Using future markets for social entrepreneurship?

Giulio Quaggiotto at PSD Blog, a World Bank Group blog, highlighted a very intriguing trend that is emerging within governments and companies: the use of prediction markets to help predict customer trends or citizens’ desires. His post brought forth some articles and studies that have recently come out.

A McKinsey & Co. report on prediction markets [...]

Amartya Sen encapsulates why we should care

One of the ongoing discussions that is linked ot the field of social entrepreneurship is the very nature of what this concept truly means. In a talk held at Stanford University this week, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen eloquently and concisely spoke to the issues of empowerment and enlightenment, and I feel as though his words [...]

TED | Talks | Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics (video)

Here is an interesting video on social networking and the advent of open-source economics. This is a trend that I believe will have significant positive effects on the social entrepreneurship scene.
from www.ted.com posted with vodpod

2008 Skoll World Forum Starts Today

This looks like to be a very exciting event, and while it is too late to attend in person, Skoll has hired the help of livebloggers for the entirety of the conference. Go here for live updates. ThinkChange India will be following closely via the same feeds and will be providing periodic updates over what [...]

Back from exile and my reading list on vacation

This past week I was in Costa Rica on vacation, and while the trip was no doubt amazing it kept me away from a computer and thus unable to blog. However, the trip did give me sometime to catchup on some reading. I was able to rifle through the last four Economists, an Atlantic Monthly [...]

Podcast: Security in a Changing World — Multilateral Institutions in the 21st Century

Here is a talk conducted by the NYU’s Center for Global Affairs, Master’s in Global Public Health Program and Wagner’s Office for International Programs. It is part of the Conflict, Security and Development Series.

Call for Papers and Special Issue on Entrepreneurship

Inderscience news posted on two things:
Call for papers: Realigning the Innovation-Entrepreneurship Interface
While this blend between entrepreneurship and innovation is achievable at both the corporate enterprise and the small-to-medium enterprise (SME) levels, there are some indications that the cocktail has become poisonous and too dangerous for consumption. This is largely based on the recent practices of [...]

Where does Private stop and Public start?: Dissection of PPPs

From PFM Blog here is some excerpts on their primer on PPPs.
Though by no means a holistic definition, the primer briefly outlines public-private partnerships as being “arrangements in which the private sector supplies infrastructure assets and services traditionally provided by governments. Some authors add that the presence of external financing as a necessary condition; others [...]