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Your Ideas to Connect the World

Sep 19 2011 in Competitions by GEF

We are determined the journey leading to Telecom World ‘11, and the event itself, will lead to real and significant change. To achieve this aim, there are some important and exciting changes. These competitions are part of this change. They are designed to catalyze ideas, seed partnerships, and develop working prototypes to address real world [...]

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UnLtdWorld: Social network for social entrepeneurs

Jun 1 2011 in Business Skills, Tools by GEF

UnLtdWorld is a platform for social entrepreneurs and the people that support them to: build community, do business, get insight, and find resources. In particular, be sure to check out their social entrepreneurship awards toolkit, which has great resources divided into themes and life-cycle stages! This toolkit is designed to provide you, the social entrepreneur, [...]

by Tobias

Perpetual Updates

May 17 2011 in Community Representatives, Idea Incubator by Tobias

Interesting meetings and talks are happening at the moment. Let me share what has happened since my last time agenda setting and share some of the entrepreneurial thinking around GEF and nice people you meet on the way: # Next week I am going to pitch the idea of the Social Business Startup Camp (SBSC) [...]

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The Creative Gallery on Sustainability Communications (UNEP)

Feb 1 2011 in Case Studies by GEF

The Creative Gallery on Sustainability Communications by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is presenting the first international online database of corporate and public advertising campaigns specifically dedicated to sustainability issues and classified by sustainability themes. By gathering these campaigns from all around the world, UNEP wishes to inspire and foster more and better communication [...]

What do YOU think about sustainability?

Dec 14 2010 in Books and Articles, Idea Incubator by Lucy, GEF GreEn Team

More than 2/3 of answers to our last poll indicate that sustainability should be taught to young people in schools as a good way to get started. The same people also thought that education for GreEn would have the greatest effect at school. However, according to them teaching at school is not enough. There is [...]

by leander

Contributing to the GreEn Co-Creation Workshop

Nov 25 2010 in Events, Idea Incubator by leander

by Pierre

Are we willing to be a part of the change?

Aug 29 2010 in Case Studies by Pierre

Think back to the revolution of the 60′s. How did it make change come about? How can we capture such energy today, taking advantage of Web 2.0 to truly engage a global community into curbing climate change (and tackling other challenges of a sustainable future)? This video proposes some interesting historical perspectives on our societal [...]

by daniel

Sprouter

Jul 23 2010 in Personal Skills by daniel

Sprouter facilitates networking and collaboration between entrepreneurs globally. Providing a platform for users to connect with other innovators, entrepreneurs can expand their networks to include fellow entrepreneurs and startups with similar interests and goals. By answering the question “What are you working on?” in 140 characters or less entrepreneurs can discover and join events in [...]