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Showing posts with label #Entrepreneur. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Entrepreneur. Show all posts

Thursday, March 16

Silicon Valley Model II Ripple Waves


Startup Community The Film | A Documentary About Startups in Kitchener-Waterloo


Inside Sweden's Silicon Valley (Hello World: Episode 2)
April 27 -- Hold on to your H&M cardigans! The world's funkiest tech and travel show hits Sweden. Tune in as host, Ashlee Vance, travels from Stockholm to Luleå, discovering how the Swedes got so good at making the things the whole world loves. His journey includes: a conversation with a face-swapping robot, fika with Spotify's Daniel Ek, and a look at how efficient energy is reimagining data centers and turbine power. (Source: Bloomberg)


Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary) | Future Cities | WIRED





Tuesday, February 21

Silicon Valley Model I

Welcome to Silicon Valley

CyberFuture The Dreams Of Silicon Valley 2016 HD Documentary

Tech Trends: Learning From Silicon Valley Model

World's Best Technological Hub | Silicon Valley | Top Documentary Films

World's Best Technological Hub | Silicon Valley | Top Documentary Films. Welcome to TOP DOCUMENTARY FILMS - home of the best documentary films and...

Erik Jensen, What is the Relationship of Law to Economic Development?

Thursday, October 1

She Entrepuneures 2016

Leadership Programmes ::: Swedish Institute ::: She Entrepreneurs 2016

"She Entrepreneurs is a leadership programme for young emerging women social entrepreneurs in the Middle East, North Africa and Sweden. The programme aims to give the participants innovative tools for sustainable change while seeking to create an active network of women changemakers.


She Entrepreneurs runs for one year, with participants meeting for ten days in Sweden and one week in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. In between the modules, the participants work on their own initiative locally, coached by group mentors over digital platforms.
The participants are social entrepreneurs from Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Palestine, Yemen and Sweden who address social challenges and strive for positive social change through initiatives based on entrepreneurial principles. During the programme participants are provided with inspiration, knowledge and tools to develop a business idea for sustainable change that they have already started working on in their country or region. Through the programme, participants are also offered the opportunity to meet leading social and business entrepreneurs as well as become a part of an active network of women social entrepreneurs that supports personal and professional development.
The call for applications for She Entrepreneurs 2016 is currently open! The deadline for applying is 8 October 2015 at midnight (Central European Time Zone). "
She Entrepreneurs 2011 from Swedish Institute on Vimeo.


https://eng.si.se/apply-now-she-entrepreneurs-2016/

https://eng.si.se/tag/social-entrepreneurship/



https://eng.si.se/areas-of-operation/leadership-programmes-and-cultural-exchange/she-entrepreneurs/

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=social+entrepreneurship+moocs

https://www.class-central.com/subject/entrepreneurship


7 essential MOOCs for budding social entrepreneurs


http://mashable.com/2014/12/14/moocs-social-entrepreneurs/#MPUuyoSesmqp

Starting a business to make the world a better place is a worthy and even fashionable idea. But what does creating a social enterprise really entail, and what skills should you have under your belt before you jump in?
Aspiring social entrepreneurs can find comfort and knowledge in MOOCs, or massive open online courses. Platforms such as Coursera, Udacity and Udemy feature a number of low-cost classes taught by expert faculty in socent and related fields.
From using social media for social good to HTML programming geared specifically toward entrepreneurs, here are seven MOOCs you should look into before launching a socially conscious company.

1. Social Entrepreneurship: A Crash Course

Platform: Udemy
Price: $25
This MOOC is perfect for beginners looking to dip their toes into the social enterprise space. Taught by Jessica Lax, content developer for social impact at School for Change, Social Entrepreneurship: A Crash Course covers five essential topics: hybrid organizations, earned revenue, impact capital, impact measurement and human-centered design.
You can work at your own pace through more than an hour of video content and slides.

2. Social Media for Social Change

Platform: Udemy
Price: $19
Whether or not your social enterprise idea deals directly with social media, maintaining an online presence is imperative for any business worth its salt. This course addresses key social media strategies for social change, and covers examples of successful campaigns.
The MOOC was designed specifically as a skills-building tool for social entrepreneurs "to address old issues with new tactics for increased results."

3. Programming for Entrepreneurs

Platform: Udemy
Price: Free
Basic coding is a skill everyone needs to have — even schools across the world are adopting it into their curricula. Whether you're looking to build a simple website for your social enterprise or you just want a better understanding of development as it pertains to business, this is the MOOC for you.
Programming for Entrepreneurs teaches rudimentary HTML and CSS programming languages and development concepts, so you can walk away with tangible, interactive prototypes of your business idea. There are 28 lectures, with more than two hours of content.

