Links

• Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students has a listing of organizations involved in social entrepreneurship at Stanford, in the Bay Area, and across the nation.
• Development Gateway an interactive portal for information and knowledge sharing on sustainable development and poverty reduction.
• Digital Dividends goal is to identify and promote sustainable business solutions for bridging the global digital divide—catalyzing large-scale use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to create social and economic dividends in poor communities around the
• DigitalDivide.org is for policymakers who want to harness the Internet for social purposes. It helps close the "digital divide," defined here as the gap between those able to benefit by digital technologies and those who are not.
• Global Catalyst Foundation a private foundation with a mission to improve peoples' lives through the effective application of information technologies. The Foundation initiates and supports innovative projects worldwide to improve education, alleviate poverty, promote social toler
• Global Knowledge Partners a "network of networks" with a diverse membership base comprising public, private, and not-for-profit organizations from both developed and developing countries working together to help people and communities access knowledge to improve lives, reduce po
• infoDev a global grant program managed by the World Bank to promote innovative projects on the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for economic and social development, with a special emphasis on the needs of the poor in developing countries.
• Leadership & Innovation for a Connected World a special report prepared within the Development Gateway website that includes an exhaustive list of ICT leadership awards, projects, programs, and related organizations and information.
• Micromundos Library a website create by a Brazilian masters degree student in Sao Paulo, which includes a compilation of 'digital divide' initiatives.
• MIT/Stanford Venture Lab is the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology, and people.
• Pact's Women's Empowerment Program in Nepal, A Savings- and Literacy-Led Alternative to Financial Institution Building A paper written by Jeffrey Ashe and Lisa Parrott at Brandeis University.
• RISE: The Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship a research project at Columbia Business School whose mission is to study and disseminate knowledge about the markets, metrics, and management of for-profit and nonprofit social enterprise and social venturing.
• Simputer is a low-cost portable alternative to PCs, by which the benefits of IT can reach the common man.
• SK blog
• Stockholm Challenge a non-profit initiative of the City of Stockholm, is a unique awards program for pioneering IT projects world wide.
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• World Bank Group's Global Information & Communication Technologies Department (GICT) plays an important role in developing and promoting access to information and communications technologies (ICT) in developing countries.