The Award Structure
The Award consists of three phases:
1st Phase: Local Region Competition
3 winners will be selected from submissions in each region including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Other Asia for “Best Social Start-up Idea” award in their respective region.
2nd Phase: Coaching in CVC Entrepreneurs' Lab
The regional winners of “Best Social Start-up Idea” will be invited to Hong Kong for a social startup weekend on 20-22 November, 2015, they will have the opportunity to sharpen their idea and business model through coaching from the CVC Entrepreneurs.
3nd Phase: Asia Region Competition
One grand final winner will be selected from Pitch Day for Grand Award of Social Innovator 2015.
Submit your ideaJudging Criteria
We are looking for impact driven business solution ideas that address urban issues in Asia.
| Item | Criteria | Weighing |
|---|---|---|
| (i) | Creativity - An innovative business idea that utilizes of human and capital resources in the city |
20% |
| (ii) | Social Need Solubility - An idea with well-defined customer and beneficiary segment(s) - With a clear and compelling value proposition for each segment(s) |
20% |
| (iii) | Feasibility - Technical and Market feasibility of the idea |
20% |
| (iv) | Sustainability - The idea has a solid value proposition to achieve financial sustainability or profitability |
20% |
| (v) | Scalability - Favourable market size, competitive landscape, and proprietary position that offers high potential for substantial growth and impact |
20% |
Judges
Regional Final Judges (Hong Kong & Other Asia)
Mr. Alvin Lam
Senior Managing DirectorCapital Partners
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Alvin joined CVC Capital Partners (“CVC”) in 2005 and is a member of the firm’s Operations team responsible for monitoring CVC’s portfolio companies in Asia.
He has worked with businesses across several sectors, including consumer goods and retail, healthcare, telecom, manufacturing and business services.
Prior to joining CVC, Alvin was a Principal with the Boston Consulting Group’s Greater China practice and worked for Philip Morris International in a regional business development role.
Alvin is actively involved in CVC’s CSR activities in Asia. Through the CVC Foundation, which manages CVC’s global philanthropic activities, Alvin has been supporting and engaging with various venture philanthropy funds and social enterprises in Hong Kong, including Social Venture Hong Kong, Playtao Education and Social Impact Partners.
Alvin holds a BSc Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MBA from the Wharton School and an MA in International Studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
He has worked with businesses across several sectors, including consumer goods and retail, healthcare, telecom, manufacturing and business services.
Prior to joining CVC, Alvin was a Principal with the Boston Consulting Group’s Greater China practice and worked for Philip Morris International in a regional business development role.
Alvin is actively involved in CVC’s CSR activities in Asia. Through the CVC Foundation, which manages CVC’s global philanthropic activities, Alvin has been supporting and engaging with various venture philanthropy funds and social enterprises in Hong Kong, including Social Venture Hong Kong, Playtao Education and Social Impact Partners.
Alvin holds a BSc Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MBA from the Wharton School and an MA in International Studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Teresa Orr
Vice ChairGive2Asia
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Ms. Orr (better known to her colleagues as Teresa) is a social and environmental advocate who addresses issues of education, health, women empowerment, and environmental rehabilitation in Asia. Originally from Hong Kong, Teresa worked in nursing and healthcare education where she developed a strong passion for helping people. Later on, Teresa focused her time on raising her two children while also volunteering in her community. More recently she has become deeply involved with international development work.
Her varied interests are reflected in her diverse portfolio of work, the latest being in the areas of addressing basic needs for families, and the environment. Programs include building compassion homes for live along elders, families with disabled and mentally ill children, disaster rebuilding work, environmental awareness, general education and health care, dental care for rural kids, and finally, capacity building for vulnerable communities with the goals of achieving independence and self-sufficiency. She enjoys bringing people and organizations together through a holistic approach that encourages discussion and learning. A firm believer in leveraging resources, Teresa considers it important to collaborate with other donors and organizations to raise awareness on social and development issues and concerns. She is a member of Give2Asia’s Executive Committee and the Development Committee. She travels extensively in Asia, visiting and monitoring Give2Asia’s and her own independent programs and projects.