4. How to Change the World

Platform: Coursera
Price: Free
This MOOC focuses on creative ideas from well-known entrepreneurs, writers, academics and political leaders to discuss how innovation and technology can address the world's most pressing issues. Despite the audacious title, the class hones in on specific units: Poverty and Philanthropy; Climate Change and Sustainability; Women, Education and Social Change; and Social Networks, Education and Activism.
As of this writing, the class is in the middle of its current course of study (until Dec. 29), but you can join the watchlist to see when the next session will take place.
Disclosure: How to Change the World was developed between Wesleyan University and the 92Y, in conjunction with Mashable's Social Good Summit in 2013.

5. How to Build a Startup

Platform: Udacity
Price: Free
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank, who also teaches at Stanford, UC Berkeley and Columbia, instructs this course on the key steps needed to build a startup. The focus of the MOOC is the needs of the customer — the product, how to deliver it and how to engage your target audience.
While there may not be a specific "customer" for your social enterprise, How to Build a Startup will teach you how to identify key resources, partners, distribution channels and overall costs.
As of this writing, the class is in the middle of its current course of study (until Dec. 29), but you can join the watchlist to see when the next session will take place.

6. Social Entrepreneurship

Platform: Coursera
Price: Free (Open Track)
This MOOC comes to you courtesy of the Social Impact initiative at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. Think of it as the next step after the socent crash course listed above. Wharton's course takes a deeper dive into solution design, concept testing, performance measurement, building for scale and more.
You can choose the free "Open Track," in which assignments are based on real-world examples of social enterprises, or the "Signature Track," in which assignments will relate to the specific social enterprise you'd like to pursue.
As of this writing, the class isn't in session, but you can join the watchlist to see when it starts up again.

7. Foundations of Business Strategy

Platform: Coursera
Price: Free
Strategy is important for any entrepreneur, whether you're creating a nonprofit or for-profit company. The University of Virginia's Foundations of Business Strategy teaches strategic analysis, the impact of competitive markets and how to create value through cases discussions of specific businesses.
The final project has each student select one organization through online forums, using the skills the course has taught him and her to provide a competitive analysis.
The course just wrapped up its most recent session on Nov. 23, but you can join the watchlist to see when the next session takes place.

Thursday, June 13

Tällberg Forum 2013

Tällberg Forum 2013

 See all sessions from the Tällberg Forum here:
  • 13 June, 14.00-14.30 (CEST): Press conference
  • 13 June, 16.00-18.30 (CEST): Session I (Opening)
  • 14 June, 08.30-10.00 (CEST): Session II
  • 14 June, 14.00-15.30 (CEST): Session III
  • 15 June, 08.30-10.00 (CEST): Session IV
  • 15 June, 16.30-18.30 (CEST): Session V (Final Session)
http://www.tallbergfoundation.org/ACTIVITIES/T%C3%A4llbergForum2013/webbstreaming/tabid/1316/Default.aspx

http://www.tallbergfoundation.org/Portals/0/Documents/TF13/Companion_Overview%20program.pdf 
http://www.tallbergfoundation.org/Portals/0/Documents/TF13/Companion_Day-by-day%20program.pdf


At the heart of the Foundation’s activities lies the annual Tällberg Forum. 

The Forum integrates nature and the arts, where people feel free to step outside of their professional identity, to share doubts and new ideas, and search for ways forward outside of established frameworks.

The annual gatherings organized for over two decades by the Tällberg Foundation have evolved into an innovative global Forum characterized by an atmosphere of openness, honesty, warmth and creativity. Every year, leaders from all over the world and from various sectors of society gather to talk about and reflect upon the challenges and opportunities that stem from global interdependence.

The Tällberg Forum acts to stimulate the conversation on, and design solutions to the problems of our times in order to foster new thinking and solutions. People from business and finance meet people from politics, science, international organizations and civil society on equal terms, and not as stakeholders. They come to talk, listen, reflect, question their assumptions, and gain the new insights that give them new responsibilities. For many, the Tällberg Forum is viewed as a natural extension of a highly respected Swedish tradition of internationalism, progress, intellectual curiosity, mediation and sustainability.

The film is an overview of the Tällberg Forum 2007, published by Tyler Brule at Monocle.com. Monocle is a monthly magazine with original coverage in global affairs, business, culture and design along with a web-based broadcast component with news reports and mini-documentaries.


http://www.tallbergfoundation.org/ABOUTUS/AbouttheT%C3%A4llbergForum/tabid/1267/Default.aspx 


"How on earth can we live together?" is the over-arching theme of the Tällberg Forum

The Tällberg Forum gives leaders – and their families – from all over the world and from all sectors of society to convene for a few days in a beautiful environment to reflect and converse on the over-arching theme: “How on earth can we live together?” 

