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One Drop is a diabetes management platform that harnesses the power of mobile computing and data science to empower people with diabetes to live healthier lives together. By logging their daily activities, people can see the relationships that food, insulin, and activity have with glucose levels and learn how others in the One Drop community navigate their daily lives, from one good glucose reading to the next. What makes One Drop truly innovative in the medical device marketplace is the scope of how it bundles traditionally siloed functions.
In 1994 Sebastien Marot was visiting Cambodia. He saw that when he gave food to poor kids in the streets, others gave, too, and the kids became professional beggars. With his two partners, he decided to do something different. They founded Friends International (FI) with a mission, "to build a future where all children are safe from all forms of abuse, can become productive citizens of their countries and contribute to a more equitable and sustainable world."
Twenty-two years later, FI is an international social enterprise and registered non-governmental organization focusing on children's empowerment. FI and its partners reach out to over 60,000 at-risk children and young people, their families and communities each year supporting them to become productive and functional citizens of their countries. FI works in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand and with 38 partners around the world, providing comprehensive social services to marginalized urban young people and their families. Since its inception, FI has supported the education, well-being, and sustainable reintegration of more than 300,000 marginalized children, youth, and caregivers.
The key ideas: Create a franchise of a sustainable and profitable social enterprise that attracts marginalized kids and give them learning opportunities to acquire professions in the F&B field resulting with self-sustained, contributing young adults who can feed themselves and their families with dignity and pride and help to expand the program even further.
General: According to Sebastien Marot, more than half a billion children are pushed to the margin of society. Street children, migrant children, working children, abused children, children in prison, and others. This is a big problem because these kids are not educated, will not join the economy as contributors and consumers, but are at risk of drugs, crime, and further abuse to continue the vicious circle of poverty. This is bad for the economy and bad for us all, as we are all connected. So his initiative tries to address it on a wide scale that can deliver massive impact. To really support the children to become productive and self-sustainable, contributing adults and change their fate, we need new models that combine the best of the business world and the NGO world and scale it up with holistic approaches.
Ugentec created an independent health diagnostic platform, not just for the cause of increased efficiency in an old school niche domain, but with a soulful purpose "to enable a better (emotional) life quality for patients." Ugentec is able to achieve data analysis 30 times faster compared to manual analysis and with a higher accuracy, through PCR (DNA) automation and interpretation.
Velosophy's innovation is to sell designer bicycles and for each bicycle that they sell, Velosophy will donate a bicycle to a schoolgirl in Ghana. Giving a bike to girls in Ghana helps girls to commute to school and still be able to participate in the housework. The need for inexpensive transportation in developing countries is huge and bicycles provide an environmentally friendly source of transportation.
Skandia is a mutually owned company that provides pensions, mutual funds, health insurance and banking services for Nordic countries. Skandia's purpose is to create better lives for its customers and society.
In 2002, Sweden had the highest sick-leave per capita rate in the world, thanks in part to its stagnant work culture, where job security and strong labor laws mean people stay put despite being unhappy or stressed out at work. Some 70% of those on leave suffered from psychiatric ailments.
This trend was costing Skandia two billion Swedish Krona per year, a number so significant it prompted the company to figure out how to prevent people from getting sick in the first place. Skandia piloted and then added a free prehab (preventative) insurance product. A four level model was introduced linking the state of health of the employees with diverse support, actions and tools for each level. Some examples: private, faster alternatives to health care, preventive care and training, health controls, health coaching and access to work-out. Kajsa says that "the colleagues involved, and Skandia as an organization, showed and hold a great deal of courage in realizing new ideas."
In 2006, Skandia opened a hotline, where people insured by Skandia through an employer, could report illnesses and receive treatment—from nurses, physical therapists, ergonomic specialists—anonymously and free of charge. It also urged companies to improve workplace health by questioning employees covered by its policies about their on-the-job experience and providing employers with the feedback. Ten years on, the rate of sick leave among Skandia policyholders has dropped from by more than half, to 2.0%, allowing the company to cut its premiums by 80%.
