection of their abilities, their empathy, and their potential contribution to their communities. CITYarts’ programs work to expose youth to diverse perspectives and new opportunities; to open their eyes to the world of potential that is waiting for them, believing that when kids create, they do not destroy.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
CITYarts is determined to fight for the future success of these youth through public art, collaboration, and creativity. CITYarts’ projects are a combination of arts education and community development. We think that “when kids create, they do not destroy”, so by involving them in Community Mural projects that foster pride in community spaces and teach them the value of teamwork, the groups of young people we've worked with avoid a less productive path in life. Our Community Identity Program is a neighborhood revitalization program that addresses social issues through site specific works bringing local professional artists, youth, families and community members together to collaborate on the creation of art for their neighborhood.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities that are involved in your solution. Consider telling us a story about the solution in action and how it creates impact. For idea-stage pitches, consider providing a hypothetical example
In 2011, the Polo Grounds Community Center Project began with workshops in which participating youth were given time to paint and draw their ideas about peace, kindness, respect -themes of the planned mural. The mural was later painted by the kids, members of the community, and professional artist, Tova Snyder. Professor of Toy Design at NYU, Assaf Eshet, was invited to teach two workshops for a group of students. During these workshops, kids learned about sustainability by creating toy cars from recycled materials. After the creation, participants cheered each other on as each car raced from the starting line. After the completion of the Polo Grounds Community Center, one young boy said he felt like he made history and that he would be proud to tell his children he had been a part of the community’s effort. Another participant said he appreciated the process of the mural project because “we need art in our lives so we can dream, imagine, and wonder”. These projects give underprivileged kids a sense of empowerment that they may not otherwise have and, while the future impact of this may be difficult to measure, we can certainly assume that it's significant.
The Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem that you are addressing with your solution. And how does your proposed solution differ from or build on these approaches?
The 92nd Street Y, located on the upper east side of Manhattan, does some similar work with at-risk youth. Their program, however, focuses more on working with individuals who are more advanced in their talents. CITYarts works with children and youth of under-served communities, but of all artistic abilities. There are no other requirements for participation other than a parent-signed permission form and a copyright waiver form. The workshops provide individuals with entirely new ideas they may not otherwise have access to. They are incredibly educational, and they are free.
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leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarFounding Story: Share a story about the “Aha!” moment that led you or the person who came up with your proposed solution to get started and/or to see the potential for it to succeed.
Post 9/11 in New York, the kids in our projects asked “why are they doing this to us?”. That was one of the many “Aha” moments that I continually experience as the Executive and Creative Director at CITYarts. Every “Aha!” moment that comes my way motivates me to create new ways children and youth can express and understand themselves and others through art and community building. My desire is to engage children and youth in positive, creative art projects that motivate them to shape their individual futures and to transform their communities for the better. While many of our projects are focused on a younger age group, we are always looking at how we can branch out to affect more of our local youth.
Impact: What is the impact of your solution to date? Also describe the projected future impact. (If your solution is an idea you can just describe projected future impact.)
Over decades of mural creation in New York City, a majority of the murals are still in existence and have never been vandalized. Their permanence allows youth to carry feelings of pride with them over many years, and possibly for their entire lives as they continue to revisit the site of their creation. While our solution doesn't seek to directly set individuals up with an employment opportunity, our programs allow for a fundamental shift in the understanding of what is possible. The projects expose kids to feelings of hope; help them to believe that they can achieve their dreams and that the world is full of possibilities. This means a more healthy youth, focused on academic and creative production and committed to their local community.
Full Impact Potential: How do you plan on spreading your solution moving forward? (Please consider spread within New York City or beyond, policy reform, how you might get others to replicate/adopt your solution or other mechanisms)
We plan to continue to add to preexisting programs, while simultaneously developing some of our newer programs. CITYarts has multiple projects throughout New York City operating at the same time. Each project is unique and geared toward a certain community and cause. Between publicity, word of mouth, and our murals that speak for themselves, CITYarts is steadily busy with new projects. Our efforts are not limited to New York City; CITYarts has collaborated with global artists to create Peace Murals worldwide, along with our ongoing Pieces for Peace Project. Pieces for Peace works to build bridges of cultural understanding by connecting youth from around the world with each other and with society as a whole through the creation of art.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarCurrent annual budget, in US dollars (if your solution is an idea please estimate what your budget will need to be in order to carry out your solution)
$250.001‐500.000
Tell us about your partnerships. If your solution is an idea tell us about who you would partner or plan on partnering with in order to make your solution a success.
CITYarts collaborates with many individuals, groups and schools on a per project basis. We are always seeking out the most relevant collaborators for our particular project goals. On each mural, we work with a different professional artist to develop the design and to see the project through to completion. We have worked with local groups such as Stryker's Bay Neighborhood Council, Polo Grounds Community Center, and P.S 328.
Criado em 06/9/2013 por Freedom7
Aquaponics. This is about a new way.It is a steadfast belief that by producing pesticide free, hormone and GMO free, organic fruits ,fish and vegetables locally at competitive prices we can end food deserts, employ local residents and educate children and adults on a healthier way of living. Join Us
Organização: Freedom Farms
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Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
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Start-up (piloto lançado e começando a operar)
Temas relacionados à inscrição
Elevator Pitch
Aquaponics. This is about a new way.It is a steadfast belief that by producing pesticide free, hormone and GMO free, organic fruits ,fish and vegetables locally at competitive prices we can end food deserts, employ local residents and educate children and adults on a healthier way of living. Join Us
Problema
Health: Chronic ailments like Heart Disease, Diabetes,
Obesity and Stroke. In the African American community these ailments are far too common and are the leading causes of death in some age groups.
Unemployment: Certain communities in DC have unemployment numbers that are more twice the national average.
Undeveloped or derelict land:DC has a large number of undeveloped or under utilized spaces that need profitable low investment aplications.
Solução
Aquaponic Farming brings a lucrative industry into depressed communities and offers residents with little or no education a pathway to economic security. For youth, single mothers and returned citizens Aquaponic Farming is a vital bridge into the workforce. By employing these “hard to hire” residents we can begin to change the economic landscape in Wards 5, 7 and 8.
Locally grown means less pollution. Aquaponic gardening cuts out the “middle man” when it comes to fresh produce. By avoiding the costly shipping can cut costs and pollution.
Growing healthy Communities s one of the foundational tenets of Freedom Farms. We will end food deserts and change eating habits
Exemplo
An Oasis In The Desert The The US Department of Agriculture reports that about 18,000 D.C. residents live in food deserts, where there are also high concentrations of children. In one such food desert, 39 percent of residents are children. By providing fresh healthy local food choices to these underserved populations we can improve health outcomes for children and adults. This is about providing access to residents who have not been able to find or afford locally grown fresh produce.
Impacto
Growing healthy Communities is one of the foundational tenets of Freedom Farms. Our produce will not only grace the tables of high end restaurants in the District of Columbia, it will also grace the cafeteria tables of DC public Schools both charter and traditional. We have the opportunity to become a national model for putting locally sourced organic produce on the plates of public school students in school and in their homes. Within 90 days of opening our doors we will be able to begin food deliveries.
Mercado
Not only organic but local. In an industry where organic equals dollar
signs and freshness equals desirability our business model serves a growing need for fresh locally grown organic fruits and vegetables. With relatively low overhead and high production output, Freedom Farms will become the source for high end produce not only for elite restaurateurs but also local school children and seniors. This mix of public and private revenue streams will defer any unexpected market fluctuations.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
Invest in the Future The Organic food market is growing. That means there is a demand that must be met. Our business model meets that need with an eco friendly community building system that produces significant profits and is scalable in order to meet demand. With DC's population growing and food instability nationwide growing as well, commercial aquaponic farming is the future of production for urban communities.
Histório de Fundação
When I walk through my city I see people looking for a chance. A chance for a job, a chance for an education, a chance for a better life. The systems that are supposed to work together to create those chances are often out of sync and provide less than ideal results. So I endeavored to find a way to provide residents with a catalyst for change. I looked at the major issues as I saw them; unemployment, unheathy living and lack of an interest in education. I looked at these problems and began to search for solutions that would address all three. I settled on Commercial Aquaponics because it is in fact a lesson on how systems can work together to produce a desired outcome. Not only in terms of plants and fish, but also in residents lives.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarOnde você garante a disponibilidade de nutrientes?
Ambientes saudáveis, Agricultura rica em nutrientes, Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Se você tivesse uma capacidade maior, quais funções adicionais você gostaria que sua solução abordasse – por meio de expansão, parcerias, ou intercâmbio de ideias?
Ambientes saudáveis, Agricultura rica em nutrientes, Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Como, especificamente, esta capacidade adicional ajudaria a melhorar a qualidade, eficiência, ou sustentabilidade do seu produto ou serviço?
Our business model is one that not only maximizes profits but also creates a pathway for community revitalization and empowerment. It is also easily scalable. The more we can grow as a company the more residents we can employ. This will change lives and provide healthy organic food in the process.
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Pessoas precisam de nutrientes apropriados para crescer, aprender, e evitar doenças. Como você mede e segue níveis ou usa informações sobre nutrientes no seu trabalho?
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Considerando o fluxos dos nutrientes dos ecossistemas para o solo, para fazendas, para alimentos, para comunidades, quais são as barreiras para atingir vitalide para as pessoas e o planeta?
Outras barreiras identificadas
Na sua opinião, que desenvolvimentos precisam acontecer para ajudar a superar essas barreiras e produzir pessoas e um planeta mais rico em nutrientes e vitalidade?
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Você conhece alguma tendência promissora atual ou evidências que indicam que o desenvolvimento que você descreveu está surgindo? Por favor explique.
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Criado em 06/9/2013 por Freedom7
This is about an idea. It is a steadfast belief that by producing pesticide free, hormone and GMO free, organic fruits ,fish and vegetables locally at competitive prices we can end food deserts, employ local residents and educate children and adults on a healthier way of living.
Organização: Freedom Farms
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPágina da organização na internet
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Temas relacionados à inscrição
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarA necessidade: Qual é o problema que você está tentando resolver?
Across the country Americans are eating better and living longer healthier lives. This however is not true in urban African American communities where food deserts and food instability have reached crisis levels. Chronic ailments such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes stroke and obesity are leading killers and can all be linked to an unhealthy diet. Our communities deserve better and that is what we are going to give them.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Freedom Farms will change the food landscape in wards 5,7 & 8 by ensuring that fresh healthy food choices are available locally at affordable prices. Freedom Farms will also provide education and empowerment by teaching healthy eating and cooking at it’s state of the art facilities. We shall be a beacon of healthy living and sustainable technology for not only the District but for the nation as a whole. This is about creating a new model for for community development that creates jobs, improves health outcomes and educates residents about the benefits of sustainable living..
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
Aquaponic Farming brings a lucrative industry into depressed communities and offers residents with little or no education a pathway to economic security. For youth, single mothers and returned citizens Aquaponic Farming is a vital bridge into the workforce. By employing these “hard to hire” residents we can begin to change the economic landscape in Wards 5, 7 and 8.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
There are no other commercial aquaponic facilities currently operating in the District of Columbia. We do however share a vibrant sustainable living gommunity that is full of ideas and innovaiton. DC is ready for change. We are the vanguard of that change.
Fresh Truck supports community health by operating a retrofitted school bus as a mobile healthy food market, serving up fresh and affordable fruits, vegetables, whole grains and other healthy food options. Fresh Truck's block party atmosphere works to build community around food and health.
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: Nashville Grown.
Criado em 04/22/2013 por Sarah Johnson
An entire city can efficiently feed itself on local produce alone, and we're out to prove it. First stop? Nashville. By aggregating produce from everything from tiny backyard gardens to multi-acre farms, we're building a wholesale distribution system for urban-farmed food that rivals Sysco.
Organização: Nashvile Grown
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País da organização
Estados Unidos , TN, Nashville, Davidson County
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Estados Unidos , TN, Nashville, Davidson County
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
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We received 2nd place and the audience favorite award in the Social Enterprise Alliance's Business for Good pitch competition in March 2013. The award included $2,500, office space for a year, and a 9-month seat in the Entrepreneur Center's incubator and mentorship program.
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Urban Farming Reimagined: Creating Large-Scale Distribution Opportunities for Micro-Sized Farms
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Crescimento (piloto operando e começando sua expansão)
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Elevator Pitch
An entire city can efficiently feed itself on local produce alone, and we're out to prove it. First stop? Nashville. By aggregating produce from everything from tiny backyard gardens to multi-acre farms, we're building a wholesale distribution system for urban-farmed food that rivals Sysco.
Problema
Most gardens and small farms lack the time, scale, and funds needed for refrigerated trucks, efficient cold storage, and other services like washing and packaging that most larger buyers require. As a result, local farms and gardens are stuck inefficiently selling via farmers markets and CSAs, the mainstream food system is largely unable to access local produce sources, and our average meal travels 2,000 miles before reaching our plate.
Solução
Nashville Grown is establishing Nashville's first urban food hub: a facility where urban farms and backyard gardens can wash, package, can, freeze, and store their produce to ensure that local food is available year-round. Most importantly, the food hub serves as an aggregator of produce, coordinating the supply chain and offering refrigerated delivery services, so ordering a hundred pounds of lettuce from a dozen backyard farms is just as easy as ordering from Sysco--but unlike Sysco, the product is more nutrient-dense, has a far smaller carbon footprint, and was literally grown next door. And since all produce items sold for retail are co-branded with farm bios, consumers can actually know where their food comes from.
Exemplo
The main disadvantage of urban agriculture is the ultra-small scale of urban farms. For example, Greenwood Gardens in East Nashville is a hydroponic lettuce, tomato, and herb grower operating out of a residential backyard. Even if they were able to produce enough to make it onto a wholesale buyer's Rolodex, they would never be able to afford a refrigerated truck, GAP-approved washing facilities, produce labels, or other equipment necessary to gain entry into the mainstream food system. By aggregating their produce with that of dozens of other growers like them and doing all the post-harvest handling and marketing for them, Nashville Grown eliminates this disadvantage, giving farms like Greenwood entry into the food system.
Impacto
Since launching in mid-September 2012, Nashville Grown has sold over 11,000 lbs of produce from 17 different small farms to 26 wholesale customers. With only a minimal 15% markup to cover our operating costs, we were able to return $25,856.24 to our farmers by the end of April. Note that these sales occurred almost entirely during the off-season for middle Tennessee farmers, a time when many farmers markets and food hubs would not even be in operation, and we expect monthly sales to triple over the summer. Now that we have a strong base of local farms, we can focus our energies more on cultivating more inner-city farms in order to realize our vision of being the first large-scale food hub working with primarily urban growers. Once the model is proven, we hope to build a movement to replicate this model across the US.
Mercado
Aggregating locally grown produce is not unique; there are approximately 170 examples in the United States, according to 2012 USDA AMS research. What's unique is the size and location of farms we work with. While other food hubs source from traditional farms, Nashville Grown has worked with the city zoning and health offices to ensure that even the tiniest of backyard gardens can legally participate in the food hub. In the process, we are redefining what it is to be a farm, and who has a right to participate in the wholesale food marketplace.
Plano de Sustentabilidade
Most of our funding comes from earned income; we keep 13% of the revenue from each item of produce sold. At our current size, however, this only covers our operating costs, and we are seeking grants, competition awards, and private donations to raise the capital (approximately $750,000) needed to outfit a facility and purchase refrigerated vehicles large enough to serve all of Nashville's farmers.
Histório de Fundação
A few years ago, I learned that 80% of the produce consumed in Havana, Cuba is grown in the city, by a network of small urban gardens (organóponicos). This system was established by the government practically overnight when the fall of the USSR left Cuba without the resources needed for conventional agriculture. First thought: Amazing! Second thought: Can it be done in the US? I decided it could, but we needed to, like Cuba, start thinking of the city as one giant urban farm, rather than a collection of little farms--with an efficient mechanism for aggregating and distributing food, even the tiniest of green patches could be used to grow food, and urban farming could reach the scale needed to compete with conventional produce distributors.
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Ambientes saudáveis, Agricultura rica em nutrientes.
Se você tivesse uma capacidade maior, quais funções adicionais você gostaria que sua solução abordasse – por meio de expansão, parcerias, ou intercâmbio de ideias?
Alimentos completos em nutrientes, Bem estar e vitalidade humana.
Como, especificamente, esta capacidade adicional ajudaria a melhorar a qualidade, eficiência, ou sustentabilidade do seu produto ou serviço?
Currently, we are indirectly promoting the growth of new farms by providing them with a ready-made market, but I would love to establish a farmer incubator program that could more actively work to ensure that our area has a diverse, healthy, and happy base of farmers who are trained to maximize the environmental well-being of their land and the nutrition and taste of their crops. We would also like to work more closely with buyers to help make purchasing decisions that maximize the benefit, in both health and flavor, of using locally grown produce.
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Considerando o fluxos dos nutrientes dos ecossistemas para o solo, para fazendas, para alimentos, para comunidades, quais são as barreiras para atingir vitalide para as pessoas e o planeta?
Outras barreiras identificadas
Na sua opinião, que desenvolvimentos precisam acontecer para ajudar a superar essas barreiras e produzir pessoas e um planeta mais rico em nutrientes e vitalidade?
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This is a book written by a young Kenyan budding author about the challenges that face African youth such as climate change and unemployment and lack of opportunities. The a step by step practice and workable solutions that are brand new, innovative creative and perfect not just for developing countries but also for developed countries suffering from economic downturns. The book will spur thinking, debate, change, and growth world wide putting the youth agenda first in a remarkable way just needing more publicity to change the entire system.
Criado em 03/13/2013 por Star143
Muoody! LLC sells its premier product Taste Buddies; a colorfully, tastefully, and emotionally customizable fortune cookie. This business supplies unique inerior design and architectural materials.
Criado em 03/7/2013 por Ukuli Homeofprojectu
Project U is a program that I am passionate about. We help people by giving back to the community, two-fold: We sell donated lightly used or new professional clothing at a discounted price via our online store. All garments will be priced below $10.00 so that anyone can "dress for success" on a budget. Project U is making it professionally affordable for people who may need help for an interview (for the unemployed), new job, business meeting/functions, and etc. 6% of our sales goes to charities like ADA (American Diabetes Association), Children's Hospital of Richmond, VA, and more to come.
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Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Sua organização é
Selecione todas as opções válidas
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Ideia (você está para lançar)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
Project U is a program that I am passionate about. We help people by giving back to the community, two-fold: We sell donated lightly used or new professional clothing at a discounted price via our online store. All garments will be priced below $10.00 so that anyone can "dress for success" on a budget. Project U is making it professionally affordable for people who may need help for an interview (for the unemployed), new job, business meeting/functions, and etc. 6% of our sales goes to charities like ADA (American Diabetes Association), Children's Hospital of Richmond, VA, and more to come. Project U is a win-win for everyone! Donated cloths makes room in for new cloths, helps others "dress for success", and in turn helps charities. The job market is fierce, we need to help each other win.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
Priority 1: Make a presence, connect with people and other organazations or companies that are like-minded.
Priority 2: Make a considerable donation to a charity from sales of the Project U Program
Priority 3: Find other ways we can empower people as it pertains to the professional success of others.
Need #1
Message & Brand Strategy
Need #2
Customer Relationships
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
We need donations of lightly used or new professional work cloths/attire. 6% of all sales goes to charity and in turn we have helped someone "dress for success" for whatever professional event, interview or otherwise, at a really affordable price. Its all about helping others; People help us, we help people, and we all help charities save the lives of others. HELP US GET OUR MESSAGE OUT!! HELP ME BUILD MY BRAND,...MY PROJECT,...MY PASSION!!
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
American Expresses focus will be on the overall program.
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
I have worked with marketers via elance.com and used various social media connections aside from our website at teamukuli13@wix.com
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Sim
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
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Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
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Hold an event that helps and empowers upcoming professionals
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Connect or partner with a company or organization that will help us continue to impact others
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
Our project could help someone who has been unemployed for a while and may not have the means to buy new clothing for an upcoming interview, or business engagement. Sometimes the way you look can break the deal. Also, by helping our project, you help charities. Helping to get our project out to the world will help me spread the word for other causes.
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Criado em 03/6/2013 por cferrara
The most vulnerable populations in Mexico have limited access to banking services. Barared´s goal is to provide this segment of the population with the essential banking services to help them escape their poverty cycle, while at the same time helping small merchants to increase their income. The company does so by installing kiosks (1,117 installed to date) in small mom and pop stores that allow customers to access a wide variety of services , ranging from making a phone call to opening a bank account or paying their utilities.
Organização: Barared
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País da organização
México, DIF, Distrito Federal
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
México, DIF, Distrito Federal
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Barared: Banking for the rest of Mexico
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Crescimento (seu piloto está em andamento e começa a se expandir)
What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.
The most vulnerable populations in Mexico have limited access to banking services. Barared´s goal is to provide this segment of the population with the essential banking services to help them escape their poverty cycle, while at the same time helping small merchants to increase their income. The company does so by installing kiosks (1,117 installed to date) in small mom and pop stores that allow customers to access a wide variety of services , ranging from making a phone call to opening a bank account or paying their utilities. These kiosks operate with top of the line technologies, such as Apple iPads and propietary information systems based on iOS.
What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?
- Stabilization and consolidation of our systems and the technologic platform that operates our banking transactions.
- To bank both the working and the elderly population that live in our áreas of coverage
- To reach our goal of 1,900 installed kiosks, with every one of them operating between 300 and 450 transactions per day.
Need #1
Consumer/Audience Acquisition
Need #2
Customer Relationships
Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!
- ARPU increase (more transactions per site)
- Bulding brand trust to acquire more customers
- Building customer loyalty
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- Honesty and truthfulness in everything we do
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- Proactivity and Positive attitude
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- Eagerness to grow and solidify our project through teamwork.
Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.
Support from American Express will be focused on our banking services (Opening bank accounts, cash deposits, cash withdrawal, etc.)
Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.
Banking services is the area we are most working on right now. We have worked this with the help of our business partner Banamex.
Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?
Sim
Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?
Sim
Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?
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By the end of 2013: 1950 points of presence
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By the end of 2013: 39 municipalities within our coverage range
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By the end of 2013: 1,755,000 customers per month
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?
- People who would normally spend between 1 and 2 hours to make their banking operations (this time includes moving towards and from the bank) are now able to make these transactions within meters of their homes.
- People would normally have to carry cash with them on very long routes, with the inherent danger that this represents. With Barared, people don´t have to carry cash anymore, as they are able to withdraw money as needes at our points of pressence.
- People used to spend between $25-$35 pesos on transportation going to the Banks. Now they ara at walking distance of our points, and the average cost per transaction within our sites is only $7 pesos
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We are at a crossroads when it comes to feeding the world. As food prices rise and food availability decreases it will become ever more difficult to survive.
Sun State Organics, LLC believes the answer lies in a revised growing method. A method that does not require tractors, shovels, inorganic chemicals or massive amounts of water, energy and labor. They believe that better systems can provide more with less and produce an abundance of food that is healthier, safer and more secure.
Jazzaponics is a project in which a vacant 60 ft. by 100 ft. lot is transformed into an urban high volume food production farm)and local residents and establishments take monthly subscriptions to receive fresh produce such as vegetables, fruit, herbs, and eggs (and fish a few months down the line) grown locally.
The vegetables are grown using Aquaponics farming techniques (a symbiotic relationship between fish and plants) and vertical growing.
Criado em 02/15/2013 por Sacha Carina
Milhões de pequenos negócios existem em favelas em todo o mundo. A maioria deles não possui um endereço formalmente reconhecido,o que dificulta o envio e recebimento de bens. A TNT e a Vodafone desenvolveram um sistema de endereços baseados em celulares que permite que lojas locais se desenvolvam acima da pobreza ao conectar seus negócios com outros mercados.