She has recently joined the Board of Thriive.org.
Her varied interests are reflected in her diverse portfolio of work, the latest being in the areas of addressing basic needs for families, and the environment. Programs include building compassion homes for live along elders, families with disabled and mentally ill children, disaster rebuilding work, environmental awareness, general education and health care, dental care for rural kids, and finally, capacity building for vulnerable communities with the goals of achieving independence and self-sufficiency. She enjoys bringing people and organizations together through a holistic approach that encourages discussion and learning. A firm believer in leveraging resources, Teresa considers it important to collaborate with other donors and organizations to raise awareness on social and development issues and concerns. She is a member of Give2Asia’s Executive Committee and the Development Committee. She travels extensively in Asia, visiting and monitoring Give2Asia’s and her own independent programs and projects.
She has recently joined the Board of Thriive.org.
Mrs. Patricia Lau
Deputy HeadEfficiency Unit
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Mrs Patricia Lau is the Deputy Head of the Efficiency Unit. She has over 25 years of experience in management consulting. She joined the Government in 2007 and is responsible for leading initiatives regarding social innovation, citizen-centric services and shared services. She also oversees programmes covering e-services, business process re-engineering, human resources management and management reviews.
Since 2013, Mrs Lau has been leading the Secretariat in support of the newly established Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund (SIE Fund) Task Force under the Commission on Poverty. Mrs Lau has reached out to many non-government organisations, foundations and business executives who share similar aspirations in tackling poverty related issues in Hong Kong. She advocates multi-disciplinary and cross sector collaborations in solving social issues.
Prior to joining the Government, Mrs Lau was the Managing Consultant and Head of Public Sector in PA Consulting Group and before that, a Director in PwC Consulting. She delivered several large scale service transformation programmes with clients in both the private and public sector.
Mrs Lau has a Bachelor Degree in Surveying (Honours) and a Master Degree in Surveying Science from the University of New South Wales Australia. She also has a MBA Degree from the Ivey Business School of the University of Western Ontario.
Since 2013, Mrs Lau has been leading the Secretariat in support of the newly established Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund (SIE Fund) Task Force under the Commission on Poverty. Mrs Lau has reached out to many non-government organisations, foundations and business executives who share similar aspirations in tackling poverty related issues in Hong Kong. She advocates multi-disciplinary and cross sector collaborations in solving social issues.
Prior to joining the Government, Mrs Lau was the Managing Consultant and Head of Public Sector in PA Consulting Group and before that, a Director in PwC Consulting. She delivered several large scale service transformation programmes with clients in both the private and public sector.
Mrs Lau has a Bachelor Degree in Surveying (Honours) and a Master Degree in Surveying Science from the University of New South Wales Australia. She also has a MBA Degree from the Ivey Business School of the University of Western Ontario.
Mr. Ping Chu
FounderCanmeng International Inc.& Ripplemaker Foundation
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A serial entrepreneur. Founded the Ripplemaker Foundation in 2010 to support young entrepreneurs to realize their dreams. He believes that small business is the ideal platform to experiment with profit-for-purpose business model. He is passionate about sustainable lifestyle, conscious business, social innovation and young entrepreneurs mentorship. The title of his book "Businessmaker, Daymaker, Ripplemaker" aptly sums up his philosophy. This core philosophy underpins all his businesses in lifestyle retail, restaurant, beauty school, and Red Room (a social innovation which promotes poetry, music and all forms of creative expressions. Since 2005, he established the annual “Daymaker Awards” as a tribute to his heroes in Taiwan.
