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Welcome Victor d'Allant: Executive Director, Social Edge

by Social Edge last modified 2007-07-11 11:42

Hosted by Victor d'Allant (September 2005 - Closed)

Please welcome Victor d'Allant, Social Edge's new executive director!

Victor is a global media executive and cultural anthropologist who has worked for large corporations, international organizations and entrepreneurial startups in many parts of the world.

His executive positions have included Chief Executive Officer of Ascribe, a public interest newswire, and Vice President - Business Development of AudioBasket, a provider of personalized audio news on the Internet. Before his involvement in digital media, Victor built and ran his own international media consultancy, helping communications companies and technology-based ventures expand their global operations.

His work as a cultural and business anthropologist included field research on French truck drivers working in the Middle East, mental health issues in India for the World Health Organization and agricultural development in Burkina Faso for the World Bank.

He started his career as a Paris-based photojournalist reporting on economic and social issues from Brazil, India, Turkey, Yemen, Burkina Faso and Bangladesh.

He has a B.A. and an M.A. in social anthropology from the Sorbonne in Paris and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.

Victor joined the team on August 24 and hit the ground running! Please take a moment to welcome him to our community and let him know your thoughts and feelings regarding Social Edge and the direction you think he should take it!




Victor - Sep 6, 2005 7:02 pm (# Total: 47)

Hello! Bonjour! Hola!

It's my first post on Social Edge. Very exciting!

I am ready for questions about my background and where I want to take Social Edge.

More importantly, I am eager to hear from you. If you were in my shoes, what would you do to make Social Edge an even better community?

Vous pouvez répondre en Français o en español.


michelleaa - Sep 7, 2005 4:54 pm (# Total: 47)

Bonjour Victor, Welcome!

This is my first post as well.

If I were in your shoes, I might consider engaging individuals or representatives from communities that might appear to be outside the list of usual suspects. I have found throughout my career in the environmental movement that some of the most creative and compelling ideas would come from the unlikliest of persons/communities. While Directing the Los Angeles Greenpeace office, solutions to a particular issue nagging at us came from both a homeless man and an ex-Chevron employee both recent new hires--you get the idea....


Jochen Holtrup - Sep 7, 2005 5:05 pm (# Total: 47)
The Care Club (c)

hello from germany

welcome victor,

as you will see - it`s all a lttle bit easier with "social people" - maybe sometimes it`s a long talk to find decison... - but the feeling to handle with "real" people "without masks" and all the enthusiasmen and passion that all have for their individual projekts realy will makes your live, even in private, rich and meaningfull.

have a good start - and thank you as well for the social edge

jochen



Oludotun - Sep 7, 2005 6:11 pm (# Total: 47)

Hello from Nigeria

Hello Victor,

You are wellcome as the Executive Director, Social Edge.  I believe you are really going to make a change during your tenure, one of the changes is that you should find way of encouraging social entrepreneur from developing countries to be part of Social Edge and this can only be achieved through encouragement.

I wish you good luck.

Regards,

Oludotun Olugbemi

President/CEO

World Hope Foundation

Lagos, Nigeria

www.whfdn.org

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Victor - Sep 7, 2005 9:38 pm (# Total: 47)

Social Entrepreneurs from Developing Countries

Hello Oludotun,

Great idea! We will do our best to include social entrepreneurs currently working in developing countries to make sure that Social Edge is a GLOBAL community.

Y compris pour ceux qui travaillent en Afrique de l'Ouest et dans d'autres régions francophones.

Victor


Victor - Sep 7, 2005 9:43 pm (# Total: 47)

Outside the box

Michelleaa,

I agree with you. We have to think outside the box and listen to other voices. Actually, that's what Social Edge did when they hired me --I was to be a profit-driven executive at one point!

Keep posting! We would love to hear more from you.

Victor


Victor - Sep 7, 2005 9:49 pm (# Total: 47)

Real issues

Jochen --

I have been with Social Edge for 2 weeks only, and I noticed that people in this community are working on wonderful projects. Yes, they are 'real' people, dealing with 'real' issues. This is not about politics but real life.

