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Empathy and Ethics: Drivers of Our Shifting Culture
Title: Empathy and Ethics: Drivers of Our Shifting Culture
Date: March 27, 2008
Description: Technology has increased the flow of information and made our decision-making more transparent. This rapid shift presents us with an historic opportunity to create a global culture driven by the need for trust and inclusion. This is why it is so important for those who are defining the world’s future structures to consciously build the ethical skills necessary into their designs. The building of empathetic ethics has to begin with individuals and quickly move into the organisations we lead and ultimately the societies we serve. How are we doing this? And, more importantly, how do we make this happen more quickly?
Panel:
- Bill Drayton, CEO and Chair, Ashoka
- Mary Gordon, Founder and President, Roots of Empathy
- Keith Hammonds, Team leader for Ashoka's new Social Entrepreneurs in Journalism program, Ashoka; Former Executive Editor, Fast Company
- Kirk Hanson, University Professor and Executive Director, Santa Clara University, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Jill Vialet, Founder and Executive Director, Sports4Kids
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I'm not sure
Not sure that the above statement is true. Here in the UK, where the Skoll Forum is being held and I run a social enterprise for instance.
In referring our own experience of exclusion for example, to Parliament, APPGs and grant funded advocacies of social enterprise, I was given pretty short shrift and no responses, save that of the microfinance APPG six months after.
There's nobody checking the transparency of all the SE pundits in business and government who shirk paying their suppliers, I know all to well.
What I think needs to happen is for our government to stop showcasing social enterprise while pumping funds into non-responsive agencies. We need businesses who do more than get up in the CSR pulpit, we need to have them recognise that social enterprises could be their suppliers and that perhaps some social enterprises wouldn't be necessary at all, if there were ethics applied to the principle of paying on time to small business suppliers.