More often than not, names of prominent entrepreneurs that roll off our tongues belong to our Western counterparts. The Foundation of Youth Social Entrepreneurship (FYSE) sees the problem that young people in Asia lack role models from their societies and aims to change that with the Asia Pacific Future 100 project.
Asia Pacific Future 100
The Asia Pacific Future 100 project is “a platform to provide young and inspirational role models from Asia to our youth to raise entrepreneurship awareness in Asia Pacific”.
The Future 100 members that they are looking for are “successful young entrepreneurs who dared to stride out by setting up their own business, social enterprise or NGO. They have overcome challenges by realizing their vision and believing in themselves.”
Award Categories
Commercial entrepreneurship: This includes individuals who set up a business in any field of commerce, with the main objective of achieving profit returns.
Social Changemakers: These are individuals who have set up a business, social enterprise, NGO or who have started an informal sustainable project with the sole objective of achieving social returns.
Judges
Dr. Meena Galliara (India): Professor Social Entrepreneurship; Narsee Monjee Institute of Management
Studies Mumbai
Mr. Wei Wei (China): National Director China; Right to Play
Mr. Julian Webb (Australia): Asia Region Facilitator for the World Bank’s infoDev Incubator Initiative
Mr. Chandran Nair (Hong Kong): Founder & CEO; Global Institute For Tomorrow
Ms. Yvonne Yeung (Hong Kong): Vice-Chairperson; Hong Kong Social Entrepreneurship Forum
Mr Ken Ito (Japan): Director Tokyo Social Venture Forum
Ms Vivian Gee (Switzerland): Head of South East and East Asia, Schwab Foundation
Nomination
The Asia Pacific Future 100 is open to nominees from these countries: Mongolia, China, Japan, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, Brunei, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Myanmar.
Detailed nomination info and eligibility can be found here.
Nominations will be open from May to August 2009. Use this form to nominate.
Nominations need to be sent as soft copy including all supporting documents (2 letters of recommendation, company marketing material/screenshots, copy of passport and CV – look at nomination form for details) as a .zip file named “nominee name _ country” to future100@fyse.org.
Competition Details
Award recipients will be confirmed by mid- September 2009. Future100 inductees and judges
will be invited to attend the Change Catalyst Conference and official Future100 Gala to be held in
November 2009.
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