My life, as you wrote, is already richer and more meaningfull. I love it!

Victor


Patrick O'Heffernan - Sep 7, 2005 10:19 pm (# Total: 47)

Hi and welcome

I look forward to working with you. Welcome to a great community.

Patrick O'Heffernan


K.L.SRIVASTAVA - Sep 8, 2005 1:40 am (# Total: 47)
Researcher and Consultant,Hyderabad,INDIA

Welcome to Social Edge community

You bring a rich experience to SE community.

We hope to benefit through our interactions with you in making social entrepreneurship a potent tool in addressing global problems like poverty, ignorance,social injustices etc.

Thanks,

KL



mkevane - Sep 8, 2005 8:33 am (# Total: 47)
Friends of African Village Libraries

Votre travail au Burkina (your work in Burkina Faso)

Hello, I saw from your brief bio that you had worked in Burkina. I have been working in Burkina for many years now in the southwest, mostly research but also some non-profit activity regarding libraries. I wondered what your experiences were and what region you were in? Michael Kevane


Victor - Sep 8, 2005 9:09 am (# Total: 47)

The Pie

KL,

Yes, Social Edge will address the global problems that you just listed. Actually, we have defined 6 priorities to address:

- Tolerance & human rights - Health - Environmental sustainability - Peace & security - Institutional responsibility - Economic & social equity

Sometimes, we refer to them under an acronym: THE PIE. It's a friendly way to remind us that it's a big pie indeed to address...

KL, please keep posting to help us solve these issues.

Victor


Victor - Sep 8, 2005 9:23 am (# Total: 47)

Burkina Faso

Bonjour Michael,

Yes, I worked in Burkina Faso a few years ago, building a community henhouse in the Sahel zone, not too far from Ouahygouya. That experience (and others in different parts of the world) helped me realize that one individual can make a difference. I am now discovering that a group of individuals like the Social Edge community can make a HUGE difference!

J'ai construit un poulailler communautaire dans un petit village du Sahel, au Nord du Burkina Faso, près de Ouahygouya. C'est cette expérience (et d'autres dans d'autres régions défavorisées du monde) qui m'a prouvé qu'une personne peut faire la différence. Maintenant, je vois qu'un groupe comme la communauté de Social Edge peut faire une énorme différence !

Can you share with Social Edge what non-profit work you are doing in Burkina? Merci de nous dire plus en détail ce que vous faites au Burkina.

Victor


Victor - Sep 8, 2005 9:28 am (# Total: 47)

Nonprofit Portal

Patrick,

Thanks for your kind note. A quick reminder for those who didn't notice: Patrick is hosting this week's event on our Nonprofit Portal, "Staying in your Groove."

It's right here: http://www.socialedge.org/nonprofit/

Cheers,

Victor


DR.PRABIR DUTTA - Sep 8, 2005 11:01 am (# Total: 47)
CALCUTTA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

Economic growth of a country through health care not for personal profit

No man is healthy without mental health.Man is enriched when he has mental health.He knows how physical health improves a man.He knows why physical health is necessary first to develop mental health.Physical excersise programme of WHO is encouraging as a part of total health care system.


Victor - Sep 8, 2005 11:14 am (# Total: 47)

Mens sana in corpore sano

Dear Dr. Dutta:

Isn't it what we learned in our Latin classes?

Mens sana in corpore sano : a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Things have not changed since Juvenal said it sometime during the 1st century AD --almost 2 000 years ago!

Victor


kaay eef - Sep 8, 2005 1:08 pm (# Total: 47)

Victor Akwaaba

Victor,

    I congratulate you on your new oppointment

as Executive Director of Social Edge.

We will support you in your new job. 

Welcome to the club.  

        ["Akwaaba" in akan means welcome]

   Kofi Kwansah-Filson, Kumasi Ghana



Victor - Sep 8, 2005 2:44 pm (# Total: 47)

d'Allant means...

Kofi,

Thank you for your nice "akwaaba." I should tell you that d'Allant (my last name) comes from the French verb "aller' (to go).