Mr. Joe Ngai
Managing PartnerMcKinsey & Co. Hong Kong
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Grand Final Judges
Mr. Alvin Lam
Senior Managing DirectorCapital Partners
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Alvin joined CVC Capital Partners (“CVC”) in 2005 and is a member of the firm’s Operations team responsible for monitoring CVC’s portfolio companies in Asia.
He has worked with businesses across several sectors, including consumer goods and retail, healthcare, telecom, manufacturing and business services.
Prior to joining CVC, Alvin was a Principal with the Boston Consulting Group’s Greater China practice and worked for Philip Morris International in a regional business development role.
Alvin is actively involved in CVC’s CSR activities in Asia. Through the CVC Foundation, which manages CVC’s global philanthropic activities, Alvin has been supporting and engaging with various venture philanthropy funds and social enterprises in Hong Kong, including Social Venture Hong Kong, Playtao Education and Social Impact Partners.
Alvin holds a BSc Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MBA from the Wharton School and an MA in International Studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
He has worked with businesses across several sectors, including consumer goods and retail, healthcare, telecom, manufacturing and business services.
Prior to joining CVC, Alvin was a Principal with the Boston Consulting Group’s Greater China practice and worked for Philip Morris International in a regional business development role.
Alvin is actively involved in CVC’s CSR activities in Asia. Through the CVC Foundation, which manages CVC’s global philanthropic activities, Alvin has been supporting and engaging with various venture philanthropy funds and social enterprises in Hong Kong, including Social Venture Hong Kong, Playtao Education and Social Impact Partners.
Alvin holds a BSc Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MBA from the Wharton School and an MA in International Studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Patricia Lau
Deputy HeadEfficiency Unit
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Mrs Patricia Lau is the Deputy Head of the Efficiency Unit. She has over 25 years of experience in management consulting. She joined the Government in 2007 and is responsible for leading initiatives regarding social innovation, citizen-centric services and shared services. She also oversees programmes covering e-services, business process re-engineering, human resources management and management reviews.
Since 2013, Mrs Lau has been leading the Secretariat in support of the newly established Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund (SIE Fund) Task Force under the Commission on Poverty. Mrs Lau has reached out to many non-government organisations, foundations and business executives who share similar aspirations in tackling poverty related issues in Hong Kong. She advocates multi-disciplinary and cross sector collaborations in solving social issues.
Prior to joining the Government, Mrs Lau was the Managing Consultant and Head of Public Sector in PA Consulting Group and before that, a Director in PwC Consulting. She delivered several large scale service transformation programmes with clients in both the private and public sector.
Mrs Lau has a Bachelor Degree in Surveying (Honours) and a Master Degree in Surveying Science from the University of New South Wales Australia. She also has a MBA Degree from the Ivey Business School of the University of Western Ontario.
Since 2013, Mrs Lau has been leading the Secretariat in support of the newly established Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund (SIE Fund) Task Force under the Commission on Poverty. Mrs Lau has reached out to many non-government organisations, foundations and business executives who share similar aspirations in tackling poverty related issues in Hong Kong. She advocates multi-disciplinary and cross sector collaborations in solving social issues.
Prior to joining the Government, Mrs Lau was the Managing Consultant and Head of Public Sector in PA Consulting Group and before that, a Director in PwC Consulting. She delivered several large scale service transformation programmes with clients in both the private and public sector.
Mrs Lau has a Bachelor Degree in Surveying (Honours) and a Master Degree in Surveying Science from the University of New South Wales Australia. She also has a MBA Degree from the Ivey Business School of the University of Western Ontario.
Mr. Michael Chen
General ManagerSocial Enterprise Insights
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Mr. Michael Chen is one of the cofounders of Social Enterprise Insights (SEI). SEIis the first Mandarin language social enterprise platform in Taiwan, which inspires, connects and supports social innovation and social enterprises in the Greater China Region.
