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Social Entrepreneurship
Detroit Garden Sensor Development
Challenges Entered:
Mt. Elliott Makerspace and Earthworks collaborate to help urban gardeners
Detroit residents are becoming more and more interested in urban farming. With this growth in interest has come a growth in desired farm scale. Many home gardens have grown to the point where they include hoop houses to extend the growing season. These hoop houses can be constructed on a limited budget with found materials. The hoop houses, along with careful record-keeping, can turn a hobby garden into a veritable small business.
Locations
Mt Elliott Makerspace
East Side
Detroit, MI 48207United States
42° 21' 10.2132" N, 83° 1' 28.164" W
See map: Google Maps
Earthworks Urban Farm
1264 Meldrum
Detroit, MI 48207United States
42° 21' 10.2132" N, 83° 1' 28.164" W
See map: Google Maps
Local SMS Community Newsletter for Promotion of Self-Employment
Challenges Entered:
Project Idea:
It's a Location based Citizen centric Information & knowledge focused Update & alert service through SMS which is free for the members and which is run by a local social entrepreneur. We are trying to provide ‘One Social Assistant cum Entrepreneur' for every 1000 families.
Qualification of Local Social Entrepreneur (Mobile Journalist)
School-college dropped outs
Opportunity less street wanderer
Socio-politically sadden youths
Financially backwards youths
Nebula
Challenges Entered:
SuperNova 7 Productions' mandate is to incite global grassroots action through the empowerment of social entrepreneurs. Nebula, SN7’s technology arm, functions as a tool for social entrepreneurs. Nebula allows users to collaborate, connect, and implement projects in real time that promote social change worldwide.
Location
Newton Highlands, MA
United States
See map: Google Maps
Local SMS Community Newsletter for Promotion of Self-Employment
Challenges Entered:
We promote SMS based Free Newsletter in every small locality to alert, inform, update local citizens with social, political, cultural, governmental information.We are trying to develop a Local Micro-Media through which citizens can be weaved together with a thread of SMS - affectionately.This is an integrated, interconnected & interactive community newsletter which is run by local 10th-12th failed, school college dropped out youngster who earns $ 100-200 monthly.
ClickDiagnostics: A Micro-Entrepreneurship Based Model to Transform Healthcare Delivery through Mobile Telemedicine
Challenges Entered:
ClickDiagnostics enables existing health-worker networks and micro-entrepreneurs to provide advanced medical consultation and to gather health data by connecting them to our global health servers via mobile phones.
Location
Botswana
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