This describes someone full of energy and drive. I am not sure I qualify, but that's how it is!

Cheers,

Victor


goldman5 - Sep 8, 2005 5:50 pm (# Total: 47)
Policy Development www.policydevelopment.org

The Policy Portal Welcomes Our Newest Visonary!

Viktor,

So glad you have joined us, Victor. Innovation and ingenuity are often considered to be part of the American spirit, and perhaps even more so in your part of the country. But in fact, we have an enormous amount to learn from our neighbors around the world, and I am so pleased you are going to help us do that. Social Edge helps foster that "neighborly" feeling so well, and with a more international community, the effect will be even more dramatic.

Which reminds me. I am leaving for Accra, Ghana, in a few weeks to help run a training session for members of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (www.wanep.org) and representatives of the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS). Unfortunately social enterprise is not within the scope of work. The training topics will include NGO evaluation and capacity-building tailored to environments affected by conflict. There is more info here:

http://www.ngoconnect.net/ev_en.php?ID=4582_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC

That said, I am hoping to find some time to host some informal gatherings of folks interested in social enterprise, social innovation, and social policy. Do you think the Social Edge community would be interested? I'd love to attract a whole new group of enthusiasts.


Victor - Sep 8, 2005 10:08 pm (# Total: 47)

Aron in Ghana

Aron,

Yes, I am sure the Social Edge community based in Accra (and around the world) would love to hear about your trip. Let's plan this event offline and make sure you can find the time to post your comments when you are there.

Bon voyage !

Victor


mkevane - Sep 9, 2005 11:44 am (# Total: 47)
Friends of African Village Libraries

Henhouses or libraries!

Hello Victor, Thanks for your reply. I have been working in Burkina for about 10 years, primarily as an academic doing research on gender issues (I have a book, Women and Development in Africa: How Gender Works, Lynee Rienner 2004, that might be of interest). But then 4 years ago I got the 'non-profit bug' and started a small organization called Friends of African Village Libraries (www.favl.org), and we are now helping 7 village libraries that we have established in small villages. 5 are in Burkina and 2 in Ghana just over the border. So it is very old-fashioned, but we find there is a great desire by school children in secondary school to read books- especially novels by African authors which we try to purchase as much as possible (very expensive, another long story of the African book market!)

Some of the guys in the village ask me why I am helping to establish libraries instead of henhouses. I will now send them to you!

I am also a judge for the San Jose Tech Museum Technology Benefitting Humanity award, and have lots of students interested in non-profit activities (I teach at Santa Clara University).

Bref, I look at Social Edge frequently to keep abreast of the non-profit social entrepreneur world... It is an excellent service portal.

Michael


SparkPeopleChris - Sep 9, 2005 12:44 pm (# Total: 47)

Welcome Aboard!

Hello Victor

Welcome to Social Edge - what an exciting challenge for you with all of your past experience!

We'll try to help out :)

Chris/SparkGuy


Karin Hillhouse - Sep 9, 2005 1:34 pm (# Total: 47)
Ashoka - Changemakers.net

Documentary

Greetings, Victor, and welcome to this wonderful world on the Edge!

I'd love to know more about your photography work reporting on economic and social issues from Brazil, India, Turkey, Yemen, Burkina Faso and Bangladesh.  Have you continued with this interest?  Is there a way to give Social Edgers a view of your work?  A mini exhibition online?

Going further, is there a role for Social Edge to play in establishing a cutting-edge viewing platform for SE participants to share their documentary photography of projects, problems, actions, solutions, issues, epiphanies about the world? 

Do you think that photography/documentary has a key role to play in helping change the world for the better?  How can SE help?  How can we help?

Cheers,

Karin

 



UrbanMs - Sep 9, 2005 1:37 pm (# Total: 47)
Senior Urban Strategist

Good Fellows/World Citizens--I wish you well

I wanted to welcome Mr. d'allant aboard.  I am fairly new to Social Edge having just registered Urban Resource Strategists, Inc. in Miami, FL.  Our focus is to provide capacity building for non-governmental organizations in urban areas in the Southern United States.  What a time as we will be forced from rhetoric into overdrive in the wake of the devastation left by Katrina.  Wanted to say that  I enjoy reading your posts and connecting to my fellows who work for the greater good around the world.   Is there anyone in Ghana that may know Dr. Emmanuel Osei-Twum?  We lost touch and I have been trying to locate him for the past few years.