Chen led the team to organize and host annual forums, each over a thousand attendees, to raise awareness on the concept of social enterprise and innovation. In 2014, SEI launched iLab incubation program (Unltd Taiwan) and supported 18 social entrepreneurs in their endeavors to solve social problems in Taiwan. In the same year, He and other editors in SEI collectively published a book, Power of Good, and sold over 15,000 copies.
Prior to founding SEI, He was a sales representative of Dialogue in the Dark Taipei and also worked in the tech industry as an international sales.
Chen led the team to organize and host annual forums, each over a thousand attendees, to raise awareness on the concept of social enterprise and innovation. In 2014, SEI launched iLab incubation program (Unltd Taiwan) and supported 18 social entrepreneurs in their endeavors to solve social problems in Taiwan. In the same year, He and other editors in SEI collectively published a book, Power of Good, and sold over 15,000 copies.
Prior to founding SEI, He was a sales representative of Dialogue in the Dark Taipei and also worked in the tech industry as an international sales.
Mr. Sunit Shrestha
Founder and DirectorChangeFusion
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Sunit has over ten years of experience in social enterprise development. He founded ChangeFusion, a pioneer social enterprise support non-profit institute in Thailand. He was instrumental in the setup of Thai Social Enterprise Promotion Board chaired by the Prime Minister, a Thailand’s SE promotion policy structure.
He is also an Ashoka fellow.
He is also an Ashoka fellow.
Mr. Francis Ngai
Founder and CEOSocial Ventures Hong Kong
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Mr. Francis Ngai is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Social Ventures Hong Kong (SVhk), a venture philanthropic organization focused on inventing, incubating and investing in social start-ups that address urban challenges through sustainable and innovative business solutions.
Since its establishment in 2007, SVhk has incubated over 20 portfolio ventures, among which, Mr. Ngai co-founded Green Monday (an environmental and green lifestyle initiative), Playtao Education (an afterschool education for grassroots students) and RunOurCity (community engagement through running). Other successful portfolio ventures includeDiamond Cab (Hong Kong’s first barrier-free taxi service), Light Be (an affordable housing initiative for underprivileged families in Hong Kong) andCookConnect (a food knowledge and resources platform).
Mr. Ngai is a Board Member of the Asia Venture Philanthropy Network. He regularly participates in regional and global events as a speaker on social entrepreneurship and social innovation, including events organized by the Rockefeller Foundation, TEDx, UBS, USAID and Harvard University.
Prior to establishing SVhk, Mr. Ngai was the Head of Strategy in a listed technology conglomerate in Hong Kong. He graduated from the City University of Hong Kong and was conferred as an Honorary Fellow by the University in 2013. He was selected as one of the 100 Asia Pioneers by The Purpose Economy in 2014, a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2012 and one of Hong Kong’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons in 2011.
As an ultra-running veteran, Mr. Ngai completed The North Pole Marathon in 2013 and the 250-km Gobi March of the 4 Deserts race series in 2012.
Since its establishment in 2007, SVhk has incubated over 20 portfolio ventures, among which, Mr. Ngai co-founded Green Monday (an environmental and green lifestyle initiative), Playtao Education (an afterschool education for grassroots students) and RunOurCity (community engagement through running). Other successful portfolio ventures includeDiamond Cab (Hong Kong’s first barrier-free taxi service), Light Be (an affordable housing initiative for underprivileged families in Hong Kong) andCookConnect (a food knowledge and resources platform).
Mr. Ngai is a Board Member of the Asia Venture Philanthropy Network. He regularly participates in regional and global events as a speaker on social entrepreneurship and social innovation, including events organized by the Rockefeller Foundation, TEDx, UBS, USAID and Harvard University.
Prior to establishing SVhk, Mr. Ngai was the Head of Strategy in a listed technology conglomerate in Hong Kong. He graduated from the City University of Hong Kong and was conferred as an Honorary Fellow by the University in 2013. He was selected as one of the 100 Asia Pioneers by The Purpose Economy in 2014, a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2012 and one of Hong Kong’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons in 2011.
