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Please share any ideas for projects which students of social entrepreneurship might like to adapt for their community-based projects.

Contents 1 Social Impact 1.1 Education 1.2 Local Community Impact 1.2.1 Community Centre 1.2.2 Sport 1.2.2.1 Examples 1.3 Economic 1.3.1 Bottle Craft 2 Technology Inspired 2.1 Local ICT 2.2 Mobile Phones 2.3 Games 2.4 Being Heard 2.5 Appropriate Technologies 3 Environment/Agriculture 4 External Sources of Ideas 5 See Also

[edit] Social Impact

• The Foundation for a Better Life - sharing the values that make a difference in our communities.
• Campaigns
• Franchising Ideas.

[edit] Education

• Open Content for Development
• Educating for harmony and strength in diversity
  • for local communities
  • for a global society
  • See for example: Committees for Children - think about something similar, though potentially quite different, for your community of interest. The site includes resources to support the process.
• Health Education
• Environmental Education
• Literacy

[edit] Local Community Impact

Ideas to bring communities together and encourage friendships and activities towards community upliftment.

[edit] Community Centre

Depending on scale, this could consist of multiple projects, some on-going (e.g. maintenance and on-going community development activities)

• Renovate/build a hall (or barn, etc) and develop a vision for community benefit
  • Community centre
  • Learning centre
  • Library
  • How to Plan A Renovation project ....

[edit] Sport

Think about venues, equipment, event organisation and management, ....

• Football
• Athletics
• Table tennis

[edit] Examples

• Sadili Oval (Kenya)

[edit] Economic

Ideas to inspire entrepreneurship and job creation.

[edit] Bottle Craft

• Ideas

[edit] Technology Inspired

[edit] Local ICT

• ICT Literacy
• Wireless Africa - SA
• FLOSS Business
  • on WikiEducator
  • Call for Future trainers on “FOSS Business Models for Africa” in East and Southern Africa (May 2009)
• FLOSS Source Camps - how to organise one. Principles may apply to organising other events which seek to build community across existing groups.
• Digital Doorway.

[edit] Mobile Phones

• Freedom Phone - Zimbabwe
• Open Phone - SA, Botswana pilot, etc.
• MobilED
• Mobile phones and development

[edit] Games

• Social Impact Games

[edit] Being Heard

• Video Volunteers
  • How to make videos with FLOSS:
    • For now see video editing software listed here and here ... (find some tutorials).

[edit] Appropriate Technologies

• Appropedia

[edit] Environment/Agriculture

For a social entrepreneurial idea to be sustainable, always consider environmental and social aspects (as well as social). Similarly, sometimes an environmentally focussed initiative may have social implications. The following suggest sources of ideas inspired by environmental challenges and opportunities.

• Going Green - CNN stories which might inspire ideas in your region, etc.
• Permaculture

[edit] External Sources of Ideas

• The World Challenge
• Education that pays for itself - a short animation from Teach a man to Fish
• We can solve it - check this out and think about local equivalents.
• Net²

[edit] See Also

• Sharing Ideas