Social Entrepreneurs Utilizing Technologies to Create Social Benefits

• Main Authors: Esmeralda Rodriguez, 羅思玫
• Other Authors: Lee-Men, Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53514273451749488861

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 國際創業與經營管理學程碩士在職專班 === 103 === This report aims towards understanding and analyzing how social entrepreneurs successfully make users use social media to create social benefits as social entrepreneurs intended. In our generation today, the power of information is shifting; social media has become one of the main sources for information and it is estimated that nearly one in four people worldwide has access to social media (“Social Networking reaches Nearly One in Four Around the World,”2013). Social media dominates over news media in regards to the amount of people they each reach. This number keeps growing every day as developing countries and their populations are finding ways to connect to this very popular phenomenon. This report will look into entrepreneurs and their organizations who seen an opportunity to utilize social media and its technology to reach out to communities in rural areas across the world while still taking an entrepreneurial leap towards their passion for helping society as a whole. The profiles of the entrepreneurs will be discussed along with their success factors. A simple comparison will be made on these organizations and further comments and recommendations will follow. The countries that these entrepreneurs chose will be analyzed by several factors to get an idea of the social climate and social opportunities will be identified. Social entrepreneurship will be discussed and tied in with the profiles of those identified.