As an ultra-running veteran, Mr. Ngai completed The North Pole Marathon in 2013 and the 250-km Gobi March of the 4 Deserts race series in 2012.
The list of judges will be updated in due course. Please check back for the latest list.
Awards
Best Social Start-up Idea
3 awardees each for Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and other Asia region, and compete for the Grand Award of Social Innovator 2015.
Grand Award of Social Innovator 2015
The best of Social Start-up idea in Asia.
Best Multimedia Award (Hong Kong Regional Only)
The Best idea presented in multimedia format. The "Best Multimedia Award" for the best idea presented in multimedia format among the HK entries. It is more focusing on the presentation quality of the video quality, the technical and communication skill.
Prizes
HK$2,000 (~US$250) each award winner. Additional HK$2,000 for Grand Award of Social Innovator 2015.
Social Start-up weekend in Hong Kong on 20-22 November, 2015
Coaching in CVC Entrepreneurs' Lab
Hong Kong winners: One-year membership in the “House of Social Innovators” to meet professional firm partners to seek for support in their projects.
Asia winners: Complimentary trip from Asian countries1 to Hong Kong for social start-up weekend on 20-22 November, 2015.
1 List of qualified Asian countries/cities, subject to the addition or removal of countries at the sole discretion of SVhk:Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.
Calendar
| Time (2015) | Event |
|---|---|
| 13 July | Application opens |
| 28 September | Application closes for Asian participants |
| 12 October | Application closes for Hong Kong participants |
| Late October | Results announcement for Asian application |
| Early November | Results announcement for Hong Kong application |
| 20-22 November | CVC Entrepreneurs Lab Grand Finals: Pitch Day to overall Judging Panel Grand Finals results announcement & Ceremony |
Results
Asian Winners
Taiwan Winners
Lai Yueh Hsyuan (賴岳炫)
Urban Issue Addressed: Unemployment
Peaceful CAFE
Project In Brief:
To create a work environment which is based on the hearing impaired people's advantage conjunct with customer’s need to be in a quiet, calm place.Idea:
The unemployment of disable people is a severe social issue and employment is key to a regular life. According to International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF), there are no disabled persons but only disabled environments. For instance, hearing impaired people may have difficulty communicating with others orally. However, if the environment is silent, there is no difference between the hearing impaired and others.I want to open a coffee shop which emphasizes a quiet area to relax and rest your mind and hire hearing impaired people to be the staff. Our potential customer will be those looking to escape from the noisy city and busy work, and finding a peaceful place to get away in a quiet seat and a cup of nice coffee.
There are three stages to expand Peaceful CAFE. First, we develop a software for making orders interactively instead of verbally. Second, we promote our café with quiet, peaceful, and calm images to attract our customer base. The last part is to build small coffee shops on the corner of the streets for people to buy a drink to take away or to experience ordering coffee without voice.
City Wanderer
Hsueh Ching (薛竫)
Urban Issue Addressed: Education
City Wanderer Competition
Idea:
City Wanderer organizes competitions where 3-person teams are tasked to accomplish missions to benefit their community. These projects cover 5 categories: Adventure and Challenge, Self Realization, Public Participation, Connection Rebuilding and Local Culture. Participants are encouraged step out of their comfort zone, take action on about social issues and learn more about themselves through solving problems in teams. So far, the “missions” included diverse topics such as donating blood, cleaning beaches, visiting traditional industries, promotiong cultural exchanges, caring for the elderly, etc. This model has been replicated in over 20 regions with over 3000 participants and 10,000+ accomplished missions. We will continue to improve the competition experience and challenge and find diversified projects and partners to engage more people around Asia.
