August 10th, 2012
Asia Social Innovation Award 2012 aims to groom social entrepreneurship in Asia using innovation as the key. The social issues in urban areas in Asia are highly crucial and serious. As a result, it is the appropriate time to think about social innovation ideas together and share experience along the road.
Asia Social Innovation Award 2012 initiates the discussion by promoting social innovation for a sustainable development of social innovation culture in the region. The Asia Social Innovation Award believe that the urban social challenges in many Asian cities are quite alike, these pressing problems need to be solved immediately and whenever the traditional model does not satisfy the needs of the society, innovations are demanded.
“Social Enterprise” has become a hot topic in recent years. However, people tend to focus their discussion on the entity itself, instead of the more powerful concept behind that leads to ultimate social change – “Social Innovation”, which is also relatively weak in Asia, creating a big barrier for social entrepreneurship to groom in the region.
However, from a worldwide perspective, social enterprises have undeniably brought great positive impact worldwide. For instance, social enterprise accounts for 1% of the GDP in UK. In fact, social enterprises contribute tremendously in creating a culture of social innovation among communities. In order to promote the culture of social innovation and enrich people’s knowledge on social issues, and to build a platform to encourage the sharing of ideas and experience among Asian cities, the Asia Social Innovation Award has been born since 2008, hoping to pathway for a sustainable development of social innovation culture in the region.
The Award will be the first innovative social enterprise event in Asia to apply a simple and easy mechanism to engage the general public to participate in the discussion and to deliver positive and concrete innovative solutions to tackle these problems. This simple idea-generatingcompetition calling for level-zero social innovation ideas will be able to attract the general public to take part. So, it’s now time for us to brainstorm some creative ideas which can bring about a social revolution.
Deadline:
Other Asian Cities: On or before 7th October, 2012 (Sunday) at 23:59pm (Hong Kong time)
Hong Kong: On or before 14th October, 2012 (Sunday) at 23:59pm (Hong Kong time)
Hong Kong: On or before 14th October, 2012 (Sunday) at 23:59pm (Hong Kong time)
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