The Forum is characterized by humanism, systems thinking and principled pragmatism. The Tällberg Forum makes no declarations and issues no recommendations. Its impact lies in the many initiatives and ideas that the participants bring back home and integrate in their actions in their own environment.

It is the combination of place, people and process that makes the Tällberg Forum unique. The informality and beauty of the place has a decisive influence. The environment, in which people can freely, unpretentiously and creatively converse, conveys harmony and aesthetics.

The people are chosen to provide diversity of men and women, of old and young, and a true mix of nationalities from all continents: Politicians, global corporate leaders, thought leaders, artists, clerics, civic leaders and NGO leaders. Many participants bring their families and this strongly influences the atmosphere.
The process and program allow for each participant to combine sessions, talks and discussions with excursions, walks in the woods or spending time with their family. The conference program is a blend of plenary sessions, workshops and conversations that carry on in smaller settings where participants can explore in more depth subjects of their choice. Cultural performances and nature walks are an integral part of the program, as they help open minds and stimulate ideas.
We live in a world of transition, where the need for new ideas and strategies to deal with our common challenges is greater than ever. The Tällberg Forum is a contribution in this direction.

http://www.tallbergfoundation.org/Default.aspx?tabid=165
  

Monday, April 23

Value & Quality Recognition

The profession of Architecture (science & Art of building) is definitively changing in the Arab World.


Besides the two renowned awards of architecture (Pritizker & the Aga Khan's) another award is coming into shape; The Rafik Hariri UN-Habitat Memorial award.







Copied Via http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?typeid=19&catid=34&cid=7612




Call for submissions opens: 1 December 2011


The Rafik Hariri UN-Habitat Memorial Award Steering Committee assembled 25 and 26 October in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to launch the second cycle of the Award. The Award's Steering Committee confirmed a successful completion of the first cycle and called for continued and active engagement of all stakeholders this coming cycle, in the pursuit of a fitting winner 2012.


The Rafik Hariri Award is a joint initiative of the Rafik Hariri Foundation and UN-Habitat that seeks to reward individuals and organizations continuing in the spirit of the late Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. In 2004, Mr. Hariri was awarded the Habitat Award Scroll of Honour, the highest possible award in the UN system in human settlements development, for his creativity, visionary leadership and statesmanship in the reconstruction of Lebanon and the City of Beirut.


Under the theme "Leadership, statesmanship and good governance", the inaugural award was presented at the Opening Ceremony at the 5th session of the World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in March 2010. The Award Lecture series was launched in conjunction with the Award dinner by a former news anchor from CNN with direct exposure to the works of the late Rafik Hariri.
The award is given to individuals or organizations/institutions anywhere in the world for significant accomplishments in the areas of: Leadership, statesmanship, and good governance; Construction and reconstruction of settlements and communities; Human resources development and benevolent activities in fighting urban poverty and the implementation of the Habitat Agenda.
The Award is presented biennially and the prize consists of: a cash award of USD 200,000 (which can be split between two winners), a trophy and a certificate.


The second Rafik Hariri UN-Habitat Memorial Award Conference, including the Award Ceremony and Dinner, will take place in September 2012 in conjunction with the UN General Assembly in New York, USA. An award seminar will also be organized during the 6th session of the World Urban Forum in Naples, Italy, in September 2012.




Submissions must be made using the prescribed forms in the 2012 Submission Guide
Deadline for receipt of submissions: 30 April 2012




Submission Guidelines
http://www.unhabitat.org/downloads/docs/SubmissionGuidelinesHaririAward.pdf
http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?typeid=19&catid=34&cid=11031


Submission Format 
http://www.unhabitat.org/downloads/docs/RafikHaririUNHABITATMemorialAward.pdf


Monday, November 28

DSS @stirling 2011

This post been shared on #Facebook by a good friend
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2414296583/
I would like to repost it here believing in the importance of the subjects mentioned besides it's all my favorite topics in one place/space!


Isn't that great!






  Presentations from this year's Design Skills Symposium which was held in Stirling.




Sarah Longlands - The Role of Place and Diversity


Steven Tolson - Investment Inputs: Citizens, Developers and the State



Max Hislop - Liveable Places: Green Networks



Tom Steele - Making the most out of Property and Assets



Ben Hamilton-Baillie - Streets, Networks and Public Space



Stephen Hill - How to live more sustainably: Aligning Personal and Professional Values



David Sim - People Oriented Development