OurCityLove Social Enterprise
Urban Issue Addressed: Social Inclusion
Urban Issue Addressed: Social Inclusion
Friendly Restaurant App Taipei
Project In Brief:
Applying cloud and mobile technology, we have empowered 500+ disabled fellows to build up detailed restaurant accessible information services.Idea:
For persons with disabilities and their families and friends, finding an accessible restaurant has always been a headache!The OurCityLove Social Enterprise is devoted to developing smart phone apps and cloud services to provide the general public with accessibility information.
Our representative service, the "Friendly Restaurant Taipei App", features information on accessible entry, pathway, friendly service, toilets, charging outlets, free wifi etc. with detailed on-site photos. This handy service benefits persons with disabilities, those who are pregnant, old or injured, and their friends and families. This app is made by 300+ passionate disabled “civil designers” utilizing mobile survey tools. Since 2013, we have created 300+ disability jobs, launched the app in 7 Taiwan major cities, and licensed our technology to Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Tokyo. Our disabled employees also worked with 500+ restaurants improve their accessibility.
We believe that persons with “disabilities” simply have different “abilities.” “Those who need help” can become “those who can help” as no one knows better the needs of accessibility. We endorse a job model which brings dignity, confidence and happiness to persons with disabilities creating even better accessible and friendly environments in our cities.
Thailand Winners
Chonapat Mahaphasukwat
Urban Issue Addressed: Environment
Pak-Lor
Project In Brief:
Pak-Lor is a new social enterprise model, which aims to create innovative bike parking space together with facilities and service.Idea:
Pak-Lor’s goal is to encourage people to use more bikes and show that cycling is one of the best transportation options. Instead of creating bike lanes or bathrooms, we try to provide amenities for riders. We match riders and hostels that have facilities and services that cyclists need, such as lockers, bathrooms, food, beverages and most importantly, secured bike parking space.. Moreover, we also provide bike lifestyle content on websites and social media sites. The content is divided into 6 categories: Travel by bike, Food for biker, Bike Cafe, Bike Parking, Bike Hostel and News about event or bike (www.paklorlifestyle.com) this will give guidelines for riders to use bikes in the daily lives and to campaign on the street that bikes are the most environmentally friendly mode of transportation and can help riders stay healthy and save money. At the same time, our idea to bring to Bangkok a solution for traffic congestion and pollution.
Live N Share
Urban Issue Addressed: Education
Live N Share Book Community
Project In Brief:
Innovative book online community which is a fully-managed platform that offers “physical” reading material providing services, unforgettable experience.Idea:
Live N Share aims to help Thailand tackle illiteracy, reading achievement gap and book waste. We will build a online book community to offer “physical” reading materials and an unforgettable experience of sharing through Book borrowing & lending and Book donation.In B&L service, we act as mediator to help people find their ‘right’ book lender and ‘right’ book borrower. Lenders can post details of their books . Borrowers then can use our search engine “Book Locator” to find their wanted books. The lenders will send borrowers their books in –the same way as borrowing from the library. Half of the transaction fee will be received by us and the rest to the lender. Lender may also choose to donate the fee to support children’s learning.
For Book Donation service, we help donors find the ‘right’ recipient for their books. Our team conducts surveys to find out what books people in each community need. We then post this list and donors can offer their books. ‘Book Wish’ service is also provided to help readers get their desired book with a cheaper price or free .
Local Alike
Urban Issue Addressed: Poverty
Tourism for Social Change
Project In Brief:
Tourism for Social Change is a community-based tourism for developing and combating poverty in slum, a game changer for bettering quality of lives.Idea:
Like other slum, Khlong Toei slum has given us an image of overcrowdedness with all kinds of social problems such as drug, robbery, poverty and hardship. Khlong Toei community has been struggling for their survival in a busy capital of Thailand, Bangkok. We couldn’t help but wonder, how many people actually know what they think, what they dream of, what they feel, and why they feel that way.Local Alike, a social enterprise, together with Duang Prateep Foundation and community leaders, initiated the Tourism for Social Change project with aims to creatively present Khlong Toei through special tourism packages designed by community and for community, and to improve and develop quality of lives in Khlong Toei through job creation and community participation We will identify youth leaders from the community and create job opportunities and income through our tourism packages. We hope to be a model of community-based tourism and motivate more people to follow our project and join our trips to learn more about the slum community.