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www.sachacarina.com
(a Pinterest style overview with photos/videos of the field researches I have conducted in Kenya, India and Tanzania)
I would like to start with a saying I truly believe in: "If you are working in an institution with the means to truly make a difference in the world,optimism of the spirit is a moral responsibility" (world bank)
I work at TNT Express as Global Program Manager Innovation. The global program I have developed focusses on the area where our business, technology (ICS) and society meet. Within this triangle, my ambition is to create shared value for all.
Within the slum logistics project, I have successfully developed the partnership between TNT, Vodafone's Mpesa team and a group of representatives of a local slum in India (Mumbai).
O que faz de você um intraempreendedor? Quais são as habilidades, capacidades e características pessoais que fazem de você um intraempreendedor?
There are three key characteristics that I believe every entrepreneur should have (...and I hope I have): 1.Go out and meet people, 2.Have a strong believe in your ideals and 3. Think different!
Connect with people: I do not want to work within an office environment. Every possible moment, I want to go into the field and meet locals. I have spend 2 months in Kibera slum, visited rural areas in Tanzania and explored the maze-structured streets of Dharavi (India).
Believe in your ideals: My true believe in this project made that TNT and Vodafone wanted to be part of this project. If you speak from the heart, you can move mountains!
Think different: I mixed logistics with mobile phone locations to create a better world...and it works!
País principal onde este projeto está criando impacto social
Países e regiões adicionais
all developing countries worldwide
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Ideia (você está para lançar)
A Necessidade: Qual problema social ou ambiental você está tentando resolver?
Millions of small businesses exist in slums worldwide. Most of them do not have formally recognised addresses, which makes it difficult to send and receive goods. An address can enable local stores to rise above poverty by connecting their business to a larger market.
Chris, a Kibera slum resident explains: "One million people live in Kibera, but we do not have addresses. So when I ordered a camera to use as a journalist, I could not receive the package directly. I had to walk to the nearest postal office at a 3.5km distance. And not just once, I did not know when the package would arrive, so I had to walk back and forth regularly. The people who live in Kibera have little money,so when a package arrives, we even have to bribe the the local authorities to ensure the delivery..."
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Mobile phone locations (Geocodes) are connected to TNT's express global logistics network. With this mobile location, we can deliver goods to everyone -worldwide- via their mobile phone. With mobile based addresses, we can leapfrog street names and postal codes in extremely dense and maze-structured urban areas; slums.
An extra added value to the mobile based addresses is the option to transfer money via the reliable Mpesa (Vodafone's mobile payment system). Local slum businesses can securely do business on the global market place, because cash payments are impossible when doing businesses abroad!
Want to read more about the project? Check out the published articles:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/delivery-slum-business-mo...
http://urbanpoverty.intellecap.com/?p=558
A Solução: Por que esta solução é inovadora para a sua empresa e indústria?
This solution is innovative for TNT express and the transport industry, because currently formal addresses are based on street names and postal codes. The technology of linking mobile phones to address locations is new to this industry.
The solution will not only be innovative for the transport industry; it will have a huge positive impact on all other sectors; food security, access to healthcare, emergency responses... Logistics are at the core of all global challenges.
O Modelo: Nos mostre um exemplo específico de como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas principais atividades.
a local slum entrepreneur sells leather bags via internet. He receives an order from a customer in Europe. Via a text message from Mpesa, he knows that the money is being paid by the customer. The mobile money will be released when he send the bag. When the bag is ready, he calls TNT for pick up of the package. TNT identifies his location via the GPS coordinates. The package is being collected. If the bag has been delivered to the customer via TNT, Mpesa directly transfers the money to the local slum entrepreneur.
Visa versa, if a local slum entrepreneur orders spare parts for his bike shop, he can use his mobile phone number as address location. He pays via Mpesa. Mpesa holds the money until the entrepreneur receives the spare parts. Then, the money is being transferred. TNT delivers the spare parts to the GPS location that has been registered with the mobile phone number.
Reliable logistics and secure payments stimulate local slum businesses to rise out of poverty by connecting them to the global market place.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
There are 2 key differentiators that give an advantage to the mobile based address system: First, the mobile based addresses are directly linked to TNT's global network operations. Local carriers do not have this direct connection to a global network. Second, this mobile based address system combines the option to securely transfer money via Mpesa. Secure payments are key to stimulate local businesses to participate in the global market place.
Our ambition is not to take value from the BoP, but create value for the BoP. We want to train locals to become a delivery man.
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leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarHistória: Queremos saber mais sobre o momento de descoberta desta solução. Conte-nos um pouco a história sobre onde e quando o(s) fundador(res) vislumbrou(aram) o potencial desta solução para mudar o mundo:
With a group of 5 students, I have spend 2 months in Kibera slum (Nairobi, Kenya) for a field research in 2010. Back in the Netherlands, one of our friends from Kibera asked if we could send him a camera. Willing to support his career as a journalist, we tried to send him a camera. At this moment, I noticed that it is almost impossible to send a camera to someone living in a slum! Aha, the idea of creating addresses for informal settlements was born!
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Up to this date, we have conduced a local field research in Dharavi slum. The outcome of this research is that there is a lot of potential for Geocode (GPS) based address locations.
We did as well identify other areas of potential impact: formal parts of mega cities in emerging markets (there are many 'formal' houses in Mumbai that do not have an address either), rural areas and emergency situations (e.g.: geocode locations can be used to deliver goods after a disaster has occurred).
Qual é o impacto previsto nos próximos 1 a 3 anos?
Within three years, we want to have mobile based addresses implemented in Honduras. Honduras is one of the first countries that we want to support to develop logistics and infrastructure to empower local 'BoP' communities.
TNT supports the logistics development of Honduras via our partnership with SUSTAIN (SUSTAIN is an NGO founded by TNT, UPS, WVI and Care International) to give consultancy advice on sustainable supply chain solutions for underdeveloped countries.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
barriers can arise by implementing local ICS infrastructure and combining it to existing logistics. Honduras is a completely different than India, so the solution needs to be adapted to local differences.
We can overcome these problems by doing a good local field research, involve ICS experts and work together with local government and the BoP societies to establish a new type of address system.
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The value for TNT's business is to learn more about mobile based addresses and see if we can potentially use this knowledge in the future for our core processes (e.g. for flexible B2C deliveries).
Como você está alavancando recursos internos (fundos, tempo, conhecimento, etc) para apoiar esta iniciativa?
TNT supports SUSTAIN's developments in Honduras, but the implementation of mobile based addresses is not key at the moment (Q1-2, 2013). If the basic logistics are in place in Honduras, we could start a pilot with mobile based addresses. The pilot would be executed via the SUSTAIN partnership, which means that the funds and time will be covered by them.Potentially extra funds are needed. Option can be to look at a Public Private Partnerships to obtain the initial investment. TNT will bring in the knowledge on mobile based addresses by sending out TNT employees to Honduras to manage the project.
Detalhe sua resposta, explicando o plano de financiamento e apoio de longo prazo.
Currently we do not have an long-term funding and support plan. A more detailed plan will follow from a potential Honduras pilot. Our ambition is to make the mobile based address solution self sufficient; it should be cost covering. To use Accenture's ADP model: "We are not for profit, but not for loss".
Conte-nos sobre suas parcerias dentro da empresa e externas que são fundamentais para o sucesso do seu projeto.
The 3 key external partnerships for TNT to support this project have been; the WBCSD (Technology enablers initiative), Vodafone Group Ltd. (Mpesa) and SUSTAIN (partnership of TNT, UPS, WVI and Care International). The WBCSD serves as a catalyst to start innovative projects and has linked TNT to Vodafone for the slum research. SUSTAIN is needed to execute the idea in underdeveloped countries in the future.
Qual apoio interno você obteve para seu projeto? Que tipo de críticas você enfrentou?
Internally, we have had top-down and bottom-up support. Top Down: The TNT Board of Management has supported the local field research in India. Bottom-up: we have had strong support from TNT Mumbai and the local depot managers to execute the field research.
The push back mainly focused on the long term benefits such an project. It takes years to implement a new type of address service. This long term vision can conflict with a company's need for short term profit.
Criado em 01/21/2013 por LouiseKoch
Grundfos Lifelink is delivering a new model for sustainable water supply in the developing world that enables long-term financial and technical sustainability through an innovative combination of pump solutions, revenue management, and professional service support.
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The drive of my work is to develop new models for sustainable development building on business and cross-sector partnerships. My background is a master’s degree in anthropology and innovation, which I apply in my work as a Programme Manager of Global Partnerships & Communication in Grundfos Lifelink. I am part of a dedicated team of 10 people in Denmark, 4 in Kenya, and one in Thailand. I am 34 years old, from Denmark, and considering myself a global citizen. I feel most passionate and alive when I am together with engaged people exploring new ideas and solutions.
O que faz de você um intraempreendedor? Quais são as habilidades, capacidades e características pessoais que fazem de você um intraempreendedor?
With my combined background in anthropology and innovation, together with my experiences in the intersect ion between business, innovation and international development, I am able to see the bigger picture of a situation, to understand human relations and motivations, to work and mediate across sectors and cultures, and to develop new ideas and solutions in collaboration with other people. I have always been driven to find solutions to social challenges. I keep my vision and passion as my guiding star and let this guide me to where I can make the biggest difference through my work.
País da Empresa
Dinamarca, VB, Bjerringbro
País principal onde este projeto está criando impacto social
Países e regiões adicionais
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A Necessidade: Qual problema social ou ambiental você está tentando resolver?
What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve? [100 words]
884 million people do not have access to safe water. This causes 2 million deaths annually due to waterborne diseases, and it causes a great loss of human potential, when people struggle daily to cover their most basic needs. 8 billion USD are invested annually in total aid for the water sector. Unfortunately, the current models for water projects cannot cover the needs and are not sustainable. Most evaluations conclude that 50% of rural water projects fail within two years. The failures are primarily caused by lack of financing, capabilities, and spare parts for operation and maintenance.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
The Grundfos Lifelink (GLL) solution is an innovative water supply system for rural and urban water projects in the developing world. It combines a pump driven by solar energy with an automatic water dispenser including an innovative payment system based on mobile payment, remote monitoring and a professional service contract. The small user fee for water is transferred in a closed system to a service account, which covers for service and maintenance. A Grundfos certified technical team monitors all projects remotely via the internet and carry out service on behalf of the community. With the water revenue financing the on-going service and maintenance, this is a new and scalable model for long-term sustainable and self-financing water projects.
A Solução: Por que esta solução é inovadora para a sua empresa e indústria?
Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry? [70 words]
For Grundfos, this is the first initiative directly focused on the Base of the Pyramid segment. This requires an innovative approach in terms of technology, business models, value chains, partnerships, and service set-up compared to Grundfos’ main markets. For the water and development sector, GLL changes the game from low tech and unsustainable solutions to an intelligent and holistic approach that overcomes the main challenges of financial and technical sustainability.
O Modelo: Nos mostre um exemplo específico de como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas principais atividades.
Musingini is a community of 2000 inhabitants in rural Kenya and was the first community to benefit from a Grundfos Lifelink system in March 2009. Before, they had a hand pump, but it was broken down, so people walked several kilometers to the river to fetch water.
The pump was installed in the borehole and the entire Lifelink system implemented by the Kenyan Grundfos Lifelink team. Each household got a smart card ‘water key’ and the community received training on how the system works and on the relation between safe water and good health.
The community reports that water is now near and easy to tap, that there is no waiting time, that water borne diseases have gone down and children are more in school. Several young men have started a ‘water distribution business’ and others use the water for growing vegetables and tree seedlings. One year later, the community raised funds for extending a distribution line to the school, the health clinic and the central market place. Since inception, nearly 4 years ago, the community has only seen one day with interruption in the water supply, which was solved by the Kenyan technical service team from Grundfos.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others who are working to address the same needs you are, and explain what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Water Health International also works holistically with payment system on a safe water solution. There is no direct competition yet, but possibly in Asia on water treatment in the future.
Elster Kent offers water metering and payment systems in Africa, but do not provide a total solution with remote monitoring and service team.
The primary challenge for GLL is to change the mindset in the sector from the traditional and often unsustainable approach with short term investment in low tech hand pumps, towards a long-term approach focusing on lifecycle cost and the sustainability of the solution.
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The story of Grundfos Lifelinks starts back in 2006 when the chairman of Grundfos, Mr. Niels Due Jensen, was travelling in Thailand and saw how poor people struggled to get clean water. Mr. Jensen declared that Grundfos should do something about this and established a team to develop a sustainable solution. Both the solar driven pump and the remote monitoring system were existing products, but now combined in a totally new solution with the water dispenser and the integration of the MPESA mobile payment system developed by Safaricom in Kenya.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
38 projects in Kenya and 2 projects in Uganda provide reliable access to safe water for nearly 100,000 people. On average, each community consumes around 1000 m3 of safe water each year. The social impacts in the community are multiple. Health clinics report that incidences of water borne diseases has reduced significantly; school teachers report that children are performing better in school due to better health and more time spent studying; micro-business activities with water distribution, brick making, and growing of vegetables and tree seedlings have started. Conflicts around management of water and money have reduced in the communities. And even the men have become more involved in fetching water, alleviating women to spend more time and energy on family and productive activities.
Qual é o impacto previsto nos próximos 1 a 3 anos?
On all our demonstration projects in Kenya we have committed ourselves to service and maintain the water systems for a minimum of 10 years. This will provide a reliable platform for a continued socio-economic development.
In the next 3 years we will scale up operations to a range of countries in East and West Africa through networks of local sales & service partners and partnerships with government, NGOs and water companies as our customers. Our goal is to reach 3 million people in 2015 with safe water from a Grundfos Lifelink dispenser, and continuously scaling up from there.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
A: It takes time to establish a new organisation in a new country.
Solution: Alliances with local Grundfos companies or distributors as sales and service partners.
B: The cost of the water dispenser was too high to demonstrate a clear value for money.
Solution: Redesigning the dispenser from scratch and launching a new version in early 2014 at 10% of the price.
C: The ‘total project solution’ does not always match the need of the customer.
Solution: Apply a modular approach where the customer can buy only the dispenser or a larger set-up with pumps solutions according to needs.
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A: Building a new market for Grundfos in the BOP segment
B: Creating positive awareness through e.g. BBC Horizons documentary on Grundfos Lifelink and receiving the ‘World Business and Development Awards’ by UNDP a.o. at Rio+20.
C: Pioneering new models for business, service and partnerships in Grundfos.
D: Creating pride internally amongst Grundfos employees about the initiative
Como você está alavancando recursos internos (fundos, tempo, conhecimento, etc) para apoiar esta iniciativa?
Grundfos is investing long-term in the development of GLL as a new business company. From being a very independent start-up company and platform for radical innovation, GLL is now becoming more integrated in the larger Grundfos Group in order to scale up. This means leveraging R&D knowledge, production facilities, market analysis, marketing and communication efforts, and not least distribution, sales and service through the local Grundfos companies in Africa and later Asia. With this set-up, we can rapidly scale up production and delivery by building on the global capacity and reach of Grundfos across 50 countries.
Detalhe sua resposta, explicando o plano de financiamento e apoio de longo prazo.
Sustainability and social responsibility is in the DNA of Grundfos, a family owned global company with 18,000 employees, strong values and strong economy. With GLL, Grundfos is pioneering a new model of ‘business with a social purpose’ with top-level commitment. Grundfos is investing in the development of new products for GLL, including the new water dispenser and a new water treatment system. During 2013, GLL will get three dedicated business development managers in East Africa, West Africa, and in Southern Africa to drive the scale up. A business development manager in Thailand is preparing the introduction to the Asian market.
Conte-nos sobre suas parcerias dentro da empresa e externas que são fundamentais para o sucesso do seu projeto.
Internally, the support from top management and product development is key, together with buy in from regional managers in Africa and Asia.
Externally, we have benefitted from partnerships with Safaricom, from the support of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Kenya, and from partnerships with development actors like the UN and the Red Cross, who are our customers.
Qual apoio interno você obteve para seu projeto? Que tipo de críticas você enfrentou?
The vision and commitment from the chairman Niels Due Jensen and the management to invest in this initiative has been crucial to keep momentum.
Being a radical new business, there has been many disbelievers, but the people who believe in our mission and support us directly or indirectly is growing both internally and externally.
Criado em 01/10/2013 por cihenacho
The organization that we propose looks to pioneer a new model for road development within poor developing communities. Through circumventing the traditional model of vast, expensive government-funded projects we offer a means of shifting to smaller, cheaper privately funded road construction & maintenance projects.
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Our core team leading the initiative consists primarily of a multi-displinary group of 7 undergraduate and graduate engineering students. Representative disciplines include civil engineering, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial design, and transportation engineering. Aside from this working team, our larger team of partners stretches across the globe and includes individuals from academia, government, and the private sector. Myself and our team believe completely in intrinsic power of community. Time and time again we've seen, politically and economically, that real and sustainable change is only possible it builds on the time tested institutions and cultures of the community. In the realm of infrastructure, this is what we wish to build; a sustainable cup
O que faz de você um intraempreendedor? Quais são as habilidades, capacidades e características pessoais que fazem de você um intraempreendedor?
An intrapreneur is a person that appreciates the potential & capacity of "the establishment" to make meaningful impacts on the world. These institutions, be them corporations or governments, while often demonized are among the most efficient, time-tested means of bringing about widespread & sustainable change. To me these institutions show the constructive power of community & unified determination. I love people. I love the complexity of community & working to exploit the unrealized potential of individuals & groups alike. Its my belief that we need not always create & re-create, but instead cultivate & invest in that which exists.It’s my belief the potential of those present, the establishment & individuals to do great is not fully appreciated. I feel all intrapreneurs look to prove this
País da Empresa
Estados Unidos , GA, Atlanta
País principal onde este projeto está criando impacto social
Países e regiões adicionais
Africa, Haiti, South America, India
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A Necessidade: Qual problema social ou ambiental você está tentando resolver?
We're looking to address all the social, environmental, health, and economic problems that arise from outdated, under-maintained, and mis-managed transportation networks. Roads are very important to poor economies. For many of these countries their extensive networks of roadways are often the nations’ biggest assets. Despite their importance though, most roads in Africa are poorly managed, funded & maintained. The economic costs of bad roads are surprisingly high and these costs are largely borne by the road users. For example many times roads become impassable during rainy season & poor road maintenance thus has a huge negative effect on agricultural output. There is an overwhelming need in the private and public sector alike for a innovative solution in this sector & we feel we have one.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Our larger vision is to develop a platform or independent entity that's able to directly grow communities through optimizing transportation networks of individual entities (ie. private businesses highly dependent on road networks, farmers' co-ops, NGOs, local governments, etc.) We’d help organizations through optimizing supply-chains & coordinating the unique service of individualized maintenance and patching of the organization’s road network. An initial array of economic analyses and engineering surveys of our client’s transportation networks would allow us to quantify the effects of existing local inefficiencies and then propose cost-saving maintenance and optimizing solutions. By improving transportation networks & the productivity of these individual community institutions we incrementally develop the larger transportation network in a strategic, cost-effective way. Comparable to micro-financing, this could be loosely thought of as "micro-infrastructure" development.
A Solução: Por que esta solução é inovadora para a sua empresa e indústria?
It proposes a way of taking the massive prognosis of reforming infrastructure & decomposes it into small, affordable, and targeted projects that have almost immediate & measurable effects.It proposes a method of effectively & sustainably subsidizing a service that alternatively would be done by government at higher cost, often times to a lower standards.We propose a scheme for the bottom-up infrastructure development & encourage private-public collaboration among other things
O Modelo: Nos mostre um exemplo específico de como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas principais atividades.
In areas heavily dependent on agribusiness, a common problem is the severely under-maintained network of rural, farm-to-market roads. Often times, after crops are harvested or even during growing season, extreme flooding during or complications often have particularly negative effectives on the translation of crop yields into market productivity. For example in Nigeria flooded roads often isolate whole communities and prevent goods from effectively being transported. In the event we’re working with a large farmers’ co-op in a particular rural area, our organization would first study & survey the relevant farm-to-market routes to quantify how the existing damaged/dilapidated system is costing the farmers and local community. We’d then propose minimalist maintenance solutions. In such cases, an appropriate solution might be the monitoring and continuous upkeep of a 5 km stretch of road along a high priority trade route for 3 months during the height of rainy season. The proper laying of gravel or cobble roads during this time could even function as technically viable solutions. By guaranteeing a functional trading route we’re in turn guaranteeing that farmers’ are able to maximize their profits during a time when they would otherwise be incurring losses. The extension of informal rural networks to larger, well-maintained government roads is another example of possible applications of our model within a rural setting. There are also a variety of scenarios that would allow for the application of our model with more urban settings.
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Broadly speaking there isn’t a very significant number of private transportation consulting firms in developing regions. Thus our distant peers & competitors would include organizations such as CDM Smith & Balfour Bueatty, as well as the likes of Accenture & The Boston Consulting Group. We look to differentiate ourselves by combining supply chain, financial, management, & transportation consulting services of these entities to corporate and non-corporate business entities within developing economies. We look to adapt different existing models found within this corporate service industry to better serve & directly impact BOP markets. Our big challenge to competing with them and local firms would be access to resources and technical talent.
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In my travels, in conversations about Nigeria and Africa, in almost all African circles or of those individuals from poor regions, I noticed problem of bad roads consistently and perpetually emerged as a problematic motif or sorts. To a point, it has even become an engrained part of the "African experience". I began getting curious about solutions. I noticed it was a sector that seemed hopelessly stagnant and had been so (in the case of Nigeria) for almost 50 years. After doing some initial research & discovering the true impact of roads on economies, addressing this particular issue became a matter of necessity. Being a biomedical engineering major, it might have been my exposure to many medical scenarios that valued minimally invasive scenarios, but one night (possibly right after a shower) the basic premise of minimalist, highly specific solutions suddenly seemed relevant for the space. From there I began the extremely slow process of building the idea integrity & a viable model.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Our team has been developing and incubating our idea for almost 2 years now. We're just now at the stage we're moving to start organizing and launching our pilot. Thus our impact to this point has been limited. However our presence at a variety of conferences & events such as the 2012 Global Health & Innovation Conference held a Yale University and the 5th Harambe Bretton Wood Symposium has helped to start conversations about the infrastructure development, the importance of private-public relationships in development, and inspired many individuals to mobilize and work towards making this mere idea a reality.
Qual é o impacto previsto nos próximos 1 a 3 anos?
Over the next 1-3 years we look to be able to have successfully completed our pilot and proven concept. During this process we look to heavily document and study all points of our interventions and use our experience to potentially assemble a toolkit that might allow us to establish a platform and model of doing business that might then be incorporated into the advisement services of other existing firms looking to do similar work. We'd look to do this in a way that emphasizes transparency, encourages private-public partnerships, and effectively integrates our new business culture and paradigm into communities. As we develop our social impact model and logistics we'd focus on maximizing social, economic, and environmental impact on the citizens of communities which we're working within.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
There are many significant problems that currently stand to hinder the success of our project. Due to our relatively young and inexperienced team consisting primarily of students we're severely limited in our capacity to gain access to funds, resources, and technical expertise that could be would be helpful in accelerating the speed at which this project progresses as well as aiding the formation of our logistical, social impact, and business models. At the present moment, we're limited our capacity to obtain more current market and on-the-ground info. Knowing this could aid us in better predicting project costs and determining the true margins our intervention could generate. We feel many of these issues can be resolved as we continue to grow our effort, make partners & market ourselves.
