Monday, March 21, 2011

 

Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Cyber-Assignment

Frontline World Cyber-Assignment Post(s)
Visit http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/socialentrepreneurs.html

Respond to 3 stories from Wednesday, March 23 to April 18. Bring in headphones for the computer. Post your Frontline World Responses (3) on the blog.

Answer the following questions in your response to the program.

Outline:

1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
6.What is the local component?
7.How does the community own the process?

Comments:
Julien Chen
English 201 B
Professor Sabir
23 March 2011

1.The social entrepreneur profiled in the Frontline World article is Pati Ruiz Corzo.

2.The problem that Corzo indentified was that the Sierra Gordo in Mexico was treated incredibly badly by its residents. It was polluted and the natural essence was lacking.

3.The organization and Corzo and the Sierra Gordo residents started is called The Sierra Gordo Biosphere Reserve.

4.The organization is the community. Everyone in the community participates and contributes to the Sierra Gordo Biosphere Reserve.

5.Corzo wanted to address the issue because when she first moved to the Sierra Gordo Mountain, she expected it to be lush, untouched forest. Instead, it was polluted and damaged.

6.The local component is that it is the locals who damage this land and it is also the locals whose duty is to fix it. Everyone in the community contributes in some way.

7.The community owns the process because the community is the process. Without the community, Corzo’s organization would not be successful. The Sierra Gordo Biosphere Reserve doesn’t exist without the people of Sierra Gordo.
 
Matt Canevaro
Professor Sabir
English 201b
March 23, 2011

1. The social Entrepreneur profiled is Ahmed Youssry

2. Ahmed found the problem with starting a buisness is you have to sell a product that people will go for.

3. Ahmed started an organization called Forsa.

4. Ahmed and his group went around the community collecting trash and recycling. However, people didnt really catch on to thier "green revolution".
5. Ahmed saw that many Egyptians did not recycle, so he saw it as a good selling point.

6. Ahmed was part of an entrepreneur competition, where he and many other groups competed to sell a product or idea. After the competition his group continued to recycle and Ahmed, being the CEO, continued to work on selling his Recycling idea and creating the new jobs for other egyptians.

7. The community continues to support the entrepreneur contest every year to encourage people to start thinking outside the box. When on average it takes 4 years for a university grad to get a job, the community it hoping these new entrepreneurs will help move the economy along.
 
Dina Jayne Maghanoy
Professor Sabir
English 201B
23 March 2011

1.The social entrepreneur in this video name is Singeli Agnaw.

2.The problem she focuses on what happen after when the storm comes, and destroy their foundation, shattering walls and filling the streets with rubbles. How helps from reliefs comes with food and medication, but then they disappears once the world’s attention moved on.

3.Singeli Agnaw organization is called the Group Architecture for Humanity.

4.The community who are whiling to help becomes her client such as the villagers and fisherman. With the community working together and local workers are hired for the construction. They were able to gather income and a sense of ownership.

5.Many believe of hope, frustrated with the monotony of designing for corporate clients. They gather annual competitions to focus attention on overlooked corners of the world.

6.The local components are the villagers, fisherman, volunteers, and entrepreneurs who seeks to make this organization keep growing without their help there wouldn’t be no hope.

7.The communities take roll by using the community with respect. They take classes in the morning and even at night. Some even get married at one of their town hall, and once they are finish they help by making the places clean. For those who want to continue being architects they are now sitting down at the drafting table, looking to design a better future.
 
Jackie Truong
English 201B
Professor Sabir
23 March 2011

1. The social entrepreneur profiled in the Frontline World is Ralf Hotchkiss

2. The problem that Hotchkiss identify was that in Vietnam disable people doesn’t have a reliable wheelchair to use.

3. Hotchkiss started an organization called Roughrider. It is a very stiff wheelchair that even if people want to lean back, it won’t tilt.

4. The community is basically the world, because Hotchkiss gathers information from around the world to built Roughrider.

5. Hotchkiss decided to address this because he was once paralyzed for thirty years when he got into a motorcycle accident. He just wants to make something better for himself, but instead he help wanted to help many more people.

6. The local component the factory that helped built Roughrider.

7. The community the process Toan’s factory, without his help, the Roughrider in Vietnam wouldn’t be succeeds.
 
Kimber Soriano
English 201
Prfessor Sabir
29 March 2011

1. Ralf Hotckiss is an engineer professor at San Francisco State.

2. The problem is that he saw disabled people withou wheelchairs in developing countries.

3. The name of the organization called Roughrider, which they make wheelchairs for people wo have polio and cannot afford wheelchairs.

4. Hotckiss relates to people in Vietnam where he finds a way to improve the life of disabled people because they don't have enough money to buy wheelchairs and that they had to make their own one.

5. He decided to make convenient wheelchairs and he designed to make them more easier to handle for people who had difficult situations in developing countries.

6. The local component is that Hotchkiss approached a factory owner named Toan Nguyen to help them produce Roughriders wheelchairs. Toan now applied to make these wheelchairs available and inexpensive.

7. With the help of Toan Nguyen, the community can now produce their own industrial production of wheelchairs in Vietnam. The Roughriders program can give free of charge for the ones who truly needs it.
 
Manisha Shrestha
English 201B
Professor Sabir
6 April 2011

1. The social entrepreneur profiled in the Frontline World article is Lauren Travis.

2. The problem that Travis identified was women that were talented and did not have a place to channel their talents. Focusing on internationally-oriented women to find opportunities to get where they want to go in their lives.

3.Lauren Travis was the Founder and Director of Women of the World Exchange WOW.

4. Lauren relates to the young women who have opportunities but need help in achieving their goals.

5.While at a conference at the World Affairs Council, she realized the need for a organization for
young talented women to help reach their goals and that is what gave her the inspiration to go forth with her ideas. Being a young women of African-American decent she couldn't find her niche, and decided to open up her own organization.

