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George Hara: Public Interest Venture Capitalist

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

George is a financial mastermind with one foot in Asia and the other in California. He uses the Alliance Forum Foundation as one of his vehicles for making deals along these lines in Asia and Africa. They were going to bring Bangladesh better wireless internet than exists in California, and they’ve done it.

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Exciting Social Enterprise Group I met at the Skoll World Forum

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Raja is a seasoned business executive with senior level experience in multinationals (Coca-Cola, B&W/BAT, BOC Group, Societe Generale) in Europe, Asia and in multiple Middle East/North African countries (MENA), as an entrepreneur and as Managing Director of one of the oldest retail groups in the MENA region.

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ammado, An exciting new platform for social involvement

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I know Terry because he was UBS’ point guy on philanthropy in Singapore and Asia before joining ammado. It’s an impressive web-based application for helping multi-national corporations engage their employees and customers in social sector activities such as volunteering or donating.

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Tuesday at the Gathering

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North Carolina is interested, because they see it as a way to buy unused industrial properties and make them available to businesses that could resume making furniture (since NC has been losing these jobs to Asia). The investments would essentially lower the cost of doing business.

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Amnesty International at 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I especially heard strong interest in building the Amnesty movement in Latin America and Asia.

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Southeast Asia, Social Enterprise Accidental Tour!

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I just spent almost three weeks in Thailand and Laos on a combined work and vacation trip. Roughly once a year when I travel overseas, my wife Virginia puts up her hand and says “that’s the one!”

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Sir Ben described Jeff as a "living Silk Road," invoking the image of the original Silk Road making connections between Asia and Europe and bringing trade and knowledge. I got to sit behind Sir Ben Kingsley: imagine sitting within touching distance of an avatar of Gandhi! eBay to Participant Productions. But, it was definitely exciting!

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