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Direct economic returns would be evident by looking at the comparative savings in operational costs, employment rates, and marginal profits of our clients. Monitoring everything from traffic mortality rates, traffic wait times, vehicle speeds, and comparative trip times will allow us to measure our larger economic, social and environmental community impact. Long term figures that would be indicative of our impact would include local rates of inflation, stats relevant to agribusiness activity, and local employment rates.
Como você está alavancando recursos internos (fundos, tempo, conhecimento, etc) para apoiar esta iniciativa?
As a team of students and this initiative being within its early stages, it is currently being pursed on a part-time basis as we also pursue our studies. A significant amount of my own personal money has already been invested as well as funds from local school grants. They've gone towards travel costs for conferences and summits, as well as towards promotional/advertising items needed for conference & competition appearances. Other resources we've leveraged over the past few months of working as an assembled team include the knowledge and expertise of professors and on-campus staff, as well as from individuals within our personal & professional networks. We're plugged in the international network of Harambe Entrepreneurial Alliance as well as Atlanta's own community of entrepreneurs.
Detalhe sua resposta, explicando o plano de financiamento e apoio de longo prazo.
Our plans for ensuring our long term sustainability employ a variety of means. Following our pilot we'd look to begin the establishment of an internal road fund. As a condition for our service, our clients would pledge to pay a percentage of our service fee towards this fund. Like an endowment, such a fund would be restrictive in its use and partially invested. We'd work from an entrepreneurial standpoint to adjust & maximize our services like any other consultant group. Also, as we establish and come to understand the value proposition of our model, we'd then work to build a toolkit and flexible platform we could distribute & sell to existing private entities and even government-aligned groups to promote the active engagement of the private sector in helping fund infrastructure projects.
Conte-nos sobre suas parcerias dentro da empresa e externas que são fundamentais para o sucesso do seu projeto.
As our project is still within its very early stages, we feel that many of these key partnerships have yet to have been made. However so far we have garnered a lot of help and support from our local network of Georgia Tech & Emory students and faculty as well as from several Atlanta entrepreneurs, local cultural grassroots organizations, and those members within the Harambe Entrepreneurial Alliance. We have other budding partnerships we look to continue cultivating.
Qual apoio interno você obteve para seu projeto? Que tipo de críticas você enfrentou?
I've gotten a wide variety of support in the form of information, pledged expertise, design & branding assistance, and some financial support for the project so far. The team's been utilizing our own time, talents, & hard work to push the initiative forward. The biggest pushback this project has received has to do with speculation on how government corruption will effect the project, concerns about financial sustainability, & the actual marginal benefit of our intervention.
Student to Student is dedicated to addressing the achievement gap by providing low-income NYC students high quality SHSAT test preparation. The sad reality is that high-income students are a step ahead of their lower income peers because they have access to important and expensive resources outside of the classroom. Student to Student will allow motivated and talented NYU students to mentor and tutor NYC middle school students, thereby giving NYU students an invaluable opportunity to gain real-world experience and engage with their community.
Criado em 01/6/2013 por iwillhelp
iWillHelp is a SaaS application launched in the fall of 2012 has the overall purpose to provide a means by which business relationships can be fostered around Strategic Giving to charities.
iwillhelp closes the gap between companies, clients and community.
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From very early on, Grant has demonstrated his consummate creative entrepreneurial tendencies by recognizing, and then creating solutions for business and community processes for his own and for others companies. Being raised in the bastion of entrepreneurship, (Alberta, Canada), he has a deep understanding of what motivates business people, but also what social entrepreneurship can accomplish. His early days found Grant deep in service to others, where his involvement with Camps for underprivileged children lead him down the path of volunteerism and community service that has consumed his life. “Doing Good” is not a passing thought, it’s his mantra for living a good and wonderful life.
O que faz de você um intraempreendedor? Quais são as habilidades, capacidades e características pessoais que fazem de você um intraempreendedor?
Grant was brought into an entrepreneurial family that created their own future upon arriving in Western Canada from Romania many years ago. A bit of a rebel within business circles, he has shaken things up for companies and industries through seizing on opportunities that he sees within certain sectors. Often miss-understood but always respected, if you were to list the most common traits of entrepreneurs; you would be describing Grant to the letter. Currently working with the largest promotional product distributor in Canada and one of the largest in North America, Grant has brought significant value to the creation of new processes, innovative products and unique marketing aspects to the company.
País principal onde este projeto está criando impacto social
Países e regiões adicionais
Indústria
Finanças, Seguros, Setor Imobiliário
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A Necessidade: Qual problema social ou ambiental você está tentando resolver?
It has been reported that in both Canada and the United States that Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) do very little with respect to donating part of their income to charitable causes. In fact, only about 4-5% of all charitable giving comes of this 95% of the business sector. With the volume of transactions within this sector being of Billions of dollars on any given day, there is a huge opportunity to get these companies to donate more if they were able to justify it as a business investment, rather than a philanthropic event.
You see, companies by their very nature are not geared to give away their profit. However, if we could turn that into an investment in marketing, then there would be a greater likelihood that they would allocate more to it.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Recognizing this huge opportunity for companies to give more, and also for recognizing that more and more smaller companies are incorporating Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions into their business, we have created iwillhelp which is a CRM that actually has the added component of incorporating a charitable gifting platform into the client management program. Our CRM actually allows users to grant charity credits to their clients that the client can then direct to a charity of their choice. This effectively takes companies philanthropy budget and turns it into a marketing opportunity because they empower their clients to choose the charity it goes to. This effectively is a client rewards program where the benefit ends up with a charity, rather than the individual.
A Solução: Por que esta solução é inovadora para a sua empresa e indústria?
The Growth of CRM’s for SME’s is huge with many different creators of these types of applications popping up all the time. The one thing we have not seen is a CRM that not only tracks a client’s activity, but also incorporates a valuable “thank you” component. Our CRM has a built in rewards program where a user can provide a thank you, reward or acknowledgment to their client by giving them the opportunity to direct funds to a charity of their choice.
O Modelo: Nos mostre um exemplo específico de como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas principais atividades.
A company can sign up for free and use the iwillhelp CRM component as a free utility for client management. Once they load their clients into the CRM they can allocate charity credits to each one of them at any time and for any reason. Once these charity credits are allocated, iwillhelp let’s the client know that their account has been credited and by whom. The client simply clicks on a link in this email to open their space within the CRM where they can select from over 83,000 registered charities in the iwillhelp data base. Through a few simple clicks the client indicates which charity should get the donation and when this happens the user of the CRM gets billed for the transaction. The company is only invoiced for the transaction when the charity is selected by the client. If the client never makes the selection then the company gets all the touch points, but never gets charged for it. It’s customer engagement of the highest caliber when they work together to allocated a portion of a business transaction to a charity.
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There are many charitable gifting programs and many CRM’s out there. However, within our realm of research there are no other applications that bring together the client management systems with the component of a charitable gifting platform. Our CRM has huge potential of being a significant mover of funds because our software is portable and we intend on bringing it to other jurisdictions so we can tap into local economies as well. We will create iwillhelpcalifornia.com iwillhelporegon.com iwillhelpUK.com, and so on.
In addition, we intend on setting up API interface where other CRM’s can access our data bases of charities and money movement system. Even companies that already use other CRM’s will be able to use us to move money and engage with their clients on a deeper level.
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When I was looking a way to thank my clients that I had worked with over the years I hypothesized that there was a way that could mean more to both of us. “What if we could agree that a portion of my profit would be directed to a charity of their choice, and not mine?” This not only engages them in the gifting process because they get to allocate the funds to where they want, but also it gives me a value added touch point with them, which for me translates into a marketing opportunity. I also thought that if saw this as a wonderful marketing opportunity, what impact would this be if I made it available to others around the world. What a huge difference this could make. So what started as a personal endevour to "Do Good" and get corporate credit for it, has blossomed into a movement that all SME's could benefit as well as the charitable sector.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Our application has only been up and running for about 6 weeks, but we have already channeled money to charities through the early adopters of our program. It takes only a minute to allocate charity credits and less than a minute to donate them, so the process is very simple and convenient for all. We have had some very early good press and the program has been endorsed by some of my clients as unique, innovate and brilliant. (Isn’t that what you want your clients to say about you?)
Qual é o impacto previsto nos próximos 1 a 3 anos?
With the amount of money that is transacted within the SME sector and with such a small amount of funds coming from this sector to charitable casuses, (largely because there hasn’t been a vehicle to facilitate this and turn it into a marketing and investment opportunity) there is simply an amazing impact that we could have around the world. It would be impossible to measure or predict, but our software is working now and is scalable. Our capacity is limitless which makes our potential astronomical.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
With our programming working and only being tweaked, our biggest hurdle will be adoption of our process. It will take tremendous resources to market and spread the word of how iwillhelp can work for a company to not only enhance their relationships with their clients but also be able to move money to charities. There is great competition with similar software programs so standing out will be a significant challenge that can be overcome by employing strategic marketing and relationship strategies. The thing is, we are a working business pushing money to charities now, so we will focus almost all of our attention on marketing with public relations being a significant part of this. Hopefully success in this contest will be a part of PR campaign.
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Our business is working and we are pushing money to charities for about 40 companies that have signed up thus far. iwillhelp is building a bank of charity credits that can be turned into donations at anytime. And with iwillhelp’s commitment of only charging a 5% administration fee, we have monetized our business process.
Como você está alavancando recursos internos (fundos, tempo, conhecimento, etc) para apoiar esta iniciativa?
I personally have gifted all of my LinkedIn connections $10 each for their Christmas which has caused a great stir of interest in what this iwillhelp is all about and what it can do. It has already translated into business for me through the business that originally was doing prior to me setting up iwillhelp. This is also allowing me to play with the application so we can make it even better for business poeple to use.
Detalhe sua resposta, explicando o plano de financiamento e apoio de longo prazo.
We can operate the business as it is through our own start up funds and through growing it organically. However, we want to make a significant impact on the gifting process by raising a significant amount of capital by way of a share offering that will secure the dedicated marketing funds required to make significant inroads in user ship.
Conte-nos sobre suas parcerias dentro da empresa e externas que são fundamentais para o sucesso do seu projeto.
Our program is being supported by myself and by the technology company, Lexicom whom I have worked on internet projects with since 1994. They are not only creating the programming but two of their principals have invested cash into iwillhelp because of all the programs that have viewed over the years, they feel this one has the greatest potential.
Qual apoio interno você obteve para seu projeto? Que tipo de críticas você enfrentou?
Management of BrandAlliance has been incredibly supportive of my endeavor. They see it as yet another one of my creative ventures that can provide us with a significant rewards program that can provide great benefits to our clients personal causes, which will endear us to them even more.
Criado em 12/11/2012 por LBustani
Mandalah has been helping organizations of all shapes and sizes throughout the world become sensitive to the changes going on around us and the need to redefine the role business plays not merely within a marketplace, but within society as a whole. Mandalah exists at the magical intersection between profit and purpose.
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Born in New York, raised in a few different countries, and trained at the University of Pennsylvania and Schumacher College (UK), people and places have always left their marks on me. In 2006 I started up Mandalah alongside my friend Igor Botelho. Our mission is to bring new perspectives to how organizations see their roles within society, inviting them to a more systemic discussion on how commerce can be at the service of society’s overall wellbeing.
In 2012, I was:
- Included in Fast Company's list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business;
- Chosen by Trip Magazine as one of 11 Brazilians under 40 changing the country and the world;
- Selected by Época Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Brazilians of the year.
O que faz de você um intraempreendedor? Quais são as habilidades, capacidades e características pessoais que fazem de você um intraempreendedor?
First off, I believe in the possibility – and power – of change, and that it is always within our reach. I am committed to dialogue as the only effective and genuine means of bringing about sustainable change, as dialogue implies we will “meet in the middle” and co-exist, even in the face of adversity. I have a deep conviction that change must be organic – come from within, from each individual’s consciousness – in order to withstand the test of time. And I believe change is contagious, when people see the benefit in embracing it. Finally, I have a strong intuition that power and love must be balanced – power without love is authoritative, and love without power is anemic. To bring about effective and long-lasting change, both must be in equilibrium.
País principal onde este projeto está criando impacto social
Países e regiões adicionais
Mexico, USA, Germany and Japan
Indústria
Serviços Profissionais, Científicos e Técnicos
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Expandindo (o próximo passo é aumentar o impacto em escala local ou mesmo global)
A Necessidade: Qual problema social ou ambiental você está tentando resolver?
I try not to see our work as solving a problem. I prefer to see it as an evolutionary challenge. After decades doing business in a vacuum via Cartesian, mechanistic and short-term thinking, we have come to realize that this modus operandi is not sustainable and that whatever progress we seem to be making is clouded by the catastrophic impact business is having on the planet and on the quality of peoples’ lives. Time to shift gears, adopt a more systemic view of business and understand how commerce can create shared value through common agendas where everyone wins. Helping people become sensitive to this moment of reflection (and inflection) and open to new ways of doing business is at the crux of this evolutionary challenge.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Our solution lies in the magical intersection between purpose and profit, where dialogue reigns and value is shared.
- Find order in chaos – The world is a complex environment, in constant flux. Either create an illusory sense of stability and try to make everything as secure as possible or accept the chaos and find order within it by quickly adapting. Go with the latter.
- Think systemically – No man is an island and the same is even truer for corporations. Time for them to recognize that the ramifications of their actions transcend the marketplace and have a broader, societal component that must not be neglected.
- New “C” – We are citizens before consumers. Understanding this will help companies focus on unmet human needs rather than mere consumer aspirations.
- Dialogue – Identify those that are usually not on your radar but that are impacted by your business. Hear them out. Empathize.
- Share the value – Identify where all stakeholder interests align; win-win opps.
A Solução: Por que esta solução é inovadora para a sua empresa e indústria?
The approach outlined above is somewhat liberating, as it invites us to leave the office and explore the world first-hand. Frameworks and theories are helpful but experiential, transformative learning is more insightful. This approach also requires us to tap into both our right and left brains, mixing reason with intuition. From an industry-perspective, our approach represents a new mental model aimed at helping businesses do well while doing good.
O Modelo: Nos mostre um exemplo específico de como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas principais atividades.
In 2010 Nike asked us to help develop a systemic vision for the brand in Rio de Janeiro in anticipation of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. We engaged in dialogue with artists, community leaders, athletes, social entrepreneurs, musicians and cultural producers to understand their views on the city as well as their needs and interests as citizens (not just consumers). Based on our findings, we advised Nike on a bottom-up approach based on 2 adjacent principles: sport as a catalyst for social transformation and sport as an integrative force among residents of the city (shared value).
Over the past year, a number of initiatives in different neighborhoods were conceived based on this concept, such as: refurbishment of facilities, creation of football training centers, sport competitions, sponsorship of athletes from low income neighborhoods, etc. These activations have had a resounding success and late last year, research conducted by Rio’s main newspaper reported that Nike was the top of mind sports clothing brand among residents of the city. The take-aways from this case are numerous:
__Do more, say less – focus on getting things done, connecting with people and less so on selling yourself.
__Be the Nudge – always encourage people to do things that are essentially good for them.
__Bottom up – start from the bottom, where real change is most necessary, and see your efforts trickle up.
__Empower the mobilizers – give resources to those people that are already moving the masses and making things happen.
__Be an integrative force – bring people together.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
I do not believe in competition in the traditional sense, where a single player is a threat to one’s survival and prosperity. In fact, to the extent that other well-intentioned companies are emerging, wanting to help organizations do better business, we should celebrate, not only because we were the first to bring this discussion to the forefront back in 2006, but especially since there are still too few of us who think differently to serve the entire market. In terms of differentiation, I would highlight our multidisciplinary team, our humanist approach to all that we do, our creative flair given our Brazilian origins as well as our tireless (and non-negotiable) commitment to only engaging in projects that necessarily improve peoples’ lives.
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Fortunately, it seems that everyday is an “Aha” moment, in varying degrees, of course. However, one special moment does in fact stand out.
In 2011 we completed a 1-year study for General Motors (GM) on the future of urban mobility, with a focus on developing megacities (cities with more than 10 million inhabitants). We researched renewable fuels, public private partnerships, new technologies and materials, public transport and urban planning. The output of the study was a suite of 32 “better future” scenarios and ironically few, if any, had to do with cars. We were desperately trying to signal to GM that the future of urban mobility went beyond motorized vehicles.
A few months after the project, an employee from GM forwarded us an internal memo from GM’s South American President making reference to this study and stating that it was time for GM to transition from “General Motors” to “General Mobility.”
They got it. They turned the key and never looked back.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
As a result of our project, a specific Urban Mobility department was created at GM, consisting of reps from all the major regions, where knowledge was pooled and the 32 innovation opportunities we put forth in our study were subjected to feasibility studies. Quantitatively, it is too early to measure the impact, only because this project is about re-engineering GM’s core activities. Qualitatively, however, we can clearly sense a paradigm shift among GM’s leadership, who are much more open to discuss these alternative futures where cars are not the protagonists. The end result of all this will be that GM will soon be better prepared to offer solutions that effectively and sustainably meet people’s mobility needs as opposed to saturating congested streets with expensive, inefficient and oversized machines that are responsible for respiratory illnesses and ozone layer deterioration. We believe GM professionals stand to gain from this as well as citizens all over the world.
Qual é o impacto previsto nos próximos 1 a 3 anos?
In terms of Mandalah as a company, I project our impact along several lines:
- More companies – As we start scaling our business and accumulating a solid track record with organizations of all shapes and sizes, I anticipate that we will manage to engage in more and more relationships with leaders from different organizations.
- More people – As a result of this, more individuals will be impacted by these alternative mental models which we are proposing and as a result, will become the change they want to see in the world.
- More impact – The end result of all this is a world better served by the private sector (and other organizations as well) through solutions that truly improve peoples’ lives.
- More health and happiness – At the end of the day, this is what we’re all after.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
Looking forward, the only real barrier that I foresee would come in the form of budget cuts from organizations as a result of a weak economic environment. When things get tough, companies stop investing in innovation, unfortunately. This is somewhat counter-intuitive , in fact: it’s precisely when the going gets rough that you should look to re-invent yourself and do things differently. Since I cannot award pro-bono status to all my clients, I will always run the risk of serving a market with no available cash to invest. Thankfully, I am learning to deal with this now, since markets are lukewarm globally. By keeping my structure lean, I keep my costs low, which allows me to not only pursue more aggressive pricing but attain better margins. It’s about learning to do a lot with a little.
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For all the different businesses that we service, I feel we are producing an instrument that will help them turn the key and operate successfully in this new environment we are getting acquainted with. Ultimately, the benefit they will reap from continued relevance is strong performance along with a long-lasting legacy. For Mandalah specifically, I feel we are becoming more knowledgeable and conscious to do what we do increasingly better every day.
Como você está alavancando recursos internos (fundos, tempo, conhecimento, etc) para apoiar esta iniciativa?
From Day 1, we have grown organically, re-investing our profits into our company. We have come to understand over time that our best investments are in people (best-in-class professionals with right/left brain versatility), information technology (integrating our offices and optimizing research capabilities), our office space (where we work, brainstorm, create, eat, socialize and rest), and knowledge acquisition (trips, conferences, courses, literature). We have also developed a vast group of thought leaders who we are in touch with and who support us when we need to evolve our business. And finally, we are investing time, money and energy in consolidating our network of 6 offices, with 2 more offices in sight until 2014.
Detalhe sua resposta, explicando o plano de financiamento e apoio de longo prazo.
Since what we are doing is still very new and emerging, it is hard to project where all of this will go in the long term. My intuition tells me that we will be able to continue scaling our business without having to turn to outside investors, since we enjoy respectable margins which we are willing to re-invest. Perhaps this is rooted in a belief that we must be careful on how fast we grow so as to not dilute our value proposition, which is essentially what got us to where we are in the first place. There is also no point growing faster than the market's disposition to engage in the types of disruptive conversations we so enthusiastically put forth. As Bruce Lee says "one must flow like water", and so we plan on letting things fall into place without worrying about getting too big too fast.
Conte-nos sobre suas parcerias dentro da empresa e externas que são fundamentais para o sucesso do seu projeto.
Internally, we all partner up with each other. Everyone gets involved in research, strategy, production and creative work, more or less so depending on nature of project. External relationships include two schools where we teach classes (Escola São Paulo & Fundação Getúlio Vargas), the latter for whom we train a student-led consultancy. We also team up with NGOs and government entities on a project-by-project basis.
Qual apoio interno você obteve para seu projeto? Que tipo de críticas você enfrentou?
For one reason or another, our value proposition resonates quite strongly with people, both inside and outside the company. Perhaps this can be explained through the increasingly popular notion that it’s time to inject new blood, new energy, and more consciousness into the business world. In terms of push-back, I see it merely as a question of timing; we need to appreciate that not everyone is ready to turn the key.
I am a dancer. I have danced ballet since I was three years old. I am also a capoeirista, training with groups in Gauteng, and I have dabbled in other urban dance styles.
Because I have experienced the life changing lessons and beliefs that dance offers a person, I believe that this is an important project to implement in the city. Apart from the obvious benefit of keeping youth off the streets and out of trouble, it offers a sense of achievement, belonging and support that young people need in a sometimes crazy world.
Criado em 10/26/2012 por prashant7135
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I am working as Black Belt in Finance Shared Service Department of Standard Chartered Bank in Chennai. I am MBA in Finance
Have 12 years of work experience in multiple industries
1) Insurance
2) Banking
3) Telecom
4) Shipping
O que faz de você um intraempreendedor? Quais são as habilidades, capacidades e características pessoais que fazem de você um intraempreendedor?
Being worked for 12 years, I have gain enough knowledge, expertise and innovative ideas to start a business. Todays business is all about innovation and you can grow business only by innovation, everything else is secondry.
País principal onde este projeto está criando impacto social
Países e regiões adicionais
Indústria
Finanças, Seguros, Setor Imobiliário
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Ideia (você está para lançar)
A Necessidade: Qual problema social ou ambiental você está tentando resolver?
Air Pollution, Noise Pollution & Mass Transportation
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Solution is to build new way of Transportation in the city which uses Gravitational force to run. No pollution, No Traffic jams. Just need huge investment in modelling and implementation.
Have the idea, just need drawing board to explain it.
It will be like following.
Suppose city is 10 Kms. from A to B area
At area A, Need to have two station, one for departure and another for arrival. Departure will be little height and arrival will be at lowest point.
At area B, Same structure. Departure will be at height and arrival at lowest point.
Now there is only one rope connected to both area in the following way Departure A to Arrival B, Arrival B to Departure A, Departure A to Arrival B & Arrival B to Departure A. It will be connected through only one rope
The ideas is that gravitational force will pull it down from A to B and same from B to A, saving on fuel, reduced pollution and modern way for transportation
A Solução: Por que esta solução é inovadora para a sua empresa e indústria?
Its not directly related to my company or Industry but its more from social cause and overall benefit to human being.
It will have indirect impact in terms of finance needed to set up such huge project and it may be from my Bank.
O Modelo: Nos mostre um exemplo específico de como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas principais atividades.
Its as given in the solution. ( and its not related to my primary activity)
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
Competitors are all innovators who are working on new source of energy for transportation. If my idea is successfull, it will be the biggest and might impact in a big way for mass tranportation system.
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Its yet to be shared. Its just an idea
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Its yet to be shared. Its just an idea
Qual é o impacto previsto nos próximos 1 a 3 anos?
Reduction of pollution, improvement in mass transportation and Cost effective
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
It needed huge finance for implementation. Once idea gets go ahead, we can discuss with engineers and model it before we propose to government to build this or get finance from big institute
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Its not related to my business but impact the environment as in whole and will be cheapest mode for mass transportation
Como você está alavancando recursos internos (fundos, tempo, conhecimento, etc) para apoiar esta iniciativa?
