What are the emerging trends and best cases of social entrepreneurship in different regions and industries?

Regional ecosystems and networks are playing an increasingly important role in social entrepreneurship. Here are some additional details on this trend: - Benefits of Collaboration: By working together, social entrepreneurs can access a wider range of resources and expertise. This can include funding, mentorship, operational support, and access to new markets. - Sharing Knowledge and Best Practices: Networks enable social entrepreneurs to learn from each other's successes and failures. This can help them improve their ventures and increase their impact. - Advocacy and Policy Change: Regional networks can also play a role in advocating for policies that support social entrepreneurship.

Two promising regional trends one each from Global North and the Global South: 1. Scotland has had a lineage as a social enterprise pioneer with organisations like the Community Enterprise in Scotland (CEIS) and creating global networks like Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF). The emerging exciting trend for me is the focus on Community Wealth Building, looking at alternative forms of organizing. It is great to see the Scottish government backing it and supported by universities. 2. The exciting trend from Global South is how digital technology is integrating marginal communities into global value chains. Digital public infrastructure, digital commons based retail are reshaping identity, access and resources like we have never seen.

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Taking it one level further, connecting with other social entrepreneurs at the city and neighbourhood level is an important success factor. Local, grassroots movements of small people have the power to instigate tremendous changes.

In addition, social entrepreneurs can build community in their region by using online platforms and resources like LinkedIn, New Sincerity and Meetup. Online tools enable entrepreneurs focused on social good to connect and collaborate ??

In the Netherlands, the hospitality industry is witnessing a surge in social enterprises, highlighting a diverse array of job opportunities suitable for individuals with varying strengths and backgrounds. This shift underscores the importance for all industries to reassess their approach to job vacancies. Rather than solely focusing on what the company can offer, it is crucial to consider what potential employees can contribute within the industry landscape. This paradigm encourages a more inclusive and dynamic workforce, ultimately fostering innovation and growth within the sector.

Good way to thinking about impact measurement is as a spectrum with a trade-off between confidence you have in measurement vs difficulty of doing it. To get high confidence in the impact measure, one needs to do a Randomized Control Trial (RCT), but it is difficult to do one. Simpler approaches involve do a pre-post treatment measures, qualitative testimonials etc.

Agreed - the value and impact of DEI - diversity, equity and inclusion - in the workplace has been backed-up by data from global consulting firms. Bottom-up creation of DEI training and coaching programs and services ensures the needs of the stakeholders - employees at every level of the org - are at the foundation of the strategies and programs. Visit www.newsincerity.us for more ideas and best practices on executive coaching with an inclusive POV.

Theory of change model is great tool to visualise the systems change one envisions. It starts with setting future vision one needs and then reverse engineer one's way to think about outcomes, outputs, activities and inputs. A good example is the TOC model for the Global hunger project.

I am super excited about the potential for digital technologies in social entrepreneurship. In past decade, we have seen about 700 million people empowered and taken out of poverty, majorly through mobile-first services - digital identity, financial inclusion, digital market linking, gig economy etc. The next decade, will see more marginalised people empowered through AI-powered mobile-first services - AI nanny, AI tutors etc. That will break through language and access barriers like we have never seen before. Social entrepreneurship needs to work on contextualising these to specific communities. Karya, for example, is doing interesting work at intersection of language and AI to break vernacular language barriers and enhance livelihoods.