After ChangeFusion has launched a prototype crowdsourcing tool for the purpose of aggregating ideas for improving Bangkok now is time for Ideas in Thailand.

30 April 09 Change Fusion, TK park and Projectlib have organized informal seminar  “Libcamp#1:Book Digitization” at TK park, Central World Bangkok. The seminar has been purposed to introduce the Digital Library for Thailand project and round-up with librarians and information practitioners about library's technology and cases study of digital libraries in Thailand.

The session on Green Creative Economy for Thailand on April 21st, 2009 is a joint initiative of Change Fusion Institute and Banyan Tree Hotel. 8 notable guest speakers from the government, private sector and a network of green solution providers were invited to share their knowledge and experience on environmental sustainability projects in hoping that it will increase cooperation among participants and make a great impact on climate change.

Speakers included advisor to the prime minister, advisor to the minister of natural resource and environment as well as those from the UN, World Bank, Clinton Climate Initiative, Kokoboard Company, Scrap Lab, Volunteer Spirit, Supreme Renewable Energy, and Change Fusion Institute.
 

Bangkok:April, 9th - 10th 2009; Change Fusion, SEACeM and Freevoice were organized E-media startups business plan workshop for E-media enterprises who were selected form E-media Staetups Competition programme.

The workshop aim to sharpen the business plan for early stage E-media Social Enterprises the output of the workshop will be rated and the winners will receive incubation supports as well as USD 10,000 equity-like loan for seed/startup fund, the workshop was attended by 4 E-media ventures. Two were selected for loan consideration: Siam Intelligent Unit (SIU) from Thailand and Real Picture from Nepal.

12nd - 13rd March 2009, CheangFusion and Opendream were organized workshop of GeoChat SMS groups communication software developed by InSTEDD to the disease surveillance network of Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance (MBDS) in Mukdahan.

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Thai SRI development roadmap meeting;  criteria establishment and indexes
At Securities and Exchange Commission, GPF Wireless Road. Bangkok
9:00 – 12:00 on 16 December, 2008

Executive Summary
The meeting among regulators, mutual fund managers and related institutions concluded the roadmap for SRI development in Thailand.  The new wave of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) has been gaining popularity in most developed capital markets, the stock exchange of Thailand (SET) together with Stock Exchange Commission (SEC) are planning to launch Thailand’s SRI or CG indexes by 2010. However, at this initial stage, financial institutions interested in SRI will participate in the development of the common SRI criteria development adapted from the globally acceptable standard such as that of ISO and OECD guideline, DJSI and FTSE4Good criteria as well as GRI sustainability reporting guideline. This is also to encourage and prepare local listed companies to improve their social and environmental performance based on common benchmarks as well as enhance their understanding on CSR and ethical business concept before the launching of the actual SRI or CG index.

ChangeFusion Nepal is proud to launch “Nepal Young Social Entrepreneurs Competition 2009”to identify talented young Nepali whose social enterprise innovatively solve social and/or environmental problems. The finalists will be invited to the capacity building workshop to sharpen their social business plans, the output of the workshop will be rated and the winners will receive incubation supports as well as USD 5,000 quasi-loan for seed/startup level and fund raising support for scale-up level social enterprise needing USD 50k - 400k to scale their operation. (for more information, please click here)

Our guidebook for was recently featured as a Top Read on Social Entrepreneurship at Change.org's blog on this topic 

I'm shocked that it's situated among the likes of publications by John Elkington and Jed Emerson.

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