It needed huge finance for implementation. Once idea gets go ahead, we can discuss with engineers and model it before we propose to government to build this or get finance from big institute
Detalhe sua resposta, explicando o plano de financiamento e apoio de longo prazo.
Need government support as it solve government proble of providing cheapes, pollution free mass transportation to its people
Conte-nos sobre suas parcerias dentro da empresa e externas que são fundamentais para o sucesso do seu projeto.
Its just an idea. Not yet discussed further
Qual apoio interno você obteve para seu projeto? Que tipo de críticas você enfrentou?
Its just an idea. Not yet discussed further
In simple words www.midnightcake.com is working fast on spreading its business across world with simple franchise model of sharing operations and support in the form of channel partners, where the profit is shared with young entrepreneurs in turn of service provision in their territory. A huge potential marketing emerging out of new & existing internet users is the main scope of interest. Midnight delivery at sharp 12:00 a trademark service is the USP of midnightcake.com.
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: MDG Insights.
Criado em 10/15/2012 por visual earth
MDG Insights is a geospatial analysis and visualization platform, geared at providing a multi-faceted framework of services, solutions and strategies, targeted at addressing health and social intervention challenges, especially evaluation and monitoring, for developing countries.
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WE ARE A GEOSTRATEGY AND LOCATION INTELLIGENCE GROUP. OUR CORE FOCUS IS ON DELIVERING TO OUR CLIENTS, THE BENEFITS BORNE FROM GEOGRAPHY AND TECHNOLOGY IN BUSINESS . WE ARE VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT STRATEGIC POSITIONING AND THE VALUE GEOGRAPHY OFFERS, AS A CATALYST TO CORPORATE AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY.
O que faz de você um intraempreendedor? Quais são as habilidades, capacidades e características pessoais que fazem de você um intraempreendedor?
Curiosity into cause of pre-existent development issues and failed policy across Africa, analytical reasoning to identify collaborative strategies to facilitate solution creation, attention to detail and creativity in developing solution, service and applications to tackle identified issues.
País principal onde este projeto está criando impacto social
Países e regiões adicionais
Indústria
Serviços Profissionais, Científicos e Técnicos
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Ideia (você está para lançar)
A Necessidade: Qual problema social ou ambiental você está tentando resolver?
Our solution potentially presents a geospatial insight and analysis platform to organization funding and executing projects associated with the 8 MDGs; to enable them effectively undertake intervention projections and budget forecasting, monitoring and evaluation and field capture of information with direct interface with back-office operations
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
It is a three tier geospatial service platform; Tier 1: Web visualization and spatial + data analysis interface and a lighter field application pre-loaded on mobile devices, provided to the client with connections to a central data warehouse, delivered via a multi-tiered access subscription model. Tier 2: A flexible big data (warehousing) infrastructure implemented across a federated architecture; each module of the federated architecture is built to suit a specific geography. Geospatial analysis solution framework built into a central system and based on a REST architecture, with dedicated solution modules for each MDG framework (MDG 1 to MGD 8). Tier 3: Technical Consultants available at the back office to offer users of the platform, access to expertise and data development resources to deliver services needed fast, such as new vector data-sets, associated household/ demographic information and imagery data, or spatial analysis tools.
A Solução: Por que esta solução é inovadora para a sua empresa e indústria?
Our platform offers the capacity to run spatial analysis intended to help deal with all scope of issues under the MDGs; technical consultants provide customize elements within the platform to suit any bias identified within a region. Most geospatial platforms are predominantly visualization services. Our platform will offer analysis capabilities.
O Modelo: Nos mostre um exemplo específico de como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas principais atividades.
It eliminates challenges associated with the manual processes associated with field data collection tasks; the field application pre-loaded on a mobile device, facilitates collection of data tied to a given location and associates this with collected data. This information is delivered in real time to the server which becomes available to the back office administrators. The administrators examine trends in the information and can amend the questionnaire structure and have these changes made, reflect on the field device immediately. The web geospatial + data analysis interface provides a user with access to several tools; the primary web interface opens to a geographic visualization space and offers a layout of several user related tools, that enables the user select from MDG frameworks 1 to 8. It also, provides access to analysis tools for stochastic assessments, budgeting and forecasting, project management and resource management as well as accessing platform support tools etc. A user is able to use the web interface to run analysis for actual project planning, visualization of data collected from site and also, can be utilized for monitoring and evaluation of intervention projects being executed. Snapshots of project updates (as maps) can be printed. It also provides the capacity for time related visualization of phenomena and impact of intervention (positive or negative).
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
Many organization provide geographic web services like ushahidi, google maps etc. However, the platforms they provide are visualization (map viewing) systems and do not focus on analysis of data to household level for monitoring and evaluation. Also, a uniform projection is used on most platforms. Our solution delivers region specific projections so data presented is in the appropriate region designated geographic projection. The main challenge we may face with the likes of Google is access to cash to continually expand the capabilities of the platform and volume of storage made available to users/ subscribers.
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The idea for the solution was developed during research work for a Ph.D recently concluded. The idea was roughly suggested in the document as a central point of information and application access (access via SaaS - software as a service and DaaS - data as a service) to remove the issues surrounding access to accurate data and tools needed to address population insight at household levels in developing countries.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
When it is presented, the value is immediately obvious to organizations. For the international funder, they see the potential for evaluation and monitoring as well as pre-budget determination for intervention projects; the also see the value in being able to identify the spatial extent which funds provided can potentially cover. For the project executor, they can relate with the field team faster and change survey metrics on the fly. The are better able to identify salient issues that will probably not have been identified using manual data collection processes. It also enables both the funder and the intervention executor, agree on the extent of spatial dispersion of the project as well as identify areas actually concluded within the scope of work assigned to the executor. It also offers a potential source for information research on the various MDGs with access to information at a household resolution.
Qual é o impacto previsto nos próximos 1 a 3 anos?
We intend in the next 3 years, to have all projects related with the MDGs to be planned, monitored and evaluated as well as implemented using the platform. Provisions are made to ensure that organizations with existing infrastructure can leverage on their past investments and still utilize the service from the platform - MDG Insights
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
Access to greater amounts of funds to retain capacity and build increased capacity, infrastructure and staff wise; access to adequately qualified staff in country, especially in Nigeria, with requisite geospatial server management and solution administration skills. As well as technical skill in geoprocessing tasks, to deliver some of the services local within the region; thereby, reducing the need to either depend extensively on skill from developed country professionals unable to live in places like Nigeria. Also, the need to establish a federated architecture between the UK and Nigeria to tackle the issue of unstable and erratic power supply.
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We become providers of innovative geospatial services and associated strategy, for social and health intervention in the global south; this becomes one of the values we potentially become known for.
Como você está alavancando recursos internos (fundos, tempo, conhecimento, etc) para apoiar esta iniciativa?
We currently execute some client projects which helps us generate some funds to undertake basic operations; we however find the close out time from pipeline to execution for project in Nigeria spans between 6 to 12 months for private sector and 12 to 24 months for public sector engagements in Nigeria. So we tend to not often have enough running cost funding. Hence, we keep operational team small and focus on closing some of the fairly large projects to boost our funds availability
Detalhe sua resposta, explicando o plano de financiamento e apoio de longo prazo.
We intend getting the core infrastructure developed to an appreciable level with own funding and then seek investment to expand the platform capacity to cope with multiple access from multiple geographic locations and executing complex analysis in real time. We expect some of the funding to also arise from revenue generated from subscription by organization to use the platform or its services (SaaS and DaaS). We also intend to develop associated products from within the platform that can be offered as commercial products that will also aid with funding.
Conte-nos sobre suas parcerias dentro da empresa e externas que são fundamentais para o sucesso do seu projeto.
Our organization is currently partners with Trimble and representing its MGIS division for the Nigeria trade area; the mobile devices intended will be the low range GPS devices with windows installed. While our other partners are ESRI and most recently, Bentley Systems. We are a Silver Tier partner within the ESRI EPN Network and intend using some ESRI and Bentley Systems technologies within the REST architecture being built.
Qual apoio interno você obteve para seu projeto? Que tipo de críticas você enfrentou?
I have slowly built a multi regional team, with members in UK and Nigeria. The UK members are the current geospatial technical and development team, working along side with me to develop the central REST architecture, for MDG Insights and for the organization as a whole. The Nigeria team work with me on client project delivery to undertake projects, examine strategies and execution on site; their managed projects provide us with the initial funds we presently run off.
TIME = MONEY
In this world we always hear people saying TIME = MONEY but hardly see because the rich is only enjoying this.
Majority of the educated or we can say highly educated people are also unable to find themselves a reasonable job which can satisfy their qualification or needs.
So to provide a job or can say a business or doing partnerships or joint ventures with not only educated but talented and uneducated people we can try to bring self dependence to almost every individual irrespective of cast,color,gender,age,etc.
The life chances of marginalized individuals and subsequent growth of the local economy are bolstered through the wrap-around support offered at Street School.
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: Banco Bem.
Criado em 09/11/2012 por leonora.mol
Banco Bem is a community development bank, which uses innovative microfinance tools to support social and economic entrepreneurship and civic engagement.
Organização: Ateliê de Idéias
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPágina da organização na internet
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Mais de 5 anos
A organização recebeu algum prêmio ou reconhecimento público? Por favor, conte-nos mais detalhes
Opus Prize 2012 (Finalista).
Prêmio Don Luís Gonzaga Fernandes 2012.
Prêmio Oliraxé Afroreggae 2012.
Prêmio Cláudia 2010 (Finalista).
Desafio Changemakers "Moradia Sustentável para Todos" 2011 (Finalista).
Prêmio Fundação Banco do Brasil de Tecnologias Sociais - categoria Região Sudeste 2011.
Prêmio ODM 2010 - Melhores Práticas.
Prêmio Atitude Sustentável 2011.
Prêmio da Associação Brasileira de Municípios.
Prêmio da Revista Hype.
Prêmio Top Sócio Ambiental.
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Expandindo (o próximo passo é aumentar o impacto em escala local ou mesmo global)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Em execução por mais de 5 anos
Qual(is) item(ns) abaixo descreve(m) melhor a(s) barreira(s) que sua inovação soluciona? Escolha até dois itens.
Acesso, Equidade.
A necessidade: Qual é o problema que você está tentando resolver?
O acesso de empreendedores, comerciantes e famílias moradoras em oito comunidades de baixa renda da região da região central de Vitória, capital do estado do Espírito Santo, no sudeste brasileiro, a serviços financeiros amplos e integrados, com foco simultâneo no desenvolvimento da economia local e também na ampliação e garantia de direitos sociais básicos, para o desenvolvimento local. Diversos segmentos sociais e econômicos da região demandam canais de suporte técnico-financeiro para que possam transformar projetos e idéias inovadoras e socialmente relevantes em realidade: desenvolver seus negócios, adquirir produtos e serviços essenciais e melhorar suas moradias. Os bancos tradicionais oferecem condições difíceis de serem atendidas pela maioria dos moradores e empreendedores locais.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
O Banco Bem é um banco comunitário de desenvolvimento (BCD). Oferece serviços financeiros (crédito, operação de uma moeda social e correspondente bancário para pagamento de contas) às comunidades e também um conjunto de serviços complementares, de formação e apoio técnico, para agregar valor aos serviços financeiros tradicionais, com a finalidade de promover o desenvolvimento local. Os comerciantes e empreendedores têm acesso a crédito produtivo para desenvolver seus negócios, e a atividades formativas e assessoria técnica em gestão e marketing. Os moradores têm acesso a crédito de consumo, para consumir em estabelecimentos comerciais locais, e a crédito habitacional, para construção ou reforma de suas moradias, no que contam com assistência técnica especializada para o planejamento e a execução das obras. O Banco Bem ainda opera a circulação de uma moeda social, o Bem, que é apenas aceita no próprio território, para estimular o consumo endógeno e aquecer a economia local.
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
Heraldo, de São Benedito tem um pequeno negócio de venda de frutas e legumes e de produtos de mercearia. Em 2011, pegou o primeiro empréstimo no Banco Bem, de R$ 1.000,00 para capital de giro. Em 2012, acessou novamente um crédito de R$ 5.000,00 para ampliar o seu comércio e construir um açougue. Esta ideia movimentou muito o seu comércio, principalmente porque está localizado em um ponto estratégico, onde os moradores tem fácil acesso.
Ananias, de Jaburu, morava em um barraco de tábua de dois cômodos, com uma cozinha e um quarto dividido com um guarda roupa onde dormiam com dois filhos e com um banheiro, apenas com um vaso sanitário do lado de fora da casa. No seu primeiro crédito em 2007, pegou R$ 5.000,00 para comprar material e iniciou a construção de sua casa de alvenaria, com sala, cozinha, um quarto para os filhos e um banheiro. E o casal continuou dormindo no barraco de madeira. Ele não precisou de mão de obra, pois ele mesmo construiu a casa com a assistência técnica da nossa equipe de arquitetura. Com o 2º crédito no valor de R$ 5000,00, em 2011, esta dando continuidade à reforma, fazendo o segundo andar, construindo uma escada e dois quartos, cada um para um dos filhos (que hoje estão com 9 anos e 17 anos).
Nos dois casos, houve a solicitação do empréstimo, ao inscrever seus nomes em uma lista de espera. Depois, quando os recursos se tornaram disponíveis, as analistas de crédito visitaram os clientes, avaliaram as propostas de uso dos recursos, conversaram com os vizinhos dos solicitantes e apresentaram essas propostas à Comissão de Análise de Crédito.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
O Banco Bem foi criado inspirado e apoiado pelo Banco Palmas, de Fortaleza, Ceará. Hoje, o Banco Bem é o segundo maior banco comunitário da América Latina, apenas atrás do próprio Banco Palmas. A interação, a cooperação e a troca de conhecimentos entre o Banco Bem e o Bancos Palmas sempre foi bastante intensa. Ambos são hoje protagonistas da Rede Nacional de Bancos Comunitários. Outro importante parceiro é o NESOL (Núcleo de Estudos em Economia Solidária) da USP (Universidade de São Paulo), que tem participado ativamente do aprimoramento metodológico dos bancos comunitários de desenvolvimento e da difusão da tecnologia social em todo o Brasil. A Rede Nacional hoje conta com 80 bancos comunitários, que estão juntos, pensando em estratégias de expansão e sustentabilidade.
Temas relacionados à inscrição
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarHistória: Queremos saber mais sobre o momento de descoberta desta solução. Conte-nos um pouco a história sobre onde e quando o(s) fundador(res) vislumbrou(aram) o potencial desta solução para mudar o mundo:
Leonora Mol, fundadora do Banco Bem, atua no território desde 2003, quando iniciou seu trabalho de formação e apoio a grupos produtivos para geração de renda para mulheres em situação de vulnerabilidade na comunidade de São Benedito. O primeiro grupo de mulheres, que trabalhava com corte e costura, participou de uma feira, em que obteve um lucro significativo com a venda de seus produtos. Lideradas por Leonora, as mulheres optaram por emprestar o lucro obtido para criação de outro grupo produtivo ao invés de ficar com os recursos. Essa foi a semente do Banco Bem, o primeiro empréstimo e de onde surgiu a idéia. Após uma palestra feita por Joaquim Mello, fundador do Banco Palmas, em Vitória, Leonora e as mulheres pediram a ele que as formasse e preparasse para criar um banco comunitário, como o Banco Palmas. Contando com um aporte inicial de R$ 9 mil, o Banco Bem foi oficialmente fundado em 2005. O Banco, que iniciou em três comunidades, se expandiu para oito comunidades, 31 mil pessoas.
Descreva a meta da sua iniciativa; fale sobre o que você está tentando alcançar.
O objetivo prioritário do Banco Bem é fomentar o desenvolvimento local do território. É ser um instrumento de suporte técnico e financeiro para que os atores locais (negócios, organizações sociais de base, empreendedores, lideranças comunitárias e famílias) possam se desenvolver, crescer e transformar idéias em projetos e projetos em soluções reais para os desafios estratégicos e do dia a dia nas comunidades. Esse é um diferencial do modelo de bancos comunitários de desenvolvimento: o foco maior é no desenvolvimento local e não no atendimento individual ou institucional. Espera-se que as comunidades se apropriem dos bancos comunitários e os utilizem como mecanismos de governança participativa e de apoio a transformações sociais positivas, ao empreendedorismo e à garantia de direitos.
Quais são os obstáculos da inclusão financeira que sua solução procura resolver? (Selecione todos que fizerem sentido)
Barreiras de acessibilidade física ou outros, que impedem as comunidades de usarem os serviços financeiros, A escassez de produtos financeiros acessíveis adaptados às necessidades de comunidades desfavorecidas e excluídas, Outros (especifique abaixo).
Se você selecionou 'outro' acima, especificar quais outros obstáculos da inclusão financeira que sua solução procura resolver:
Acesso a conhecimento para desenvolver as cadeias de valor da região, utilizando os serviços financeiros disponíveis.
Para quais comunidades desfavorecidas ou excluídas sua solução vai oferecer acesso a serviços financeiros de forma segura, abrangente e adaptada às necessidades daquelas comunidades? Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
Oito comunidades de baixa renda nas encostas de morros na região central de Vitória, com uma população total de 31 mil pessoas. Vitória é uma cidade com cerca de 500 mil habitantes, na região mais desenvolvida do Brasil. Uma cidade marcada pela absurda desigualdade social. As famílias das comunidades atendidas vivem em situação de extrema vulnerabilidade, desempregada ou em subempregos, com renda média de um salário mínimo e convivendo com a violência do tráfico de drogas. A infra-estrutura é precária, começando pelas condições de moradia.
Em três anos, esperamos atender a todos os solicitantes nas listas de espera de crédito, apoio técnico e formação para desenvolver seus negócios, para construir ou reformar suas moradias ou para acessar e bens e serviços para sua proteção social. A meta é beneficiar mais 200 empreendedores, comerciantes e famílias. Outra meta é implantar um fundo comunitário, para investimentos em espaços coletivos/comunitários.
A sua solução funcionaria em outras regiões? Se sim, onde?
Sim. O Banco Bem já assessorou a reaplicação de sua tecnologia social em seis outras comunidades da região metropolitana de Vitória, criando a Rede Capixaba de Bancos Comunitários. E está reaplicando seu modelo em 10 outras comunidades na região Centro Oeste do Brasil, em cinco diferentes estados do país. O Banco Bem conta com o apoio do Governo Federal brasileiro e do Governo do Estado do Espírito Santo para conduzir essas reaplicações.
A experiência de reaplicação mais consolidada é o Banco Sol - banco comunitário de desenvolvimento implantado na comunidade de Vista Dourada, em Cariacica (região metropolitana de Vitória). O Banco Bem assessorou, orientou e supervisionou todo o processo de criação e implantação do Banco Sol pela Associação Costumes Artes. Leonora Mol participou de reuniões com os moradores e capacitou as lideranças locais. Hoje, o Banco Sol possui R$ 73.000,00 em carteira de crédito (produtivo, de consumo e habitacional), atendendo a 684 pessoas de sua comunidade.
Se a sua solução for muito bem sucedida, o que será diferente em 10 anos?
O desenvolvimento local poderá ser avaliado através de medidas como a expansão e o fortalecimento dos negócios locais (aumento da rentabilidade dos estabelecimentos comerciais, criação de postos de trabalho e aumento dos níveis de renda na região), o auto-emprego (empreendedorismo para produção interna de produtos e serviços para atender a demanda), o crescimento do consumo endógeno (proporção dos moradores que consomem em suas comunidade), diversificação da oferta e aumento da qualidade de produtos e serviços disponíveis nas comunidades, melhoria das condições de moradia (hoje muitas casas são de madeiras em áreas íngremes e com risco de deslizamentos, no futuro serão moradias de alvenaria, com alicerces, salubres e com condições de conforto e segurança para as famílias). O banco comunitário será completamente gerido pelos próprios atores locais, a partir de seu fórum comunitário. E será um fundo sustentável a partir da capacidade de pagamento dos moradores das comunidades atendidas.
O que tiveram que mudar para fazer isso acontecer?
Os empreendedores locais precisam de apoio técnico e financeiro para iniciar seus negócios, observando as oportunidades e as demandas existentes na região e as vocações e talentos que precisam ser potencializadas. O Banco Bem age, assim, como um articulador de oportunidades e potencialidades e, assim, como uma agência de desenvolvimento. Os estabelecimentos comerciais precisam ser valorizados, divulgados e promovidos. Os seus gestores precisam aprender a planejar e gerir seus negócios e a atrair os consumidores locais. Os moradores precisam ter acesso a apoio financeiro simples, flexível e adequado às suas condições reais de pagamento para que possam melhorar suas moradias, no primeiro momento, fazendo reformas ou até mesmo reconstruindo as casas com maior segurança. Utilizando a moeda social e campanhas internas, os moradores precisam ser estimulados a consumir em suas próprias comunidades, na medida em que o comércio local se estruture e ofereça maior variedade/qualidade de produtos.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Um total de R$ 384.089,00 foi investido em crédito produtivo no desenvolvimento de negócios na região, beneficiando 244 comerciantes e empreendedores locais. Outros R$ 474.297,00 foram investido em crédito para construção e reformas de moradias, beneficiando 166 famílias, que hoje moram em condições mais seguras e com salubridade. Mais R$ 25.044,00 foram emprestados a 390 moradores, em moeda social (Bem), que é aceita apenas em estabelecimentos comerciais das comunidades atendidas, para que consumissem na própria região, em sua maioria, alimentos, produtos de higiene, medicamentos e outros mantimentos essenciais.
Graças ao Banco Bem, oito comunidades com desafios comuns, mesmo separadas pelo conflito entre grupos de traficantes de drogas, se mobilizaram em torno de um único Fórum de moradores, o Fórum Bem Maior, e elaboraram juntos um plano estratégico participativo para o território, com visão de futuro e metas para o desenvolvimento local. Tendo o Banco Bem como mobilizador.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 5 anos?
Em cinco anos, esperamos atender a 100% da população do território (31 mil pessoas) - ou seja, sermos capazes de atender a toda a demanda local pelos serviços oferecidos (crédito produtivo, habitacional e de consumo, apoio técnico, formação e serviços bancários). Esperamos expandir nossos serviços de apoio aos empreendedores e comerciantes, para fortalecer as organizações econômicas locais, estruturando as cadeias de valor. E esperamos ter orientado e assessorado a criação de novos 10 bancos comunitários no estado do Espírito Santo, difundido a tecnologia social para atender e impactar a mais 20 mil pessoas. Vamos estudar a criação de novas linhas de crédito - para melhorias da infra-estrutura comunitária (limpeza de terrenos, reformas de praças, construção de quadras de esportes, etc)
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
O crescimento do Banco Bem depende de sua capacidade de implantar estratégias e ferramentas que gerem receitas a partir da prestação de serviços à comunidade. Os juros e as taxas administrativas cobradas hoje aos usuários dos serviços de crédito e de correspondente bancários são insuficientes para custear as operações, fazendo com o banco comunitário precise recorrer a doações e investimento social externo. Sua expansão, desse modo, é ameaçada. No entanto, serviços adicionais, que poderiam ser oferecidos pelo banco comunitário e que seriam novas fontes de receita não podem ser implantados por questões de legislação nacional ou local ou por desafios tecnológicos. A estratégia é a articulação dos bancos comunitários em redes fortes para desenhar estratégias comuns e incidir em marcos legais.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Atender a mais 25 negócios locais, (R$ 33 mil em crédito produtivo) e a mais 25 famílias (R$ 84 mil em credito habitacional)
Atividade 1
Análise das solicitações de crédito pelos comerciantes/empreendedores e pelas famílias locais (visitas de campo).
