Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Empowering young Arab innovators, digital entrepreneurs and social enterprises to address today's rising global market and community challenges
Because Social Impact Demands Spaces that Foster Innovation
Current solutions aimed at solving business, humanitarian and service delivery challenges often fail to scale and sustain due to the lack of basic skills in value-based innovation, human-centered design and digital product development & strategy. This lack of skills & know-how results in traditional solutions that yield poor impact and are incapable of competing in today's fast growing digital world. Today, Innovation cannot lead to desired results if entrepreneurs, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and development professionals are not empowered with a new set of skills; digital solution design, user-testing, prototyping and management top the long list.
Supporting Ideas That Promise To Deliver Big Social Impact
Access to Incubation & Equity-Free Innovation Finance
Access to Specialised Technical Mentorship by Top Industry Leaders
Access to Value-Based Innovation Learning & Training
Specilized Digital Solutions Design & Development Support Services
Access to Industry-Specific Networks & Impact Investment Opportunities
Mentorship Hour
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Do you have an idea that fills in a research/data gap and promises to inform policy, facilitate access to information, foster public participation or even advance freedoms in Lebanon?
Holoul X YE will help you design & launch a knowledge product that can help shed light on a socio-political issue that you believe is worth highlighting and publicly sharing.
Join other social enterprises, young entrepreneurs, researchers and social innovators in an 6-month program that helps you gain research skills, design digital knowledge products, gain access to a pool of experts through mentorship and a chance to access an R&D grant of up to $5000.
Do you have a business idea that promises to deliver big social impact?
Let’s help you design, test & launch an innovative solution that has the power to scale.
Join Holoul, an early-stage digital solutions incubation program that helps social enterprises, young entrepreneurs and social innovators design, test and launch low cost, market-ready, and scalable ICT-enabled programs, products and services that can help advance their efforts in socio-economic development.This six-month program offers social entrepreneurs and startups a chance to compete for an equity free innovation grant while accessing specialized technical mentorship by top industry leaders and digital solutions design & development support services.
A program which involves reviewing submitted business ideas and meeting one-on-one with selected applicants (either in person or virtually) to critique and evaluate their business ideas and plans. The entrepreneurs in residence will help create and deliver programs (e.g. workshops, lectures, meetups, etc., in-person or online) along with support materials, related to small-business creation and development by members of equity-seeking groups. This workshop offers successful candidates a special opportunity to share their knowledge and experience.
Yomken.com is the Arab World’s first #CrowdSolving platform. It aims at making Research, Development, and Innovation more affordable and accessible! It does so by linking (i) solution seekers (local factories, NGOs, governmental entities) with (ii) local innovators (students, researcher centers, engineers, designers, etc.) and (iii) entities supporting and funding innovation and entrepreneurship in the Arab world. The platform currently manages a network of more than 10,000 innovators in different disciplines, 150 partners varying from student activities, developmental agency, TV shows, NGOs, governmental entities, startups, and local and multinational businesses.
Workshops & Events
Challenge Identification Workshop
Gamification for Humanitarian Learning Workshop
Solutions we've Supported
Turning Community Health Challenges into Scalable Healthcare Technology Opportunities
Led by a young team of female health activists, Glucomate aspires to become digital companion for Arab diabetic patients, providing a tool to track their medical condition, monitor their blood glucose levels and overall lifestyle. The app is built on customizable reminders in the form of push-notifications to remind the patient of necessary daily actions: like taking their medications on time, measuring their blood glucose level, taking a half an hour walk, eating a healthy snack ..etc. The app allows patients to export a detailed report for any period of time they choose and share it with their health care provider in seconds.
Collaborative Content Sharing and Audio-Recording for the Visually Impaired
Matar Project is a youth-run Social Enterprise that initially started in Irbid/ North of Jordan to help provide audio recordings of academic books to visually disabled university students. They used to run an operational model that limits the achievement of this “text to speech” objective to two options. While the first engages volunteers in producing electronically readable text by converting text in images or pdf. into MS Word, the second channels their efforts in recording the text in audio format using their mobile smartphones. A volunteer coordinator then collects and archives recordings or documents and sends them by email or voice notes using messaging apps to students who initially requested them.
Innovating Solid Waste Management via Consumer Engagement and Reward Systems
SOWA EX is an innovative solution that is revolutionizing the landscape of Recycling in Jordan. Run by Khubbaizeh, a Jordan-based Environmental Movement, the App encourages environmental responsibility and consumer engagement by facilitating the improvement of solid waste management processes in Jordan. Solid waste constitutes recyclable plastic and aluminium. To qualify as recyclables, plastic and aluminium should not be mixed with other types of waste. This process requires the collection of such items directly from the source (the consumer), a method usually referred to as “Source Separated Recycling”.
From the Innovators Community
A technologist, product strategist and tech entrepreneur with a passion for digital product strategy development from inception to life & growth. Specialties include user experience strategy, product strategy & management and leadership of design and engineering teams amongst others.
A technologist, product strategist and tech entrepreneur with a passion for digital product strategy development from inception to life & growth. Specialties include user experience strategy, product strategy & management and leadership of design and engineering teams amongst others.
A technologist, product strategist and tech entrepreneur with a passion for digital product strategy development from inception to life & growth. Specialties include user experience strategy, product strategy & management and leadership of design and engineering teams amongst others.
A technologist, product strategist and tech entrepreneur with a passion for digital product strategy development from inception to life & growth. Specialties include user experience strategy, product strategy & management and leadership of design and engineering teams amongst others.
A technologist, product strategist and tech entrepreneur with a passion for digital product strategy development from inception to life & growth. Specialties include user experience strategy, product strategy & management and leadership of design and engineering teams amongst others
