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ICT and Social Entrepreneurship: Implications of Change Making for the Future ICT Workforce Dr. Lani Fraizer Synergies in Sync lani@synergiesinsync.org Dr. Farzin Madjidi Pepperdine University farzin.madjidi@pepperdine.edu ABSTRACT Social entrepreneurs are impassioned leaders who strive to find systemic solutions for matters affecting human welfare such as poverty, unemployment, and poor access to quality healthcare. Their social-value creating work is defined as social entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to lay the groundwork for a larger discussion on (1) the role of ICT as vehicles for change and reform in the social sector, with emphasis on social entrepreneurship; and (2), the opportunities that social entrepreneurship paves for the future ICT workforce. This paper, through a qualitative methodology, reports on the findings from semi-structured interviews of Ashoka Fellows across the United States. Findings on five critical insights on the role of technology in implementation of social solutions are reported, and their implications for the development of next generations entering the ICT professions are discussed. social entrepreneurs is also evident in corporate giant Microsoft ™s awarding a $2.5 million technology grant to Ashoka, a global organization widely known as the first global association for social entrepreneurs, in line with its stated

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ICT and social entrepreneurship: implications of change making for the future ICT workforce

Fraizer, Lani; Madjidi, Farzin
ACM SIGITE Newsletter , Volume 8 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – Jul 1, 2011

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