Atividade 2
Reuniões da Comissão de Análise de Crédito, do Fórum de moradores, para aprovação dos créditos solicitados.
Atividade 3
Acompanhamento da aplicação dos recursos pelos solicitantes do crédito e das rotinas/planos de pagamentos.
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Implantar um fundo comunitário - uma linha de crédito para investimento em infraestrutura comunitária/coletiva.
Atividade 1
Mobilizar R$ 25.000,00 em investimento inicial para o fundo comunitário.
Atividade 2
Organizar um processo seletivo para escolher os projetos locais que vão receber os primeiros investimentos.
Atividade 3
Acompanhar a aplicação dos recursos e assessorar os grupos no desenvolvimento de seus microprojetos.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPor favor, explique de que forma o estabelecimento de parcerias é importante para o sucesso de sua inovação
O Banco Bem depende de dois tipos de parcerias: internas (na própria comunidade) e externas (com investidores, cooperantes e outros bancos comunitários). Internamente, os atores locais, como o fórum de moradores e as organizações de base, são canais essenciais de diálogo com a comunidade, permitindo a capilaridade do programa e fazendo com que seja flexível e adequado às demandas e ao perfil de cliente local. Externamente, as redes, nacional e regional, de bancos comunitários são fundamentais para a sustentabilidade e aprimoramento do modelo. Assim como investidores e universidades.
Atualmente você planeja atender outros locais, mercados e populações específicas com sua inovação? Se sim, onde e por quê?
Já temos atendido. Além da escala endógena do programa, que busca atender a 100% da população local, há um plano de escala baseado na reaplicação com parceiros locais, para que apliquem os conhecimentos da tecnologia social em suas comunidades. O Banco Bem, nesse sentido, atua como ator orientador e facilitador - formando e assessorando os atores comunitários (associações, cooperativas, etc) para que possam implantar o modelo. Assim foi em Vista Dourada, em outras seis comunidades do estado e esta sendo em outras 10 comunidades do Centro Oeste brasileiro, em outros cinco estados brasileiros.
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
As parcerias locais serão fundamentais para o sucesso do programa - principalmente com o fórum de moradores e com as organizações de base (lideranças comunitárias). Para garantir que o Banco Bem esteja em sintonia com o perfil dos moradores e suas demandas. O tráfico de drogas e a violência dos conflitos entre os grupos é um desafio que precisa ser administrado - os analistas de crédito precisam poder circular pelas comunidades, assim como os clientes precisam poder chegar à agência do banco. A abertura de uma segunda agência do Banco Bem é um passo importante para atender com mais eficiência o território como um todo, facilitando o acesso de todos os moradores. Estrutura tecnológica também é importante nas agências, para o trabalho dos analistas de crédito.
Fale mais sobre as necessidades ou ofertas que você selecionou anteriormente e/ou sugira categorias de apoio que não foram listadas
Podemos oferecer conhecimentos e ferramentas de gestão e operação a organizações com objetivos e modelos similares ou próximos ano nosso em todo o mundo, assim como treinar pessoas e enviar profissionais com experiência prática na gestão de bancos comunitários de desenvolvimento. Assim como precisamos de acesso a investidores sociais e conhecimentos de todas as partes do mundo.
Criado em 09/10/2012 por paradurumu
ParaDurumu is a financial literacy social initiative started by Özlem Denizmen whose main purpose is to take out ‘money’ to be a secret issue.
Organização: Para Durumu
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Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Entre 1 e 5 anos
A organização recebeu algum prêmio ou reconhecimento público? Por favor, conte-nos mais detalhes
Ozlem Denizmen;
-‘Young Global Leader' of 2011 by the World Economic Forum.
- White House Delegate at the 2010 OBAMA’ Presidential Summit on
Entrepreneurship, held in Washington, D.C.
- ‘Top 100 Powerful Women of Turkey’ by Dunya Newspaper in 2011.
- “Young Society Leader 2011” of the American Turkish Society
- OECD financial literacy trainer accreditation
-Child&Youth Finance international country delegate
-National saving comittee member
As informações que você fornecer aqui serão usadas para preencher todas as partes do seu perfil deixadas em branco, como interesses, informação da organização e website. Nenhuma informação do contato será tornada pública. Por favor, desmarque aqui se você não deseja que isso aconteça..
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarSelecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Crescimento (seu piloto está em andamento e começa a se expandir)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Em execução entre 1 e 5 anos
Qual(is) item(ns) abaixo descreve(m) melhor a(s) barreira(s) que sua inovação soluciona? Escolha até dois itens.
Acesso, Equidade.
A necessidade: Qual é o problema que você está tentando resolver?
Para Durumu is a financial literacy social initiative whose main purpose is to take out ‘money’ to be a secret issue that is be ashamed of talking , being accused of its absence, managing without responsibility and to build up a widespread awareness about it , as a talkable, consultable, manageable issue. Para Durumu is using all conventional platforms such as radio, daily press as a weekly column journalist, a TV show, book in the top 10 selling list of the highly recognized local book stores, internet, apple application as well as edutainment program and seminar activities for to reach out masses, especially women and youth.
Why Fin. Literacy?
•Repeated Financial Crises. Increased unemployment necessitates better money management.
•New financial products. Complexity and variety.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Para Durumu, a financial literacy social initiative, is using all conventional platforms such as radio, daily press as a weekly column journalist, a TV show, book in the top 10 selling list of the highly recognized local book stores, internet, apple application as well as edutainment program and seminar activities for to reach out masses, especially women and youth.
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
It is an innovative solution not only in terms of subject ‘Financial Literacy’ (FL) but also in terms of how it is delivered to masses. Turkey had no national strategy when Para Durumu activities began two years ago now they became the main supporter and even began creating working groups which Para Durumu is a member. Edutainment and 360 degree communication is the key success methods Para Duru use to have the highest impact especially on the unbanked and underserved. To be more specific on how deliver our messages please watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQjftmbPR0M&feature=youtu.be
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
Limited knowledge about the banking, budgeting, and making investment.
Based on a research performed by Citibank in 2010 in Turkey, following are the participants’ answers to some financial literacy questions;
78% of people `Never Do Saving`
13% of people `Have Saving for Emergency Situations`
20% of people `Do Budget Planning`
89% of people `Believe The Importance of Knowledge on House Economics`
More than 50% of people `Need Financial Advisory (e.g. Budget, pension funds, mortgage etc)`
Only 18% of people `Have Knowledge on Investment Tools (e.g. stock exchange, gold, Iinterest, investment funds etc.)`
And also there are Goverment Interest and support because Istanbul is being a Financial Center in the next 3 years , IPO Initiative
Temas relacionados à inscrição
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Its social impact has been tremendeous. The survey results, implemented to 475 seminar attendees by Infakto Research Company, showed that their money issues knowledge increased up to %74.
After attending the education,
• Attendees habit of writing to their spending increased to 81%
• Distinguish of obligatory and luxury spendings increased to 87.6%
• Knowledge about financial instruments increased
• Credit card useful and must know knowledge increased to 57%
• Before education, the women’s only knwoledge about investement was “gold”. After education they have the knowledge about other instruments
• The most distinct increase is about savings evaluate ways. (pre 54% had knowledge, post 81% have knowledge)
Descreva a meta da sua iniciativa; fale sobre o que você está tentando alcançar.
TARGET GROUP
All ages and education level of women and youth that wants to have the core knowledge about personal finance management issues such as budgeting, debt, savings, investments and entrepreneurship.
PURPOSE
-To create awareness for ‘Financial Literacy’ to every Turkish citizen.
-Providing access to the right information in Turkey about personal money management issues such as saving, budgeting, debt, investment, credit card usage, personal loans, etc. in a simple, intuitive, innovative way.
-To introduce budget notion and its benefits
-To raise awareness about debt and its instruments
-To contribute the raise awareness of having savings
-To promote financial instruments
-To introduce micro credit and enlighten about setting up a business with micro credit
Quais são os obstáculos da inclusão financeira que sua solução procura resolver? (Selecione todos que fizerem sentido)
Barreiras de acessibilidade física ou outros, que impedem as comunidades de usarem os serviços financeiros, Outros (especifique abaixo).
Se você selecionou 'outro' acima, especificar quais outros obstáculos da inclusão financeira que sua solução procura resolver:
-The lack of awareness, content and national strategy about financial literacy
Para quais comunidades desfavorecidas ou excluídas sua solução vai oferecer acesso a serviços financeiros de forma segura, abrangente e adaptada às necessidades daquelas comunidades? Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
Women; because they cover 50% of Turkish population(75M) and most of them are under-served.
Kids&Youth; Because this segment is 61% of Turkish population. So they need a guidance
Enterepreneurs; It is a trend topic in Turkey as the positive economic growth. There are lots of national&international angel investors for Turkish Entrepreneurs. So those entrepreneurs need a guidance for `starting a business` content like building business plan, business strategy etc.
A sua solução funcionaria em outras regiões? Se sim, onde?
In our strategy there is the plan to expend internationally with social franchising, towards to MENA&East side especially under privileged parts of the world, because those regions have similar needs & opportunities with Turkey after the national proved concept.
Se a sua solução for muito bem sucedida, o que será diferente em 10 anos?
People will be literate about financial issues and they will start to use investment tools more often and they will start to save more, so that capital shift towards to market will provide an economical growth. Create sustainable welfare of the economy with financial peaceful families, that are composed of "financially free" individuals, people manage their money will be able to manage their lives
O que tiveram que mudar para fazer isso acontecer?
Awareness, importance and effect of financial literacy should be accepted and supported by regulatory bodies which we are trying to create the awareness by seminars, one to one visits, and by delegation in the related committiees
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
We have an ongoing project to educate 20.000 women in Turkey; project started in December 2011 and will finish in May 2012. According to the survey results, implemented to 475 seminar attendees by Infakto Research Company, showed that their money issues knowledge increased up to %74.
After attending the education,
•Attendees habit of writing to their spending increased to 81%
•Distinguish of obligatory and luxury spendings increased to 87.6%
•Knowledge about financial instruments increased
•Credit card useful and must know knowledge increased to 57%
•Before education, the women’s only knwoledge about investement was “gold”. After education they have the knowledge about other instruments
•The most distinct increase is about savings evaluate ways. (pre 54% had knowledge, post 81% have knowledge)
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 5 anos?
We will be transforming most of our education to online platform. So that it can be sustainable and replicable.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
Accessibility is one of the critical factors in our project. Though physical touch is the key to success to overcome the accessibility issue we have created the website (paradurumu.tv). We answer members questions, create tools to help their financial decisions, We collect the data of attendees when we get a physical contact, after that we are trying to get those people to our online platform (www.paradurumu.tv) so we can keep our connection and continue to educate
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
To create national financial literacy council
Atividade 1
To build up the first&only NGO on Financial Literacy Inclusion
Atividade 2
To reach 20.000 underserved women to get the financial literacy training
Atividade 3
To maintain the number one "reach" in the media and financial literacy& personel finance topic
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
To widen the target other than women
Atividade 1
To make a nation wide child launch with international impact (child&youth finance organization)
Atividade 2
To reach more than 10.000 students in all over the Turkey
Atividade 3
To be accepted and proved, to be in the nation wide curriculum by Ministry Of National Education
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPor favor, explique de que forma o estabelecimento de parcerias é importante para o sucesso de sua inovação
We build partnerships with financial institutions as a sponsor of the projects like private & national banks, private sector companies like Dogus Holding, regulatory bodies like BKM(interbank bank center, credit bureau, BDDK-banking audit regulatory, banks council, TBB, Central Bank of Turkey)to deliver their content to mass with simple & entertaining language.
Atualmente você planeja atender outros locais, mercados e populações específicas com sua inovação? Se sim, onde e por quê?
In 2012-2013 we will expand our model in all over the Turkey, after 2015-16 we will expand our model internationally.
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
Activist of the ParaDurumu is a very well known business woman as well as being the celebrity in the media. Her wide network ability supported by experienced stuff(20 years in banking sector + 15 years in banking branch networks + one engineer + 20year experienced in leading FMCG sector director + very senior editoring chief + trainers etc.)
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Criado em 09/5/2012 por fornelli
The Kisiwani Environmental Group is a CBO that collects waste in unplanned settlements in the Buguruni Ward. The KEG has developed a new Solid Waste Recycling and Composting Project. Through this project, collaborating organizations aim to catalyze composting and recycling as an effective measure for generating revenue, while reducing the amount of waste transferred to the city’s dumpsite.
Organização: The Kisiwani Environmental Group
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome da Organização
The Kisiwani Environmental Group
Página da organização na internet
País da organização
Tanzânia, DS, Dar es Salaam
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Tanzânia, DS, Dar es Salaam
Idade do inovador:
Entre 18 e 34 anos
Gênero do inovador
Masculino
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Entre 1 e 5 anos
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The Kisiwani Environmental Group: Solid Waste Management in Dar es Salaam
Selecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Crescimento (seu piloto está em andamento e começa a se expandir)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Em execução entre 1 e 5 anos
A necessidade: Qual é o problema que você está tentando resolver?
This project addresses issues surrounding solid waste management in one of Dar’s many unplanned settlements. Currently, solid waste management in unplanned settlements is either non-existent or is organised through community groups because of poor access roads.
There are many community based organisations collecting waste in unplanned areas of Dar es Salaam. Most of these groups face serious challenges relating to revenue collection, access to land for waste transfer stations, and lack contracts from local government for collection service.Collection of revenue from households, businesses and institutions, is a major challenge for CBO’s working in solid waste management.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
The KEG project is an important innovation because it represents a local solution to the unmet basic service needs of the majority of Dar citizens who live in unplanned settlements (70-80%).
The KEG, in collaboration with SCI, BORDA and the Ilala Municipality, is working towards improving their push-cart collection service and introducing waste separation in the ward.
The main objectives of the project are:
•To reduce the amount of waste dumped at the Pugu dumpsite through waste separation and composting at the KEG transfer site
•To extend the solid waste separation process to the household level
•To increase the fee payment compliance of residents
•To increase KEG’s revenue; through revenue collection and the selling of compost and recyclables.
•To have long term formal contracts between the Municipality and KEG for solid waste management services
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
The Kisiwani Environmental Group (KEG) provides waste collection for households, businesses and institutions, within unplanned settlements in the Buguruni Ward.
The KEG consists of 10 members (7 men and 3 women) and employs an additional 26 youth from the community.
At the transfer site, KEG workers separate the waste into organics, recyclables and residual waste. By separating out recyclables and organic material, the KEG reduces the amount of waste the Ilala Municipality delivers to the city dump, therefore cutting down on Municipal costs.
On average, each pushcart collects 500kg of waste per day. From that 500kg, 300kg is organic waste and recyclables. After separation, only 200kg of waste remains to be transported to the final dumpsite.
Other activities achieved in collaboration with SCI, BORDA and Ilala Municipality are:
a)The facilitation of a formal agreement between the KEG and the ward allowing KEG to collect waste for 2 years
b)Anglican Church accepted the KEG using the site as a transfer station
c)Facilitated the signing of an MoU between KEG, SCI, BORDA and Ilala Municipality
d)The training of the KEG on waste management, recycling and composting and the production of a composting manual
e)The procurement of equipment such as protective clothing; waste collection equipment and waste recycling equipment
f)The production of compost, by the KEG, at the end of June 2012; the testing of the quality of compost for (nutrients, heavy metal and faecal matter) by Ardhi University
g)The development of a database in order to improve revenue collection
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
Currently, three other CBO’s collect waste in the Buguruni Ward, where KEG collects from. Other competitors include compost sellers within the Ward, including individuals who sell compost along the roadside and those who collect and sell plastics.
Other challenges competitors pose:
•Competition for land; land is a diminishing resource in Dar es Salaam and long term land agreements are often difficult to acquire
•On occasion the market for recyclables is flooded, this leads to decreased market value of the plastics KEG can sell
•Competition in selling compost; KEG may have to compete with those selling compost at a lower price and lower quality.
KEG is set apart from other competitors because they are the only known waste collectors producing compost from the waste they collect.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarTemas relacionados à inscrição
Quais tipos de soluções fazem parte do foco de sua iniciativa para apoiar novos empreendedores e pequenos negócios a crescerem e se desenvolverem em comunidades menos desenvolvidas? (selecione todas que se aplicam)
Acesso a financiamento, Acesso a cadeias de distribuição/logística, Acesso a tecnologia, Acesso a oportunidade econômica, Mudança política/advocacy.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
The KEG waste separation and composting project has provided a unique opportunity to improve waste collection for and gather new data on the residents and businesses in the Buguruni area of Dar es Salaam . This project has improved the KEG's revenue generating potential and has reduced the total waste transferred to the dumpsite, decreasing costs for the Ilala Municipality.This project has built the capacity of individual members of the KEG and has improved the relationship between the community group and the local municipality.The research component of this project, in collaboration with Ardhi University, has increased local knowledge of waste composition.This means that the project's impact will be much larger than just the Buguruni ward. Many local stakeholders will be able to see the benefits of waste recycling and composting, in terms of both revenue generation and cost savings.Furthermore, the KEG has provided employment opportunities to youth in the area.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
•To convert the existing transfer station into a simple solid waste separation, recycling, and composting centre for push cart collected waste
•To secure a formal long term solid waste management contract between the Ilala Municipality and KEG
•To train the KEG in waste separation, recycling, composting and business management
•To generate additional revenue for the KEG through the selling of plastics, bottles, and compost
•To reduce truckloads, and the cost of transporting waste, to the Pugu dumpsite by the Ilala Municipal Council.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
Challenges:
•Residents, businesses, institutions not paying for waste collection service
•Short term contracts for waste collection
•Access to land for a transfer station
•Insufficient financial resources provided by the Dar es Salaam City Council and its municipalities (from their budgets) to put in place solid waste management schemes.
Resolutions:
•Facilitate Ilala Municipality establish a revenue collections officer for Buguruni Ward
•Facilitate signing of MOU between Ilala Municipality and KEG; long term contract for waste collection
•Engage with Municipalities in allocating land for solid waste management facilities, such as transfer sites
•Assist KEG with improving their waste collection service and compost making
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Increase KEG’s revenue (to minimum wage or higher) with selling recyclables and compost. Minimum wage is TSH 120,000($80 CDN)
Atividade 1
Identify markets for selling recyclables and compost
Atividade 2
Assist in networking with local government and other community groups
Atividade 3
Assist in building the capacity of KEG in managing finances and book keeping
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Increase KEG’s revenue with the collection of waste collection service fees. Extend solid waste separation process to households
Atividade 1
Facilitate the Ilala Municipality in establishing a revenue collection officer for Buguruni Ward
Atividade 2
Facilitate long term solid waste management contract between KEG and Ilala Municipality
Atividade 3
Facilitate Ilala Municipality in assisting KEG in improving collection service;bins for households; more municipal trucks
História: Queremos saber mais sobre o momento de descoberta desta solução. Conte-nos um pouco a história sobre onde e quando o(s) fundador(res) vislumbrou(aram) o potencial desta solução para mudar o mundo:
Since the KEG started the compost making process,all stakeholders involved have been holding monthly meetings. It was at the second of such monthly meetings that profound progress was made. At this meeting relationships between all stakeholders involved were strengthened, project progress was noted and the future of the project as an achievable and viable endeavour was realized. Realizing their potential to become a leader in solid waste management within their community, and in Dar es Salaam; as well as their ability to function as a viable business, a behavioural change occurred within the KEG. The KEG realized that the success of the project depended on them taking on additional responsibilities to achieve ownership of the project.Since this meeting, the KEG has done just that. The KEG stands as a leader in Solid Waste Management in Dar es Salaam and has had a profound impact on improving the environment through the recycling, reusing and reducing of solid waste.
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The Kisiwani Environmental Group (KEG) has developed parternerships with SCI, BORDA,the Ilala Municipality, and Ardhi University. Through these partnerships, the KEG has enhanced their capacity in functionning as a viable business. At the end of July, the KEG took part in a Solid Waste Management Workshop,organized by SCI and BORDA. At this workshop the KEG made valuable contacts throughout the Dar es Salaam solid waste community, including representatives from other community groups, local government, and the private sector.
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Any external funding the KEG could receive would assist the project substantially.Extra funding would assist the KEG in purchasing compost bags for the selling and marketing of the compost they are making.
Being able to network with other community groups, local government, as well as with international organizations, would assist in the skill and knowledge development of the KEG.
Criado em 09/5/2012 por Liba Ghani
Esta empresa tem como finalidade facilitar o acesso à arte e discussão de empreendimentos que tornem as cidades mais criativas, gerando renda e fazendo com que as pessoas acreditem mais nos seus projetos a partir do planejamento e trabalho em equipe, baseado em alegria e conhecimento.
Organização: Pas Schaefer
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPágina da organização na internet
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Idade do inovador:
Entre 18 e 34 anos
Gênero do inovador
Masculino
Sua organização é
Não registrado
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Menos de um ano
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INFOGRAFITTI - Grafitti e informação para construir novos polos culturais
Selecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Inicial (um piloto que começou recentemente)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Ainda na fase de ideia, mas você deseja lançá-lo em breve
A necessidade: Qual é o problema que você está tentando resolver?
Há ainda uma significativa dificuldade de compreensão transdisciplinar em grande parte da população separando Arte e Ciência. A falta de criatividade na abordagem de temas dos gêneros deixam de aproximar pessoas à leitura de obras de arte e a alfabetização científica, distanciando-as do complexo e fascinante universo da Ciência.
A estética dos bairros não considerados polos culturais pode ser muito mais rica intelectualmente
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Se utilizando da Infografia, o projeto visa a democratização e inclusão
cognitiva, onde os muros passam a ser lousas a céu aberto enquanto admitem a
Arte como elemento de transformação, além do conhecimento e estética, sugere
uma nova perspectiva quanto a esses dois pólos divergentes: a objetividade
científica somada a subjetividade artística.
Muitos fatores tornam a cidade mais insossa e cinza. Infografitti traz uma estética renovadora e revitalizadora aos moradores através da pintura de murais, acreditando que a aparência do ambiente influi diretamente no estilo de vida da população que utiliza o devido espaço
3- Idéias simples sendo trabalhadas em conjunto, organização e planejamento, metas razoáveis e progressivas, avaliação e bonificação, além de um ambiente alegre e estimulante modificam o dia a dia de todos. Infografitti traz valores para alimentar novos sonhos,acreditando na idéia, no indivíduo e no coletivo organizado.
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
Em seu âmbito sócio-educativo o projeto desperta o interesse para seu rico conteúdo. Além de ser agradável visualmente,os grafittis informativos serão ferramenta de múltiplas aprendizagens . Com o auxílio da imagem essa identificação tem qualidade elevada, levando as pessoas a compreenderem mistérios e curiosidades da natureza. Além disso proporciona aos envolvidos a liberdade imaginária em virtude da Arte.
Em seu âmbito social a revitalização de bairros proposta pelo projeto visa uma nova relação entre os moradores da região com o espaço público, o resgate ou a criação do orgulho e sensação de pertencimento , a desmarginalização do bairro, como é o caso do primeiro a ser transformado: o Brás, bairro estritamente comercial que vislumbra a possibilidade de ser também um pólo cultural.
Essa nova atmosfera alimenta o imaginário de grupos artísticos locais, gera
um intercâmbio de pessoas, resgata e cria novas relações sociais e uma qualidade
significativa na vida dos moradores.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
Outros artistas urbanos concorrem por espaços, porém são vistos como parceiros.
Concorrentes: o modelo de financiamento de projeto pelos próprios moradores é interessante e pode despertar em outros grupos a reprodução. Mas neste caso esta reprodução é valida, visto que, este sistema visa uma reorganização das comunidades e todos ganham com isto.
