Marcia Stepanek is a regular contributing writer for Justmeans and co-founder of Contribute Media. She also is Publisher of Cause Global, a group blog about the use of social media in social advocacy and innovation. Previously, she was executive editor and co-founder of CIO Insight Magazine and Web strategies editor at BusinessWeek, as well as the national economics correspondent and special proje...
Global Entrepreneurship Week
Innovators have always been heroes, whether or not the marketplace liked their inventions or immediately recognized them for their brilliance. [Think Philo Farnsworth (TV), Preston Tucker (1948 Torpedo automobile), Alexander Fleming (Penicillin) and Steve Jobs, just for starters.]
But today's entrepreneurial landscape is different. More than any other time in recent history, it is crowded with new venture ideas. Today's business and non-profit worlds favor the young and the globally conscious, and even in the most destitute corners of the world, young social innovators are more start-up savvy than ever. They're not waiting for permission to get started: the world's problems have rarely seemed so daunting.
To commemorate Global Entrepreneurship Week (#GEW), which runs this week in 85 nations [including the United States], this blog will be posting three short "Changemaker" profiles spotlighting a few of the most dynamic new social entrepreneurs using the mobile Internet today. To be sure, we profile many innovators on this blog -- regardless of what week it is. But this week and next, we'll focus on a few who are testing new ways to use new "right here, right now" mobile technologies to improve the world as we know it.
Meanwhile, beginning today, we'd like your input on the following question. [Consider it an informal "reader poll."]
Who do you think is the most dynamic but as-yet unknown social entrepreneur in the world today?
Post a comment or send me an email and we'll add it to a list of "Social Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2010." We'll be compiling that list over the next month for our year-end Social Enterprise Round-Up of trends in the social enterprise space.
And one more thing? With more than 25,000 different events tied to Global Entrepreneurship Week this year -- organizers are hoping to engage some 4 million participants in 88 countries -- please share your experiences from any of these events with me and your colleagues in the Justmeans community.
It's your week. Let us hear what you're up to.
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Marcia Stepanek 09pm November 30 Christine -- belated thanks for your comment. Thanks for it; sounds like a wonderful group and great conversation! I'll check out the site.
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