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September 29, 2011 by SGE
This Friday, the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre will organize a talk entitled Building A Viable Social Business with Jack Sim (see interview with SGE) of World Toilet Organization as the speaker. He will speak on the potential of the Base of Pyramid Marketplace and how the audience can seize this opportunity to make an impact regardless of current resources. Read more
August 5, 2011 by SGE
On Aug 13, the Indonesian Professionals’ Association (IPA) will launch their Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SOLVE) Awards. It is an initiative by IPA to recognize and promote social innovators and social entrepreneurs within Indonesia. The launch of this awards will be in the format of a talk and networking session at the end. Jack Sim of World Toilet Organization (interview with SGE) and Anies Baswedan of Indonesia Mengajar will attend as the speakers. Read more
June 30, 2009 by Bernard Leong
In the book “The Power of Unreasonable People“, a definitive guide (by John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan) on the social entrepreneurship movement has mentioned a Singaporean social entrepreneur by the name of Jack Sim, who started the World Toilet Organization (WTO) and how his work provided a scaling solution for governments to set standards on sanitation. Earning two prestigous global social entrepreneurship accolades: Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur and Ashoka Global Fellow, Jack has started a global clean toilet movement that help governments to shape sanitation policies. One success story is that the World Toilet Organization assisted the Chinese government in adopting the standards for lavatories before the Beijing Olympics last year. We have managed to get Jack to come on board for an interview, to tell us about the story behind World Toilet Organization and his views on the trends of social entrepreneurship in Singapore. Read more
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