Existem inúmeros grupos de divulgação científica, de grafitti , porém ainda é desconhecida qualquer ação de caráter de divulgação científica através da Street Art.
Os possíveis impedimentos seriam: a não liberação de verba por parte dos moradores, visto que, podem ter outras prioridades para a “compra do projeto", falta de autorização para pintar nos locais desejados.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarTemas relacionados à inscrição
Quais tipos de soluções fazem parte do foco de sua iniciativa para apoiar novos empreendedores e pequenos negócios a crescerem e se desenvolverem em comunidades menos desenvolvidas? (selecione todas que se aplicam)
Acesso a financiamento, Acesso a talentos, Acesso a oportunidade econômica.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Devido a grande necessidade de financiamento de ideias e a dificuldade da maior parte da população de baixa renda na participação de editais públicos e privados. O projeto estimula a participação ativa de baixo custo da população, apostando no crowdfunding como uma solução mais participativa e democrática de iniciar empreendimentos.
Devido a grande necessidade de financiamento de ideias e a descrença na participação de editais públicos e privados. O projeto estimula a participação ativa de baixo custo da população, apostando no crowdfunding como maneira mais participativa
Exposta a grande necessidade de explorar Ciência e Arte com outras linguagens, a utilização do grafitti como elemento de transformação é ferramenta para atingir a plena democratização do saber e a inclusão arte-científica; se apropriando do espaço público com essa finalidade, a desmarginalização dos ambientes se torna evidente.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
Mudanças significativas no âmbito escolar, uma maior circulação de pessoas por espaços públicos favorecendo a troca de conversas, a visível atratividade do ambiente, a redução da violência, o resgate do orgulho cívico e apropriação do espaço, melhoria significativa na qualidade de vida; principalmente no humor; a criação de ideias que, assim como o Infografitti buscam transformações com ideias simples, porém inovadoras.
Desenvolvimento de novos projetos por parte das comunidades, participação mais ativa nas associações de bairros, aumento do faturamento em microempreendimentos locais.
Desenvolvimento e reconhecimento de novos bairros como celeiro de excelência artística na cidade; aumento de ações urbanas, transformando o dia a dia dos locais; inspirar a reprodução do projeto pelo mundo.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
O desinteresse e o preconceito;falta de financiamento;desestrutura da equipe; rentabilidade;falta de tempo.
A constante movimentação artística, o incentivo a criatividade e o convite a exploração do imaginário serão as soluções implantadas para a objetivação do projeto.
Outras fontes de renda podem financiar o projeto ate ele se tornar sustentável: Editais, concursos, premiações, Leis de incentivo, venda de obras e parcerias empresariais.
O projeto tem um modelo simples de replicação e formação de novas equipes por regiões tornando viral dificultando desestruturação geral.
A intenção é formalizar a Infografitti como empresa e fazê-la render empresarialmente
O andamento do projeto atenderá às possibilidades cabíveis,além de um constante planejamento e avaliação para evitar falhas.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Finalização das obras de arte de 1 (um) bairro com arrecadação media de R$ 200.000,00 (20 murais a R$10.000,00 cada); Formação d
Atividade 1
Pesquisas quanto ao bairro e moradores, organização interna da equipe, estabelecer estratégias que auxiliem a administração do t
Atividade 2
Apresentar a ideia e planejamento aos moradores para adesão e arrecadação de verba
Atividade 3
Finalizar as pinturas dos murais, registrar e preparar a publicação.
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Divulgação e adesão massiva do projeto em território nacional.
Atividade 1
Divulgação viral por meio de conversas pessoais, redes sociais e TV, catálogos e mídia impressa.
Atividade 2
Inicio do processo em outra comunidade com palestras e maior infraestrutura.
Atividade 3
Treinar novas equipes para atuarem neste empreendimento
História: Queremos saber mais sobre o momento de descoberta desta solução. Conte-nos um pouco a história sobre onde e quando o(s) fundador(res) vislumbrou(aram) o potencial desta solução para mudar o mundo:
Pensei nas funções primarias dos muros: servem para dividir, proteger, delimitar, esconder, dar suporte à moradia, abrigar. Posteriormente pensava a respeito de receber grafittis e pra quê servia tudo aquilo, qual de fato a funcionalidade dessa arte pública?
Por que não juntar arte e ciência de um jeito mais divertido, interativo, fazendo com que as pessoas não só vejam desenhos bonitos, mas lessem, fizessem parte dele, aprendessem , ensinassem , trocando informações, vivencias. O muro pode ser então uma ferramenta de conversas entre vovôs e crianças, professores e alunos, curiosos e perguntadores.
Ao pixar frases coloridas,com grafia de fácil leitura,a respeito de política, poesias, perguntas, percebi que as pessoas quando se atentam à idéia não se importam de parar por alguns instantes ou torcer o pescoço para reler ou sorrir com alguma brincadeira escrita. Afinal porque não usar as toneladas de muros indiferentemente cinzas para tornar o dia das pessoas mais interessante?
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Cobrindo custos de materiais e alimentação ja é possivel desenvolver o projeto de pintura. Toda divulgaçao vistual reduz os custos com materiais
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é fundamental uma participaçao massiva da comunidade,, fazendo com que todos participem colaborando cada individuo com os recursos que tem.
Made in Montreal is an advocacy planning firm working to promote local manufacturing and consumption in Montreal. Our objective is to strengthen Montreal’s local economy by supporting the manufacturing sector. Local manufacturers are an important part of Montreal’s rich creative fabric, employing a significant number of people and contributing to the world-famous identity of this city.
Criado em 09/5/2012 por moWoza
moWoza improves access to goods, livelihoods and economic opportunities in grassroot communities through a mobile commerce platform
Organização: moWoza
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPágina da organização na internet
País da organização
África do Sul, GT, Johannesburg
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Idade do inovador:
Mais de 34 anos
Gênero do inovador
Feminino
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Menos de um ano
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leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome do seu projeto
moWoza: Simplifying Access to Goods
Selecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Inicial (um piloto que começou recentemente)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Implementado há menos de um ano
A necessidade: Qual é o problema que você está tentando resolver?
- 70% (560 million) of Sub-Saharan Africans (SSA) live outside of urban areas, making it difficult to find work and goods.
- 10% (300 million) migrate outside of their homelands to find work so that they can support their families.
- They hope that the remittances and goods they send make it home to feed their families. But theft, accidents and border-post corruption means that sometimes the families in the village do not get these cash/goods remittances.
- Crossborder trade and shopping is a trillion dollar industry that is being catered by women acting as informal crossborder traders/microtraders.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
moWoza allows people to remit, order and pay for goods easily via mobile phone.
- migrants can remit and pay for goods easily, while villagers can securely order and pay for goods.
- 1 text message notifies them that their goods are ready for pick from a local merchant.
- informal crossborder traders (micro-traders) don’t need to travel long distances to place orders.
- moWoza fills the gap for approximately 16 million migrants who are based in Southern, East and West Africa
- This improves livelihoods through the trusted supply chain of access to goods. For micro-traders their economic opportunities are increased.
http://vimeo.com/37275089
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
David, is a Mozambican migrant worker in South Africa and his family live in a village outside the capital of Mozambique.
1. A moWoza agent helps David registers on moWoza,
2. David places an order and pays via mobile. The order he places consists of food products which the family normally struggle to access.
3. This order is routed to a moWoza partner in Mozambique who fulfils the order and distributes it to a village merchant.
4. Simultaneously, David’s family is notified of the order via SMS. The SMS let’s David’s family know when they can pick up the order from the merchant.
5. The merchant verifies the order against the data that David’s family shows him and hands over the goods.
With this new mobile shopping solution, a new lifeline is created in the form of food security for families across Africa.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
Formal competitors: To date our target market has only used Western Union in times of emergencies, but if they dropped their fees we would look to incorporate there services into our business.
Similar new innovative business models like mypaga and willstream. However these two competitors are based in West Africa and are the providers of the technology. We are ensuring that the goods are where the family members need them most.
Informal competitors: family and friends who are travelling back to the home country. Although they do not offer the regularity that our service provides.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarTemas relacionados à inscrição
Quais tipos de soluções fazem parte do foco de sua iniciativa para apoiar novos empreendedores e pequenos negócios a crescerem e se desenvolverem em comunidades menos desenvolvidas? (selecione todas que se aplicam)
Acesso a cadeias de distribuição/logística, Acesso a tecnologia, Acesso a oportunidade econômica.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
We ran a proof of concept with 75 migrants who were supporting between 350 and 500 family members. (We worked with two agents in South Africa and two merchants in Mozambique). For each order a migrant placed they were saving 33% compared to sending a Western Union remittance and 12% compared to asking family/friends/informal couriers to send the goods to their families.
moWoza customers / beneficiaries are new customers for the agent and merchant and therefore we were increasing their trading activity and revenues.
Further research indicates that we can have a similar impact on micro cross-border traders and on the livelihood of rural and urban migrants within the local country.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
By year three:
- Our impact is to impact the lives of 14,000 migrant workers and their family members (average of 70,000) in Southern Africa. To achieve this we will work with a crossborder labour broker and informal cross-border traders.
- increase revenue streams for 100 village merchants and 75 agents.
- increase the economic opportunity of 1,000 informal Mozambican crossborder traders by reducing the amount the costs incurred from the travel that they are currently doing to purchase products (inventory).
http://vimeo.com/46988292
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
The success of our project will be hampered by operational costs of running a business in two areas. For this reason, each of the crossborder operations needs to become self-sustainable and for that we are looking at selling directly to the local community too (opposed to just being a crossborder service targeting migrant workers).
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Signed agreement with a distribution partner to easily access migrant workers. Demo a mobile phone supply chain solution.
Atividade 1
Expand the pilot and expand to several new areas to impact 1100 migrants
Atividade 2
Fundraise to support the development of the technology and to employ sales force
Atividade 3
Develop a mobile phone supply chain module incorporate this into the pilot
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
500 registered customers & 250 cross border traders. Customers making monthly repeat food purchases for their family members.
Atividade 1
Be present in 3 major migrant areas in South Africa.
Atividade 2
Be present in 20 villages in 2 districts in Mozambique
Atividade 3
Identified one major corporate sponsor (e.g. Nestle)
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I was travelling across the border to Mozambique and witnessed how migrants are carrying goods from South Africa into Mozambique. For decades migrant workers and their families in Mozambique have relied on products from South Africa yet they all have a mobile phone. So it became clear that if they could easily buy the goods in South Africa and then partner in Mozambique with established retailers we could solve some of the burden that migrants and their families have in accessing goods. From this moment I started to research and understand the social fabric of migrant workers in South Africa and across the African continent and it became apparent that I could contribute through a service like moWoza.
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We have started initial conversations with a FMCG provider, a crossborder labour broker and a informal crossborder association. This ensures that we have access to products, customers and crossborder traders.
We are also partnering with a technology developer in order to have the relevant software skills at hand.
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Criado em 09/4/2012 por Milieu Family Services Inc
Self Advocates will engage with local citizens, formal/informal groups and municipalities in creating a Community Asset Map of the cities of Surrey and Delta.
Organização: Milieu Family Services Inc
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome da Organização
Milieu Family Services Inc
Página da organização na internet
País onde esta solução está criando impacto social
Region in BC where your solution creates social impact
Vancouver.
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Mais de 5 anos
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leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarSelecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Ideia (você está para lançar)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Ainda na fase de ideia, mas você deseja lançá-lo em breve
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Acesso, Custo.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
Need : Empower Self Advocates to lead a community development project that looks at the Surrey/Delta communities from an asset perspective, recognizing commonality and uniting people around a positive identity. Self Advocates will lead a process of mapping assets within these communities that can and will enhance the inclusion of people with disabilities, with the emphasis being strengthening the connectedness of all citizens.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Solution: Self Advocate lead, engage with like-minded Inclusion Focused Citizens, Businesses and Municipalities in creating a Community Asset Map of the micro communities of Surrey and Delta. We believe such a project will provide a platform to enhance the engagement and inclusion of all citizens. The project's short-term goal will be through an Asset Based Mapping project, identify people, places and things that are considered important/meaningful that could be used to leverage inclusion and connectedness of persons with disabilities in Surrey/Delta. Our long-term goal is to create asset mapping tools that provide a powerful starting point for community members, municipalities, and formal/informal groups to engage in future strength-based planning processes for enhancing the social inclusion of all citizens.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
Model:
We are proposing
• To collect an inventory of all the good things about the Surrey and Delta communities using strategies such as, Roving Listener (PAR, Participatory Action Research), Photo-Visioning Mapping and Video-based Mapping.
• We aim to discover the reasons why people place value on the assets in these communities.
• Lead by Self Advocates who will collaborate and strategize with other like-minded citizens, families, municipalities, formal/informal groups, businesses and community leaders about how to build on local community assets in order to sustain and enhance them for the future.
• Ensure the community asset mapping tool is a participatory planning process that is lead by Self Advocates who will be supported to engage with a diverse amount of citizens in exploring the assets within the physical and social environments of their communities.
• Create a concrete output – a map, either in paper or web based format, which can be incorporated into formal and/or informal community planning processes.
• Ensure an “assets based” philosophy is utilized in all of the community mapping processes; rather than focus on problems or deficiencies, focus on identifying the community’s capacities and assets, including those of its residents, and then use these assets to build a long-term action plan.
• Use the mapping as an entry point for engaging citizens in different planning contexts such as, formal and informal groups, municipal planning and actions that individual citizens can engage in that contribute towards more inclusive Surrey/Delta community.
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.
Marketplace:
Many groups and agencies provide a list of activities and/or develop programs that are available to individuals with developmental disabilities. The lists provided are generally focused on the formal resources available with little to no information on the informal and non-resource based groups and clubs that exsist; which in fact can often be the best way for people to connect with others. We feel our idea will highlighting a variety of community assets both formal and informal, focusing on the possibilities of inclusion that already exsist and working to leverage these "inclusion gems" for future commmunity development.
Temas relacionados à inscrição
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Founding Story:
We feel the difference maker in many success stories has been centered on finding individual connectedness in community that was reflective of each person’s ideal conditions for inclusion. Our thought is through engaging in a discovery-based community asset mapping project the citizens of Surrey and Delta would become better prospectors of the multiple opportunities for inclusion and connectedness. Lead by Self Advocates, we believe an asset based mapping of our communities will engage a diverse group of citizens to find and celebrate the community niches and gifts and mapping the many possibilities that will enhance the inclusion and connectedness of all citizens.
Descreva a meta da sua iniciativa; fale sobre o que você está tentando alcançar.
Describe the goal of this initiative: what are we trying to achieve?
Lead by Self Advocates from Surrey/Delta who will engage with citizens and groups who are champions for inclusion in developing a vision for their community, and to utilize creativity to imagine the ideal community conditions for inclusion. Incorporate stories, pictures, words and video into an Asset Mapping Guide to Enhance Community Inclusion and showcase the community inclusion asset information collected at public information sessions.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
What has been the impact of our solution to date?
To date, asset mapping has been used as a powerful tool to identify resources that can support the enhancement of social inclusion. It assists in the future mapping of strategies with the natural strengths that already exist in communities. Asset mapping has proven to lay the foundation for forward planning and can provide a benchmark from which to measure progress over time, it’s also helpful in understanding key regional systems and linkages. We are proposing to emulate this sucessful initative in the cities of Surrey/Delta.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 5 anos?
What is our projected impact over the next five year?
We foresee the Asset Mapping process becoming a catalyst for creating partnerships with others with common interests that the Self Advocates involvd in this project and others will mobilize into a more formalized social inclusion movement in the Surrey/Delta area. The aim is to have the asset maps created become the cornerstone of a variety of future inclusion development activities.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
What barriers might hinder the success of our project? What is our plan to overcome them?
The size and multitude of the micro-communities within the cities of Surrey & Delta may hinder the progress of the project due to the time that will be necessary to adequately complete a thorough asset map of each community.
We will be thoughtful and thorough in our engagement, allowing sufficient time to complete each micro-community and work collaboratively with other interested /like-minded groups in the regional implementation of the asset mapping project.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Atividade 1
1. Self Advocate leaders define and establish who will be part of the mapping team
Atividade 2
2. Establish the terms of reference for the group and Mission/Vision
Atividade 3
3. Mapping Technique Training and Initial Asset Mapping Begins
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Atividade 1
1. Complete Asset Mapping of the cities of Surrey & Delta.
Atividade 2
2. Engage with Groups & Municipalities (Surrey/Delta) in interpreting the Asset Mapping trends.
Atividade 3
3. Work collaboratively to plan at an municipal level to enhance the social inclusion of all citizens
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPor favor, explique de que forma o estabelecimento de parcerias é importante para o sucesso de sua inovação
We are hoping that the community asset mapping will benefit not only persons with developmental disabilities, but become an important guide for all community members living in Surrey and Delta. This project looks to be truly inclusive and would be useful for all community members. We believe groups such as, local municipalities, rotary groups, school districts and businesses will be interested partners in this endeavor.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
The mission and values of our Organization,an active Self-Advocacy group and Self Advocate leaders, dedicated volunteers and staff members,community partners that include, volunteer groups, clubs, employers etc…
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Criado em 09/4/2012 por ltdn
a mobile service that gets you from .a to .b using public transport.
Organização: 2LMN R+D
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPágina da organização na internet
País da organização
África do Sul, GT, Johannesburg
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
África do Sul, GT, Johannesburg
Idade do inovador:
Mais de 34 anos
Gênero do inovador
Masculino
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Mais de 5 anos
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leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarSelecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Inicial (um piloto que começou recentemente)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Implementado há menos de um ano
A necessidade: Qual é o problema que você está tentando resolver?
Access to and using public transport in Africa.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
A Way To Be ( http://awayto.be ) is a mobile service that shows you how to get from a to b using public transport.
It not restricted to a single mode of transport but a successful and complete routing —including multiple modes of public transport: train, bus and/or mini-bus taxis— from anywhere to everywhere. Including total time travelled, cost and distance.
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
For any individual, especially a small enterprise owner, business opportunities are limited by the geography we are in and our ability to navigate a city to access new markets (and clients).
The idea of A Way To Be, is provide public transport information of how that individual can get to any location that a market (and clients) are from wherever anywhere.
And thus, A Way To Be, allows an SMME's & Individuals to cast their business net wider and improve their access to potential business and services. A Way To Be is a mobile service, the information will be within reach, accessible, real-time an accurate. A Way To Be is also not locked to any specific public transport provider and thus will provide the commuter with complete and accurate information of how to get anywhere within Africa.
Inasmuch as this A Way To Be, will make it easier for SMME's to engage in business, it will also improve the sense of safety for commuters. In that, A Way To Be's routing informs the commuter of when a bus or train is expected to arrive and so, it will minimise exposure to typical dangerous areas.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
There is a few competitors within South Africa are mostly focused on one mode of public transport. They do not provide routing from anywhere to everywhere but from one known bus stop (or train station) to another. A Way To Be provides routing with includes a combination of different public transport from any location (with South Africa for now) to any other destination.
Other competitors involved American/European companies with an interest in public transport information systems. But, because the public transport in those areas is all formalised, they lack interest in African modes of public transport. Which is where A Way To Be is at advantage.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarTemas relacionados à inscrição
Quais tipos de soluções fazem parte do foco de sua iniciativa para apoiar novos empreendedores e pequenos negócios a crescerem e se desenvolverem em comunidades menos desenvolvidas? (selecione todas que se aplicam)
Acesso a cadeias de distribuição/logística, Acesso a oportunidade econômica.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
We have only been live for 2 months. We are yet to measure our impact as we have not grown to a state where it is measurable.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
We expect to firstly improve the public transport update in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town (all in South Africa). These three cities have a vested interest in increasing public transport uptake. We believe A Way To Be will the key technology for them to achieve this.
SMME's will benefit from this service as they will be able move about a city with easy and expand their potential business. We expect to have an impact in local tourism as most tourists are generally uninformed of public transport that is available, A Way To Be, will allow them to know what is available and how to get to any point-of-interest.
After which, as more and more people use public transport, there will be an environmental impact because less private vehicles will be used for commute.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
Our greatest challenge is expanding the service to include public transport from different areas from all of South Africa and growing it into most of Southern Africa. To achieve this we need more skills to hire and employ. This can only be achieved through funding at this stage.
We are, albeit at a slow pace, growing the service regardless of the funding. Using funds generated from doing client work to maintain the service and the time required to collect, digitise, correct and add new routes.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Provide public transport routing for all major cities in South Africa.
Atividade 1
Integrate all public transport in Johannesburg
Atividade 2
Integrate all public transport in Pretoria
Atividade 3
Integrate all public transport in Cape Town
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Expand outside of South Africa
Atividade 1
Integrate all public transport in South Africa
Atividade 2
Grow the user base to 40% of all public transport commuters
Atividade 3
Translate the service to other languages including all the 11 official langauges in South Africa
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Sometime in 2004 my uncle had a car accident, which meant I had to lend my car to my aunt. During that time I had to learn how to use buses. My biggest problem wasn't that I didn't know where the stops where but when will a bus arrive; how long will my trip be; and which buses (and stops) were heading where I wanted to be.
Then, "A Way To Be" was conceptualised.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPor favor, explique de que forma o estabelecimento de parcerias é importante para o sucesso de sua inovação
We haven't created any so far, we are in the process of formalising these partnerships.
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Criado em 09/3/2012 por fernanda@loowatt.com
Valuable system outputs generate new economies;
A unique toilet uses that biodegradable lining instead of water, and creates a clean, odour-free seal;
The anaerobic digester converts the toilet contents into natural gas and fertilizer;
Design and collaboration create a better user experience.
Organização: Loowatt Ltd
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPágina da organização na internet
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Madagáscar, AN, Antananarivo
Idade do inovador:
Entre 18 e 34 anos
Gênero do inovador
Feminino
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Entre 1 e 5 anos
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leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome do seu projeto
Loowatt: Value Generating Waterless Toilet Systems in Madagascar
Selecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Crescimento (seu piloto está em andamento e começa a se expandir)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Em execução entre 1 e 5 anos
A necessidade: Qual é o problema que você está tentando resolver?
2.5 billion people worldwide lack access to sanitation, creating a crisis for human health that desperately needs financially sustainable solutions (UN Millennium Development Goals, 2011 Goals Report).
In Madagascar, 68% of people live below the poverty line of $1.25 income per person per day, with about 80% lacking access to adequate sanitation (WHO/UNICEF, 2012).
Loowatt is building a profit-generating sanitation system in Antananarivo, the capital, where there is widespread need for improved sanitation, energy and new sources of income. Electricity is expensive, hard to access and charcoal is the leading source of cooking fuel (Loowatt survey, 2012).
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Loowatt is a waterless toilet that uses a unique sealing unit to contain waste and odour in biodegradable film. Once sealed, the waste and biodegradable film are stored in a container that is emptied regularly into a nearby anaerobic digester.
The digester produces biogas, which can be used as a cooking fuel or turned into electricity, and digestate, a nutrient-rich liquid, which is further treated at a secondary location to become market-ready fertilizer.
The toilet and the small-scale digester, dubbed an ‘Energy Unit,’ are owned and operated by a local entrepreneur, and serve about 50 toilet users per day. This shared model fits the context of Antananarivo; a flood-prone urban centre where most families have shared pit latrines.
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
The Loowatt System benefits include (1) a toilet that is not only clean but aspirational, (2) improved local health and productivity, (3) increased access to energy, (4) increased access to locally produced fertilizer, and (5) significant job creation.
The Energy Unit revenue sources are (1) toilet visits, (2) biogas energy products (such as cooking fuel, hot water for showers, mobile phone and battery charges), and (3) sale of digestate for further treatment.
We have built a detailed financial model with inputs based on real data. Based on this, the Energy Units will earn $6-8 per day in gross profit.
