Portal:Social entrepreneurship/About

From Wikiversity

The World Bank Institute (WBI) in collaboration with the Meraka Institute and other partners is engaged in a project to seed the establishment of a network of universities focussed on student community outreach and social entrepreneurship.

The broad vision is:

Enabling communities to enhance their quality of life sustainably 
while facilitating student learning on social entrepreneurship

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What is Social Entrepreneurship?

The initial focus is on South African institutions but the process is open and welcomes international collaboration.

The intention is to inspire co-development of curriculum materials on social entrepreneurship and facilitate knowledge sharing among students and educators in this field.

The portal also serves as a hub for collaboration among academic staff and students across institutions, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, government departments, and other organisations towards effective social entrepreneurship.

As developing communities become connected, they too may communicate: expressing needs and offerings - sharing knowledge for the benefit of all.

In the interests of inclusivity, and in accordance with the South African Policy on Free and Open Source Software^[1], the initiative takes a strong stand on using free/libre and open source software tools for knowledge generation and sharing, and the learning resources produced are released under a license compatible with the libre knowledge definition^[2] and the free cultural works definition^[3].

So far we have established a wiki-based portal with a framework for curriculum development:

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Social_entrepreneurship/Curriculum

and work is under way to pilot this wiki approach to education and a gaming framework in 2009.

The primary focus in 2009 is to grow the network of educators, students, institutions and other parties from the public, private and civil society sectors engaged with the initiative, and to catalyse collaborative development of learning resources.

With this brief background, you are hereby invited to engage with the community and participate in this exciting initiative which we hope will contribute significantly to improving quality of life and sustainable development.

The front page of the portal

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Social_entrepreneurship

includes a link explaining how to get involved

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Social_entrepreneurship/networking/How_to_get_involved

We look forward to working with you :-)