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The social entrepreneur landscape
The social entrepreneur landscape from David Wilcox on Vimeo.
At one of yesterday’s sessions Cliff Prior, chief executive of Unltd, and Nick Temple, from the School for Social Entrepreneurs, invited people to help develop a map of the social entrepreneur landscape, and then consider what impact and opportunities the arrival of digital services may bring. Here they offer a guided tour of the map, and summary of the session.
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Great film David - enjoying catching up from afar.
This looked fascinating - I’m not sure if it illustrates the diversity of the sector or the confusion about what is/isn’t social enterprise though!
Maybe something to be added to the map are those jumping on the bandwagon of ’social enterprise’ without a credible business plan or those that are actually dependent on charitable donations but thinking calling themselves social enterprise is cooler?
Also be interesting to see those organisatons that are already viable and then adopt social aims vs those that start out with social aims and then need to adopt commercial practices for sustainability
Nice comments Mike, this could only ever be one partial take on the subject, plenty more material and ideas to bring in - something UnLtd will be running with for a while and will try to get online for input.
We had the entryists from business but not those from the charity side - definitely worth adding
Cliff
Hi Cliff - was just thinking it would make a great online resource - probably link very well to UnltdWorld as a network too
Nice to see the OU being given the props they deserve here. I work on the OpenLearn website which gives free access to some of the OU course materials under a Creative Commons license. Despite launching in 2006, only one other UK university has started to follow our lead in opening up access to education in this way - so not only is the OU a pioneer from back in the day, but is still seeking to find new ways to open up access and improve people’s ability to learn independently.
Absolutely, Laura. MIT in the US have been good, but no-one following the OU’s lead over here. Good to see it still innovating and pioneering./
Mike
Will definitely be creating something on UnLtdWorld.com about this. We have a set of projects coming along which have different ways of looking at the dimensions and “character topography” of social entrepreneurship and by extension to social enterprise. Our aims are not just about understanding what is/isnt in the tent (like the borders of the country) but the character too (like the topography) so we can better understand the needs, best ways to help, and potential of social entrepreneurs. A journey just starting out…
see the new group on mapping social entrepreneurs on http://unltdworld.com/groups/group.php?group_id=191