In the year 2000 Victoria Hale launched the Institute for OneWorld Health, a nonprofit pharmaceutical company that develops drugs and vaccines for diseases that primarily affect developing countries.
Although infectious diseases account for only 10 percent of deaths in developed countries, they cause 60 percent of deaths among the world’s poorest people.
OneWorld intends to bring drugs to market at costs affordable to poor people and countries. It has set up a manufacturing and marketing collaborative to begin production of its first drug, which will treat visceral leishmaniasis, a fatal tropical disease transmitted by insect bites that currently afflicts 1.5 million.
Learn about her story in this episode of Uncommon Heroes, funded by the Skoll Foundation. More info: www.skollfoundation.org
Twestival is a party that brings the social media community together to raise money for charity. It’s a great night with bands, DJs and demostrations of new ideas.
From 12 August to 12 September, people can vote on which charity projects should benefit from the funds raised. The recipients of the funding will be announced on the night.
Tickets cost between €10-50. You pay the price you want.
Among all the interesting people who came to the Hub on Monday the Hub Connect, Jean-Yves Huwart of Entreprise Globale interviewed Alexander Riedl.
Alexander Riedl is the co-founder of the HUB in Brussels. The HUB is a community of innovative entrepreneurs who want to get connected with peers. There could be startups, people shifting their career, social entrepreneurs, long haul travelrs or just people with idea. The project they are building intend to bring some meaning.
The HUB in Brussels is part of an international network of other HUB in more than 15 cities around the world. All the members consider themself as part of that broad community.
We are happy to announce that the Belgian Peer-to-Peer theorist Michel Bauwens will visit the Hub again on April 16th to speak on the following subject: “An introduction to open business models”.
There will be a participation cost of 20 Euro (10 Euro for students).Start 07.00.pm. Please confirm your coming by registering here.
We will deal with the following questions :
How can p2p approaches and tools help entrepreneurs boost their businesses.
What new tools and practices are emerging throughp2p for entrepreneurs?
What oppurtunities are emerging for entrepreneurs through p2p tools and approaches?
Our friends from comind would like to invite you to the “Research café” innovation day on March 7th from 11.00.am to 06.00.pm at the Clockarium museum ,163 Reyers boulevard – 1030 Brussels / Schaerbeek .The number of participants is limited to 25 and you can register here
Here is a description of the programme of the day in French.
Aujourd’hui, nous devons être, plus que jamais, en adaptation permanente, ce qui implique d’accroître nos aptitudes à innover à différents niveaux : produits, services, processus, organisation.
CoMind se donne pour objectif de contribuer à la réflexion sur ce qui constitue les clés du progrès en matière d’innovation. Associer des mondes très différents est une source importante d’innovation. C’est pourquoi nous te proposons d’expérimenter la technique du ResearchCafé au Clockarium, suite à une visite guidée qui nous fera revivre l’entre-deux-guerres.
Cette journée s’adresse aux :
* Responsables d’innovation dans les entreprises
* Direction des ressources humaines
* Dirigeants d’activités pour lesquelles l’innovation est à développer
* Consultants internes et externes
* Responsables de formation
