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headed by http://www.ashoka.org ; unusual network -local members elect each other to the high standards of being one of the 2000 deepest social experiments to be found ; fascinating to tour ashoka's web of fellows in a particular poor country and get an overview of development priorities; if you are not a lifelong social entrepreneur in a poor country, ashoka is expanding opportunities to collaborate such as:

• volunteer with various worldwide service duties
• enter a virtual competition at http://www.changemakers.net to see how close you get to ashoka's grade of social entrepreneur
• learn how to teach social entrepreneurship at http://universitynetwork.org
• young people are often welcomed as apprentices by local social entrepreneurs

This video of ashoka leader Bill Drayton speaking at google.org is probably the best introduction you can click to; at http://humanityrising.blogspot.com we have listed samplers of 16 dvds that ashoka has made of those socila entrepreneurs who have achieved most worldwide scale: Yunus, Abed, Drayton, Eigen, Grajew, Tepper Marlin. Full sets of the dvds can be bought at http://www.dvd.ashoka.org Ashoka is the subject of David Bornstein's journey book : How to Change the World

We log up many more stories of social entrepereneurs at http://social-entrepreneur.blogspot.com http://grameen.tv http://worldcitizen.tv http://er100.blogspot.com

AIESEC, the world's largest student organization, is the international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential so as to have a positive impact on society. In addition to providing over 5,000 leadership positions and delivering over 350 conferences , AIESEC also runs an exchange program that enables over 3,500 students and recent graduates the opportunity to live and work in another country.Oddly this network retains more of the dna of what Europe intended to harmonise across nations than the European Union today. Doubtless the experience varies by country and even citizen branch. But for example, in many American cities , Aiesec is seen as opening an opportunity to experience true multicultural understanding abroad that many othewr American institutions have somehow lost, and none of which wave so simply through youthful peer-to-peer identification with each other's challenges

BRAC - largest world citizen organisation

Africa Progress Panel summer 2006 took up the mantle of Make Poverty History and Africa Commission 2005. This time it has a lot more sustainabilty bite. Technical expert Peter Eigen of Transparency International. Funder Bill Gates Foundation. Channel : Kofi Annan, & Global Compact. Media spokesperson Geldof. Judge the G8 permissions : Tony Blair. Early African pilot - president Nigeria.