Chanchi Ben (also called sister) worked as a small farmer in Vinchhiya village, about 170km from the bustling economic and industrial hub of Ahmedabad city in western India. But she was b...
From the Central Sahel to the US-Mexican border and from Ukraine to Afghanistan, the number of people forced to flee war, violence and persecution has reached a record high.
In April 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution promoting the social and solidarity economy for long-term sustainable development through the advancement of...
The number of books in a home is a remarkably good predictor of success in education and thus later in life.
The world is facing four major transformations — and they are all occurring at once. They are economic, including the dramatic decarbonisation of industry; technological, due to the mergi...
With the world’s population set to reach 10 billion by 2050 and food systems and the environment already under intense strain, fresh thinking is required to meet the challenges ahead. A g...
“We really believe that it is important to empower people, particularly young girls and women, to be able to create, design and envision the world that they see themselves living in,” say...
Stress, work-life balance and the cost-of-living crisis.
In this an era characterized as a “polycrisis”, we are in dire need of solutions to tackle the root causes of global risks such as geo-economic confrontation, the cost of living crisis, t...
Approximately 80% of the world’s population continues to struggle in and around poverty. As Dr Bonnici and Cynthia Rayner point out in The Systems Work of Social Change, neither governmen...
Awareness of the need for diversity and inclusion within the business world has grown in recent years, particularly when it comes to venture capital (VC) funding for minority entrepreneurs.
Quantum technology is a rapidly advancing field. With the application of quantum sensors, quantum communication systems and quantum computing, it has the potential to revolutionise variou...
Have you wondered how you can create change from within your organization? Then you might be a budding social intrapreneur.
In what is expected to be Africa’s century, social entrepreneurs can play a catalytic role in driving inclusive and sustainable economic development on the continent.
