message from asia - international symposium 'design eco-systems for social innovation

Opening message from 

Asian Social Innovators

Romy Cahyadi (Director, ProVisi Education, Indonesia)

Kieu Oanh Pham (Director, Center for Social Initiatives Promotion, Vietnam)

• Environmental and natural resources are not unlimited. 

• Business is a subset of the society; and society is a subset of the environment. 

• In the global village there is only one boat; and a hole in the boat can sink us all. 

• Grameen Bank (current total savings 500 million US$) 

• Grameen Danone 

• Grameen Veolia Water Muhammad Yunus 

Nobel Laureate 2006

Silverius Oscar Unggul (TELAPAK)

Sulawesi Tenggara, Indonesia: 

‐ Skoll Award 2010; US$ 750,000

‐ Sustainable community logging

‐ Community cooperative of more than 8,200 families 

‐ Current turnover US$ 800,000

A door to change lives

Information Technology

Image: Nguyễn Á

In Vietnam, there are 6,1 millions of PWDs, equivalent to 7% of population.Most (95,8%) are living on their familiesNearly 33% households of PWDs is living under the poverty line

Support the PWDs for holistic community integration

IT Training for 500 PWDVocational Orientation, Job placement

Promote products made by PWDs

Images: website NLS

In Vietnam, lead acid batteries are being used and discarded daily but are recycled in informal smelters that are extremely polluting

PHAM PHUONG LINH

Gratia Recycling - lead battery recycling plant

Image: Internet

Produce high quality recycle-lead, reduce the

import of lead for domestic production activities

Reduce hazardous impact from collecting and

recycling acid and lead to the environment and

people

Improve health care and stable income for

800 batteries collectors

Social Enterprise Network Asia(SENA)

Promote Pan-Asia collboration for socia change

Focus on knowledge sharing, partnership building and regional sector building.

Membership in HongKong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Phillipines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.

• THE UNTRAPPED MIND

The “untrapped mind” is open enough 

to see many possibilities 

humble enough to learn 

from anyone and anything, 

forbearing enough to forgive all 

perceptive enough to see things 

as they really are, 

and reasonable enough 

to judge their true value. Konosuke Matsushita 

(1894‐1989)

The Founder of Panasonic