Other Asian Winners
Gigih Rezki Septianto
Country: Indonesia
Urban Issue Addressed: Social Inclusion
WeCare.id & PhiRUNtrophy
Project In Brief:
WeCare.id is a healthcare crowdfunding built specifically for healthcare & PhiRUNtrophy is a sport-tracking app that let users to donate while running.Idea:
1. WeCare.id (http://wecare.id)A healthcare crowdfunding built specifically to help fund healthcare for the people who cannot afford medical procedures. People can browse patient's story on the website and choose which patients they would like to donate. The project is targeting patients who are in the periphery area and haven't got optimal access to Indonesian's Government Healthcare Insurance. We are partnering with medical doctors from juniors to seniors who are also working in rural areas of the country to help us crowdsourcing the patients, distribute the funds, keeping us updated with the condition of the patients as well as facilitating the patients to Government's Healthcare Insurance, we called them "Medicators".
2. PhiRUNtrophy
PhiRUNtrophy, a sport-tracking mobile app that let users to raise money for charity byconverting their daily workout activities such as running, walking and cycling into certain amounts of charitable donation from our corporate sponsors for the cause they care about. It's already available in PlayStore and WindowsPhone Store, acquired about 1700+ users, delivered about USD 1800 donation that has been converted by our users and we have 3 corporate sponsors. We have conducted many running movement collaborated with various stakeholders from government, private sector and NGO by harnessing our app, the biggest one was in the February, "Running towards #ZeroWasteIndonesia" where it held simultaneously using PhiRUNtrophy in 19 cities with over 3000 people participated.
Manish Nath Mathur
Country: India
Urban Issue Addressed: Education
YELO - Empowering Rural Education
Project In Brief:
School bag converts into desk with solar LED lamp.Idea:
Students in rural areas lack access to basic educational infrastructure. Sitting on the floor in incorrect posture for long working hours results in back pain, bad eyesight and inability to concentrate and study.One in three people across the globe lack access to reliable electricity. Remote areas face heavy power cuts, thereby making it difficult for children to study at night.
YELO is a smart innovative bag It not only helps children carry their books and study material safely (irrespective of the weather conditions) but also transforms into a school desk with a single fold technique. The desk offers an angle of 30-35 degrees for students to write and read, thus ensuring they maintain an ergonomic posture while studying. YELO also comes with a handy solar kit that powers the LED light. The rechargeable battery in solar kit can be charged through solar energy as well as supports AC charging.
NOW EVERYONE CAN STUDY
Kallfly
Country: Philippines
Urban Issue Addressed: Family
Business Process "Home" Outsourcing
Project In Brief:
Bringing jobs to rural areas in the Philippines.Idea:
Kallfly is an On-Demand virtual Contact Center marketplace, connecting businesses with experienced home-based call center agents. It is a platform like 99designs, oDesk, and Mechanical Turk, but with freelance call center agents available on demand instead of graphic designers, in the cloud, supported by our SIP and WebRTC-based VoIP infrastructure. Instead of contracting with a traditional call center, businesses can allocate resources through Kallfly’s web site. Instead of commuting to an office, call center agents can work from home, using their laptops or phones.Hong Kong Winners
Li Koon Kiu
Occupation: Social Worker
Urban Issue Addressed: Family
Project Status: Pilot Stage
Doctor BB
Project In Brief:
The power of lovely kids can care for the dementia elderly.Idea:
Doctor BB is currently operating in dementia centre. There is one session (1 hour) per week, 10 sessions in a total. Matching two groups of people, one is 5-6 dementia elders; another group is 6-7 kids (under 6 years old) with their parents.The kids are recruited from Doctor BB’s website. Their parents have been joined our workshop / orientation and fully understand our vision & mission.
