Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

Conversation Three When I got back late to the hotel and stopped by the bar, I found the founders of Waste Concern of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Maqsood Sinha and Iftekhar Enayetullah getting a late dinner of sandwiches. They have expanded from Dhaka to at least ten cities, and are now wrestling with the right way to expand outside of Bangladesh.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

Next, I went to the Social Entrepreneurs Corner (a space set aside for the SEs) and ended up talking in detail with Iftekhar of Waste Concern from Bangladesh about the idea they floated in the bar a couple days ago for software to help cities reduce their carbon footprint. Tags: WEF social entrepreneurs Davos Schwab Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

There are roughly thirty social entrepreneurs here at the Forum, headlined by such famous leading SEs as Muhammad Yunus and Fazle Abed of Bangladesh. Tags: WEF social entrepreneurs Davos Benetech Kickstart Selco Schwab Foundation Davos10 Schatzalp. We then joined the social entrepreneurship dinner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Shawn Ahmed sent us a video from Bangladesh with his reflections on how nonprofits can work with Free Agents. Tags: Housekeeping. Please take five minutes to watch the video – it’s excellent. He made a great point that social media expertise isn’t the only thing that free agents bring to a partnership with an NGO.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Myopia undoubtedly affects those at the furthest reaches of other supply chains too – someone stitching garments in Bangladesh for Primark may not know, ultimately, which company their labour serves. For algorithmic sorcery to remain the rarified precinct of data mystics and arbitrageurs, new kinds of economic blindness must be conjured.

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