The Schwab Foundation in Davos January 21-25 2004 SCHWAB FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP Supporting Social Entrepreneurs around the World PERSPECTIVES MY DAVOS INSIDE OUT 06.00 View from my window My badge Going to work Guards from far away Friendly guards? Elegant colleague Sunny view 07.00 Congress Center 09.00 Congress Center 11.00 Congress Center 13.00 Congress Center 15.00 Congress Center Outside clear skies! Nice stranger in the shuttle bus 17.00 Congress Center 19.00 Congress Center Last email of the day? Heading home My footprints 22.00 View from my window Welcome to the second issue of Perspectives, a periodical published by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. In this issue, we have hoped to capture the “spirit of Davos” as described by Schwab Social Entrepreneurs and other participants coming into contact with them in this Alpine ski town between January 21st and 25th. Pamela Hartigan Managing Director Schwab Foundation 2 ARRIVED: SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP@DAVOS n the mid-nineties, social entrepreneurship began to visionaries seek to engage the mainstream, patience developing countries and at 15% in OECD countries. capture the imagination of development and social is on order. After three years, social entrepreneurship Creative approaches that build workable and Ipolicy practitioners. Social entrepreneurs offered a truly arrived at Davos in 2004. As one of the Schwab sustainable organizational structures to provide fresh start to solve seemingly intractable problems. Entrepreneurs pointed out, “we discerned a genuine public and private goods are urgently needed. Social shift in the general perception of social entrepreneurs are the catalysts that ensure that the Drawing on market-based mechanisms to create entrepreneurship, moving from the loony fringes benefits of international economic integration trickle positive change in the domains of education, the toward greater recognition and acceptability as a down. To seriously dent poverty and inequality, we environment, fair trade, health, and human rights, positive and significant force for economic as well as need many more of them. With the entire buzz about social entrepreneurs combined a passion to solve social and political good.” Social entrepreneurship social entrepreneurship at this year’s Annual Meeting social problems with an entrepreneurial outlook on just graduated from push to pull. of the World Economic Forum, one can be confident life. that decision-makers have begun to listen. The task This year, many CEOs, politicians, and other top-level now is to find ways to accelerate the diffusion of To put social entrepreneurship on the map in Davos, decision-makers genuinely wanted to meet social social entrepreneurship on the ground. Klaus and Hilde Schwab founded the Schwab entrepreneurs and learn about their work. This trend Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. But when is likely to continue. Informal sector employment Schwab Foundation stands at eighty per cent of total employment in Bunker Roy, Barefoot College Maria Elena Ordóñez, Arcandina Contents CONFIRMED: 46 SCHWAB SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS 2Arrived Social Entrepreneurship @ Davos Social Entrepreneur Arriving from Ibrahim Abouleish & Helmy Abouleish Egypt 2Confirmed: 46 Schwab Social Entrepreneurs Shobha Arole India Rick Aubry USA 3 An Invitation to Celebrate Rodrigo Baggio Brazil Jeroo Billimoria India 4 My Perspective on Davos 2004 Gillian Caldwell USA Vicky Colbert Colombia 4Cinderellas Take over the Ball Mirai Chatterjee India Fidela Ebuk Nigeria 5 The Impossible Takes a Little Longer Iftekhar Enayetullah Bangladesh Martin Fisher USA Nicolas Frances Australia 5 I, Gisèle Yitamben, Schwab Social Entrepreneur Jim Fruchterman USA Linda & Millard Fuller USA 5 Schwab Social Entrepreneurs and Partners David Green USA Victoria Hale USA 6,7 Before, During and After Davos Sara Horowitz USA Javier Hurtado Mercado Bolivia 8 In Transit with Four Schwab Social Entrepreneurs Garth Japhet South Africa Richard Jefferson Australia 8 What Next? Alan Khazei USA Ashok Khosla India 8 Climbing in Davos Sergey Kostin Ukraine Jackey Maarohanye South Africa Vijay Mahajan India Roberto Milk USA Nick Moon USA Armenia Nercessian de Oliveira Brazil Maria Elena Ordóñez Ecuador Peter Reiling USA Paul Rice USA Fabio Rosa Brazil Linda Rottenberg USA Bunker Roy India Albina Ruiz Peru Tomasz & Barbara Sadowski Poland Maqsood Sinha Bangladesh Rory Stear South Africa Rick Surpin USA Wu Qing China Schwab Social Entrepreneurs with the Schwab Foundation team Gisele Yitamben Cameroon Mel Young Scotland Roshaneh Zafar Pakistan 3 AN INVITATION TO CELEBRATE Spirit of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Please join us in celebrating those individuals, corporations, non-governmental