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On 2nd May 2013, Humanitarian Centre members and non-members alike gathered in Emmanuel College’s Queens’ Lecture Theatre for the Humanitarian Centre’s Annual Lecture. The speaker was Bernard Rivers, founder of Aidspan, an organisation set up to offer independent viewpoints the activities of the Global Fund. The main focus of his talk was the Global Fund [more...]
In the final instalment of the blog series on social enterprise and development, Emilie Hobbs and Clara Marquardt speak with Paula Melendez, president of Beyond Profit, a student run social enterprise organisation, which has recently received the Social Enterprise Society of the Year Award from the National Association for College and University Entrepreneurs (NACUE). Paula [more...]
In this installment of the social enterprise and development blog series, Clara Marquardt speaks with Dr Helen Haugh, a Senior University Lecturer in Community Enterprise at the Judge Business School. The interview examines the nature of social innovation and innovation by social enterprises. A study of social innovation offers insights into the comparative advantage and [more...]
The 2013 Innovation and Development Hackathon, came to a close on the 23rd March after a week of intensive collaboration and innovation. The event was part of the Cambridge Science Festival and was, run by the Humanitarian Centre and CUTEC, The Hackathon provided a platform for students and professionals to apply their skills to development [more...]
By Emilie Hobbs This is the third article in Emilie Hobbs and Clara Marquardt’s blog series on social enterprise and development. As our impact on the environment fails to slow despite waning public concern [1], the call for ‘green’ action is escalating across all sectors. Amidst declining resources, innovation is arguably one of our most [more...]
“What exactly is a Hackathon?” This is a question that participants in the Innovation & Development Hackathon have answered many times over the past week. The term hackathon is appropriated from the tech community; it is an event that brings different people together, for a period of intensive collaboration, to “hack” out a solution to [more...]
George Osborne’s budget announcements today, 20th March 2013, have the power to affect people all over the world. The ‘Enough Food for Everyone IF’ campaign wants to make sure that these effects, in the form of foreign aid and a crackdown on tax avoidance, are positive ones. On Tuesday 19th March, almost 500 ‘Georges’ from [more...]
On Saturday March 16, the Innovation & Development Hackathon kicked off as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. Enterprising students and professionals came together to find innovative new approaches to real development challenges faced by charities, social enterprises, companies and student start ups. The challenges they worked on are below. All are welcome to the [more...]
In the second part of the blog series on social enterprise and development, Clara Marquardt speaks with Dr Alex Nicholls, a leading academic in the field of social entrepreneurship. The interview examines some of the implications of social enterprise for the least developed countries (LDCs). The impact social enterprises have in developing countries depends on their [more...]
Richard Dent recently unveiled the design for a peer to peer social networking platform for disaster relief: Crown Aid Exchange. Below he writes about how Crowd Aid Exchange could revolutionise ordinary people’s ability to help one another in an emergency situation—and this ability may be important than ever in the future. Richard has many years’ [more...]