epExpert service

“The hardest thing is to challenge your personal perceptions.” – An interview with David Hoffmann on the launch of the epExpert service

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Offering the empowering people. Expert Service (epExpert), Siemens Stiftung  devises a program to support social enterprises, inventors and organizations that are part of its empowering people. Network. These often face deficits in knowledge and with workforce and are thereby hindered in the development of their products or services. This can, more often than not, prevent […]

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The whole cohort of the epOnsite training in Montevideo, Uruguay.

IDIN entrepreneurs attend PIA member Siemens Stiftung’s epOnsite training in Uruguay

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Three entrepreneurs and innovators from the International Development Innovation Network (IDIN) recently participated in a Siemens Stiftung (Foundation) workshop in Uruguay, representing one of the several exciting connections MIT D-Lab and the Siemens Stiftung are fostering between our networks. Beyond building ties with IDIN, Siemens Stiftung joined the MIT Practical Impact Alliance as a member […]

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Community Voting

Now it’s over to you…

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Being part of the empowering people. Network team is always full of surprises: we meet fascinating social entrepreneurs that blow us away with their dedication, we see how projects are developed, scaled up and then implemented, and we get to see brilliant innovations when they are submitted to the empowering people. Award. The first Award […]

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epOnsite in Montevideo: The impact of peer-learning spaces on growing enterprises

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By Clara Hidrón, Founder Reflejarse and Anais Mangin, international consultant and associate at adelphi Entrepreneurs are, by definition, creative, hardworking and determined people; they have a clear goal and will do everything in their power to attain it. This is perhaps why, no matter how much work it is, we feel so energized after working […]

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Dr. Anil Kumar Gupta

Voices from the jury: “A great deal more remains to be done”

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Professor Anil Gupta talks about grassroots innovations, the mobilisation of social and ethical capital and his role a s juror of the “empowering people. Award” The National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF) started functioning in March 2000 as India’s national initiative to strengthen the grassroots technological innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge. Its mission is to help India […]

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Duncan Onyango

Voices from the jury: Duncan Onyango

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The African economy has experienced a trend in recent years with Kenya’s increasing number of innovation start-ups, providing solutions to business problems.

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Karen von Bismarck.

Voices from the jury: “Our philosophies are remarkably closely aligned.” (Repost)

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The Technology Exchange Lab (TEL) is dedicated to bringing communities out of poverty by fostering the exchange of innovative, cost-effective and sustainable solutions that significantly improve the lives of people at the bottom of the pyramid. TEL was founded in 2009 by two alumni from the MIT Sloan School of Management whose shared vision of […]

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Thomas Silberhorn.

Voices from the jury: “A great potential to address development challenges by cooperating with and supporting social entrepreneurs”

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While the members of the jury are doing their work – evaluating the entries of the empowering people. Award – we asked them why they have made a commitment to this competition.

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Michael Vollmann.

Voices from the jury: “Making the world of tomorrow a better place.”

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While the members of the jury are doing their work – evaluating the entries of the empowering people. Award – we asked them why they have made a commitment to this competition.

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The Ezystove

Making Life Ezyer

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Right this minute a woman somewhere in rural sub-Saharan Africa is on a long trek. Not because she’s part of a nomadic tribe or visiting a neighbouring village but because she has to do something that many of us with modern conveniences take for granted – cook for her family. She starts her journey early, […]

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