[Social Innovation]: Updates before Thanksgiving

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Global Social Venture Competition

Duke Global Challenge info session

Venture for America application deadline

I&E Courses still open

Social Impact Startup Weekend

Global Social Venture Competition

GSVC Empowers the Next Generation of Social Entrepreneurs Around the World

Applications due: December 5, 2016

Regional Finals: February 2017

Global Finals at UC Berkeley: April 5-7, 2017

About GSVC

The Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) is one of the oldest social venture competitions, and has the largest global reach. Fouded at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business in 1999, GSVC has evolved into a global network of premier business schools, universities, and programs in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe.

How it Works

Teams must include at least one student or recent student alum and will learn how to design business models through the “lean launch” process that emphasizes stakeholder discovery, innovation, and social impact measurement. Participants receive exposure, mentorship and access to a variety of education opportunities. Top finalists participate in a Global Finals event that convenes successful social entrepreneurs and thought leaders for a weekend event that culminates in the awarding of over $80,000 in prizes. Judges, mentors, and sponsors shape the global social entrepreneurship community and help transform ideas into ventures that address the world’s most pressing challenges.

Learn more at www.gsvc.org or info@gsvc.org

Flyer attached to email.

Duke Global Challenge

Next info sessions

Wednesday, 11/30 at 6pm in Friedl Building 107

What’s your problem? And why should we care? Join the Duke Global Challenge NOW to find out!

The Duke Global Challenge gives student teams the opportunity to tackle the critically important step of going deeper on a social or environmental issue of interest before moving on to generating solutions. We will support students with workshops to learn how to structure analyses and dynamically present your findings in a way that experts and laymen can understand.

Winners of the Duke Global Challenge will compete at Oxford University’s Global Challenge in the spring and compete for funding to “apprentice with the problem.” Register by December 7; Challenge takes place in early 2017.

Venture for America Application Deadline approaching

VFA’s next application deadline is in two short weeks on Monday, November 28th, with our final deadline for the year on February 6th.

More about VFA:

Venture for America is a fellowship program empowering recent college graduates to launch their careers as entrepreneurs and revitalize American cities. After five weeks of training, VFA Fellows spend two years working for a startup in a U.S. city with an emerging startup ecosystem. Throughout the fellowship, they learn how to contribute to a high-growth business and gain access to mentorship, ongoing training, and the nationwide VFA community. When Fellows and alumni are ready to build companies of their own, VFA provides the resources they need to become entrepreneurs.

Deadlines to Apply: November 28th, 2016 & February 6th, 2017

Learn more here!

Questions? Contact Madeleine Stanley, Talent Associate

Venture for America maddie@ventureforamerica.org

Still looking for I&E courses? The following classes are OPEN:

IE-290-03 Special Topics – The 21^st Century Student: Open Knowledge & Education Innovation

Twenty-first century technology has made it easier than ever to find and produce “open” knowledge: Wikipedia promises free access to the sum of all the world’s knowledge with the tap of a finger, a Google search yields troves of information, instructional channels abound on YouTube, and organizations like Khan Academy offer course materials free to anyone with an internet connection. Why, then, is so much of the knowledge we learn in traditional academic settings “closed”? Who stands to win if we keep knowledge locked behind journal subscription paywalls, restricted by narrow copyright, and regulated by a small group of experts in a field? And who stands to lose under this model of education?

Examining open knowledge within political, legal, and ethical contexts, in this course we will consider how education innovation and emergent models of self-organized learning

IE-290-04 Special Topics – Open Governance Innovation

Emerging open innovation strategies have organizations from private companies to government agencies reaching beyond their borders to develop new ideas and find creative solutions to some of society’s most pressing problems. The governance of open data is a key factor to the success of these strategies. There has been a flood of open data initiatives spanning federal (President Obama’s Open Government initiative) and local (City of Durham) governments. These initiatives raise questions of citizen involvement, crowdsourcing, and privacy.

In this collaborative, project-based course, we will plot emerging issues of open data governance, such as law and licensing of open data, and algorithmic justice and participatory democracy; we will also identify social entrepreneurial responses to these challenges. We will co-create open educational resources on open governance through open collaboration strategies like web annotation, booksprints, and crowdcrafting. We will also seek specific opportunities to engage with government, civil society, and international intergovernmental open data and civic hacking initiatives.

Duke launching first Social Impact Startup Weekend!

December 2-4 at the Duke I&E Bullpen

All members of the Duke community are invited to join our first Social Impact Startup Weekend. This FREE event is a fast-paced, high-energy weekend designed to turn innovative ideas into real world solutions. In a sprint of creative inspiration, participants from across the Triangle will form diverse teams around winning ideas to collaboratively develop business proposals that tackle the world’s most pressing social and environmental issues. At the weekend’s conclusion, a judging panel of local entrepreneurs and Duke leadership will award prizes to the strongest proposals.

Learn more and register now at www.socialimpactstartupweekend.com.

Sponsored by the Fuqua School of Business Net Impact Club

with support from Duke I&E, GPSC, Fuqua EVCC, and Nicholas School Net Impact.