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Sohodojo Jim and Timlynn - Sep 9, 2005 2:55 pm (# Total: 47)
Sohodojo

Welcome to the Edge!

Victor, your applied anthropological experience and global perspective will be invaluable in your challenge to "herd the cats" that comprise the Social Edge community.

(Stepping onto our soapbox...) We would like to take a moment to welcome you, and to apprise you of our special interest group, The Small Is Good World Working Group. Our members are resource- and funding-constrained, so our voices peak and wane as our individual requirements to sustain ourselves take precedence over community participation.

One of the best places to get a sense of who we are, and what we are interested in would be to survey the Small Is Good World content from the recent Skoll World Forum.

As a thinking/doing leader, you are probably aware of Tom Friedman's current bestseller, 'The World Is Flat'. (If not, here is an excellent 'crash course' in its premise and implications, Friedman's spellbinding and must-see keynote address, 'Competing in a Flat World' (streaming video, audio here, and link source page) at the recent National Governor's Association Annual Meeting this past July.

In a nutshell, Friedman describes the three eras of globalization. Globalization 1.0, he argues, was built on an organizing unit of the nation and lasted from roughly 1492 to 1800. Globalization 2.0 has lasted from 1800 to 2000 and its organizing unit was the corporation. We are now, according to Friedman, at the dawn of Globalization 3.0 and its organizing unit is the individual.

Friedman's Globalization 3.0, also known as the Small Is Good World, is exactly the Big Idea that our special interest community has been promoting here on the Edge for the last couple of years. And while the emergence of a new, and very exciting Small Is Good World is inevitable, it is also a maddening struggle. We struggle because funding organizations simply don't get it... yet. They are still living in an organization-centric world.

Over the last two weeks we have dramatically seen the failures of the Big Is Good World in the U.S. as our Federal government struggles to respond to Hurricane Katrina. At the same time, self-organizing and self-managing networks of individuals have sprung into action and are getting things done.

We're not saying that one approach is better than the other, only that each has its place. And each has its unique advantages. A world dependent on One Right Way is doomed. We need a renewed focus of interest and support for the Small Is Good approach to social change and to solving social problems.

Victor, if there was any ONE thing that we would like to see you accomplish in your tenure as the Executive Director of Social Edge, it would be to focus the your social/cultural anthropological lens on the emerging Small Is Good World within the social entrepreneurial community. We need your interest and commitment to help lead a campaign to legitimize and support the new forms of network organizing that will shape the social change landscape of the 21st century and beyond.

(Stepping down from our soapbox...)

Welcome to the Edge,
--Sohodojo Timlynn and Jim--
on behalf of the Small Is Good World Working Group and Sohodojo


arthurkanegis - Sep 9, 2005 3:42 pm (# Total: 47)
President of Onefilms.com

World Citizen

Welcome Victor!    "World Citzenship" and "Small is Beautiful" have both been mentioned.  I'd love to hear your ideas on how we can progress toward global citizenship, tackling global issues like the environment that cross national boundaries,  and at the same time tapping into the the wonderful strength of "small is beautiful" - local people taking initiative on the local level with global impact. 

How can we move toward a "glocalized" world - at once global and local, where local people network together on the internet into a global brain - a cyber based global "governance" if you will, that solves global problems like war end global warming through the efforts of millions of individuals taking respnsibility for innovating solutions and making this a better world?

Warmly,

Arthur Kanegis, writer/producer



arthurkanegis - Sep 9, 2005 6:53 pm (# Total: 47)
President of Onefilms.com

Arthur's Photo - as Santa

My picture didn't seem to post, so here it is - as Santa.

I love doing Santa at Christmas for kids, especially poor kids here in Mexico who've never seen a real live santa, and who carry around the toys I give them for months!

