Mombasa | Final pitch competition of the Women Social Entrepreneurship Institute
IOME001 hosts the Women Social Entrepreneurship Institute, founded by the French Red Cross and the Kenya Red Cross Society. On Tuesday, September 12th, the final pitch competition of the first cohort of women supported by the institute took place.
New edition of the Humanitarian Technology Awards by Spanish Red Cross
The Spanish Red Cross has launched the new edition of the Humanitarian Technology Awards for 2024. These awards offer a unique opportunity to recognize and reward the efforts made by various projects related to social innovation, both nationally and internationally.
How blockchain can possibly improve humanitarian actions
Identifying that blockchain technologies are a future research direction that urges to raise the dialogue among humanitarian actors, Red Social Innovation is launching a publication on "How blockchain can possibly improve humanitarian actions". Co-produced with the British Red Cross, this report gathered experts and case studies around the subject as means to explore the usages of blockchain related to community engagement, cash transfer & traceability.
Jorge Canovas (EISMEA): “Social innovations are new ideas that meet social needs”
The European Innovation Council (EIC), established under the EU Horizon Europe programme, is Europe’s flagship innovation programme to identify, develop and scale up breakthrough technologies and game changing innovations.
Social Innovation speaks Arabic!
Only 3% of the web is available in Arabic. Now it is time to provide access to social innovation solutions and actors of change in the region. With the purpose of finding new social innovation solutions globally and promoting knowledge sharing among all the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement; youth, social startups and technological innovations are now invited to explore the digital platform Red Social Innovation in Arabic.
