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Wonder technologies are creating new tools, such as microscopes, lasers and microlences, based on artificial diamonds, which can help to address many of the wicked problems. These technologies can be used in various fields from medicine to engineering.
Asia P3 Hub covers 3 main innovations:
(1) Relationship Innovation: Partnerships that give rise to new operating models between the public sector, business and civil society (such as NGOs, academia, and community-based organizations).
(2) Process Innovation: Time, talent and treasure. This process includes being able to champion causes, spark new ideas, and transform thinking into measurable action through social Innovation challenges.
(3) Products & Service Innovation: Training courses/ boot camps on the model of multi-sector partnerships.
UN Global Goals achieved:
Good Health and Well-Being
By selling healthier tea beverages, they hope to eliminate the health problems. Evidence shows that the intake of beverages has had a disproportional impact on obesity. Trends in the food supply show that total daily calories available per capita increased 28% since 1970. (Storey, 2010)
Gender Equality
As more female employees are hired in the store, the company is working towards eliminating gender-based discrimination and providing women and girls their fundamental rights and opportunities in the workplace.
Responsible Consumption and Production
Along with using natural ingredients and recycling cups, Teaser developed a recyclable alternative to plastic straws with a designed cup lid. There is a raised circle mouth in the lid so that customers can drink both the topping cheese and tea together without using straws.
Therefore, Teaser' tea beverage production procedure and the lid design contribute to sustainable production and consumption.
Reference
Storey, M. (2010). The shifting beverage landscape. Physiology & Behavior, 100(1), 10. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.02.009
Tiffins and Thots is an idea, a platform that incubates women entrepreneurship to start up and successfully run self sustaining, profitable venture that provides healthy meals and snacks to offices and homes.
The idea is about instilling a sense of 'can do' attitude in women from less or under privileged section of the society and then supporting them to start up on their own and run a successful business venture.
4 such micro ventures have already taken shape and are operationally profitable in 4 different geographical pockets of Mumbai.
They are living establishments that show what seemingly reticent, at first; yet hardworking, sincere and aspirational women can do to come out of their shackles or constraints.
All it takes is a little support, the initial 'egging' and a booster dose of confidence through the journey.
That's what Tiffins & Thots is all about and sums up what it does.
It resonates with UN SDG 5 on gender equality and is deeply rooted in the concept of sustainable consumption.
Eighteen Chefs is a casual dining restaurant group in Singapore that hires ex-offenders and troubled youth to help them reintegrate back into the society by offering them a safe and non-judgemental working environment.
It was founded by Mr Benny Se Teo, a Singaporean secondary school dropout who spent more than a decade in and out of prison, for drug-related offences due to his heroin addiction.
Eighteen Chefs serves mainly Western cuisine with an Asian twist and extensive variety of dishes at affordable prices. They have successfully expanded to 14 restaurants across Singapore in 11 years with more than 400 employees.
Gift-It-Forward requires the host to create an event (birthday celebration, wedding, baby shower, new home, etc.) on the Gift-It-Forward platform, choose a customised electronic invitation cards and send invitations to their guests via the platform.
Once the invitations are sent, a personal gift fund will be automatically created where a portion will go towards a charity of the host’s choice and the remaining portion to a group gift that the host hopes to receive. Gift-It-Forward receives an administrative fee of 15% of the total contributions received after each event.
Octave is a learning institute, a place for self-reflection, a place to where you can find support to grow and to heal, a place where learning is fun. Its’ programs tap into an inbuilt human resource, MINDFULNESS, which is present in every one of us. Through programs of learning, healing, renewing – Octave provides the environment to build connections, a source of creativity and in turn an inspiration for programs.
In the words of one of the Octave managers, “I am amazed by the synthesized plan of investment and philosophy, which is inspiring how a society should work. As I experience Octave learning programs, the changes will start to happen, first inside myself, begin to raise my self-awareness of “non-judgement”. The magic is when I find myself naturally embodying those changes into my life, applying it at work”.
Octave always pushes beyond boundaries. It is a place where minds meet to dialogue and shares new ideas on world harmony. It is a community that is purposeful, who labours with love to bring the best exchange and connections of humankind. All connections are designed to be impactful and influencing global leadership, everyday, everywhere.
As described collectively by three of the interviewees, they describe the uniqueness as, "At Octave, you will have fun while learning. You can choose to join in WE time to connect with others, or simply enjoy some ME time. We are a place for harmony and connection; where you feel free and relax; supported and loved, with rich offerings, so you have choices to learn, grow and evolve, your own and collective talents. At Octave, you will experience a safe environment to build trust, to learn appreciation, to learn from conflicts, to heal. We are a place for all ages, to nurture a renewed way to communicate, engage, connect! Celebrate life at Octave, as it brings the core materials of humanity out so leaders can make conscious purposeful decisions that serves and advances humanity."
The Dialog in the Dark is an experience that uses a unique pedagogical approach of edutainment to empower visually challenged youth, make them independent and self-reliant. The experience also helps to sensitize the society at large to treat the visually challenged with dignity and respect
In 2015, Scott Jacobsen and Cullen Schwartz co-founded their company, DoneGood, with a mission to connect consumers to socially and environmentally conscious brands. Fed-up with giving their money to profit-hungry, people and nature exploiting companies, Scott and Cullen knew that there were better companies out there. Companies who knew that they could make a profit and still care about people and the planet. Through their Chrome extension, phone app, website, and newsletter, the DoneGood team works to introduce consumers to companies making a difference in the world.
BioPak produces a variety of food packaging products for environmentally conscious businesses and consumers. Its packaging reduces the environmental impact of food packaging by creating packaging that is compostable and plastic that can be chemically recycled. This helps reduce the amount of waste in the landfill as well as plastic in oceans and rivers.
All the group companies of Fujifilm Holdings Corporation develop eco-friendly products based on the “Real Green” concept, which means to be both energy-efficient and user-friendly. To make contributions to reducing environmental impacts through products, Fujifilm Corporation keeps advancing its technologies to supply more energy-saving products to society, thereby helping further reduce CO2 emissions. In addition, activities are underway to promote greater awareness of CO2 emissions reductions by adding carbon offset to products, in addition to the energy-saving effect.
Safa Tempo is a three wheeler electric vehicle. It has been giving employment opportunities to women too as there are more women drivers than men. It promotes the use of clean energy (hydro-electricity) thus reduces the use of fossil fuel.
The company basically is a web-based outsourcing platform that hires cloud-workers who can work from their internet enabled locations. Cloudfactory's clients are those who need big data services such as data entry, data processing, data collection along with audio/video transcription, categorization, web research and image tagging.
The integrated waste management facility has the capability to reduce more the 90% of total waste. It helps the company to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of clean energy and sustainable cities and communities.
The innovation is to change used tires into something beautiful and creative with innovative ideas and arts.
Agape-CP has innovated to position itself from being a basic call center towards being a multi-channel contact center employing diverse marginalised people and providing them with skills training (SDG #8 Decent Work, #10 Reduced Inequalities) to handle voice calls, email marketing and webchat interaction for its customers who require integrated marketing solutions (SDG #9 Industry Innovation).
Through research over the years, Wateroam has produced its patented water filtration systems ROAMfilter Plus and ROAMfilter Ultra utilizing advanced hollow-fibre technologies. Both are designed for maximum filtration speed and quality, catered specifically for the needs of rural and disaster areas (SDG #3 Good Health & Well- Being, #6 Clean Water, #11 Sustainable Communities).