I have a beach house in Baja and hour south of San Diego where I do my writing - the water inspires me.

Warmly,

 

Arthur Kanegis

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Santa and orphan Boy.JPG (849 KB)



Sunil - Sep 9, 2005 8:30 pm (# Total: 47)
Dairy Technologist by profession and having 20 years expereince in rural level sustainable devlopment activities.

Welcome greetings from Srilanka

Dear freind,

Being the largest women enterprise in Srilanka owned and managed by women we always appreciate the interventions and oppurtunities share with us by social edge to eradicate powerty and we strongly believe that in developing the livelihood of the poor ,the house hold women have to play a major role. We hope we could share the expereince and thought of the people who join hand towards eradicating poverty ... make a better world for the people of tomorrow. Sunil Rodrigo

Attachments:

Women entreprnuesip Development.doc (31 KB)



esther - Sep 9, 2005 9:13 pm (# Total: 47)
At Help, Heal & Learn

Victor, a turn fill with inspiration

Dear Victor:

In my absents, Socialedge has gain many things discussions and capabilies, new faces, including youself as Executive Director . After reading your past, education, job experience, travel and devotion to continual progress. This insures a new growth for Socialedge and it's member.

My best wishes to you.

Esther 



Victor - Sep 9, 2005 11:20 pm (# Total: 47)

Photography / Documentary : visit wwww.witness.org

Yes, Karin from Changemakers.net, photography and documentary can have a HUGE role in building a better world. For example, you may want to check this organization: http://www.witness.org

Witness was launched in 1992 with the simple goal of getting video cameras into the hands of human rights activists. It is now a major international resource for the media and the human rights field. Working with partner groups from more than 50 countries, Witness has produced videos that have been used as evidence in legal proceedings, as testimony before United Nations commissions, for grassroots education and mobilization, and as a deterrent to further abuse.

Our parent organization, the Skoll Foundation, is currently helping Witness to train hundreds and, over time, thousands in media advocacy.


Victor - Sep 9, 2005 11:24 pm (# Total: 47)

Ghana - Where is Dr. Emmanuel Osei-Twum?

UrbanMs,

You may want to check with Aron Goldman (goldman5). He will be in Ghana in a few days, and he may be able to help you locate Dr. Emmanuel Osei-Twum.

Bonne chance !

Victor


Victor - Sep 9, 2005 11:33 pm (# Total: 47)

Social Edge Network ?

"We [should] legitimize and support the new forms of NETWORK organizing that will shape the social change landscape of the 21st century and beyond" writes the Small Is Good World Working Group and Sohodojo.

"How can we move toward a "glocalized" world - at once global and local, where local people NETWORK together on the internet into a global brain?" asks Arthur K., our writer in Mexico.

Well, it's pretty clear that a recurring theme here is the concept of 'network.'

Maybe that's where we should be heading --towards a Social Edge Network, rather than 'only' a community.

Any thoughts along these lines?

Victor


Victor - Sep 9, 2005 11:42 pm (# Total: 47)

Books in Burkina Faso

"it is very old-fashioned, but we find there is a great desire by school children in secondary school to read books- especially novels by African authors" writes Michael from Burkina Faso.

This is TERRIFIC! C'est incroyable, ce que tu fais !

Reading books is NOT old-fashioned. Yes, oral tradition is important in Africa to transmit history and traditions. But books are a nice complement that shouldn't be underestimated.

Il faut continuer ! Don't give up!

Victor


Victor - Sep 9, 2005 11:50 pm (# Total: 47)

Women Entrepreneurship Development at Dambadeniya (Sri Lanka)

Thank you, Sunil, for sharing your document. Your results seem very impressive.

I especially liked what you said about the power of networking:

>


The networking is vital in women empowering process as it provide the windows for facilitating access to data and information about the ongoing activities within and around in market, technology, distribution, procurement of raw material, service providers, pricing and sustainability of all the other related activities enhance their efforts in achieving their goals.

Hence networking within the target group of women is very important in developing women enterprises at all the level.

