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GSEC in the News

June 5, 2008: Global Health redefines 'collaboration'
“Incorporating Global Social Entrepreneurship into the Student Experience”: NAFSA 2008 Annual Conference Session Presentation with Ashoka & Duke University (Session # GS-311). Download the GSEC NAFSA flyer.
February 2008: ScanTV Features GSEC Finalists
December 23, 2007: Seattle Times "Best of 2007" - GSEC a "star" program
February 28, 2007: Students fight poverty with business
February 28, 2007: Students target poverty with socially responsible capitalism
February 27, 2007: Student teams vie to reduce poverty, pollution

GSEC Press Releases

February 21, 2007: Student competition showcases ways to end poverty in developing countries
March 6, 2007: Indian team wins UW Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition
March 7, 2006: Mongolian Student Wins Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition
February 21, 2006: University Students Tackle Poverty in Socially Responsible Business Plan Challenge
August 17, 2005: BIM's ProGreen wins International Awards - Students Imagine a World Where
July 18, 2005: Technology Dissolves Boundaries
March 1, 2005: GSEC Winners Press Release

GSEC Team Updates

• ProGreen: "In brief, we are setting up a pilot unit which will be manufacturing biodegradable cups and plates, by September. The unit is being set up in a village called Samudram, Salem District, South India. We have partnered with a local villager called Mr. Velmurugan. The machines are being currently funded by ProGreen. Bases on the progress of this pilot project, we hope to expand and create the full-fledged cooperative as earlier planned. We keep looking for new ideas to expand the ProGreen model. As a next step we developed a ProGreen IT Enabled Services Cooperative. This plan recently won the 1st Price at Imagine Cup, held by Microsoft." Updated by Santhosh R. ProGreen Team, August 22, 2005
  
  
• W.A.T.E.R.: " We have offered our services to a French Organization based in the north of Cameroon and to four rural municipalities. Currently technical and financial evaluations are made.  In addition we are continuing the development of our software and the enrichment of our data base.  We have also initiated contacts with the private sector for the financing of WATER. Also, we are actually working with a team  set up by the national authorities in collaboration with the Polytechnic  Foundation  for the search for financements to the WATER project." Updated by Foutse Khomh. W.A.T.E.R. Team, September 6, 2005
  
  
• Marketplace Africa: " Marketplace Africa just went live today (9/7/05), meaning that the payment for the first order of African artisan wares was wired to Ghana, and the subsequent shipment of items was placed into the hands of Overstock.com's freight forwarders.  The business is now launched, and has already positively impacted the lives of several artisans.  We have contacted over two thousand artisans in Ghana and have provided samples to Overstock.com.  Now we begin the ramp-up phase.  The Marketplace Africa business plan was entered into several other competitions, including Berkeley, University of Utah, and Brigham Young University, where we were semi-finalists, finalists, and won first place (social category), respectively." Updated by Sam Bernards, Marketplace Africa team, September 7, 2005