Employees of the Compost Factory, a facility that purchases digestate, and post-processes it to produce high quality fertilizer, service the Energy Unit regularly. In the current model, one Compost Factory will serve a local cluster of 50 Energy Units, but the system can be adapted to suit many scales.
Conversion of digestate to fertilizer adds further value. The price of commercial fertilizer in Madagascar is about $1 per kilo, and our surveys have shown we can earn an equivalent price for Loowatt compost. A Compost Factory serving 50 Energy Units earns $160 per day in gross profit (USD).
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
Some commodity-driven waterless toilet systems are being tested in parts of Africa, charging toilet users and/or owners for waste collection with a view to generating value from waste at central facilities. But unlike our system, these projects lack a truly hygienic, aspirational, and odour-free toilet. They also require raw sewage to be carried around the city—a hazardous job—while our system pre-treats the waste on site.
Our distribution model enables toilet users and owners to benefit directly from the energy produced, which increases the return on investment. In others the production is remote, suggesting that toilet users may never see the benefits.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarTemas relacionados à inscrição
Quais tipos de soluções fazem parte do foco de sua iniciativa para apoiar novos empreendedores e pequenos negócios a crescerem e se desenvolverem em comunidades menos desenvolvidas? (selecione todas que se aplicam)
Acesso a financiamento, Acesso a cadeias de distribuição/logística, Acesso a tecnologia, Acesso a oportunidade econômica.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
In 2011, after being awarded a Grand Challenges Explorations Phase 1 Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Loowatt set out to implement a pilot system in Antananarivo, Madagascar. This process began with a thorough examination of the local landscape, market segmentation, and the development of a system model to maximize value in this context. We are now implementing a pilot system that will be operational in October 2012.
This work is being done in collaboration with Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor in Madagascar, who have helped us reach a broad range of local stakeholders, from community councils to national ministries, to build awareness about waste-to-energy systems.
Our team includes a rapidly growing number of Malagasy employees.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
With the pilot system running, we’ll require 8-12 months of information gathering and system refinement to start scaling effectively. Our focus will be (1) to gather feedback to make incremental improvements to the existing system, (2) to collect data on system commodity generation, (3) to further improve our model, and (4) to explore methods for scaling.
Each Energy Unit will create a small business, 50 toilet users, and over 100 energy customers. The Compost Factory process generates 25-50 kg of fertilizer per Energy Unit per day. In 3 years we aim to have 10,000 Energy Units on the ground, improving the lives and livelihoods of over 2 million people.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
The Energy Unit needs to be proven as a profitable and sustainable enterprise to encourage rapid entrepenerial uptake. Validating our current assumptions is the first key performance indicator for this, with the pilot system operational we will assess the real return on investment for both the Energy Unit and the Compost Factory. This will enable us to understand the best financing models to implement and scale successfully.
Feedback about the system use and its associated commodities (toilet, energy and fertilizer products) will also be gathered in a commercial context. In-depth usage surveys and statistics will help us to improve the toilet system, while creating new approaches for refinement
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Successful implementation of the pilot system, incremental improvements and data collection
Atividade 1
Gather user feedback on energy unit (toilet and digester)
Atividade 2
Make incremental improvements to system components (toilet, digester, compost site)
Atividade 3
Develop marketing strategy for sale of energy and fertilizer
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Completion of the pilot stage, data analysis, system model improvements and initial scaling of units
Atividade 1
Analyze pilot system data and system model input
Atividade 2
Complete detailed plan to scale Loowatt system
Atividade 3
Begin implementation of scaling plan with the aim of providing improved sanitation to more than 300 people
História: Queremos saber mais sobre o momento de descoberta desta solução. Conte-nos um pouco a história sobre onde e quando o(s) fundador(res) vislumbrou(aram) o potencial desta solução para mudar o mundo:
Loowatt originated from Virginia Gardiner’s Industrial Design Engineering Masters project at the Royal College of Art in 2008. Her project questioned the unethical practice of flushing the toilet with drinking water and examined ways to turn human excrement into a commodity rather than a taboo substance to be flushed and forgotten.
By testing out a series of prototypes in her London apartment, from worm toilets to aerating sawdust toilets to packaging toilets, Gardiner realized that the best incentives to use waterless toilets were (1) no smell, and (2) commodity generation.
The formation of Loowatt Ltd. in 2010 created the opportunity for cross-disciplinary input from specialists in fields of design, sanitation, biology and engineering. Out of this came the optimized Loowatt toilet and system model.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPor favor, explique de que forma o estabelecimento de parcerias é importante para o sucesso de sua inovação
In Madagascar, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor’s support has enabled us to rapidly understand and access local people, systems and infrastructure providers. We intend to continue this relationship as we work toward scaling systems there.
Through the Gates Foundation’s Water and Sanitation grantee network, we are now in the process of forming further collaborations with groups that share common interests in sanitation, anaerobic digestion, and distributive system developments.
The InnovationRCA incubator offers us ongoing business support.
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The development of an alternative form of sanitation is a cross-disciplinary challenge; we value collaboration and understand that research, both scientific and market-based is important to create a successful result.
Mentoring from experts in business with experience in refining strategies for scaling would be welcome.
BC communities strive to develop a sense of community and place through promoting active use of public spaces. People are the primary ingredient to making public places vibrant. On a recent backpacking trip through Germany we discovered that outdoor concrete ping pong tables were popular fixtures. Impressed with how these tables were able to draw people to use public space we began our research. Outdoor concrete table tennis or ping pong tables have just begun to take off in Europe.
Criado em 08/30/2012 por jprisos
Uma Oscip que promove o Bem Comum pela ampliação da Felicidade Interna Bruta - FIB
Um negócio social inédito no mundo de economia colaborativa que liga compras coletivas + crowdfunding + rede social + Marketing social visionando ampliar o índice FIB (Gross National Happiness (GNH))
Somos entusiastas sobre as novas possibilidades que se abre nessa sociedade em rede colaborativa.
Organização: Rede de Integração da Sociedade - Organizações Solidárias - RISOS
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome da Organização
Rede de Integração da Sociedade - Organizações Solidárias - RISOS
Página da organização na internet
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Idade do inovador:
Entre 18 e 34 anos
Gênero do inovador
Masculino
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Mais de 5 anos
As informações que você fornecer aqui serão usadas para preencher todas as partes do seu perfil deixadas em branco, como interesses, informação da organização e website. Nenhuma informação do contato será tornada pública. Por favor, desmarque aqui se você não deseja que isso aconteça..
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome do seu projeto
FIBing - Consumo colaborativo para uma vida radicalmente mais feliz!
Selecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Inicial (um piloto que começou recentemente)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Em execução entre 1 e 5 anos
A necessidade: Qual é o problema que você está tentando resolver?
“Democratizar a felicidade e promover o Bem Comum por meio da ampliação do índice da Felicidade Interna Bruta – FIB.”
https://vimeo.com/43991097
Queremos inspirar e fazer que consumidores e empresas (micro, pequenas e medias principalmente) possam ser os maiores protagonista do desenvolvimento local em rede por meio de um modelo de negocio inédito no mundo que busca transforma os quase 750 milhões de reais que são pagos como intermediação no modelo de compras coletivas em investimentos de inovações livres e assim criar um serviço de Marketing de Alto Valor Social red
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
PRIMEIRO MODELO DE COMPRAS COLETIVAS + COM CROWDFUNDING/SOURCE + REDE SOCIAL + MARKETING DE ALTO VALOR SOCIAL
A lógica é bem comum e possível:
Transformar todo o montante que é pago como intermediação/comissão para as empresas de compras coletivas (entre 30% a 50% do valor da oferta) em créditos para investir em inovações sociais livres, inspiradas nas 9 dimensões do índice da Felicidade Interna Bruta – FIB, que estejam inseridas em plataformas de crowdfunding ou de redes colaborativas no Brasil e no mundo.
Veja melhor pelos infograficos: http://www.risos.org.br/destaque/
Nesse ecossistema de Bem Comum conseguimos contemplar o beneficio próprio e a generosidade com o que é comum.
Isso é a inovação do livre mercado com a inserção do capitalismo criativo numa economia de Bem Comum e colaborativa.
Essa é uma dimensão onde TODOS REALMENTE GANHAM!
Simples como um clique!
Natural como fazer compras!
Humano como a busca pela FELICIDADE !
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
Exemplo - http://fibing.net/ - :
Veja um exemplo possível a ser praticado: imagine o João, um colaborador e amigo da natureza acordando, ligando seu computador e vendo que é possível investir na conservação das nascentes do Cerrado, por exemplo, e ainda obter a chance de comprar aquele produto – ou serviço – que ele tanto precisava, e isso com 70% de desconto. Nossa, que incrível oportunidade! pensa ele: num mesmo ambiente é possível contribuir para a realização de um sonho seu, em sua localidade, e ainda conseguir um megadesconto numa boa compra.
Consumidor:
Ganha descontos e dinheiro (créditos FIBing) para investir em projetos favoráveis a felicidade, disponibilizados de forma organizada e integrada com plataformas de crowdfunding;
Empresa:
Protagoniza a ampliação da felicidade social de seus próprios clientes, o que possibilita cativá-los e fidelizá-los; gerar um Marketing de Alto Valor Social Integrado (3.0) com direito a publicidade social sobre os benefícios gerados, além da possibilidade de isenção em impostos (já que não tem taxa de intermediação, mas sim investimentos sociais);
Inovadores e empreendedores sociais:
Ganham ao receber capital financeiro para realizar sua inovação social, empreender coletivamente e transformar vidas em bairros, cidades e países;
Parceiros mantenedores da solução:
Geram valor a suas marcas po rmeio de um Marketing de Alto Valor Social Integrado e em Rede, onde é permitido exercer a publicidade social sobre os projetos bem sucedidos;
Sociedade: Amplia o indice Gross National Happiness (GNH)em nival local e global
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
Concorrentes: sites de compras coletivas
Pessoas que atuam na mesma linha
01 - todas as plataformas de crowdfunding do Brasil e Mundo,
02 - todas empresas que exercem a responsabilidade social
03 - Todo Consumidor Consciente e responsável
04 - Todas as organizações da sociedade que buscam uma nova econômica colaborativa
05 - Todos entusiastas do índice da Felicidade Interna Bruta - FIB (Gross National Happiness (GNH))
Nossa proposta inova ao criar um modelo inédito que liga Consumo Colaborativo + crowdfunding + Rede Social + Marketing de Alto Valor Social em rede que consegue criar uma sinergia entre interesse próprio e generosidade com os demais.
Consumidor que desconto <> Pessoas querem ser Feliz <> Sociedade Busca o Bem Comum ligamos isso em nossa ideia!
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarTemas relacionados à inscrição
Quais tipos de soluções fazem parte do foco de sua iniciativa para apoiar novos empreendedores e pequenos negócios a crescerem e se desenvolverem em comunidades menos desenvolvidas? (selecione todas que se aplicam)
Acesso a financiamento, Acesso a talentos, Acesso a cadeias de distribuição/logística, Acesso a tecnologia, Acesso a oportunidade econômica, Mudança política/advocacy.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Inspiração para um nova economia e financiamento coletivo de inovações sociais.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
Nossa ideia tem uma caracteristica se dê certo em um lugar pode dar certo em qualquer luga. Por isso acreditamos ser possivel transformar bilhões do que é pago como intermediações em compras coletivas em investimentos sociais replicáveis e livres através de um novo serviço de Marketing Social de alto Valor Social em rede numa dimensão sem fronteiras que quer dizer em varias localidades numa dimensão "Glocal"
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
Falta de eficiente em Gestão informacional, do conhecimento e em TI sobre os investimentos coletivos principalmente. Pretendo superar isso com parcerias com pessoas e organizações com expertise nessas areas e com uma captaç~çao financeiro através da publicidade social que possa fazer os processos operacionais fluírem com sustentabilidade econômica.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Expandir para varias cidades e assim conseguir realizar + soluções via crowdfunding e ter mais publicidade social para nos mante
Atividade 1
Criar uma plataforma que atue com e-commerce, crowdfunding e rede social
Atividade 2
Ampliar minha rede social com atores que compatibilização de princípios comuns
Atividade 3
Gerar um Eficiente Marketing e publicidade social que gere Valor institucional as Marcas Parcerias para termos dinheiro
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Replicar esse modelo inédito de compras coletivas + crowdfunding em todos os continentes e países do mundo!
Atividade 1
Dar certo em algumas localidades validando a ampliação da Gross National Happiness (GNH)
Atividade 2
Provar que nosso modelo de Marketing de alto Valor Social é melhor que o modelo tradicional de Marketing
Atividade 3
Ter parceiros Multinacionais
História: Queremos saber mais sobre o momento de descoberta desta solução. Conte-nos um pouco a história sobre onde e quando o(s) fundador(res) vislumbrou(aram) o potencial desta solução para mudar o mundo:
Começou nesses fluxos: http://planopilotodigital.blogspot.com.br/ querendo fazer uma rede comunitária aonde morava. Umas das ideias dessa rede era criar um modelo de compra coletiva comunitária ligado aos condomínios, comercio local e moradores amparado por uma plataforma tecnologica. Isso antes de existir o Groupon (site de compras coletivas).
O Groupon foi a empresa da historia do capitalismo que mais rapido faturou 1 bilhão de reais, o modelo de crowdfunding tinha surgido com o http://www.kickstarter.com/ realizando centenas de sonhos, as redes sociais estava saindo do caráter recreativo para causas transformações em na politica, economia, cultura... Isso por causa da internet e midias sociais. Nessa percpeção deu um Bingo e surgiu a ideia para fazer com que consumidores e empresas locais pudessem ser o maior protagonista de inovações sociais voltadas para o Bem Comum. E aí estamos! Caminhando e cantando... ;>)
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPor favor, explique de que forma o estabelecimento de parcerias é importante para o sucesso de sua inovação
Praticamente é tudo! Já quer atuaremos em rede com diversos atores da sociedade. Essa é uma proposta que busca ampliar um índice de desenvolvimento sistêmico do Gross National Happiness (GNH) e estamos numa era da complexibilidade, por isso vemos tudo em rede com diversos atores em nossas parceria.
Fale mais sobre as necessidades ou ofertas que você selecionou anteriormente e/ou sugira categorias de apoio que não foram listadas
Nossa possibilidade de cooperar com outras ideias é na mesma proporção da realização da nossa ideia que buscam exatamente facilitar esses tipos de colaborações.
This project also has a Project where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: Opportunity Centers.
Criado em 08/23/2012 por dp1928
Opportunity Centers put economic fairness back into the system. Its where a piece of the action is both earned and owned by All, the People.
MSV’s Centers” prepare the unsuccessful to form market niche enterprises.
Organização: Main Street Values
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPágina da organização na internet
País da organização
Estados Unidos , Bellevue 98006
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Estados Unidos , WA, Bellevue, King County
Idade do inovador:
Mais de 34 anos
Gênero do inovador
Masculino
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Menos de um ano
As informações que você fornecer aqui serão usadas para preencher todas as partes do seu perfil deixadas em branco, como interesses, informação da organização e website. Nenhuma informação do contato será tornada pública. Por favor, desmarque aqui se você não deseja que isso aconteça..
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarSelecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Ideia (você está para lançar)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Ainda na fase de ideia, mas você deseja lançá-lo em breve
A necessidade: Qual é o problema que você está tentando resolver?
The success formula: knowledge applied to opportunity delivers ownership is known and accepted by all of the well-schooled, technically prepared, well-connected and productively employed. But for the not yet successful, and a shrinking middle-class, there is a systemic failure in the way it is, and a near desperate need for the way it ought to be.
The question is how can all-the-people make enough money? Our answer is showing them how to self-organize cooperatively to create, earn and own their share of the American Dream.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Build a Cooperative America… where local cooperatives replace absentee owned corporations; where the successful (53%), help the not-yet-successful (47%) turn their sweat equity and new ideas into quality goods and services; where economic fairness is put back into the system; where a piece of the action is both earned and owned by All, the People.
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
MSV’s “Opportunity Centers” will operate a job-bank and skills registry, we will prepare the unsuccessful to form market niche enterprises, to locally in-source the creation, and production of consumer needed goods and quality services, delivering a long-term positive economic impact.
This job-incubator will have work-benches, shop equipment, a wide variety of hand and power tools, supported by office technology and a wide range of mostly volunteer administrative, management, technical and professional services which the unsuccessful are neither able to obtain nor afford.
This full function idea factory atmosphere will invite free thinking and bold actions; a big open space, where everyone can turn an old craft or a new idea into a wealth-building productive reality; a place to find ways to turn stuff into locally produced “better” stuff; a hands-on place where unused skills are sharpened and shared; a full craft-enhancing place with an openness to tinker and invent what is possible; where a whole new variety of not-yet-successful Gates’ could meet a variety of equally different Allen’s.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
In Seattle 99% of existing business incubators are high-tech specific organizations that lack any realistic understanding of the widely varying challenges faced by ever-growing numbers of the unsuccessful. Without any meaningful inclusion strategy, continuing this status quo will only serve to further the disparities among individuals who will in growing desperation continue to struggle in under-funded attempts to merely survive.
Neither minimum wages nor welfare will ever solve the problems of the economically vulnerable who must live from hand-to-mouth, never having an ownership stake in new wealth producing assets… where far too many are losing hope that they will ever share in the American Dream.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarTemas relacionados à inscrição
Quais tipos de soluções fazem parte do foco de sua iniciativa para apoiar novos empreendedores e pequenos negócios a crescerem e se desenvolverem em comunidades menos desenvolvidas? (selecione todas que se aplicam)
Acesso a financiamento, Acesso a talentos, Acesso a tecnologia, Acesso a oportunidade econômica.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
We are a fully developed idea just entering into our start-up mode. Current activties include legal issue and location searches... our impact at this point is minimal.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
First year; Establish MSV.org’s Board of Directors, Assemble ($1,000,000) initial founder investment funds, deposited in secured Trust Accounts:
• Connect and collaborate with all commercial, educational, social and civic entities... seeking endorsement and support of our citizen-invested economy.
• Open and staff our first “Opportunity Center” base of operations.
• Raise an additional $500,000 from resident and/or worker member’s investment capital buy-in units, held in operational trust funds.
• Incubate clusters of job-creating worker-consumer owned cooperatives.
In the end it will be each citizen’s willingness to get involved in this totally innovative method to… Lend, Invest, Donate… to put a LID on past social and economic inequities, opening new roads that all can travel.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
What's been the biggest obstacle in working on this idea?
Changing the way it is... is a world sized challenge, i.e., the 99%’s endless struggle against the 1%’s owners of yesterday’s wealth... controlling too much of our tomorrows.
Inspiration, asperation and persperation... consistently applied, repeated endlessly... until at last this truth will set all of us free.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Atividade 1
Raise the first $100,000 in operational funds
Atividade 2
Locate and lease/occupy a suitable commercial facility
Atividade 3
Activate clustering manufacturing, construction and distribution concepts... consumer goods and services.
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Facility is fully functioning...Founder investors 1000 are on board and we are overflowing with volunteers
Atividade 1
Yes, we are different... and getting the first “conscientious consumers” to invest in a yet unproven concept will be difficult..
Atividade 2
Connect and collaborate with all commercial, educational, social and civic entities... seeking endorsement and support.
Atividade 3
Gaining recognition and support from existing corporate entities is important... but not critical.
História: Queremos saber mais sobre o momento de descoberta desta solução. Conte-nos um pouco a história sobre onde e quando o(s) fundador(res) vislumbrou(aram) o potencial desta solução para mudar o mundo:
David Pauling... age 84, physically fit and technically challenged
1943-1945… age 15 Railroad: Gandy Dancer… age16 Steel Mill: forging 8” Artillery Shells
1945-1953... U. S. Marine Corps... “Gunnery Sergeant”... WWII and Korea
1954-2005... Contractor, Project/Mfg. Manager, Small Business Owner
2005-2010... AmeriCorps VISTA Leader… fighting poverty, searching for the antidote
2011-Current... Perfecting the Vaccine... seeking the best delivery method... found it:
http://www.MainStreetValues.org
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPor favor, explique de que forma o estabelecimento de parcerias é importante para o sucesso de sua inovação
While I have shared this innovative project with a number of associates... I have not created any formal or informal partnerships.
Fale mais sobre as necessidades ou ofertas que você selecionou anteriormente e/ou sugira categorias de apoio que não foram listadas
Opportunity Centers put economic fairness back into the system; operating a job-bank/skills registry; preparing the unsuccessful to form market niche enterprises; where a piece of the action is earned and owned by all the People.
Criado em 08/22/2012 por dp1928
Opportunity Centers put economic fairness back into the system. Its where a piece of the action is both earned and owned by All, the People.
Organização: Main Street Values
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPágina da organização na internet
País da organização
Estados Unidos , WA, Bellevue, King County
País onde esta solução está criando impacto social
Estados Unidos , WA, Bellevue, King County
Region in BC where your solution creates social impact
Sua organização é
OSCIP/ONG
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Menos de um ano
As informações que você fornecer aqui serão usadas para preencher todas as partes do seu perfil deixadas em branco, como interesses, informação da organização e website. Nenhuma informação do contato será tornada pública. Por favor, desmarque aqui se você não deseja que isso aconteça..
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarSelecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Ideia (você está para lançar)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Implementado há menos de um ano
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Acesso, Equidade.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
The success formula: knowledge applied to opportunity delivers ownership is known and accepted by all of the well-schooled, technically prepared, well-connected and productively employed. But for the not yet successful, and a shrinking middle-class, there is a systemic failure in the way it is, and a near desperate need for the way it ought to be.
The question is how can all-the-people make enough money? Our answer is showing them how to cooperatively earn and own their share of the American Dream.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Build a Cooperative America… where local cooperatives replace absentee owned corporations; where the successful (53%), help the not-yet-successful (47%) turn their sweat equity and new ideas into quality goods and services; where economic fairness is put back into the system; where a piece of the action is both earned and owned by All, the People.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
MSV’s “Opportunity Centers” will operate a job-bank and skills registry, we will prepare the unsuccessful to form market niche enterprises, to locally in-source the creation, and production of consumer needed goods and quality services, delivering a long-term positive economic impact.
This job-incubator will have work-benches, shop equipment, a wide variety of hand and power tools, and office technology… supported by a wide range of mostly volunteer administrative, management, technical and professional services which the unsuccessful are neither able to obtain nor afford.
This full function idea factory atmosphere will invite free thinking and bold actions; a big open space, where everyone can turn an old craft or a new idea into a wealth-building productive reality; a place to find ways to turn stuff into locally produced “better” stuff; a hands-on place where unused skills are sharpened and shared; a full craft-enhancing place with an openness to tinker and invent what is possible; where a whole new variety of not-yet-successful Gates’ could meet a variety of equally different Allen’s.
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.
In Seattle 99% of existing business incubators are high-tech specific organizations that lack any realistic understanding of the widely varying challenges faced by ever-growing numbers of the unsuccessful. Without any meaningful inclusion strategy, continuing this status quo will only serve to further the disparities among individuals who will in growing desperation continue to struggle in under-funded attempts to merely survive.
Neither minimum wages nor welfare will ever solve the problems of the economically vulnerable who must live from hand-to-mouth, never having an ownership stake in new wealth producing assets… where far too many are losing hope that they will ever share in the American Dream.
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David Pauling... age 84, physically fit and technically challenged
1943-1945… age 15 Railroad: Gandy Dancer… age16 Steel Mill: forging 8” Artillery Shells
1945-1953... U. S. Marine Corps... “Gunnery Sergeant”... WWII and Korea
1954-2005... Contractor, Project/Mfg. Manager, Small Business Owner
2005-2010... AmeriCorps VISTA Leader… fighting poverty, searching for the antidote
2011-Current... Perfecting the Vaccine... seeking the best delivery method... found it:
http://www.MainStreetValues.org
Descreva a meta da sua iniciativa; fale sobre o que você está tentando alcançar.