and multilateral organizations that apply an entrepreneurial spirit to improve people’s lives Hosted by Carly Fiorina Malcolm Williamson With Honored Guests Zanele Mbeki, First Lady of South Africa and Carly Fiorina, HP Malcolm Williamson, VISA Member of the Board of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship Mark Malloch Brown Administrator, UNDP Professor Klaus Schwab Founder and Chair, World Economic Forum Co-founder and President, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship Saturday, 24 January 2004 17.30 - 19.00 Gisèle Yitamben, ASAFE and Hotel Derby, Davos Debra Dunn, HP and Mark Zanele Mbeki Malloch Brown, UNDP o read the invitation that went out to 250 corporate, public, foundation, and to make a real difference can truly take those communities and this world to where media leaders participating at Davos. But with so many competing events we have not been before”. Soccurring, what sort of turnout could be expected? One of the co-hosts recalled a private event they had organized at Davos in 2003 – only 25 people “We are presented with a powerful opportunity”, echoed Malcolm Williamson, had turned up! CEO of VISA*. “First, we need to recognize social entrepreneurs and how they are launching innovative programs that have a high impact on tough problems. We plunged into the planning, undeterred. For over a month, HP, VISA and the But more importantly, we need to mobilize the resources of our companies, Schwab Foundation put the event together through daily emails and conference governments, and organizations to build partnerships that smash challenges and calls. The only glitch turned out to be that the beautiful banners that were to grow opportunities.” decorate the event never made it through Swiss customs. But the turnout was beyond expectations – at least 200 people came to listen to the co-hosts describe “The fact that HP and VISA are engaged with social entrepreneurs isn’t what is why their companies are working with social entrepreneurs around the world. new. It is that we envision a different model from the old philanthropy: We all can be more successful by embracing social entrepreneurship in our core business. For “It is in our enlightened self-interest to work with accomplished social VISA, these initiatives leverage our core expertise and complement our efforts to entrepreneurs, especially in emerging markets”, observed Carly Fiorina, CEO of help our member financial institutions deliver the value of VISA to more individuals Hewlett Packard. “I think for too many years, it was too easy to assume that just around the world.” because the poorest in underdeveloped countries didn’t have the same opportunities as everyone else, that they didn’t have the same talent. Lord David Puttnam summed up the sea change being led by visionary companies such as HP and VISA: “Big business is starting to realise that if it is “ I think what the social entrepreneurs we are here to honor today are proving is to adapt to a new world, it needs the help of social entrepreneurs”. that those assumptions and those ugly stigmas are wrong”. Ms. Fiorina emphasized. “Not only do the poorest people in the poorest countries have vast * through February 29, 2004 potential inside them – but the right resources married to a sustained commitment Björn Stigson, WBCSD and Mirjam Schoening, Schwab Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia Klaus Schwab and Paulo Paulo Coelho, Albina Ruiz, Wu Qing, Rural Women Foundation and Professor University and Richard Coelho Pamela Hartigan, Lord David Georg Von Krogh, University Jefferson, Cambia Puttnam, Maria Elena Ordóñez, of St. Gallen Javier Hurtado, Nicole Schwab 4 MY PERSPECTIVE ON DAVOS 2004 On a more serious note, one of the biggest interdependence is the key to world challenges that the global economy faces prosperity and security – however he today is sharing and distributing the fruits failed to answer the question how despite of economic progress. In fact, 1.2 billion a six fold increase in the world economy people live on the brink of daily disaster, over the last decade, poverty continues to surviving on a mere $1 per day. And these grow by leaps and bounds? I actually statistics fail to capture the helplessness, had the opportunity to address some the humiliation and the hopelessness that of these points of view, since I was one poor people face in their day to day of the panelists on the opening day’s plenary and was able to emphasise the existence. To what extent did the plight of urgency of linking economic prosperity these people figure in this year’s Forum, with social and gender equity. with its theme of “Partnering for Security Unfortunately, however, several other and Prosperity”? aspects of global poverty received short President Clinton initiated this debate by shrift, even if some participants and stating