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This project has designed a material treatment process to extend the lifespan of extrusion augers used by the social enterprise Appropriate Energy Saving Technologies (AEST) in Uganda. AEST uses an extruder machine to recycle agricultural waste into charcoal briquettes that they sell to low-income families. The auger components wore down quickly and needed a hardening process to remain useful for...
Data collection is essential for organizations operating in developing countries and other low-resource environments. Whether for traditional monitoring and evaluation, efficiency improvements, or research purposes, data collection is an essential part of the scaling process of any venture. Despite the necessity of data collection, creating an efficient system that captures key information is no easy...
Social enterprise is becoming an important concern in Taiwan recently. Many policies integrate this concept into one of the important prospective objectives, in particular support community-based organizations, all with the idea as a guide to policy goals. In this study, with liouguei district Bolia region Kaohsiung City as an example. They through the local community to rebuild communities from the...
Many technological solutions for rural areas, even after successful demonstrations, have not been able to reach the intended beneficiaries at the scale and speed required to address their underlying problem. The Million Soul Urja Lamp Program (MSP) is an effort to take solar lamps to rural India to address their primary energy needs, through localization and skill development. This paper outlines...
Despite significant efforts in the improved cooking sector over the past several decades, challenges have been encountered in developing high-performance products that both satisfy user preferences and are affordable. Among the reasons for these challenges are poor dissemination of R&D results to cooking technology enterprises, underutilization of the existing knowledge base by organizations working...
Over the years, different development waves have shaped the Web. Introduced as a tool to browse Web sites, the Web now is a dynamic and robust platform upon which enterprises conduct e-Business. One of these waves known as Web 2.0 (or social Web) is putting pressure on how enterprises should ensure a productive use of Web 2.0 applications such as Facebook and Twitter. Misuse cases of these applications...
In recent years, social business has been to be one of the important business developmental trends in Taiwan. The huge pushing power came when Prime Minister Yi-Hua Jiang announced that Taiwan has entered the first year of Social Enterprise from 2014. The single case analysis based on the theory of dynamic capabilities is adopted in this study via direct observation the selected Kung Yuan Social Enterprise...
It is important to research on social enterprise that do not deviate the goal of commonweal under the pressure of market. CAN YOU Group has continuously brought forth new ideas and explored a integrated and developed path of two chains between enterprise and commonweal, and formed a mode of social enterprise group which has been consisted of the foundations, commonweal institutions and science and...
Social innovation has gradually become a more and more popular topic in recent years as the public focus on social problems continually coming. In this context, social enterprise, comes into being and have responded to crises of ??government failure??, market failure?? and ??voluntary failure?? effectively. Simply speaking, SE that is different from corporations, nonprofit organizations (NPO) and...
As Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and social enterprises become drivers of economic growth, the nexus provides opportunities for new models of business to bring benefits to communities in developing countries. Recognising the complex dynamics and range of actors in this diverse and emerging sector, this study chooses to document the external influences, use and impact of ICT on social...
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