Kajsa believes that in the future--2026--the number of sick people and associated costs will continues to decrease.
The HALOSEP process recycles waste from incineration plants into new raw materials, reducing environmental pollutants in landfills.
The innovation has evolved around sustainability and fairness through their business model, being focused on the environment and employee equality and creating a network. They purchase from sustainable suppliers who grow coffee beans through fair trade and involve their retail employees through their co-op program.
Eco-ethno Village Škopljanci can be described as a family estate which has preserved the past for the future. In the center of the village are twenty-year-old stone houses of which twelve are fully restored to the smallest details in order to preserve the original format, respecting traditions and architectures of the area.
They are the pioneers of rural tourism, and thanks to the rural Olympics, Bullfights, and the Mid-Summer Nights beauty contest, Dalmatian Hinterland is the most famous tourist complex of its kind in Croatia.
Minami Sanriku Hotel Kanyo is a large resort hotel featuring 244 guest rooms in Minamisanriku, Japan, a town in the Tohoku district of northern Honshu.
Minamisanriku used to be a thriving area, blessed with a rich natural environment, beautiful ocean, delicious seafood and warm people. However, on March 11, 2011, the town was severely damaged by the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami. The Hotel Kanyo managed to remain standing and quickly became a local recovery base, providing shelter and support to volunteers and evacuees after the disaster.
Even after the Kanyo returned to business as usual, it has continued to play an important role in the town's restoration and reconstruction.
The EDI Institute partners with leading medical, community, and educational organizations to promote recovery and emotional resilience. Through imagery created on mobile devices, it enables those facing life’s challenges to express complex feelings and emotions that words alone cannot. The EDI Institute is focused on dramatically enhancing measurable clinical outcomes by enhancing therapeutic self-expression.
The typical American homeowner routinely harms the environment by wasting freshwater, and the energy to filter and transport it just to maintain a green lawn. Even worse, there's fertilizer run-off and lawnmower pollution. It doesn't have to be this way. Jackson Madnick has developed a revolutionary new grass seed mix that actually is a benefit to the environment.
Offering customers bridal jewelry that has a reduced environmental impact compared to traditional diamond and gold manufacturing.
Modesta, a way of making, is a company that seeks to help and inspire change, and is adding actions to build a more just and habitable planet as part of a sustainable economy with forms of social production and environmental responsibility.
EMOV means Energy in Movement. The company manufactures and sells electric vehicles (mainly electric bicycles, aka "e-bikes").
E-bikes have an electric engine, so they are silent. Because they emit zero carbons, they are eco-friendly. They allow cyclists to move around the city easily, avoiding traffic issues without contributing to pollution. The e-bike has a brushless electric engine (a high-tech model) added to its rear wheel. The battery is included on same frame and supplies enough energy for a 30 km per charge of autonomy. Cyclists can use engine power, pedal power, or both simultaneously. Using the engine, cyclists can reach speeds of up to 20 mph (32 km/h). The e-bike is charged by plugging the battery's charger into a 220v home plug. It's basically the cheapest motorized vehicle available these days.
Currently, EMOV offers many different models. The main one is called Brina 1.0, and it includes a brushless/gearless engine of 750 W - 36 V power, Lithium 15.6 A batteries, Shimano shifter with 21 gears, and LED lights...just to mention some of its features.
Dr. Gavin Armstrong innovated a product known as the Lucky Iron Fish. This product is a carefully formulated iron ingot that, when boiled with a meal for 10 minutes, releases a significant portion of a person's daily iron intake requirements. This product, based out of Guelph, Ontario, started its mission to reduce the effects of iron deficiency in Cambodia, and has grown worldwide since.
Established last 2011, Kawil Tours was formed by a group of friends that share a deep love and sense of commitment for Culion. With the island slowly entering the tourism bandwagon, Kawil aims to bring travellers to Culion to let the world experience and understand the story behind this unpopular but familiar island.
Taken from: http://www.kawiltours.com/