6.Lauren Travis is involved in putting on events in which and has a committee in which helps with career development and social events for women in the bay area-San Francisco.

7.With Lauren’s organization young talented women are able to have a chance to turn their talented aspects into reality by attending these meetings and seminars. These events help women in achieving their goals.
 
Manisha Shrestha
English 201B
Professor Sabir
6 April 2011

1. The social entrepreneur profiled in the Frontline World article is Lauren Travis.

2. The problem that Travis identified was women that were talented and did not have a place to channel their talents. Focusing on internationally-oriented women to find opportunities to get where they want to go in their lives.

3.Lauren Travis was the Founder and Director of Women of the World Exchange WOW.

4. Lauren relates to the young women who have opportunities but need help in achieving their goals.

5.While at a conference at the World Affairs Council, she realized the need for a organization for young talented women to help reach their goals and that is what gave her the inspiration to go forth with her ideas. Being a young women of African-American decent she couldn't find her niche, and decided to open up her own organization.

6.Lauren Travis is involved in putting on events in which and has a committee in which helps with career development and social events for women in the bay area-San Francisco.

7.With Lauren’s organization young talented women are able to have a chance to turn their talented aspects into reality by attending these meetings and seminars. These events help women in achieving their goals.
 
Marcela Gutierrez
English 201A
Professor Sabir
Ecuador: Flower Power

1. The social entrepreneur being profiled is John Nevado in Ecuador.

2. John Nevado addressed the problem of the rose industry and how other farms use pesticides, in which workers fall ill and unlike his farm other people work under bad conditions and receive low pay. Also his rose farm is partly organic and excludes the overall use of pesticides.

3. The name of the organization John and his father Robert Nevado started is Nevado Roses.

4. The relationship to the community that they serve brings environmental consciousness to the rose industry as it works with nature and not against it. They also recycle water, plants and other parts instead of polluting rivers throughout Ecuador. For the workers they have provided good working conditions with living wage pay as well as a free childcare for the ones who have kids. The Nevado family also does micro financing which allows workers to take out small loans so they can do home improvements.

5. John Nevado said he decided to address this issue to improve working conditions as well as the environmental factors that go in hand with the rose industry. He also sees that with a high consumer rate for roses as well as his capitalist marketing skills can bring good revenue for the rose industry in Ecuador.

6. The local component is tall straight roses.

7. The community owns the process by making up the workforce for Nevado Roses, which is giving them a better work opportunity and a more stable life outside of work.
 
Marcela Gutierrez
English 201A
Professor Sabir
Vietnam: Wheels of Change

1. The social entrepreneur being profiled is Ralph Hutchkiss, an engineering professor from San Francisco State University. Also his partner from Vietnam, Twan Wan.

2. Ralph Hutchkiss identified the problem being that there were no other wheelchairs in developing countries that worked well enough in difficult situations. Also wheelchairs tend to be expensive and that is a big problem for the users in countries like Vietnam and Iraq for example.

3. The name of the wheelchair that Ralph Hutchkiss brought about is called the rough rider.

4. The relationship to the community is a very vital one because Vietnam has the highest rate of wheelchair users and for most of them they have a very difficult time getting around their town with their own wheelchairs, which discourages them from leaving home at all. Also because the cost of wheelchairs is expensive, the rough rider introduces a more efficient wheelchair at a reasonable price. From Ralph’s world wind wheelchair network there are Western foundations that donate a large part of the money that covers the $175 cost of the rough rider wheelchair.

5. Ralph Hutchkiss decided to address this issue because in other countries the environment is not largely aware of wheel chair users and their struggle to get around town and how difficult it can be for them. He wanted to advance the wheelchair where it became more sturdy and made of low costing parts. With his vision and success of the actual rough rider, he has not only been able to transfer technology but too also market it so it can donate money towards the cost for the people who cannot afford it.

6. The local component is the rough rider being made from simple parts like the front wheels are from shopping carts and the side wheels are bicycle tires. Ralph’s design is an open source and there is no charge for it.

7. The community is able to own the process by which Ralph’s vision and technology is transported to Vietnam where Twon Wan can produce it. Ralph has created the rough rider wheelchair in which it can be made of locally available materials and inexpensive labor so it is easy and cheap to make anywhere in the world.
 
Marcela Gutierrez
English 201A
Professor Sabir
Egypt: Middle East, Inc.

1. The social entrepreneur being profiled is Suraya Salty as well as the youth competing in the Injaz program.

2. The problem that Suraya Salty identified is how the youth within Egypt is suffering from a very high unemployment rate where there is an average 5-year wait for a descent job, even for college graduates. She is a strong believer that the youth is the today of the future and when unemployed they either become a burden on the economy or an engine for growth and prosperity.

3. The name of the organization that she has started is called Injaz.

4. The relationship to the community that they serve is allowing the youth to learn entrepreneurship skills so they can become aware and excited for future ventures. The Injaz competition gives the youth the experience of entrepreneur skills to turn it into potential businesses on their own.

5. Suraya Salty decided to address this issue because the unemployment rate for people under 30 years old is very high where it is a ticking time bomb on the economy. For women the unemployment rate is 4 times higher than men and as the women become easily discouraged to work, 40% of them become housewives. She wants to catch the youth before they become unemployed so she can install and still keep alive the entrepreneurial spirit and skill set.

6. The local component is turning the unemployed youth into the next entrepreneurs.

7. The community owns the process because the youth are the ones who begin their own vision of business and they compete in the Injaz Program in front of the country’s top executive leaders in business today. As the youth learn and own these valuable skills is what will create the next tomorrow and will potentially provide jobs.
 
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