>


Very well said.


m.i.zuberi - Sep 10, 2005 1:04 am (# Total: 47)
university of rajshahi

Hi, welcome

Dear Victor,

Hearty welcome from all of us to SocialEdge.

Hope your presence will enrich us all.

M.I.Zuberi

 

 



K.L.SRIVASTAVA - Sep 10, 2005 8:15 am (# Total: 47)
Researcher and Consultant,Hyderabad,INDIA

Social Edge's plan for addressing "THE PIE"

Hi Victor,

I was so happy to read your response to my comments on global challenges. I am particularly encouraged to learn that the Social Edge has already planned to direct its creative energy to address these challenges.

The acronym " THE PIE" is quite appropriate and useful for reminding us about the scale of these challenges. The topics included in THE PIE cover a vast range of issue.

As you are aware, the UN has formulated millennium development goals in order to focus on some key areas. Similarly, the Johannesberg Summit formulated 'WEHAB' initiative for a similar purpose.

At some stage, you may like to inform us about further details of "THE PIE" and how

it relates these formulations. Obviously, the pie is large enough to cover these formulations.

We will like to know more about your vision of Social Edge.

Let me extend a 'hearty welcome' to you once again.

Thanks,

KL

 

 



DR.PRABIR DUTTA - Sep 10, 2005 9:07 am (# Total: 47)
CALCUTTA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

Dear Victor, Thank you to get a latin quotation where we stand close in mind despite geographical distance. One great man in India said to play football before reading. All the best. Prabir


surya prakash.Vinjamuri - Sep 11, 2005 2:20 am (# Total: 47)
Life-Health Reinforcement Group

Welcome Victor d'Allant

Dear Victor,

 

Greetings from Life-Health Reinforcement Group!

 

Its good to know social edge is blessed with 'NEW ENERGY'.

 

With your skills of communication, we hope you would draw more individuals and institutions together to debate and come to consensus for developing a beautiful world.

 

As token of love, please accept these lines of mine:

 

Torch the darkness

 

Torch the darkness,

 

Light the lamp of joy,

 

Protect it &

 

Ignite yourself,

 

To be in the world of love

 

And let love

 

Blossom on a ground,

 

Which neither gets absorbed or

 

Disappears and it hangs on,

 

To mature as Torch,

 

And dispel darkness

 

Thank you,

 

Surya Prakash.Vinjamuri

Life-Health Reinforcement Group

Hyderabad,

A.P.

INDIA



Victor - Sep 11, 2005 6:48 pm (# Total: 47)

Incendiez l'obscurité

Surya, Thank you for your beautiful poem. I tried to translate it into French for our French-speaking members in West Africa and elsewhere. Your version is much more beautiful, but here it is anyways:

Incendiez l'obscurité,

Allumez la lampe de la joie,

Protégez-la et

Laissez-vous brûler par ce feu,

Pour être dans le monde de l'amour et

Laisser l'amour

Fleurir sur notre terre,

Qui ne peut être absorbé ou

Disparaître et il subsiste,

Pour devenir une Flamme,

Et éclaircir l'obscurité.

Merci.

Surya Prakash.Vinjamuri


Victor - Sep 11, 2005 7:00 pm (# Total: 47)

The Pie

KL --

Yes, Social Edge will address the 6 priorities we call The Pie because we should remember that we are all sitting around the same table (the Earth) and each of us deserves a fair share of the pie. Here is the list:

- Tolerance & human rights

- Health

- Environmental sustainability

- Peace & security

- Institutional responsibility

- Economic & social equity

To address these issues the best we can, Social Edge will become PRACTICAL and GLOBAL in its mission. More on that very soon...

Victor


surya prakash.Vinjamuri - Sep 12, 2005 10:06 pm (# Total: 47)
Life-Health Reinforcement Group

thank you Victor

Dear Victor,

Thank you for the translation.

I cannot read french but enjoyed reading it.

