Social Innovation Events

The field of social enterprise is growing and the Social Enterprise Summit and World Forum will be joining over 500 social entrepreneurs in San Francisco in April 2010.

Call for Proposals: October 12, 2009 In a time of great global transformations, we invite you to share experiences and critical reflections about the follow questions: If in the last two centuries we fought to institutionalize civil, political, and social rights, in the 21st century can we spread and deepen democracy as a way of life? If so, how? In many parts of the world, the practices and conceptions of democracy and citizenship learning are in transformation. Decreasing electoral participation, citizen distrust of politicians and the institutions of formal democracy, and the failure of representative democracy to assure social inclusion and equal opportunities have ignited intense debates about the “democratic deficit”.