Ara Kusuma - Since 10 years old, changemaking for the love of cows
Ara's story shows how an early start at changemaking set her on a changemaking pathway for life.
Primer encuentro de la Alianza por los Objetivos del Desarrollo Sostenible
Ashoka, JCI Buenos Aires y Socialab con el apoyo de Fundación Directorio Legislativo convocaron a AMIA Joven, AIESEC Buenos Aires, Educación para Compartir, América Solidaria Argentina, Asociación Civil El Leoncito Dan, Bisblick-Compromiso Social, Doncel, Fundación Global, Fundación PROEM, Lider.ar...
Simon Stumpf on early changemaking: "In the world today, we will all be called upon to lead at some point"
Simon Stumpf, Director of Ashoka’s Fellow selection program in the U.S., shares how he seized his own opportunity to lead as pre-teen when family circumstances demanded and how he didn’t stop there. As a parent today facing a world of great change and challenges, he shares his thoughts on what it...
The ‘nano’ Computer
The Indian Minister of Human Resource and Development, Mr. Kapil Sibal, released a $35 (Rs. 1500) tablet computer last week. The touch screen device has been designed and developed by experts from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. The...
Por qué nuestro antiguo modo de aprendizaje no podrá ayudar a las nuevas generaciones... y lo que usted puede hacer al respecto
La re-imaginación del aprendizaje deberá comenzar con una mejor comprensión del mundo que nuestros niños y jóvenes tendrán que enfrentar. Para esto se requiere, en primer lugar, una seria revisión de la realidad. La mayoría de nosotros ve un mundo muy diferente del que realmente espera a nuestros...
Jóvenes Comprometidos, una semana de aceleración y 5 ganadores de capital semilla
November 14, 2016 800 jóvenes líderes de cambio, decenas de organizaciones, Universidades y Secretarías de Juventud de la región, 12 equipos finalistas, 5 ganadores. El domingo pasado el desafío Comprometidos tuvo su cierre, con la final que se realizó en el FiiS (Festival Internacional de...
En el día de la Juventud, jóvenes latinoamericanos se comprometen a mejorar la realidad
August 12, 2016 El 12 de Agosto se celebra el día internacional de la Juventud y ya hay más de 150 iniciativas conimpacto social positivo lideradas por jóvenes de entre 18 y 29 años que fueron compartidas en laplataforma de Comprometidos. La convocatoria de UNESCO, Ashoka, Socialab y Koga, con...
At 17, Gino Tubaro started transforming kids with disabilities into super heroes
At the age of 17, Gino Tubaro received a letter from a desperate mother. “Please make my boy, Felipe, a hand,” it said. “We cannot afford a prosthetic.” Gino had been inventing things since the age of 13. His own mother had taken him to science fairs and invention workshops, pushing him to follow...
Eating the Elephant
Ashoka Fellow Andrés Martínez Fernández’s organization, Enlace Hispano Americano de Salud (EHAS), is group of brilliant engineers committed to using technology to improve health outcomes for people in very remote parts of Latin America. I have spent the better part of my first month tying to...
Fostering New Emergency Care Capacity in Mexico
It’s been a month since I get to San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. San Miguel de Allende is a very beautiful colonial town surrounded by mountains and where the arid weather turns the landscape into a painting. Here the people are very friendly and nice and everybody has a reason to be happy and to...