Wake Up and Play the Call to Start Some Good
Social Technology for Social Impact Series
Convened by
the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of Social Enterprise Alliance
Event co-Sponsored
by Generation Waking Up and StartSomeGood.com
Please RSVP at http://wakeupnplaythecall2startsomegood.eventbrite.com/
DATE: Friday, February 17th
TIME: From 6pm to 9pm
LOCATION: SEA\SF Bay Chapter Office at
Rally Pad @ 144 2nd Street, in San Francisco, CA.
COST: FREE
From Egypt to Occupy,
the convening power of social technology has been demonstrated around the world.
From crowdsourcing to gamification, leaders and entrepreneurs are
using innovative social technology to facilitate collaborative action for the common
good.
The Social Technology
for Social Impact Series aims to foster an interactive dialogue to learn and
explore concrete opportunities for using social technology to engage
communities in taking action toward positive social change.
Join us in a fluid cross-cultural
and intergenerational conversation moderated by Antonio Aguilera, president of
the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of SEA, featuring Edgard Gouveia, founder of
Play the Call, Piya Banerjee from Generation Waking up, and Tom Dawkins, co-founder
of StartSomeGood.com.
Edgard Gouveia Jr is
a Brazilian architect and urban planner who has been active in innovative
social change for the past 20 years. His current project is the creation of
PlayTheCall, a visionary Global Game that aims to gameify social
activism, using open source technology to network the best energies and initiatives
of two billion people to save the planet in a methodology that is fast, free
and fun. Edgard is bringing his warmth and enthusiasm to northern California
this week. He is excited to create synergy with like-minded visionaries in the
Bay Area!
As part of GenUp’s
Core Team, Piya Banerjee manages communications & web, fundraising, and staff team
health & empowerment; and contributes in the areas of strategic
planning, program development, and community engagement. Piya graduated
with a B.A. in Finance and International Business from the University of
Washington. She has worked a variety of positions post-graduation
including Management Consultant, GMAT Instructor, and Public Relations and
Development Manager for an education-based non-profit in Hyderabad, India. She
is also a lifelong student of human development, yoga, and music and is excited
to embody all aspects of herself in her work with GenUp.
Tom Dawkins is
co-founder of StartSomeGood.com, a peerfunding platform for social change
initiatives that reduces barriers for emerging social entrepreneurs to raise
funds and grow a community of supporters. Tom founded Vibewire Youth Media
and Arts Inc. creating expression opportunities for young Australians through
media, arts and technology. Vibewire has received several international
awards including the NSW Non-Profit Microbusiness of the Year at the UN’s World
Summit on the Information Society. Tom is a recipient of the Future
Summit Leadership Award at the Future Summit and a Global YouthActionNet
Fellowship from the International Youth Foundation. In April
2008 Tom moved on from Vibewire and spent time traveling before being
appointed Digital Marketing Strategist and Social Media Director at Ashoka
utilizing social technologies to inspire people to become changemakers. In
2010 Tom moved to San Francisco where he worked as a Senior Social
Media Consultant for Small Act and as Manager of Communications and Emerging
Media at HopeLab, an Omidyar Network organization.
Moderator
Antonio Aguilera is
facilitating the participatory production of Crowd4all,
a crowdsourcing app that connects economically underserved people to
new work opportunities distributed online. Antonio is former Chief Social
Enterprise Officer at Community Vocational Enterprises in San Francisco, where
he directed 3 social enterprises that help people with mental health
disabilities get jobs: a staffing agency, a janitorial service, and 3 coffee
shops. In Mexico, Antonio launched a VoIP company to help people living with
HIV get healthcare access through employment. He has experience in providing
tech solutions for organizations in the United States, Mexico, Canada, and
Germany. Antonio is a passionate thinker and doer of business and technology
for the common good.
With your attendance, our conversation hopes to be
highly participatory.
About
the Social Enterprise Alliance, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of SEA brings existing and emerging
leaders together to build a stronger, more vibrant social enterprise community
in the San Francisco Bay Area. The
Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA) is the largest membership organization for
social enterprises in North America. Social enterprises are businesses and
organizations that apply market-based strategies in solving today’s pressing
social challenges. With regional chapters located in major cities throughout
the United States and nearly 700 members, SEA continues expanding its network
of social enterprises, foundations, lenders, educators and service providers;
helping develop revenue-generating strategies that harness the power of the
markets to achieve social missions.
About
StartSomeGood.com
StartSomeGood empowers people from around the world to become social
innovators. By connecting social entrepreneurs with the financial and
intellectual capital they need to transform an idea for improving the world
into a reality, together we can turn ideas into action and impact.
About
Generation Waking Up
Generation Waking Up is a global campaign that leverages social media
to ignite a generation of young people to bring forth a thriving, just,
sustainable world.
