www.weforum.org 25.01.2012 Welcoming Remarks by Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, President of the Swiss Confederation and Federal Councillor of the Federal Department of Finance of the Swiss Confederation Opening Address by Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor of Germany Chaired by Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum Crystal Award Ceremony The World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award honours artists who have used their art to improve the state of the world. Introduced by Hilde Schwab, Chairperson and Co-Founder, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Switzerland Luc Besson, Filmmaker, Screenwriter and Producer; Founder, EuropaCorp, France Yvonne Ntombizodwa Chaka Chaka, Singer and President, Princess of Africa Foundation, South Africa Midori, Violinist and Founder, Midori Foundation, USA The Great Transformation Ahead Conversation with Desmond M. Tutu, Chair, The Elders, South Africa Chaired by Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum Launch of the Global Shapers Community • Luc Besson, Filmmaker, Screenwriter and Producer; Founder, EuropaCorp, France • Børge Brende, Managing Director, Government Relations and Constituent Engagement, World Economic Forum • Yvonne Ntombizodwa Chaka Chaka, Singer and President, Princess of Africa Foundation, South Africa • Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor of Germany • Midori, Violinist and Founder, Midori Foundation, USA …
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30Jan
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27Jan
Spotlight on Young Social Entrepreneurs — e-Card launched at Young Social Entrepreneurs’ Forum @ GK3, 13 Dec 2007 Who are they? What they do? What they need? How can you support them?
Tags: Entrepreneurs, Forum@GK313, Social, Spotlight, Young
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25Jan
Child at Venture is a foundation who supports youngsters in developing countries in entrepreneurship with start up capital, training and coaching. Watch the Gambian news on our project in The Gambia
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22Jan
MinecraftGirl.com WINNING!! Video of the UH Entrepreneurship YouTube Video Contest Spring 2011. I’m a student at the University of Houston and I created this Minecraft commercial spot for a class project during the Spring 2011 semester. We were graded based on the number of views and this video had the most views out of 107 videos. In just a little over 6 weeks this video received over 59k Views, 1.4k Favorites, 1.7k Comments, 4k Likes, and almost 500 Subscriptions from all over the globe. Our team received an A on the project for the semester. Playlist of all videos featured in the Spring 2011 Contest: www.youtube.com Get Minecraft now! www.minecraft.net The Word of Notch: notch.tumblr.com Thanks to Matthew Ashton and Joshua McLaughlin at Ashton Legal Media for their support! www.ashtonlegalmedia.com Inspired By: www.youtube.com Music: “Milkshake” www.youtube.com “The Forecast” www.youtube.com
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19Jan
The Service Learning Program promotes intellectual growth, self-awareness, community engagement, and social entrepreneurship. Service learning at Sage Hill School is founded on a vision of a world where education and youth social entrepreneurship co-exist. This vision invites students to put their expertise to work by joining with others to bring about change in the broader community. One Wednesday a month Sage Hill students and their teachers pick up their heads from their books, set down their pens, push back from their computers, and apply their learning. Some connect personal aspirations to academics. Some celebrate the wonders of literacy. Some engage as scientists by building and caring for urban gardens. Some create sustainable social entrepreneur projects. For example, our tenth graders teach fourth graders writing skills at underserved elementary schools. Between outings, the English teachers take class time to help students assess what went well and what did not, so they may refine their lesson plans accordingly. By being obliged to teach writing to others, our students become better writers themselves, their fourth grade students improve, and the host organization is better able to deliver its mission. This integrated approach to community service- the linking of direct experience with formal academic training- is what we call service learning. Sage Hill is one of the first high schools in the nation to offer such a program. Service provides our students with …
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16Jan
Mats Gabrielsson – Serieentreprenör. Ordförande och Grundare, Opcon AB
Tags: Gabrielsson, Grundare, Mats, Opcon, Ordförande, Serieentreprenör.
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13Jan
The 2010 Business Plan Competition at The Merage School of Business is one of the nation’s premier business plan competitions offering all UC Irvine students, staff and researchers the opportunity to form a team, create a business plan and potentially fund their business idea all within seven months. The Business Plan Competition is being sponsored by Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth Attorneys at Law. Contact: Charles Baecker Administrative Director The Don Beall Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Phone: 949-824-1172 Email: cbaecker@uci.edu
Tags: 2010, Business, Competition, Merage, Paul, Plan, School
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13Jan
Business Incubation: a tool for enabling innovation and entrepreneurship. — BusyInternet launched its Busy incubator program early 2005, with support from the infoDev Program. The first of its kind in West Africa, this small business incubation program is designed to increase the chances of survival of young companies by providing them with a good opportunity to grow in a supportive and nurturing environment. To date, 25 companies have been successfully hosted at BusyInternet. Currently, there are 10 companies located at the BusyInternet facilities, which provides connectivity solutions, software development, management consulting, entrepreneurship development, business process outsourcing, computer based test preparation, and administration and web-based applications development. On a broader level, program objectives are to promote economic growth by fostering private sector development through helping existing incubators in developing countries to improve performance in order to achieve higher ‘survival rates’ of incubated companies, growth and sustainability, creating synergy between incubators in developing countries, based on improved knowledge, networking and capacity building, as well as capacity building within enterprises to enhance their competitiveness, including trade competitiveness in the global business environment. The World Bank – InfoDev Video Case Study
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13Jan
Business Incubation: a tool for enabling innovation and entrepreneurship. — BusyInternet launched its Busy incubator program early 2005, with support from the infoDev Program. The first of its kind in West Africa, this small business incubation program is designed to increase the chances of survival of young companies by providing them with a good opportunity to grow in a supportive and nurturing environment. To date, 25 companies have been successfully hosted at BusyInternet. Currently, there are 10 companies located at the BusyInternet facilities, which provides connectivity solutions, software development, management consulting, entrepreneurship development, business process outsourcing, computer based test preparation, and administration and web-based applications development. On a broader level, program objectives are to promote economic growth by fostering private sector development through helping existing incubators in developing countries to improve performance in order to achieve higher ‘survival rates’ of incubated companies, growth and sustainability, creating synergy between incubators in developing countries, based on improved knowledge, networking and capacity building, as well as capacity building within enterprises to enhance their competitiveness, including trade competitiveness in the global business environment. The World Bank – InfoDev Video Case Study
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10Jan
YOUR WORLD, YOUR BUSINESS is a major new European initiative to bring sustainability and social responsibility to the heart of entrepreneurship education. YOUR WORLD, YOUR BUSINESS aims to inspire young people to become the kind of entrepreneurs our society increasingly needs: creative, dynamic, and determined to make the world a better place. It is a collaborative partnership between the European Commissions Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry and Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise. ec.europa.eu



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