Once again as an acknowledgement, please accept this:

Flowers

 

 Flowers are spread over

 

All colors & sizes

 

Just asking you to celebrate

 

Life

 

Saying in one Tone

 

We are Life

 

You can see us

 

Smell us

 

Decorate

 

Get decorated

 

We enhance everything around

 

But we live only for short time

 

But don’t worry

 

My brothers & sisters

 

Are going to be born

 

To thrill you

 

To give you Life

 

&

 

Say Life is short

 

Just

Enjoy

  It.

So, just enjoy, everything.

With regards,

Surya Prakash.Vinjamuri.

Life-Health Reinforcement Group.

Life-Health Reinforcement

 



Karin Hillhouse - Sep 13, 2005 12:33 pm (# Total: 47)
Ashoka - Changemakers.net

Documentary: http://www.changemakers.net/library/fieldlink.cfm?field=Documentary

Thanks, Victor, for highlighting Witness, a magnificent organization indeed. Gillian Caldwell is doing great work with them, and I'm delighted to see that the Skoll Foundation is involved.

As you can see from the URL in the title here, I am a "true believer" in the power of documentary to change hearts, minds, and lives. The resources collected in Ashoka's Changemakers.net documentary collection start to give a picture of the work that actively and innovatively uses documentary for change.

Hope to see Social Edge featuring documentary in all its visual, oral, and literary manifestations.

Again, welcome!

Karin



Claude Rallins - Sep 14, 2005 1:32 am (# Total: 47)

Welcome... to the edge of center!

Greetings Victor,

As our new Executive Director you are at the edge of center. How's the view? Have you focused on an action area /agenda? And, how can we help you implement an action plan for Social Edge?

Thanks for asking members for input. As we all can see from the responses... the Social Edge is circular, like the globe it serves. So my answer to your "what direction for Social Edge" question is -- omnidirectional!

This is the challenge, and the possibility, of the new e-world; To make progress on all fronts, simultaneously. In the old world context it seems implausible, if not impossible. However, omnidirectional has always been the space we occupy. But now we have the techno-tools to connect. To communicate. And in this sense you, with your media background and global sensitivities, are well suited for the tasks ahead.

All the best to you, for I'm confident you will do your best. And, may you get/inspire all the best from all of us.

 



Victor - Sep 14, 2005 11:42 am (# Total: 47)

The edge of center? Or the center of the edge?

Hello Claude,

Thank you for mentioning that Social Edge is circular, like our globe. To answer your question, here is where we would like to take Social Edge:

- To the global space, because there are lots of Social Entrepreneurs on the ground in Kenya, Burkina, Australia, Columbia and India right now who need help to do an even better job.

- To the ground level, because our members who are on the ground need practical help to better help their communities. Now.

- To the circular edge, because Social Edge is a circular network, and we need every member's help to succeed in our mission.

Claude, I am delighted you are part of our global, practical network.

Victor


Sukracharya - Oct 1, 2005 11:10 pm (# Total: 47)
Centre for Adivasee Studies & Peace

Chairperson Centre for Adivasee Studies & Peace

Hi Victor!

We, the Chenchus, the indigenous people of the Krishna River Valley welcome you to the Social Edge. We strongly believe that your expertise will bring us prosperity and Peace into the River Valley and in to our lives.

John Nagella

Reacher and Development Consultant

Chairperson Centre for Adivasee Studies & Peace

Attachments:

John Picture.jpg (28 KB)



DR.PRABIR DUTTA - Jan 9, 2006 10:42 am (# Total: 47)
CALCUTTA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

FACTORS INFLUENCING THE HEALTH AND MEDICAL CARE FOR HEALTH

Health index is not mere medical care;many factors also infuence and required for health.

Attachments:

Health is a measure for socio.doc (50 KB)



DR.PRABIR DUTTA - Mar 26, 2006 11:44 pm (# Total: 47)
CALCUTTA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

VETERINARY PUBLIC HEALTH IN INDIA IN FACE OF AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK

Role of veterinary public health and its importance in face of avian flu outbreak has been discussed.

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Future of Poultry in India.doc (36 KB)



Conda - Apr 18, 2006 4:15 am (# Total: 47)

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