Our target is letting the elders can learn/recover cognitive attention, express personal feeling, improve depression and feeling of loneliness.
Based on our exploratory research, Doctor BB can bring a positive impact to dementia elderly. On the other hand, the parents said that their kids have enjoyed the activities when they are playing with the elderly.
Lui Tsz Wai Ava
Occupation: Startup Co-founder
Urban Issue Addressed: Social Inclusion
Project Status: Pilot Stage
Easycare
Project In Brief:
Easycare is an online marketplace with matching, scheduling, payment and call center services to provide a guaranteed service to care receivers.Idea:
Easycare is an online marketplace with matching, scheduling, payment and call center services to provide a guaranteed service standard to care receivers. It is a one-station platform to provide reliable and affordable healthcare services to households with flexibility and standard pricing.Meanwhile, we aggregate health-care demands and provide a simple scheduling backend for caregivers, reduce their administration.
Now users book healthcare services like book your airline ticket – with preferred service type, location and time, and no more expensive and lengthy communication progress.
Suen Fu Lin Jonathan
Urban Issue Addressed: Others
Project Status: Concept Stage (Idea Only)
Suspended Coupon
Project In Brief:
Provide a suspended coupon platform.Idea:
The news of "Sham Shui Po, Ming" promotes the public to have a "standby-food" concept. More and more restaurants have standby-food coupon to help people who in need.After two years, the standby-food coupon concept is turning down. I think it is because lacking of a centralized platform to promote this concept. This project is to set up a platform based on this concept.
Different restaurant and organization can cooperate together to build up a huge standby-food network in order to help all people in Hong Kong.
The operation mechanism:
1. Restaurants can join the standby-food restaurant network. The online platform can promote their restaurants' location and information, which can be searched by public easily.
2. Commonly used standby-food coupon will be setup. Public can buy the coupon through the online. This can reduce the inconvenient of buying coupon in the restaurant. This can also promote restaurants in all districts.
3. This project will work with organizations who contact the people in need. The coupons can be distributed to the people based on their networking.
Best Multimedia Award
OpenLifeDesign (OLD) Foundation
Urban Issue Addressed: Aging Population
Project Status: Idea Stage
OLD's CoHo Project
Project In Brief:
Exploring the possibilty to develop Hong Kong 1st large-scale cohousing project for our future selves to AGE HAPPILY and DIE GRACIOUSLY.Idea:
What plans do you have for your future selves when you reach retirement age? We aim to explore the possibility to develop Hong Kong's first large scale co-housing facility for citizens to age gracefully together.Unlike other projects that our competitors have undertaken in the past; we aim to provoke a holistic approach to housing for our older generations – taking into account our changing needs and circumstances as we age and even death.
The accommodation should be affordable, secure and built around a community – providing mature, middle-class Hong Kong citizens with everything they need to enjoy the final chapters of their life.
This helps senior citizens to secure their own future and avoid being trapped by financial pressures, cross-generational problems and ever-escalating property/care/buriel service prices.
You can read about the past year’s winning ideas below.
About the House of Social Innovators
Convenor
With the support of corporate partners and other SE-related organizations, Social Ventures Hong Kong would like to further expand the event, by inviting ASIA’s finalists and winners to join the House of Social Innovators.
Formed under the collaboration of various SE-competitions, together with alumnus of these competitions, HoSI is a platform that will provide on-going support to passionate social entrepreneurs to transform social innovative ideas to sustainable social enterprise and to nurture investment-ready social enterprises and bring it to the marketplace.
Formed under the collaboration of various SE-competitions, together with alumnus of these competitions, HoSI is a platform that will provide on-going support to passionate social entrepreneurs to transform social innovative ideas to sustainable social enterprise and to nurture investment-ready social enterprises and bring it to the marketplace.