Our mission is to provide the ways and means for every American to achieve a fully equitable human equality; fair and equal access to creation and retention of the new wealth and power they earn through consumer cooperatives… our citizen ownership programs.
Cooperatives deliver these goals as member-owned businesses, by advancing our social and economic equity.
Only when every American can productively earn and own a-piece-of-the-action… will the unmet needs of all-the-people stop being a problem and start being an unlimited and ever growing opportunity.
The success of this individual empowerment and economic development initiative will enable everyone to regionally, state-wide and beyond.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
While we are getting wide approval on our chosen ways and means... we have yet to open our doors to the targeted "not-yet-successful"... with your help we will launch soon.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 5 anos?
First year; Establish MSV.org’s Board of Directors, Assemble ($1,000,000) initial founder investment funds, deposited in secured Trust Accounts:
• Connect and collaborate with all commercial, educational, social and civic entities... seeking endorsement and support of our citizen-invested economy.
• Open and staff our first “Opportunity Center” base of operations.
• Raise an additional $500,000 from resident and/or worker member’s investment capital buy-in units, held in operational trust funds.
• Incubate clusters of job-creating worker-consumer owned cooperatives.
In the end it will be each citizen’s willingness to get involved in this totally innovative method to… Lend, Invest, Donate… to put a LID on past social and economic inequities, opening new roads that all can travel.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
What's been the biggest obstacle in working on this idea?
Changing the way it is... is a world sized challenge, i.e., the 99%’s endless struggle against the 1%’s owners of yesterday’s wealth... controlling too much of our tomorrows.
I am 84 and counting... and I'm 24/7 into turning this concept into reality... I will either make this work or die trying...
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Atividade 1
Raise the first $100,000 in operational funds
Atividade 2
Locate and lease/occupy a suitable commercial facility
Atividade 3
Activate clustering manufacturing, construction and distribution concepts... consumer goods and services.
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Facility is fully functioning...Founder investors 1000 are on on board and we are overflowing with volunteers
Atividade 1
Yes, we are different... and getting the first “conscientious consumers” to invest in a yet unproven concept will be difficult..
Atividade 2
Connect and collaborate with all commercial, educational, social and civic entities... seeking endorsement and support.
Atividade 3
Gaining recognition and support from existing corporate entities is important... but not critical.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPor favor, explique de que forma o estabelecimento de parcerias é importante para o sucesso de sua inovação
orWhile I have shared this innovative project with a number of associates... I have not created any formal or informal partnerships.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
Once tested and proven this innovative solution has potential nation-wide franchise and/or licensing possibilities. To this end we will fully document each advancing step… capitalizing on all social media variations… going viral when every milestone is reached.
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
Opportunity Centers, a non-profit 501(c)-3 corporation, will aggressively promote the social/economic advantages of locally cooperative ownership methodologies. We will inform, connect and collaborate with all commercial, social, civic and educational entities, seeking endorsement and support of our life-changing end results, a citizen-owned and self-sustainable economy.
Simultaneously, our for-profit consumer cooperative will implement our self-empowering citizen-invested methodologies… holding conglomerate-like equity interests in our clusters of construction, manufacturing, distribution etc. worker-owner cooperatives, … influencing management decisions; and administrating the strategic and organizational planning and decision making process.
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At 84... this old dog still operates on a 24/7 time clock... committed to leaving behind far more than I've consumed.
Escape The Box is a poverty alleviation tool for the inner city males that live and die in impoverished areas throughout the United States mainly due to social-economic factors. It gives them the opportunity to venture outside of the their communities and travel to other geographical area to explore entrepreneurial opportunities. These young men will team up with young men in their host location and examine the possibility to indulge in some form of import and export business.
Criado em 08/15/2012 por colsquirrell
We are promoting social interconnectedness, enhancing public space and improving community health and fitness through public outdoor ping pong tables.
Organização: Anabatic
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País onde esta solução está criando impacto social
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.
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Entre 1 e 5 anos
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leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarSelecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Inicial (um piloto que começou recentemente)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Em execução entre 1 e 5 anos
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two
Acesso, Custo.
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
BC communities strive to develop a sense of community and place through promoting active use of public spaces. People are the primary ingredient to making public places vibrant. The Columbia Basin is located in South Eastern BC with a population of 145,000 (2006 census) including 12 communities with over 2500 people. Communities in the Columbia Basin have identified the need to revitalize downtown cores and public spaces by finding innovative ways to attract citizens to visit more often and for longer durations. In our home community a recent survey of citizens on the City’s downtown area found that 92% of respondents identified the need for more events and activities as a means to improve the vibrancy of public space. We’d like to help BC communities and we have an idea!
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
On a recent backpacking trip through Germany we discovered that outdoor concrete ping pong tables were popular fixtures. Impressed with how these tables were able to draw people to use public space we began our research. Outdoor concrete table tennis or ping pong tables have just begun to take off in Europe. In North America, New York City has recently jumped on board discovering the community benefits of publicly accessible table tennis. What an innovative way to encourage citizens to become active and enjoy public space. Searching Canada far and wide we’ve found very few outdoor tables (latest count is 3) and no Canadian manufacturers. We’re ready to change this. We commissioned a local team of designers, civil engineers and innovators to design a functional, durable, beautiful and uniquely Canadian ping pong table. In the spring 2013 we’re poised to pilot our tables in public areas needing a boost.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
“To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts… there must be a sufficiently dense concentration of people, for whatever purposes they may be there...” Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)
People make good places great. We believe outdoor ping pong tables will improve sense of community by drawing citizens from a range of ages and backgrounds to enjoy public space. Players will enjoy the benefits of improved fitness, hand-eye coordination, increased muscle reflexes, balance and a big smile through a low injury/ impact sport. This grant will be used to help us bring ping pong tables to our home town and to communities across BC. We’ll be looking to the public, community groups and city councils to help identify ideal locations for their ping pong table. Once installed, we’d like to work with our communities to study the impact these tables make and to better understand what locations make a good fit. In our home city we’d like to host a ping-pong championship open to everyone, a model we'll support other communities to replicate. In year two we'll be expanding on our previous year's success to support citizen groups and local government across Western Canada in acquiring a table for their community.
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.
Popular for some time in Europe, outdoor ping-pong is just catching on in North America. We’ve only found two small manufactures in North America, both located in the USA. With no Canadian suppliers our location is centrally located to serve small and large communities in BC and across western Canada. Through some hard work with our designers we’ve developed a uniquely Canadian outdoor table tennis table design that incorporates locally sourced timber and is engineered to withstand substantial winter snow-loading. We think neighborhoods will fall in love with our tables.
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Backpacking through Germany I enjoyed running as a great way to discover the city and offset the previous night’s schnitzel. It was through these runs that I discovered the popularity of outdoor table tennis tables in the city’s parks and public squares. These catalysts for community play and vibrancy struck me as a great idea, and I was sold. We have discussed developing outdoor table tennis tables here in BC with our friends, community leaders, downtown businesses, city council and anyone who will listen. Excitement and support has been greater than ever hoped, and we’re excited to help develop space, place and community one table at a time.
Descreva a meta da sua iniciativa; fale sobre o que você está tentando alcançar.
Our goal is to promote physical fitness and social connectedness by enhancing community space through table tennis. It's simple and we think it might just do the trick. We're looking forward to working with neighbourhoods, community groups, city councils and YOU to help create vibrant public space that encourages citizens to be active and have some fun. We’re excited to produce beautiful, durable, long lasting and unique table tennis tables for our region.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Our most significant achievement has been the resounding support for our project from citizens, community business, community leaders and our city council. On August 27th Kimberley City Council adopted a motion to support in principle acquiring an outdoor table tennis table for the community. Contingent on funding we're poised to present Kimberley and surrounding communities with their new place-making magnet.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 5 anos?
Over the next five years we’d like to see outdoor ping pong tables spread to public areas across western Canada and communities benefiting from:
> Enhanced public space
> Improved social interconnectedness
> Increased physical fitness and coordination
> Community participation in a low cost sport ($15 for 2 racquets and a ball)
> Canada winning its first Olympic table tennis gold in Rio 2016 (preferably credited to the majestic beauty of our ping pong tables)
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
Cost to purchase an outdoor table tennis table could be a barrier for neighbourhoods and community groups. We will use the success demonstrated from the pilot tables to garner interest from corporate donors and volunteer fundraisers to offset costs.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Outdoor concrete table tennis tables are installed in three pilot communities
Atividade 1
Employ local workers to construct three pilot table tennis tables
Atividade 2
Build and implement a community engagement plan
Atividade 3
Connect with local government, citizens, community and business groups to identify locations of greatest benefit
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Impact of space and place renewal from outdoor table tennis tables is understood and additional tables are installed across BC
Atividade 1
Diversify and grow alternate revenue sources for additional tables through community fundraisers, corporate sponsors
Atividade 2
Establish partnerships with local volunteer groups to develop programming (e.g. scheduled social event, community tournaments)
Atividade 3
Monitor and research community impact of table. Share results with communities considering installing our tables.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPor favor, explique de que forma o estabelecimento de parcerias é importante para o sucesso de sua inovação
The strength of our project is in the partnerships we form with regional government, sports clubs, community groups and neighbourhoods. On August 27th 2012 we approached our city’s city council and were granted support in principle for placing outdoor table tennis table(s) in Kimberley’s public space. Once constructed, we’ll be returning to council to determine optimal location(s) for the tables. Over the coming weeks and months we’ll be putting forward similar proposals to surrounding communities in the Columbia Basin region.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
Location of tables is the most important factor to consider and target. We’ll be working with citizens, city council and business groups to identify prime locations which could benefit from greater public use and vibrancy. Our initial focus will initially be on Columbia Basin communities but we expect our model will prove transferable to public space in larger urban centres. We’ll be looking to target the greater population in becoming involved and active – table tennis is easy, accessible and fun for all ages, abilities and backgrounds.
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
We’re a small, nimble and innovative lot with backgrounds in engineering, timber framing, design and urban geography. We love playing ping pong and we’re passionate about providing communities with publicly available outdoor ping pong tables.
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Criado em 08/15/2012 por moWoza
Improves access to goods, livelihoods and economic opportunities in grassroot communities through a mobile commerce platform.
Organização: moWoza
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Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Idade do inovador:
Mais de 34 anos
Gênero do inovador
Feminino
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Mais de 5 anos
A organização recebeu algum prêmio ou reconhecimento público? Por favor, conte-nos mais detalhes
moWoza has been selected as a SE Forum enterprise (2012) and the founder is an Unreasonable Institute fellow (2012)
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leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome do seu projeto
Simplifying access to goods
Selecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Ideia (você está para lançar)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Implementado há menos de um ano
Qual(is) item(ns) abaixo descreve(m) melhor a(s) barreira(s) que sua inovação soluciona? Escolha até dois itens.
Acesso.
A necessidade: Qual é o problema que você está tentando resolver?
- 70% (560 000 million)o f Sub Saharan Africans (SSA) live outside of urban areas, making it difficult to find work and goods.
- 10% (300 million) migrate outside of their homelands to find work so that they can support their families.
- They hope that the remittances and goods they send make it home to feed their families. But theft, accidents and border-post corruption means that sometimes the families in the village do not get these cash/goods remittances.
- Crossborder trade and shopping is a trillion dollar industry that is being catered by women acting as informal crossborder traders/microtraders.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
moWoza allows people to remit, order and pay for goods easily via mobile phone.
- migrants can remit and pay for goods easily, while villagers can securely order and pay for goods.
- 1 text message notifies them that their goods are ready for pick from a local merchant.
- informal crossborder traders (micro-traders) don’t need to travel long distances to place orders.
- moWoza fills the gap for approximately 16 million migrants who are based in Southern, East and West Africa
- This improves livelihoods through the trusted supply chain of access to goods. For micro-traders their economic opportunities are increased.
http://vimeo.com/37275089
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
David, is a Mozambican migrant worker in South Africa and his family live in a village outside the capital of Mozambique.
1. A moWoza agent helps David registers on moWoza,
2. David places an order and pays via mobile. The order he places consists of food products which the family normally struggle to access.
3. This order is routed to a moWoza partner in Mozambique who fulfils the order and distributes it to a village merchant.
4. Simultaneously, David’s family is notified of the order via SMS. The SMS let’s David’s family know when they can pick up the order from the merchant.
5. The merchant verifies the order against the data that David’s family shows him and hands over the goods.
With this new mobile shopping solution, a new lifeline is created in the form of food security for families across Africa.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
Formal competitors: To date our target market has only used Western Union in times of emergencies, but if they dropped their fees we would look to incorporate there services into our business.
Similar new innovative business models like mypaga and willstream. However these two competitors are based in West Africa and are the providers of the technology. We are ensuring that the goods are where the family members need them most.
Informal competitors: family and friends who are travelling back to the home country. Although they do not offer the regularity that our service provides.
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Qual(is) tipo(s) de solução(ões) sua iniciativa apresenta para melhorar a vida de meninas e mulheres através do uso da tecnologia? [selecione alternativas que se aplicam ao projeto]
Acesso a tecnologia, Acesso a oportunidade econômica.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
We ran a proof of concept with 75 migrants who were supporting between 350 and 500 family members. (We worked with two agents in South Africa and two merchants in Mozambique). For each order a migrant placed they were saving 33% compared to sending a Western Union remittance and 12% compared to asking family/friends/informal couriers to send the goods to their families.
moWoza customers / beneficiaries are new customers for the agent and merchant and therefore we were increasing there trading activity and revenues.
Further research indicates that we can have a similar impact on micro cross-border traders and on the livelihood of rural and urban migrants within the local country.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
By year three:
- Our impact is to impact the lives of 14,000 migrant workers and their family members (average of 70,000) in Southern Africa. To achieve this we will work with a crossborder labour broker and informal cross-border traders.
- increase revenue streams for 100 village merchants and 75 agents.
- increase the economic opportunity of 1,000 informal Mozambican crossborder traders by reducing the amount the costs incurred from the travel that they are currently doing to purchase products (inventory).
http://vimeo.com/46988292
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
The success of our project will be hampered by operational costs of running a business in two areas. For this reason, each of the crossborder operations needs to become self-sustainable and for that we are looking at selling directly to the local community too (opposed to just being a crossborder service targeting migrant workers).
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Sign agreement with grassroot transport provider to access migrant workers. Demo a mobile phone solution w/ crossborder traders
Atividade 1
Expand the pilot and expand to several new areas to impact 1100 migrants
Atividade 2
Fundraise to support the development of the technology and to employ sales force
Atividade 3
Develop a mobile phone supply chain module incorporate this into the pilot
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
2500 registered customers and 250 crossborder traders actively using the mobile supply chain module.
Atividade 1
Be present in 3 major migrant areas in South Africa
Atividade 2
Be present in 20 villages in 2 districts in Mozambique
Atividade 3
Identified one major corporate sponsor (e.g. Nestle)
História: Queremos saber mais sobre o momento de descoberta desta solução. Conte-nos um pouco a história sobre onde e quando o(s) fundador(res) vislumbrou(aram) o potencial desta solução para mudar o mundo:
I was travelling across the border to Mozambique and witnessed how migrants are carrying goods from South Africa into Mozambique. For decades migrant workers and their families in Mozambique have relied on products from South Africa yet they all have a mobile phone. So it became clear that if they could easily buy the goods in South Africa and then partner in Mozambique with established retailers we could solve some of the burden that migrants and their families have in accessing goods.
From this moment I started to research and understand the social fabric of migrant workers in South Africa and across the African continent and it became apparent that I could contribute through a service like moWoza.
leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarPor favor, explique de que forma o estabelecimento de parcerias é importante para o sucesso de sua inovação
We have started initial conversations with a FMCG provider, a crossborder labour broker and a informal crossborder association. This ensures that we have access to products, customers and crossborder traders.
We are also partnering with a technology developer in order to have the relevant software skills at hand.
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Criado em 08/12/2012 por Juana Camacho Otero
EstiloE.co is a place where people will find new stories for their old objects and new objects for their old stories and trade them with other people, bringing all of us closer to a zero waste world.
Organização: Ecochic Estilo Consentido
mais ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome da Organização
Ecochic Estilo Consentido
Página da organização na internet
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Idade do inovador:
Entre 18 e 34 anos
Gênero do inovador
Feminino
Sua organização é
Não registrado
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Entre 1 e 5 anos
A organização recebeu algum prêmio ou reconhecimento público? Por favor, conte-nos mais detalhes
No hemos recibido ningún premio
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leia mais↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultarNome do seu projeto
EstiloE.co: transforming consumption in emerging economies
Selecione o estágio que melhor se aplica à solução
Inicial (um piloto que começou recentemente)
Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Ainda na fase de ideia, mas você deseja lançá-lo em breve
Qual(is) item(ns) abaixo descreve(m) melhor a(s) barreira(s) que sua inovação soluciona? Escolha até dois itens.
Acesso, Custo.
A necessidade: Qual é o problema que você está tentando resolver?
EstiloE.co aims to lengthent the life cycle of consumption products. In recent years, specially in developing economies, consumption of fashion goods has grown at a rapid pace (11% in Colombia) as well as fashion waste (from 7% in 2003 to 30% in 2008 in the UK). However, cities and societies in general have failed to create systems that promote responsible consumption patterns from an environmental perspectives, instead they have encourage wasteful lifestyles disregarding the Earth's carrying capacity. Given this it is imperative that we foster new consumption patterns among our broad communities and the internet is now giving us the opportunity to do so. Women are the ones called to make this change, we are the ones making the decisions on spending and we take care of the rest of us.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Clothing is being discarded over simple nonsense reasons. However what one person no longer wants could be the longed treasure of another person. For the past 5 years we have been bringing together these people to exchange clothes, books and music in events we call Trueque Ecochic. We want to give the opportunity to more people in Colombia and Latin America using the internet. We created EstiloE.co as an online market place where people will find objects they want and they will be able to acquire them for less than they expect and people will get rid of the things they don't want any more and get paid for it. We are creating a new way to get wardrobes a second life and at the same time we aim reducing a waste management problem that is growing in our developing economies. This is new to cities like Bogotá, Guadalajara or Lima. It has been going on in developed countries for a while but it is the first initiative in our countries. EstiloE.co is just an idea being piloted at the moment.
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
EstiloE.co is a web platform where registered individuals can upload pictures of the things they don't use anymore and give them a price that only administrators will see. Other registered individuals will find objects they need and like and they will make an offer to the system in terms of price. The app will match the wants and the haves and make the price offer to both sides and they will realize the transaction using a payment system online. This way objects that otherwise would be thrown into the trash can will have a second chance. We have been trying a bartering system for 5 years in Bogota, with a great deal of success. We have carried out more than 40 events with more than 500 attendees and lots of free press. We have been invited to different cities in Colombia and in Latin America to bring the Trueque but we haven't been able to do so for economic reasons. Internet based object exchange is a low transaction cost alternative that gives the opportunity to individuals to have what they want for less than what they expected and resolves the growing dilemma of what to do with the things that people don't want anymore but that are still useful. EstiloE.co will charge a comission to the transaction in order to cover operating and financial costs. In Colombia this costs are approximately 15 - 20% of each transaction.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
At the global level bartering and swapping platforms are very popular. The biggest player is www.swap.com that has been online for the past 7 years approximately. They offer a similar service but they don't work in Colombia and they are not very popular in Latin America. Since we have been working on this field since 2007, we have positioned ourselves on the clothing swapping arena and going digital is the natural step. Main challenges are associated with technical issues and community management given that Colombia and most of Latinamerica are not used to second hand consumption as a trendy thing to do.
During the last year a group of offline vintage stores have been appearing specially in Bogotá but they are not focusing on changing consumption patters but saving old fashion treasures.
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Qual(is) tipo(s) de solução(ões) sua iniciativa apresenta para melhorar a vida de meninas e mulheres através do uso da tecnologia? [selecione alternativas que se aplicam ao projeto]
Acesso a oportunidade econômica.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
Our project has been working for 5 years, we have build a community of more than 3.000 people interested in responsible consumption that follow us on social networks. More than 600 people have participated in the more than 40 Trueque Ecochic in Colombia. More than 10 local and international traditional and non traditional media have presented our initiative to the public promoting us to a great number of audiences. Ecochic Estilo Consentido has built itself as a national referent for conscious consumption of clothes.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
With EstiloE.co we want to reach 25.000 people that will engage in successful transactions every year by our third year working. This means 25.000 objects that instead of going to the dumpster, are being used by other people. Each successful transaction will trigger new visits and new responsible consumers. This platform wants to bring to Colombia and Latin America what is now known as collaborative consumption and mainstream it.
Quais são as barreiras que podem impedir o sucesso do seu projeto? Como você planeja superá-las?
We as a team are in need a technological partner and financial investment to be able to work 100% at EstiloE.co. We have also found that people are not well educated about the advantages of second hand commodities consumption. Our societies are very much driven by the 'brand-new-to-have-not-enjoy' paradigm of consumption. We have to demonstrate that consuming second hand is fine and really helps the environment. Since we have been promoting this for the past 5 years we now know that people need to know why it is imperative to change consumption patterns and that there are confortable ways of doing it.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
We will have a functioning minimum viable product that has attracted 25.000 visitors and 1.500 registered users.
Atividade 1
Develop the final minimum viable product of estiloe.co with all the main features
Atividade 2
Carry out a massive communications, PR and marketing campaign to promote the platform
Atividade 3
Build alliances with specific trend setters in Colombia to use the platform
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
By year 1 we will have 55.000 visitors, 3.000 registered users that have exchanged 1.500 objects.
Atividade 1
Launch estiloe.co at the national level with a special event.
Atividade 2
Showcase estiloe.co at different fashion and environmental events.
Atividade 3
Continue to promote the platform on the internet.
História: Queremos saber mais sobre o momento de descoberta desta solução. Conte-nos um pouco a história sobre onde e quando o(s) fundador(res) vislumbrou(aram) o potencial desta solução para mudar o mundo:
Back in 2007 I was working at an international non gevernmental organization on climate change issues. We had identyfied consumerism as one of the main root causes of the environmental crisis. I started to research about fashion industry because I had noticed that in Colombia nice clothes were more available and at cheaper prices meaning that people would start discard their old clothes sooner. I discovered that my intuition was right for the rest of the world and I decided to host an awareness event about this issue on the 7.7.7 worldwide Live Earth Day. A friend and I organized the first Trueque Ecochic that kept going on until this day. On 2011 after having hosted over 40 events I realized it was too much work with so little impact. We were not being able to create the critic mass of conscious fashion consumers we were dreaming of, so I decided to go online and looked for the funding and the developers to do it.
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We have alliances with businesses that like our proposal and have access to the things we need to carry out the Trueque Ecochic: Minimal Restaurante, CO2 Cero, Hotel B3 Virrey. For EstiloE.co we don't have alliances yet but we have been interacting with experts on internet based businesses here in Colombia. We were at the first Founders Friday organized by Ellas 2.0 and Wayra Academy and we have excelent contacts for our project.
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We need a developer to complete our team and we would love to find a girl developer. We need investment to cover the team's salary and for marketing campaigns and events. We are in the process of validating our business model so we need ideas on how to make it more attractive and effective. I have knowledge on sustainable development and project management.
Affordable Housing Resources is a non-profit in Columbia, SC that rents houses at affordable rates to families who are low-income, homeless, at risk of homelessness, or hold Section 8 vouchers.
By offering affordable housing with access to good schools and services, we hope to improve our tenants’ quality of life and help them rise above poverty.
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